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6:27 I think of "back tangent" and "forward tangent" as being from my perspective if I were standing on the PVI and looking toward increasing stationing. From this view, "back tangent" would be behind me and "forward tangent" would be in front of me

Hi Trent I recently moved to TX US from Australia and I am hoping to get my RPLS in TX. I see most of the terminologies and exam questions are different to where I came from. Could you please let me know the best book to study before doing my exams. Thanks!

Good info thanks for sharing

Love Blake’s point numbers. I’m a field guy and it’s so frustrating when the office gives us point ranges that don’t line up with each other or when found boundarie numbers are the same as searched.

😂😂😂😂😂This dude is working with bearings and is making his life and the life of others extremely soooo difficult without finally learning anything, instead of using Azimuths. I.e. at 00:43:02 bearing AB = 79D49M-SW which means the azimuth is 259.8166667D and the departure will be x = (690.88)*sin(259.8166667) = -679.99, etc, etc, etc. Have a nice day. At 00:39:59 he is using a sign convention which is useless when working with Azimuths. At 00:12:35 every traverse (loop or connecting) is best surveyed clockwise (not counterclockwise) direction with angles starting from backwards going to forwards. We do not deal with any deflection angle. At last for i-j-k points, knowing the ij azimuth, the jk azimuth can be calculated as : az(ij) + angle(ij to jk - clockwise interior or exterior) + 180 - e*360 (where e = 1,2,3..... times so the final azimuth would be between 0 and 360 degrees). I do not see this simple formula to be said in the video which means the whole tutorial is anachronistic.

Review versus education. Agree.

Just stumbled on this channel, looks like a wealth of knowledge. I'll include these in my study plans!

Mmm...good stuff.

This was incredibly helpful for me in getting a better understanding of RPP/RPA. Thank you!

Just want to say I agree with what Dane is saying about building up confidence. I had failed the FS several times and by the time I would get to the 2nd part, I'd be a nervous wreck and would just blindly run through the questions because I didn't know them. I would always have a couple hours left at the end. I listened to a podcast that says the body's chemical reaction to anxiety and excitement are the SAME so if you take control of the situation and tell your mind/self that you are excited instead of anxious, your brain will believe it because of the chemical reaction being the same. I took the exam Aug 30th and was starting to get anxious so I tried it. I actually went through that a few times in the beginning and that's the first time I ever took the FS calm. I utilized almost all the time except for 30 min because I had a headache starting at hour 1 and I was just done. I probably went over the problems at least 5 times just process of elimination. I think there were maybe 5 questions I couldn't do process of elimination on and just flat out guessed and was very surprised when I got the result that I passed that next Wednesday.

Some more free resources: -The BLM Manual, glossary, pamphlets, and History of the Rectangular Survey System book are all free pdf downloads on the BLM site -NGS has free webinars that are great for keeping up with the NSRS -NOAA has an Introduction to Lidar interactive lesson module -Dave Doyle has an excellent series of talks on RUclips on the Geospatial Users Group page -Dennis Davis has an excellent series of concise videos covering trigonometry on RUclips -COMET MetEd has some free mini-courses on GNSS, GNSS planning, Geodesy, Mapping, Vertical Datums, and Hydrology (just need to make an account) -Penn State's Department of Geography site has lessons for GNSS and for GIS that are more or less a textbook in a blog format -Google Books has a lot of old surveying textbooks (quite historical, perhaps not as relevant for modern exams but interesting nonetheless) -Khan Academy has free math classes of all levels

Throwing Geodimeter shade @ 6:25... LOL

licensed land surveyor , like many other professions, medical, law, teaching, psycology , that would offer and require a license to perform certain tasks , at supposedly ones best ability, just because they have a license, and have passed certain tests and criteria, does not make them a top notch expert in that field or subject, i have been in the profession of surveying for over 40 years, with a degree , yet not a license, and i can verify that licensed surveyors approach projects very differently than each other, just like other licensed professionals do in their professions, so i can listen to a pls study guides and their view of this and that, but as i notice how different they approach a certain situation, i am thinking, no thank you,

I wonder if any COH control mons were researched, found, and tied.

Great video…never new property lines are serious business.. One ? Say a city orders a property owner to re build a wall , the owner does a survey with pin stakes in the ground and owners put a part of it on the neighbours property ..city says its civil law , not city issue.,? Even though its a city order… How to resolve and is city on hook too ? Need to move 33 ft 5 inches an expensive project as contractor misread stake saying pin in wall is line ?

Good Workshop💪

Dang Dane I love your teaching style!!! This was super informative! Thank you

Thank you, I needed this!

Do you have any links to PS exam specific study materials?

