Surveying is a strange business. Most large ownership clients that want a simple title upon death transfer when subdividing (+5 acre parcels so no s...
Surveying is a strange business. Most large ownership clients that want a simple title upon death transfer when subdividing (+5 acre parcels so no s...
Mike Marks, post: 335240, member: 1108 wrote: Not quite right. The Survey exception generally is: "This is an exception that the title insurance comp...
Measuring HI was easy when using Kern forced centering tripods, just read the rod:
Whut? Every State I've worked in requires a licensed Land Surveyor to write, sign and seal the recorded description for transfer (not mortgage) if it'...
A Harris, post: 335183, member: 81 wrote: If they can't afford a survey, they need to stay in their present home. Had they paid for survey already, th...
Had a county reviewer insist I replace a bearing of "WEST" on a subdivision map to "N90å¡00'00"W". Whatever.
In a town I used to live in the obstetrician was Dr. Peter Strange.
More than I'd pay for a plate. The original prints are much more interesting, although they do not command high prices due to massive publication. I...
MightyMoe, post: 332959, member: 700 wrote: It's not an FJ but I did find this on for sale: A "slightly" modified wrangler A bad idea. There's a re...
No graphics on any of our survey vehicles. We'd often work in a metropolis, and every municipality insisted you buy a business license even if you we...
Witnessed an interesting event during my morning constitutional on the bay. A drone pilot (nice one, GPS and live camera feed) appears, sets up and *...
Went to the DOT Records Dept. for some asbuilts. Nobody at the counter so I knocked loudly and witnessed the fellow crawling out from under some shel...
LRDay, post: 331961, member: 571 wrote: In my little part of the world the questions is, What Records? So far I haven't been able to locate any, the ...
toivo1037, post: 331310, member: 973 wrote: Because a lawyer will litigate any case, and try to win in a trial. Most surveyors will tell them how it i...
MightyMoe, post: 330462, member: 700 wrote: 2%? wow, I never would have thought it was anywhere near that high, I figured more like .2% or something ...
Norman Oklahoma, post: 330399, member: 9981 wrote: When the cost of a title insurance premium is greater than the cost of a (proper) survey you will s...
Witnessed a little shock yesterday when hoofing on my favorite jogging path. Some guy wheeled a Pelican suitcase next to the Bay, calibrated and init...
Ah, rattlesnakes. Spent 25 years in rattlesnake country both at home in the woods and surveying in the field. Saw dozens of them, either in the cold...
Andy Nold, post: 306111, member: 7 wrote: I find that the survey I am retracing is based on a east-west line which has been broken for curvature every...