A large screwdriver would serve the purpose very well.

Bingo. Your ALTA would show a billboard in in the "wrong" location. Too many people just are not going to clue into your "proposed" location notes.

THe TRs I've seen lately usually do have the vesting deed linked, but the title company description is not always a copy of the vesting deed descripti...

I heard a story once of a legal description with a scriveners error - a bearing that was shown NW when it should have been NE. When interpreted as NE ...

First off..... it's really difficult to decipher your all caps stream of consciousness. I gather that you are proposing to stake the flood line tha...

I did my FS in 1997 with a HP48Gx and SMI card. Which was "legal" at the time. But out of 165 questions there were about 5 that I really used the COGO...

I always recommend that the student should start with a 1st, 2nd or 3rd edition before taking the plunge on the very latest edition. These early editi...

The CS20 uses your current job as a template for the next job created. That is why the settings gets carried over.

I suspect that you have an old job "linked" to your new job. Check under the "Linked Jobs" tab of "View & Edit Job Properties"

The city and county surveyors here in Oregon require the setting of centerline monuments in new subdivisions, and these must be 5/8" rods with aluminu...

#5 rebar is required for property corners in Oregon (pipe may also be used, but almost nobody does that), and has been for a long time. Plenty of tim...

I go one step further and say just don't set control near a property corner, period. It sometimes takes some doing but it can usually be done. If it ...

I predict that the board will issue a reprimand and $250 fine. But that's OK, because the board action will result in the engineers E&O insurance...

I bought my house for $139,500 in 1995. I was a PC/Office tech at the time. That equates to about $292,000 of todays dollars. Houses in the neighborho...

Several weeks ago we had a thread about the rather large number of NGS employees accepting the reduction in force opportunity, plus many outright reti...

I did these in British Columbia at the beginning of my career. We might do 5 in a day. I think that it makes a lot of sense to survey and certify the...

Chuck Pearson was never shy about accumulating and using what ever power he could get. Bob Hovden seemed to be in perpetual pursuit of, while never qu...

That's going to fall in the ballast at the center of the track, more often than not between ties. What a colossal PITA to set rods that has to be. And...