As for the thread that raised the question of whether every concrete right-of-way marker ever set by a road contractor's employees along the right-of-...

I appreciate the thought, but the reason for locating that 1875-vintage rock mound that I posted about in another thread was to satisfy the curiosity ...

Richard, post: 440289, member: 833 wrote: Expect living with it I expect it's second nature to deal with actually using several sets of units of measu...

Richard, post: 440286, member: 833 wrote: [USER=3]@Kent McMillan[/USER] I'm curious what you use for 'lesser measurements'?I see you have a steel tape...

paden cash, post: 440281, member: 20 wrote: I run into that a lot. At one corner recently I read the 1872 GLO notes stated "buried a quart of charcoa...

roger_LS, post: 440266, member: 11550 wrote: Sounds like you got lucky hitting the remains of the stake, but the process seems a little backwards. May...

Andy Nold, post: 440277, member: 7 wrote: What did you stamp the cap? FND STK & RK MD? (& customary point #, I assume).No, the cap was stamp...

Gene Kooper, post: 440222, member: 9850 wrote: So, based on your narrative aside, Travis County Surveyor Campbell made a stone mound in 1875. Did his...

paden cash, post: 440215, member: 20 wrote: 'til he calcs it all out and realizes there's a 6 second PI in a line that was purported to be "straight"....

warren ward PLS CO OK, post: 440212, member: 12536 wrote: I don't see any better center than thatThe cedar stake remains were more of a confirmation o...

If your early education is what instructs your practice of surveying, I'm certainly not going to knock it. It may well be that is all that is truly re...

paden cash, post: 440107, member: 20 wrote: And btw, pointing out obvious errors in your usage of grammar isn't necessarily 'vapor locking'. Well, I'm...

paden cash, post: 440099, member: 20 wrote: There you go again butchering proper grammar.ple?úo?únasm??plŽ????naz?m/nounnoun: pleonasm the use of m...

Oklahoma usage: "i'm absolutely certain that this PK Nail I found in the county road blacktop 29 ft., more or less from a power pole is in exactly the...

Robert Hill, post: 440072, member: 378 wrote: WellWell hell one can get all philosophical about it.... there are degrees of certainty.I like a nice he...

jim.cox, post: 440069, member: 93 wrote: If you do really want to get a genuine 2mm accuracy I would be thinking coffer dam and some big pumpsThat's a...

Robert Hill, post: 440065, member: 378 wrote: [MEDIA=youtube]V2f-MZ2HRHQ[/MEDIA]I think it's more a failure to recognize that an expert opinion doesn'...

BTW, the 1927 surveyor was Max Von Homeyer who was born in Germany in 1858, arrived in the US in 1880, and worked for the New York and Texas Land Comp...

Paul in PA, post: 440060, member: 236 wrote: Sad fact, too many surveyors use poorly defined targets. Yes, the most fundamental and easy way to upgrad...