Land Surveyor, Nashville TN

Peyton Manning - EGO-maniacal

2012-03-20T03:20:00.000-05:00

what a friggin EGO this guy has,.. can you believe this - tell momma to hold the phone - Peyton decided NOT to come to Nashville 'cause he thought he would be too BIG of a deal here,.. this is Nashville, baby,.. MUSIC CITY, USA,.. we have REAL talent here,. not just folks that can choke away football championships,.. you know.

Okay, so, you're a Bronco now,.. you think THAT's not gonna be a fish-bowl,.. good luck with that,.. at least here you have QUITE a few stars to take the heat off, at least when it's not football season,..i'M PRETTY sure ALL that Denver has is the Broncos,.. while we actually have a few outside interests here in town besides Sunday afternoons,.. anyway, that's my take,.. gee whiz,.. can't WAIT - really hope we (the Titans) can get to the playoffs, at least long enough to knock the Broncos out at least ONCE over the next few years,.. that's gonna be my driving force,...

Peyton-a TITAN!!

2012-03-15T11:29:00.000-05:00

Okay, so, I never really even considered this possibility, at least, until the other day, when ol' T.S. Bud Adams seems to have woke up and realized that Peyton was a free agent,..
then it was like,.. hello,..
anyway,.. this is my push,.. I'll add to the party, "come to Tennessee, Peyton,",.. make my tickets worth something next year,... and let's get you to that "Manning Bowl", that you're looking for,.. you know Eli can get there,.. as long as he gets his team focused, which they seem to do just around playoffs every now and again,..

Let's get it on!!!

Peyton Manning to - the RAMS?!??!!

2012-03-07T03:58:00.000-06:00

Ya'll remember when Jeff Fisher pulled this particular stunt, don't you? So, not as crazy as it sounds,.. GAWD,..think I could get paid for this stuff, wouldn't you? I DO believe that's where our golden haired boy is gonna end up, think about it,.. you got to know he respects Fisher, and you know that goes both ways, hell, they probably got a secret love-child somewhere in Montana, don'tcha know.
Anyway, this makes god awful GREAT sense to me, and it should to you to, look at the case here,.. or I'll state it, then,
the Rams are WAY under the cap, and have exactly no offensive talent, Peyton could bring his slowly building entourage intact, he's already got Reggie Wayne with him, Dallas Clark, too, think Jeff Saturday's in, and who else did we hear, Garcon, the goober, believe he went ahead and resigned with the colts, no matter, got Steven Jackson, a BEAST, he's got at least this next year to be good to go for,.. think how he'd be rejuvenated by the entourage,.. can you imagine, Peyton with a "punishing" running game,.. seriously,.. don't they also have the beginnings of a fair to middlin' O-line there, as well,.. they used to have the two biggest Tackles in the world,.. anyway,.. Saturday can get those boys in line pretty quickly,.. all that leaves is just a few tweaks here and there,.. on the defensive side of the ball, and what up?,.. who ya got,.. Jeff Fisher,.. pretty decent defensive mind there, on him,.. now that Gregg Williams won't be around to go all blitz wacky,.. think they may even have a legitimate shot at a ring, or three,..

Peyton, you've really got to give the Rams some serious, and I mean SERIOUS consideration,.. what ya'll think?

alternate destinations

Catalogue Jobs via Google Earth

2011-12-17T19:25:00.000-06:00

This is gonna be a pretty awesome little deal, not sure HOW I'm gonna get it to work with the blog and the website,.. but some kind of combination of the two, and I'm TRULY gonna be using this internet dealio to the fullest of it's capabilities,.. man,.. I can't SPELL anymore,..
grrrr

Hate changes,..

2011-12-08T01:03:00.001-06:00

don't we all,.. when you change your email after,..what has it been,.. 1998-2011 - same email address for 13 years,.. who does that,.. anyway,.. yeah, even got a comment from someone at AT&T, couldn't believe I was still rockin' the bellsouth.net email addy,..ah, well,.. no more, no more,... I've stepped up and joined the new wave,.. can email to stanleykdraper@comcast.net if you care to,..STILL haven't been able to get momma's set up,.. it's been a WEEK people,..WTF,..
c'mon, man,..

much as I seem to hate change,.. I hate friggin' some stupid idiot policies that seem to be in place for no other reason than - ostensibly,.. I guess (privacy) that's a crock,..

if they want it,..they gonna get it,.for the most part, do you think?

alrighty then,.. also,. check the website, if you haven't yet,.. Draper Land Surveying
you know you want to,.. lol,.. I really like it,.. I'm a DOT.COM now,.. lol.

