I borrowed a metal detector from a friend. I am not sure if it can find buried pins or not. Regarding the known pins. When we purchased our lake place twenty-five years ago there were a number of visible pins with white stakes showing lot numbers. In other places there were no pins or white...
I am still working on my problem as well as my boat. I return the one GNSS meter I brought and purchased another model. The other model is suppose to be a GNSS Survey instrument that doe not seem to do anything.
Based on my experience small hand held GNSS units are a waste of money...
This weekend I was up at the lake and tried out my GNSS Land Meter. I started at points 1 & 3 because their are pins at those two locations.
At point 1 I got a reading of 93.3808,46.6271
At point 3 I got a reading of 93.3816,46.6271
In the area of point 4 I got a reading of 93.3807,46.6271
At...
Thank you again for your help. I am glad you mentioned AUTOCAD. I have Turbocad and it never occurred to me that i could make use of it to help me solve my problem.
Locating the property pins for my lot 16 is not a major issue. My know pins are the two outside corner pins at the lake end of...
1503-44 Thank you for your reply. Part of my problem while I worked on surveying during the summers when I was in college, I did not prepare plat maps or work with them. I also need to learn more about GIS maps and programs.
When I started my project I thought I could set up a transit on...
I want to thank every one for their replies! Regarding the replies:
1. I have a plat map & metal detector.
2. I am trying to find the GPS coordinates of the known property pins. I am also interested in Lat. & Lon. However based on my memory of working on survey crews when I was in college...
I am a retired Civil Eng. with a piece of property where I have two known property pins. I need to locate the others and wonder if I can use a GNSS Land Meter to locate the others. I have tried to use GIS sites to locate the GPS coordinates or longitude and latitude without much luck.
I have a very old CPI Transit Level. I purchased a tripod for it that has 5/8" male threads that screw into a transit. My TL has 11/16"male threads that would screw into the top of the tripod. How do I attach TL that is intended to screw into the top of a tripod to a tripod that has threads...
What you have is one of the strangest wood connections I have every seen. If you can post a diagram of the truss full length.
Regarding the bolts perpendicular to the steel plate, they are called stich bolts. There are different opinions on whether they are very effective. I knew one...
There are two main problems that you encounter in wood moment resisting connections. The first one is that the fabrication is often not precise enough that you get proper alignment of the bolts. As a result some of the bolts may carry more load then the other.
Based on my experience the major...
At one time concealed hangers with a pintle were used for glulam connections. The first & second edition of the AITC manual show examples in their typical construction detail section (AITC 104-65).
As far as I know, this tye of connection is no longer used. I suspect the reason is that a...
I want to thank every one for their answers. SlideRuleEra, it was interesting to learn that people have actually packed subjects as close togther as they can to try to come up with a reasonable answer.
I have looked at the deck, it is very solidly built. Like most decks, one of the main...
I'm a structural engineer with a friend, who is asking what is the maximum number of people, that her deck can safely support.
What I am trying to do is find an article that answers this question. I did several internet searches and could not find one.
The articles I found all took the deck...
The problem you are facing presents an interesting challenge. The design values you are looking for are only useful if you know the grade of the orginal material. You will also find that as you go back in time, you will start to find material that was never graded.
What I do is try to...
A typical rule of thumb in wood design, is to avoid moment connections where every possible. Unfortunately to do so is not always possible. As both MiketheEngineer and JAE have indicated above the problem is with the conncetions. Tolerance in the fastner holes and deformation in the wood...
