You didn't mention the headstones. The fences don't mean much if they don't enclose the headstones. If they do, getting the adjoiners and the cemetery...

@postaldelaysI'm not a Pennsylvania registrant, but if this was in Oregon, Washington State, or Oklahoma it could absolutely be a valid property monum...

Yes, the study material can be an significant investment. If you don't think it's worth it.......... ... Writing Legal Descriptions is sort of a...

It seems to me that 2 plumb bobs and a fully supported tape could be used to drop a flagged nail on line every meter in any chosen direction. 

The Oregon Board clearly does not like the practice, but seems unable to stop it. The going price for a "proper" boundary of a common house lot in the...

@bill-c You may be thinking of this document from Trimble. Wikipedia calls this process of resection using both angles and distances "triangulaterati...

@nate-the-surveyor Repair kits cost around $30 and 10 minutes per leg. Your bipod will be good as new. I get mine for Portland Precision Instruments ...

The thing with bipods is maintenance. They are very simple devices, but the plunger/spring arrangement needs to be regularly tightened, and the dissim...

The continuity of her possession may have been broken and the AP clock may have begun running the other way. I'd say that you should get out there and...

If I was in business for myself I would have it, but I would deny that I did if asked. It can be a litigation magnet.

I might sign it if I had certification letters from each of the utilities. That would take time and money to acquire. Make up a proposal with costs to...

@aliquot Are you the right of way acquisition specialist at the City of Portland? Because that's what she said! As nauseum. Yes, a right of way is an...

I think that the qualifier "for road purposes" is significant. There would be no such qualification in a transfer of fee title. Generally, the assump...

Some guys consider the purpose of references to merely be an aid to finding the monuments. Others as a means of restoring the monument to its exact po...

Probably not. Explaining that 145°56'23" is the same as 325°56'23" would really baffle those that can't handle quadrant reversals. A note suc...