I just started going through the lesson over the PLSS. In the single and double proportioning video the power point slide seems far too big and the window where Dane is working is far too small. I know these were pre-recoded but is there any way that the window where Dane is working can be enlarged any and/or the power point slides be made a little smaller to enable that.?

Love this. Thanks for putting this together.

Hi how can I receive the pdf file for error theory for both weeks?

Can any one direct me to/ send me a link to Garry’s survey report handout?! I’m ashamed to ask haha, having the topic for free for us surveyors to watch is to good to be true and I’m asking for more information. Any help will be appreciated thanks.

how does person scribing line know where the line is to scribe if he’s not seeing it on the layout hubs

what is the prescriptive period? When the use started, say 1970? Then width is determined at the start of use 1970 not what they are currently expanding to 2024? Correct?

This is so packed with so much great information. Thanks for y’all’s time putting this together.

Thanks for the upload!

how is it going?. Trent. you created pro drone,;)

I have a similar homework assignment for my PLSS class. I am really lost

None of the teachers who teach Land Surveying don't know how to teach anything! The Land Surveying teacher expects you to already know the material from past knowledge. But what if you don't have any experience in Land Surveying math methods like Single and Double proportion methods? It is a mystery to me how Land Surveyors learn material like this to apply in the field and the dealing with the math behind the topic in the case of Single and Double-proportion methods for example! I hate learning like this!

Can we adjust the network with civil3d as traverse adjustment

Sir, this is a fantastic presentation. I would love some advice. Our electric is serviced by a Coop. We have a 15 foot electrical easement on our plat that runs along the front inside of our front property line and that crosses the adjacent property line and then turns and runs back about 100 feet on that neighboring property parallel to our common boundary before turning back in the original direction going away from us. For various tree planting and a fence projects I have called Miss Utility and they kept losing track of the actual electrical line in the vicinity of that boundary and could not mark it in the area where the easement turns back in the original direction. They finally found it and sure enough there is an area where that electrical line comes out of the easement and comes back onto my property about 100 feet from the front of the property. I had the boundary fence installed as the fence company said they could run parallel boards over that section of the line and they avoided putting posts in the vicinity of the line. But the fence technically crosses the actual power line which is out of easement on my property (albeit by only 10 or so feet). Should I make an issue of this? The Electrical coop marking guy didnt seem to think this was a big deal. My surveyor said dont worry about the easement just make sure to avoid striking that line which I did. Can I get in trouble for a board fence going over the actual power line that is out of easement on my property? Or should I tell them to do the paperwork to do another easement? Or should I just relax because I don't intend to put anything else in the ground near there and I have not violated any easements? I know this is not legal advice and you are not a lawyer. Just seeking another data point of expert insight to make my own decisions. Thank you.

Trent and crew, these videos are excellent. Thank you so much for your hard work! These helped me pass the FS and I'm watching them all to prepare for the PS exam now. Would love to see a video on FEMA requirements and Elevation Certificates at some point, but I'm sure that's on your list of future topics!

thanks Dane. hello from Arizona It took a while rewinding and pausing through the video but I got there. I think you explained it very well. Setting up the seeing the matrix laid out made all the difference. I purchased your book and have been using it to brush up for the FS Exam in April 2024..

Hello, thank you for all you do with the channel. I learn a lot here! I was wondering if there was still access to the surveying checklists Landon mentioned? Thank you.

Very good lesson~

STEP 2 of completing the square: divide the middle term by 2 and square it, add to both sides of the equation

This information needs to be add to American History. Native Americans maintained no ownership of any lakes or rivers, because of these legal implications.

Late to the game, but i am really enjoying these

my only complaint is the screen with the guy solving the problems with not the main screen. Other than that this was a great presentation

👍 "Promosm"

Personally I used this in addition to other resources. My main sources were Elementary Surveying by Ghilani, Boundary Control by Brown , and the PPI Solved Problems for the FS & PS exam. I used Dane’s guide as a primer right before taking the exam.

Half fast surveys and pin cushions........on and on

hi are you still taking ?

Do you have a copy of the powerpoint I could download? This is very helpful for BLM work

I'm wondering why you don't simply use the Law of Sines to solve for the bearing-bearing intersect for the center quarter corner. Also, toward the end of the video talking about computing some of the sixteenth corners in section 6, does Dane say the computed GLO distance from the N 1/4 to the CN 1/16 corner is the mean distance that the GLO has on the east and west closing distances? How would that work, since you typically would have an east-west closing distance as well to take into account. Just curious.

You guys are so right. We’re out here soaking it in. Please don’t think that the knowledge is just drifting out to no man’s land. Can’t put a price on what you guys are doing! Much Mahalos. 🤙🏾

Thank you Trent, Thank you Tony

Trent thanks so much for putting these together. These videos helped me pass my FS!

Thanks for the awesome content!