Those all look like great books to have, though I've never heard of a single one of them. I consider Curtis Brown's "Boundary Control and Legal Princi...

Yes, there is. Add a preamble.... A tract of land in the SE1/4 of Section XX, T1S, R1W, W.M., Washington County, Oregon being the North 400 feet of ...

30 years ago I made up a north arrow for the outfit I was with at the time. The idea was to have the arrow do double duty as a company logo, the drawi...

You don't have to be from Cali to see that a survey of a parcel of that shape is going to be a tough job.

Then you are with me as well. Technically, hardly anybody (other than John Putnam) has set a PK nail in 20 years. MAG nails are a distinctly di...

As you know, I too am a now a government worker after 30+ years on the private side. So I feel your pain. Let go of the idea that your role is to thro...

Spend the time you save sitting on the bank "working on your notes".

This is not old town Portland - been there, done that, got a sticker for my hard hat - but it is a fully developed suburban area. Utility conflicts wi...

Whoa.... slow your roll, Turbo. I'm talking about prudent practice here, not gross negligence. Engineers are allowed to do engineering surveying in...

It is a large diameter transmission line bringing water to the city, far more than a simple service. This is phase 3 of several phases. Each 20 foot s...

Changing the rod height serves the same purpose and takes far less time.

It's a call to a monument, so it has to be honored. Nevertheless it is not a very precisely defined monument - there is no pinpoint to put your sharp ...

I do not suggest using reflectorless for this. Use a rod and glass, just keep the rod at the same height for both backsight and foresight. 1. shoot...

I'd probably use the total station for this sort of work and set it to read ΔZ. As long as the rod height remains fixed for both backsight and foresig...

I worry more about the plumbness of the rod than I do about the veracity of the satellites. For boundary marks I occupy between 30 seconds and 2 minut...

Such a term might have more meaning in Oregon than it does in Kansas. (Kansas Surveyor: "Hill? What's that?). An often equally imprecise but far more ...

Tight groupings don't necessarily equal good coordinates.

Oregon also has such law.

I’ll make them a block, residing on a separate layer. Makes it easier to keep together.