Did not work for me either.

A Big Thanx to all who provided advice, guidance and opinions. You have all given me a lot to chew on. - Matt

Around my parts, the City kept a record of the encroachment or issued a License Agreement for Sub-space within the public right-of-way. You may wish ...

My grandfather referred to these kinda pipes as "petaled". In Northwest Ohio, they were set along a boundary line, but never as a property corner. I ...

Nice MoveBrian - it is very kind of you to offer your excess equipment free of charge to help out another surveyor. A fine example of "Paying it Forw...

Survey CornersWe use 1/2" galvanized steel pipe, 30" long and capped with company name and PLS number. We use galvanized pipe cuz that's what Poppa a...

I enjoy picking the names for plats. We platted a prison for the state a couple of years back and named it "Gray-Bar Estates". The plat name for a S...

What size are the typical CAD files? I know.... "Depends". But on average, what is the file size and how much testosterone does my Dell need to proc...

Looks great. Norm Abram at the New Yankee Workshop would be jealous.

And rocky on the bottom.:-P

Great PicsRich - thanx for the definition and the pictures. Your post is an example of why I visit Beerleg...to learn something new. Everyday is a s...

Sayings from Poppa John, included: (1) There is no shame in a job well done and (2) Always Work With Pride and (3) No man ever died from a little swea...

We use ArcGis for our filing and I would recommend the map. We record monuments and benchmark locations as well. This makes for a very quick referen...

Excellent. Have a cold one on me. I like positive posts like yours. - Matt

Not every decision should be financial. Can I afford to retire? Nope. Do I wanna retire? Nope. Ours is a great profession that is admired by most a...

I never will retire. I love this career. I've had the opportunity to work with my grandfather and father, three brothers and my wife. Is that great...

I am not in a recording state...however most surveyors, (us included), will file with a couple of the adjacent counties as a courtesy. But we only fi...

We find it extremely helpful to review the ties to old monumentation, application of surplus or shortage, old occupation and the professional opinion ...

We purchased the records of two firms within the last three years. Each offer to purchase stated that we were obtaining paper file and cad files only...