Eric D. Colburn, PLS

Spotty The Spotted Turtle

Yesterday I was cutting line for a roughly 40 acre survey I’m working on when I came across this Spotted Turtle. He or she – we really didn’t get to know each other that well in the short time we visited together – turned out to be the shy type.

Spotty can’t be blamed for being defensive and shy; a six foot tall humanoid carrying a machete would be reason enough. Two woods travelers crossing paths, a few words exchanged, a couple of pictures snapped, and then we parted ways. OK, so I did all the talking, but I could tell that Spotty was warming up to me and was just about ready to open up.

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Just a few land surveying photographs and images from the USGS I thought were interesting. I hope you enjoy them, too.

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USGS

High Standard Alidade

Cast Bronze Benchmark

Leather Boots The soles of made of heavy-duty rubber with metal studs

This Professional Land Surveyor Survey Party is brought to you by EricColburn.com – Professional Land Surveyor Source – showing a few pictures I snapped while carrying out land surveying field work somewhat recently.

Most of these pictures were taken within the last few weeks, which you might be able to tell by the snow and/or stark cold looking locales, but a couple are from a few months ago when the climate was a little warmer (and greener). Right after the most recent pictures were taken we got hit with that blizzard most of you along the eastern seaboard got hit with too, getting 18-20 inches of snow. The good news is that today, most of that snow is gone!

GPS Base Station

Did I Mention It's In A Cemetery

NGS Control Disk Chepachet 1968

GPS Rover Station

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Wire Fence in Tree

Wire Fence in Tree

Wire Fence in Tree

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For fun here are a few Independence Day videos and images. Happy 4th of July everyone! Read the rest of this entry →

PICTURESQUE AU SABLE CHASM, NEAR LAKE CHAMPLAIN, IS ABOUT TO BE SURVEYED FOR A STATE PARK

I came across this newspaper article from the New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, August 10, 1902. The title of this pictorial is “PICTURESQUE AU SABLE CHASM, NEAR LAKE CHAMPLAIN, IS ABOUT TO BE SURVEYED FOR A STATE PARK (Photographs by Katherine E. McClellan.)”.

The five captions to the photographs are:

• THE ELEPHANT’S HEAD.
• CROSSING TO DEVILS OVEN.
• THE BOAT IN THE FLUME.
• CATHEDRAL ROCKS.
• TABLE ROCK.

Perhaps it’s a little wanderlust but this sounds like a great surveying adventure to me. Hard work? Yes. Unforgiving, yet beautiful, terrain? Yes. Days full of challenges? Yes. But in the end, I bet it was done and done well. Or, is this a more a more generic usage of the term “surveyed”?

In either case, it looks like magnificent lands.

Anyone familiar with this park and/or survey? If so, leave us a comment below.

So here are a few pictures taken in late December 2007 to give a little perspective.

 

Photograph courtesy of Jo-Ann Colburn.

Photograph courtesy of Jo-Ann Colburn.

Photograph courtesy of Jo-Ann Colburn.

Photograph courtesy of Jo-Ann Colburn.

Photograph courtesy of Jo-Ann Colburn.

 

 

Here are a few land surveying sunset pictures I took the other day.

You will notice that this site is nice and quiet, without much construction activity. This is because I was surveying from 4 pm until 8-8:30 pm because my client needed construction control immediately. I had made other commitments to other clients so I worked second shift, if you will, setting survey control at this site.

Besides making extra money, working after all the construction stopped and the construction workers went home left me with this nice quiet site with nothing and nobody in my way. These pictures where taken in Rhode Island, but the view you are looking at in the distance is Connecticut.