It was described in the notes as a set 16"x12"x3" sandstone and a mound of stone W. for section corner. No set stone was recovered, there are very sc...

If you're scaling from a close location, use a physical monument and keep good records. The scale factor wouldn't normally be the monument's, it shoul...

Not much of a choice, you got to move it. Now if it's a building setting on the corner, that's a different story.

It basically becomes a jack-hammer

@holy-cow I had a similar experience, one of my section lines ran off a ridge into bottom land and I needed to stake line through it. I staked line...

I recently had a project that needed a GLO brass cap in the center of a county road. I couldn't take the Dewalt, it was needed on a subdivision for 70...

As you move east from the Central Meridian, true north drifts to the left. Point your instrument to 0 grid, and the north pole will be to the left. If...

The Dewalt is awesome for that. And for setting monuments in hard ground, it's one of our best tools.

Ahhhh, I've got to speculate since Florida is Sectionalized that GLO/BLM manuals will be included in your procedures. There will be DOT manuals, board...

I don't know what GPS program you have, but Trimble will give you the Grid to Geodetic north conversion. Then you can get the mag and historic mag rot...

@bstrand You always want to think about how things get messed up. I learned the same way, put in a 2' WC on the street side and it got used as line...

This is the section discussing WC's in the 2009 Manual.     As can be seen line a line tree the WC becomes an angle point, assuming...

@bstrand It's like a line tree, the point being the line is run, for some reason the corner can't be set, maybe it's in a creek, the line is run to...

@bstrand I'm not being clear I guess. My example is retracing original monuments. The WC isn't being set, it's being recovered from original notes ...

@bstrand Exaggerated sketch: The kink happens at the WC set from the south. Then line is held to the next monument to the north instead of exte...

And technically, a witness corner isn't necessarily "on-line". A witness corner 100' south of the E1/4 of a Section creates an angle point in the sect...

@holy-cow Our legal description programs included the delta as a default so I guess we just followed along. Looking back at some pre-computer descr...

left/right, Delta, Radius, Arc Length, Chord Bearing, Chord Distance.