A Surveyor explains what it is we do.

2011-12-05T06:39:00.004-06:00

What is a Surveyor? Great Article,.. having trouble posting myself,... why you got to change stuff?

Ravens at Titans Tickets,. ha ha,..

2011-09-09T19:20:00.001-05:00

so,.. well, sold some of my Titans tickets on Stubhub the other day, but forgot to put the tickets in the FedEx envelope,.. goober,..anyway, so, they called me today, they got the FedEx,.no tickets,..ha ha,..
anyway, if this is you, give me a shout, and I 'll get those to you,.. Stubhub is offline currently, and can't seem to get through to reprint that FedEx envelope, and I don't know where they go,..I DO know it's Clarksville, that's all I remember.
k

dammit man,..

2011-08-20T07:11:00.000-05:00

The InFERNAL Revenue Service is at me again,.. after paying them schmo's OVER $5000.00 dollars this year,.. they say, it's STILL not ENOUGH<... you're seriously KILLING me, uncle sam,.. c'mon now,.. I've give 'til it hurt, and THEN some,... OMG!!!

Anyway,..just ranting a bit this morning,... and hoping maybe one or six of my clients might see this, and decide it's MAYBE time to pay their friendly neighborhood surveyor,.. knowwhutimean???

LOL,... ya'll froog!!!!

The Lottery

2011-08-18T07:00:00.002-05:00

Okay, if I'm gonna play, we're gonna go about this the right way,..
I've looked it up,.and these are my results,..

My winning number is

apparently,... there's a trend to these things,..and these numbers come up pretty regular,..the MOST common POWER BALL number is 42. hmmmm, but Tennesse only has 39.

11 18 35 46 54 30

let's all play that number in your various state lotteries,..if you win, cut me off a piece,.

I'm gonna play that number in TN for the foreseeable future,...

IT's ON!!

W.S.O.P.

2011-07-16T17:32:00.001-05:00

In honor of this being the World Series of Poker week,.. thought I'd post a link to some poker talk,.. check it out, you might just learn something,..

need your scrap metal

2011-07-16T11:01:00.001-05:00

we've got a place here in Hermitage,.. trying to make my new trailer pay for itself,..will pick up,.just holler,..

A. S. Aloe Transits

2011-07-14T19:36:00.002-05:00

click banner above to go to A.S. Aloe Transits

somebody called me recently, from Tulsa, Oklahoma,. had one of these transits, if this is you, please call me back, I've found a site,..love to see the pictures you got of that.

The Geometry of Surveying

2011-07-14T06:22:00.004-05:00

The Geometry of Surveying

In years past, I spent a considerable period of time as a surveying technician with private firms and government agencies across the United States. I was never a licensed surveyor, but I worked at various times as chainman, instrument operator, party chief, and office technician. One aspect of the profession that still attracts me is the geometry. The work of surveyors is intrinsically dependent upon the fact of certain geometric concepts.

Surveying procedures are based on geometry, but they propagate mostly through training and tradition. Unfortunately, bad practices are passed along the same way. By maintaining a connection with the underlying theory, we can understand our work better and perhaps avoid trouble. On the job, I sometimes tried to influence others on questions of procedure, but my success was spotty. People simply did not connect with those three-dimensional sketches that I would draw in the air with my finger. That is the motivation behind this article. After all these years away from it, I am taking time to explain some of my points properly.

Topics:

Theodolite Error

Theodolite Adjustment

The Vernier Scale

Repeating Theodolites

Leveling

Questionable Practices

Back to Whistler Alley Mathematics

Last update: August 11, 2009 ... Paul Kunkel whistling@whistleralley.com
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if I owe you an invoice

2011-07-12T14:14:00.000-05:00

please, send me an email with your address, and I'll get that to you.
thanks
k

Localize your Village"

2011-07-07T07:18:00.002-05:00

Let's ALL work on "Localizing OUR Village",.. ask me about this concept,.. I'll try to explain a bit,..it's kind of like what ya'll are all doing anyway, with the games ya'll play, everybody is helping everybody in these games,.. let's take this one step further, in to real life,.. so, if you're a hair dresser, then you ALL the people that know you online here should be using you for their hair-cutting needs,.. I'm a Land Surveyor, I would hope anybody that knows me from here would be contacting me first if they needed some Land Surveying,..there's more,.. let's try and let everybody know what you do for a living, maybe you'll get some business from here,..

ay-oh,.. oh-ay,..

