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The world sounds much better without us. Sad but true.

Nice work Guy. Fits like a glove. I understand Scott's confidence in you. Good luck with your search and if you ever need someone to hold the dummy end of the tape, give me a hollar.

My point is that as far as surveying goes Mark, hand drafting was good training for taking field notes. Cad systems are great for office drawings but they do nothing for legibility skills. Just another example of technology eroding skills.

Wow, that's sad. I always thought he had the world by the short ones. Brashear was generally a good guy but was better as a drafting teacher. By the way, hand drafting was another skill that never hurt a surveyor when it came to note keeping. Hell, they probably don't even teach surveying...

If you can't stand ticks and still go into the woods, I say you're hardcore. I personally hate mosquitos more than ticks but I really hate putting chemicals on my body and clothing that even a tick is smart enough to stay away from.:jeffd:

Small world. I went to Eastern my junior and senior years. We lived behind where Masso's used to be, in Voorhees. I'm curious, was Mr Munn the surveying instructor when you were there? He was pretty good except when he tried to make us run between points..lol.

I got into surveying through my High School. Eastern in Voorhees had a 2 year surveying class that I originally took because it was considered a math and because they gave you an extra locker right next to the lunch room. I took a job through a friend right out of HS and did the whole...

Guy, I have no doubts about your abilities to find property corners. I'm just saying that a few of them are probably just stones. Even good surveyors make mistakes occassionally when it comes to identifying property corners. I must say though, the ability to find stones is a lost skill...

:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::pigfly::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: Ticks keep the riff raff out of the woods. If you can't stand a few ticks, get outta the woods!:pigfly:

HOW DARE YOU ASK ME A QUESTION LIKE THAT!!!!!! Just kidding. I had a foot condition similar to diabetes but it isn't diabetes. It's called Charcot foot and it basically makes your foot curl up and eventually, even after reconstructive surgery, the bones break down in your feet. Amputation...

Great pics Batona. Keep up the good work.

I suspect that some of the 500 stones you've found are precisely that, stones and not corner markers. More modern "stones" will have an indent or even a nail set in them to give a precise point but very rarely will you find one with a date on it. The way to find when a stone was set is...

I happen to agree with the olympic committee's decision. I think it gives a serious spring pushoff to the runner, not to mention that it makes you much lighter. I never was a runner and don't plan on being one. You won't catch me on the trail with one of those things. During the winter, you...

Well Guy, I'm glad you asked. I like when people ask me about my leg. I had my leg amputated about 6" below the right knee and it sits in a sleeve known as a socket. The way it works is I put a rubber sleeve on my leg with a threaded pin on the end and that slips into the socket and that...

Wow! Great stuff! Being a former surveyor, the sight of old stone corner markers makes me very happy. They trump all new concrete markers. I gotta hand it to you all, finding these markers isn't easy, especially when you are so used to finding things with a metal detector. Can anyone tell...

I went for my very first hike since my amputation today. We did the first 4.7 miles of the Batona and were going to go for more but a blister on my stump put an end to the day. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and let me say, I did sleep like a log for a couple hours when we got home. Overall, a...

A word to the wise when it comes to puddles. Deep puddles can trap vehicles but don't let the not so deep puddles get you like they did me one day. I was out cruising in my jeep and turned off 206 at Atsion Lake and headed through the woods. Now, my jeep was a stock 87 Wrangler and was doing...

Ah, more knowledge for the old noggin. I've never heard the foam called quaker soap. I can't wait to drop that name while out in the pines. Thanks for the tid bit of info TO.

I take it then that privey diving wouldn't be a good idea in these things. Thanks for the info Guy.

Ah, the lovely and scenic Blue Hole. A huge let down if ever there was one in the pines. One thing that did arouse my interest while there was the large dirt mound between the hole and the creek, where the pipe is. Was that a remnant of the work done for the overflow pipe or is it something...