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Gene Kooper, post: 436610, member: 9850 wrote: I don't have any issue with the order in which a surveyor conducts their field work. Accepting or reje...
paden cash, post: 436603, member: 20 wrote: Resetting a corner and then looking for the bearing trees must be some of that Texas surveying us Okies co...
paden cash, post: 436586, member: 20 wrote: ...so you 'restored' the corner then moved it to fit your calcs? marvelous....'smatter? The original sur...
Gene Kooper, post: 436579, member: 9850 wrote: What Kent meant to say is, "Once the rebuilt mound [rebuilt to not look newly rebuilt, that is] has wea...
Gene Kooper, post: 436446, member: 9850 wrote: One of the questions I had for Kent is why his practice of rebuilding stone mounds is to "leave the pat...
Gene Kooper, post: 436368, member: 9850 wrote: My issue is your purposeful decision to "leave the patinates (sic) surfaces of the rocks exposed so th...
BTW, since photos are always fun to see, here's a photo of one of the Live Oak bearing trees from which I replaced a corner that had been originally l...
Gene Kooper, post: 436353, member: 9850 wrote: You posted in this thread that you carefully reassembled a stone mound around your precisely positioned...
paden cash, post: 436358, member: 20 wrote: Apparently in Texas surveyors can also be expected to report on their magical dirt (that is surely nowhere...
Peter Ehlert, post: 436346, member: 60 wrote: You avoided the question and changed the subject: how does the description get into the public records?I...
paden cash, post: 436342, member: 20 wrote: In Oklahoma the tradition among better surveyors is to stick within an area of expertise in which they are...
Peter Ehlert, post: 436313, member: 60 wrote: Method of documentation aside... how does the brilliance of the determination get into the public record...
paden cash, post: 436336, member: 20 wrote: 41...but I guessed on two of them.I thought for sure that the Hackberry would throw you off since it looke...
I got 41 out of 44, but hardly any of those trees are native to Central or West Texas. There was no Mesquite or Huisache, for example, but a ton of Ma...
Peter Ehlert, post: 436281, member: 60 wrote: You are making my case for Corner Records, Record of Surveys, and Subdivision Maps.Consumers don't notic...
warren ward PLS CO OK, post: 436234, member: 12536 wrote: are you sure its the right axle? isn't there a few other axles buried nearby?Amazingly enoug...
Peter Ehlert, post: 436236, member: 60 wrote: for 33/38th of my most active carer I had Corner Records, Record of Surveys, and Subdivision Maps availa...
Jack Chiles, post: 436187, member: 24 wrote: Kent, as a practice, do you rebuild the mounds?As a general rule, I don't because it tends to destroy the...
Jack Chiles, post: 436189, member: 24 wrote: Those cuts do not look like axe cuts to me. They are too smooth. more like chainsaw cuts.They were defini...
roger_LS, post: 436169, member: 11550 wrote: Apparently not. But how do you keep surveyors from disagreeing with this very unscientific test? Varying ...