@holy-cow You know what they say about a blind hog finding an acorn now and then. (:

Retracing a BLM survey done in 1950, recovered 2 of 3 4"x4" cedar posts, rotted off at ground level, under 4' of snow at -20F, 6 miles off the nearest...

@northernsurveyor Good to see you back. Darn shame about the Shell Lake Lodge burning down.

You know something is wrong when all the math is perfect but makes no attempt to reconcile the existing corners.

Takes me back to my very first job transitioning from framing homes to surveying in the early 90s. Talked one of the local surveyors into hiring me on...

He needs to ask them what their secret is to producing completely error free measurements.

@holy-cow True or not, it's the trivia gems and alternate perspectives that keep me coming back. Baby ducks soothed by a song in the key of C I find m...

Every now and then I glean some useful information from this place. Carry on.

Buyers are liars and sellers are story tellers.

One of the advantages to having an EV is the vehicle can serve as a backup power system for a home in the event of a power outage. If the vehicle can ...

@chris-bouffard Similar story. Didn't finish HS. Parents divorced and got kicked to the curb. After getting beat up by construction and commercial fis...

Why? What’s the story here? Trying to get someone to do your homework for you?

@chris-bouffard I hear you loud and clear. My work on this project is part of a development plan to bring fiber optics into about half a dozen subdivi...

@wendell That would make for some interesting inquiries. There is a company here that goes by that name but they go by TSE.

If it gets me in the ball park to find corners after all the snow is gone, good-e-nuff I guess. Just enough to cause my OCD to kick in and give me a m...

@holy-cow Who knew cow pie bingo and surveying would have so much in common.

Is there anything to be found to the north where the two colored lines nearly merge? It would seem to me the past actions of the two respective prope...

@bill93 Just a guess but with just the eastings off by that much sounds like he was using the false origin of the adjacent UTM system for that region?...