Looked at my "new pocket addition" of Black's, it doesn't carry the definition of along. This definition comes with appellate cites. Along

Just seems the registered could have easily written a more certain description by dispensing with: "Thence N 71-10-14 W 3155.93 feet to a concrete mon...

Shawn Billings, post: 346045, member: 6521 wrote: "Thence with the right of way" seems pretty determinative. With or along ?

I'd been in a truck rolling down I-45 from Buffalo and seen that happen. Looked out the passenger side-view mirror and saw the rear tire sticking out ...

Since a heavy brass washer isn't a piece of tin and obviously isn't a roofing shiner, "nail and shiner" is just pathetic cluelessness I don't think I...

"Iron Rod" is a term of art used by Texas surveyors.. Like wise "nail and shiner" is a bit of field craft employed by crews, and a sort of colloquiali...

Kent McMillan, post: 344307, member: 3 wrote: Oh, Practice Tip of the Day: The object in the photo below is not correctly described as a "nail and shi...

Complaint 12-36 was filed by the neighbor of the property being surveyed claiming that the common boundary line was being surveyed correctly. o.O It g...

R.J. Schneider, post: 343266, member: 409 wrote: Or hitting sheet flow at posted highway speeds sorry, meant a channeled sheet flow (if the is such ...

Paul in PA, post: 338557, member: 236 wrote: If someone where to lay out paving stakes on a highway to the nearest tenth, your teeth would be rattling...

This makes me think of the office employees. There is a certain amount of heartfelt respect for those who are able to sit under fluorescent lighting f...

Crew I worked with told the story of another crew taking the work truck through the car wash, trouble was they still had the yellow mag-mounted safety...

Jim Frame, post: 341744, member: 10 wrote: not all thermal paper is the same. Saw a documentary on this some time back. It seems they added BPA as ...

Field Dog, post: 341785, member: 9186 wrote: One of the actual corners fell inside a CATV box. The senior party chief told us we should have opened th...

Let's see if I can make a photo show up here. This will be my August/ September/ Octob...what month were we aiming for here?

I also question the need to measure Direct and Reverse angles with a modern total station using angular encoders versus a glass circle used in older t...