thebionicman, post: 434606, member: 8136 wrote: On that i agree. As an educated and experienced Mediator, your earlier comments make me want to vomit....

thebionicman, post: 434604, member: 8136 wrote: Then both the Surveyor and Mediator need to read a book.Not really. Mediation is a process of dispute ...

Frank Willis, post: 434597, member: 472 wrote: HP, glad you are posting!I have seen courts appoint an independent expert. But in both cases, it still...

hpalmer, post: 434593, member: 336 wrote: Both sides of a dispute could benefit from a knowledgeable surveyor who was not there to 'win'. Generally b...

Richard, post: 434496, member: 833 wrote: Having grown through feet then metres, with links and chains tagging along, the mix of old surveys never cau...

thebionicman, post: 434491, member: 8136 wrote: There are a number of ways this could go. The best option is to have a trained mediator extract a solu...

JPH, post: 434485, member: 6636 wrote: Why are these in varas, from 1950? You're not dealing in just feet at that date?It just seems strange to me, b...

Boundary disputes are typically referred for mediation in the parts of urban Texas familiar to me where the courts have lots of other things on the do...

Chaining on an overcast day in mild weather after a rain would be a good strategy, but they are few and far between in Central Texas. Chaining in brig...

Rubrew, post: 434331, member: 954 wrote: A.D. At DenverSo, would "B.C." be "Before Colorado", meaning : when Colorado was part of Texas?

Rubrew, post: 434292, member: 954 wrote: This one is in pretty good shape given its age. Can't find a maker on the inside. Probably a local printer...

Monte, post: 434147, member: 11913 wrote: I also enjoy a really good tequila, but those are not easy to find in my hometown, so I do not enjoy them v...

As an example of the terrain that the county line traversed in 1950, here's a photo of the vicinity of Mile 3 that probably looks pretty much the same...

Frank Willis, post: 434111, member: 472 wrote: Very interesting. When a good tape is properly calibrated and adjusted for temperature, and on fairly ...

On the other hand, if the tape was 100 varas long, an error of standardization of 0.003 ft. would represent a proportional error of about 1:93,000, wh...

paden cash, post: 434100, member: 20 wrote: I've mulled over my thoughts and have some comments concerning the distance reported between the points in...

paden cash, post: 434062, member: 20 wrote: 1 in 42k is an almost astonishing number for chaining such as distance. That is some really good work.Yes...