8Iron rod set - yea rightThere's many ways to scramble eggs.Had a party chief report "searched, nothing found" on two projects. Years later, when wor...
> The HP41CX rigged for solar observations. Using the Elgin-Knowles Astro ROM and the Radio Shack Time Cube for hacking the HP41 clock.A cool featu...
-232 feet (open sky, guess where) to about 14,000 feet in Alaska. Ground to grid difference was easily measurable with a 100' tape up that high and th...
> After years of surveying and probably several million shots, I absolutely had a bad RTK shot yesterday. > > It plots about 4' east and 5' ...
Been sort of an employee most of my career so once I hit the timeclock don't bother me.Only two exceptions, when working for a company where I had par...
> It is specifically in the codes, but I don't remember where. From what I understand, even a fee right of way cutting through a property does not...
> My last semester is coming up (starting in Jan.) and I need to have a topic ready to go.Well, I'm sort of confused. Assuming you've been in a fo...
> I just wrapped up the control network for a USACE flood control project. One requirement was to establish 5 pairs of intervisible monuments dist...
> > I trust GPS static or fast static observations to +- a few inches or so, if done properly> > My experience puts it about a magnitude ...
Been in only 4 or 5 confrontations with irate armed landowners in my 45 year career. Although surveyors have access rights in the States I work in, t...
>> so for a standard control survey (AA) the positional relative error between two points is .05 for the 95% error ellipse in either major or m...
> What binding effect does a correction deed have?This one has none.Wow! Improper use of the correction deed process has no effect unless executed ...
> In the 1855 Manual of Instructions, it states that the Act of Congress approved September 28, 1850, granted to the State swamp and overflowed lan...
>br>> > I imagine the owners of the $680K house will litigate.It seems they're still prelitigation:"Having the owners trade lots makes the mo...
Long ago when I was a beginning office pup one task regularly assigned to me was to add up the interior floorplan dimensions of a structure for compar...
Har-har! I'm surprised he's only asking for $40,000 damages; that would barely keep a lawyer interested around here.As a side note, the weirdest "hou...
Been down that road. Anytime you have gear that's expensive expect to be vandalized.
I fear offering an opinion about a Colony State's imbroglio; so here's the West Coast view.As I've said many times, there's no more perfect descriptio...
> The plastic caps cheese away after 20 years of getting beat on by the sun, or after the first time the lawn mower clips it.And they melt away in ...
> If another surveyor can stake it with certainty, it is correct. > > However, the reason we write legal descriptions is so lay people can re...