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   StanFoster | Jun 19, 2004 12:47am | #1

   Some down on the deck shots of dads wheat and beans.   I kept chasing my shadow.

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   arcticcat | Jun 19, 2004 12:57am | #2

   Nice pics Stan.  Do they grow much wheat around your area?  Here in southern MN, wheat hasn't really been raised much for quite a few years, other than a large seed house nearby that has a few test plots scattered around the area. 

   Mike.

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   xMikeSmith | Jun 19, 2004 01:14am | #3

   stan... those plats are so square.. and the road intersections are all 90 deg.

   almost impossible to find surveys like that in the east...

   i read a great book about laying out the west.. "Measuring America"... every time i see your gyro pics , it brings it all backMike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   StanFoster | Jun 19, 2004 01:31am | #4

   Mike:   There are still jogs in the roads from surveyor error years ago.  Can you imagine with the GPS nowadays how perfect the roads would be laid out?  The square mile sections would still not be square as the north side loses a few feet each mile...theoretically ending at zero feet at the north pole.

   I am lucky here in Illinois..I am near the agonic line..the line where the magnetic north is also true north.  No variation.

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   larryscabnuts | Jun 19, 2004 01:35am | #5

   Stan! Ya shouldn't be allowed to have that much fun... Most just don't know how flat it is around here do they?

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   StanFoster | Jun 19, 2004 01:44am | #6

   Larry:    It is flat as a pancake around here.  

    The "fun" part always gets me.  I am always being asked if you need a pilots license to fly this gyrocopter.  I say..."yes"  and the usual answer is  "oh" . That will stop 98% from ever being able to have this "fun" .    I worked at getting my license years ago because I wanted to fly one of these things. Now I am having my fun..      :)

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   larryscabnuts | Jun 19, 2004 01:51am | #7

   I live a few miles south of ya (Urbana) Ya ever fly down this way?

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   StanFoster | Jun 19, 2004 01:54am | #8

   Larry:   I was down at Frasca field twice last weekend to that SAA fly-in.  I am going to Busbooms strip just west of St. Joseph tomorrow to another fly-in. 

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   UncleDunc | Jun 19, 2004 02:35am | #9

   The jogs may not be errors. They have to add in adjustments every now and then because the north/south lines aren't parallel, they get closer together the farther north you get. The land boundaries can't all be exactly north and south because they wanted them to be exactly a mile apart. So as they were surveying along, every now and then they slipped in an odd shaped section that's not quite a mile wide. So if a north/south road jogs where it meets an east/west road, it's probably intentional, especially if the one a mile over does the same thing.