This is so complex I can barely get my head around it. You found a scattered stone pile, then got yourself to the stump, then backed the rotated beari...
Kent McMillan, post: 441913, member: 3 wrote: That's pretty amazing that you don't understand the complexity inherent in a metes and bounds system of ...
Kent McMillan, post: 441602, member: 3 wrote: I feel your pain. You work hard in an idiot-proofed system to feel as if somehow you are breaking a swea...
Peter Ehlert, post: 441574, member: 60 wrote: Texans don't draw maps, they "describe" it. Why draw a simple map when you can easily describe the same...
In the defense of PLSS, I'm surprised no one has brought up this concept of establishment as a major complexity and grey area that has to be dealt wit...
Ruel del Castillo, post: 441182, member: 137 wrote: I worry a great deal about my chosen profession lately.Our firm reviews final maps for a number of...
Robert Hill, post: 441224, member: 378 wrote: What's taken so long ref:)BTW, this has got to be THE worst thread I've come across since following ...
Sounds like you don't have a preponderance of evidence telling you the fence is the line. If they both agree the fence is the boundary, they should ha...
Kent McMillan, post: 440302, member: 3 wrote: Yes, it amazed me that anyone would suggest that some elaborate software was needed to determine the cen...
Kent McMillan, post: 440296, member: 3 wrote: I appreciate the thought, but the reason for locating that 1875-vintage rock mound that I posted about i...
Sounds like you got lucky hitting the remains of the stake, but the process seems a little backwards. Maybe you should have first probed around for th...
for the majority of the surveys I do, bearing base has no effect on the final results, as the end points of the lines are controlled locally rather th...
"Under section 316 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. (Paragraph) 1746 (2000), the Secretary has the authority to correc...
Gene Kooper, post: 437381, member: 9850 wrote: The mining claims were sold. The price paid by the claimant of Sur. No. 15000 A&B was $50 for the ...
I don't know the answer, but with federal property all around, this feels different than a typical gap between privately held property where there is ...
Steve Boon, post: 433571, member: 416 wrote: A poem for the bug huntersOde to the Mosquitoby M. BarberArt work by Eddy and HarryMosquito, mosquito how...
Kent McMillan, post: 436748, member: 3 wrote: Actually, Texas surveyors were fairly good at marking trees facing the corner. In part, this was the res...
David Kendall, post: 436625, member: 12659 wrote: If there are typical variations of 3-5 feet in a 1/4 mile then what difference does a foot or two m...
The visible X today would only remain on the same called for bearing if the X was initially set on an exact direct line between the center of the tree...
Without cutting into the trees to get to the X, I'd imagine that you could easily get a combined 1 foot of error between the two trees through the pro...
