It seems to me like, if they were using a solar transit to run their "line", it runs the line on an arc. It doesn't have to take any links into accou...

Schonstedt Update... Birthday SpecialHappy birthday.

> In my area, the original found rebar would be as good as gold. I can't imagine not using it. The distances for a half mile that is suppose to b...

> I always assume that the deep digging took place and extensive research has taking place, but I can't speak for others. Good point. I guess I w...

> It sounds to me that in August 2011 he found a monument that looked good with the surrounding improvements and accepted it without measuring to a...

> I have seen a couple of instances where immigrant professionals have taken their profession for a new last name. Wouldn't be the first time. Bel...

JBStahl,How do you document the interview (or whatever you call it). ie: take notes as they're talking, tape the interview, write up a complete narrat...

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."A. Jackson

The "geodetic bearing" would be a curved-line bearing. I wouldn't use the word "true" because that might mean different things to different people. ...

Ditto the other guys. get your pdf software (I also have "cutePDF writer") and when you go to print, instead of the printer you usually default to, s...

> Technically the previous surveyor should be leaving enough monumentation for the subsequent surveyor to be able to start without enormous costs t...

It did seem a little highJust how high was it though? Are you sure it wasn't your benchmark that was low?

[sarcasm]Smart too.....[/sarcasm]Wouldn't it have been easier to say you set it and use the one that is already driven as the one you say you set? I ...

A lathe? Kind of big and bulky to write on, isn't it?(Surveyors' favorite misspelling typo next to parole) 😉