Land Scaping Service to be ADDED!!! Draper Land Surveying & Landscaping Co., Inc.

2011-07-02T21:40:00.002-05:00

Maybe we can call it Draper L Squared, or Draper to the L, or Draper LAND Services, I think I like that one,..

Draper LAND Services, Inc.

I think we'll start CUTTING your grass for our clients as well,.. most of them need cutting when we get there, anyway,.. we'll offer to cut the grass for $100.00 per acre, and we'll divide it down, so, if you have 0.25 acres, that'll cost you $25.00 for us to cut it when we got there,.. 0.35 acres = $35.00, 1/2 acre lot would cost you $50.00 to get it cut, we may even string along w/ a weedeater a bit, if you wanta offer us a little gratuity, as well, ya'll know how that lawn-mowin' gig is, it's a HOT ONE, but it sure does make a COLD beer taste a whole lot better.

If you're interested in this service, please let us know, or maybe hang a sign that says CUT ME!.

We could also continue mowing, I suppose, at the same rate, every week and a half, or so, until the property is out of your hands,..

Surveyor ART, check it out!!!!

2011-07-02T21:19:00.003-05:00

click copy above to manipulate the slide-show,.. prev/next top right.

Surveyor Art, just arrow on thru,.. I like this design, very cool.

Table of Surveying, circa 1728

2011-06-22T18:55:00.004-05:00

wow,.. never seen one of these before,.. too cool.

and another one,..

and just a cool picture,.. I like stuff like that,..

Congratulations on your Season so far,..

2011-06-22T09:24:00.002-05:00

Go, go, v-bilt baseball.

Sony GPS-CS3KA GPS Digital Imaging Accessory

2011-05-09T05:25:00.000-05:00

The next big thing,..

This is a neat little accessory,.. would be GREAT for Flood Certs, for one thing that I can think of right off the bat, another, I guess, would be to maybe take pictures of corners that are in dispute, if you've set one, and maybe having problems with the neighbor pulling up the pins, or something,..
Lots of uses, that's just a couple I could think of just thinking about it,..
k

A. S. Aloe Engineer's Transit

2011-05-06T23:00:00.000-05:00

couple more nice pieces,... if ya'll ever see anything like this out there somewhere,.. let me know.

K & E / Keuffel & Esser Convertible Level / Transit

2011-05-06T22:41:00.000-05:00

Wow,.. found this site,.. www.Patented-Antiques.com, but I don't know that they are still in business,..seems like the last activity was in 2009,..anyway,.. been looking for a place to get some of this old gear,.I love the look of it,.I actually have a fake piece,..made in Pakistan, I'm sure,.. it's pretty cool, tho',.. I've got it in the living room,..it's just some brass tubes thrown together to look like one of the old instruments,.. boy,..would I love to have one of those,..

This is actually an old builder's level, ..neat, huh?

Moon & it's Phases

2011-04-03T05:23:00.002-05:00

How many times are we gonna have this same article

2011-03-24T01:29:00.003-05:00

I've read this same sentiment at least 20 times this offseason,.. of COURSE, folks are gonna be behind,..it's a lockout, we know they can't work together,.. geez guys,.. come up with a new angle,.. or something,..

Value of a Survey

2011-03-22T18:05:00.002-05:00

What constitutes a SURVEY

by itsmagic @, Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 11:17 (4 hours, 25 minutes ago) @ Gene Baker
edited by itsmagic, Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 11:21

This reminds me of a discussion I had with a rural landowner a couple of decades ago while I was surveying an oil well site on a nearby property on behalf on an energy company.

He asked me how long I expected to be in the area and asked if I would place a few lath along his property line so he could build a fence. He indicated that he would slip me $300 as a thank you.

As it turned out, the property line in question ran for a mile through a largely forested area. After a search, I determined that the original monumentation defining the property line had been lost requiring re-establishment. After having a search done by my office and reviewing what I would need to do to locate his property boundary for a fence including the physical effort to run and mark the the line, I gave him an estimate that was closer to $1500 not counting travel time. This was in the pre-GPS days so there was substantial work required to re-establish the property line.

He got quite upset, telling me that all he wanted were 'a few lath' put up so he could build his fence. I explained that what he really needed were 'a few lath in the right place'. It was the last part that cost $1500; I would have provided the lath for free.

I think that we often overlook the fact that we provide a service to build a survey plan per legislated requirements and professional standards to protect public interests, not just sell the finished survey plan as a commodity.