Yes, I wondered about that, too. What I posted was merely a tutorial on the efficiency of locating the center of an old rock mound using highly advanc...

Holy Cow, post: 440631, member: 50 wrote: Pliers will do a fine job of creating an access hole. But, plan on gettin' outta Dodge ASAP. Deny all clai...

warren ward PLS CO OK, post: 440623, member: 12536 wrote: here is another try at the same theme as my first attempt:Colonists: Existing metes and boun...

paden cash, post: 440620, member: 20 wrote: M43 E (tool, entrenching) WWII vintage GI issue. Is there a rock attachment (that doesn't involve explos...

Jim Frame, post: 440616, member: 10 wrote: I've never encountered a fence like that, but if I did and going around wasn't feasible, I guess I'd be loo...

Dave Lindell, post: 440578, member: 55 wrote: Face it, Texas has the Surveyor's Full Employment Act with their deliberate hodge-podge of "subtractive"...

RADAR, post: 440570, member: 413 wrote: Isn't it raining in Austin today?Yes, it was and it was good, solid Texas rain, not that misty Pacific NW stuf...

And San Rafael Desert Quadrangle in Utah also looks pretty typical:

Here's another randomly selected part of Kansas (1:100,000 St. Francis Quadrangle). It still looks pretty typical from Texas.

Gene Kooper, post: 440552, member: 9850 wrote: While you will never admit it, what you describe is the same for mineral lands in the western PLSS stat...

Peter Ehlert, post: 440526, member: 60 wrote: well, I am young and I don't get out much, and I have only worked in the Western states...One of these d...

paden cash, post: 440528, member: 20 wrote: ( hic...)You're welcome.

Peter Ehlert, post: 440513, member: 60 wrote: "typical"?.Typical means commonly expected. You could probably assign a chance or frequency of occurence...

Gene Kooper, post: 440516, member: 9850 wrote: Kent, that's bovine excrement and you know it. In PLSS states, the retracement surveyor is expected to...

KScott, post: 440506, member: 1455 wrote: That is one aspect of a survey that we may not have to agonize much over in PLSSia although last year I did ...

paden cash, post: 440480, member: 20 wrote: Lemme get this straright now..some certain things are really uncertain, and you think the distinction is o...

paden cash, post: 440481, member: 20 wrote: Definition of "complex" in Texas as applied to surveying:Start "somewhere"...run on a bearing some distanc...

Peter Ehlert, post: 440464, member: 60 wrote: sounds easounds easy if you never done itWell, in a typical PLSS township, if you wanted to verify wheth...

Gene Kooper, post: 440456, member: 9850 wrote: Kent,I hate to break this to you, but bearing trees are not monuments, they are accessories to monument...