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nate-the-surveyor
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ƒ??I would have more people skills if I had people with skills.ƒ?

ƒ??My party chief wanted to go someplace he had never been beforeƒ??. so I took him to the rear property line.ƒ?

ƒ??Surveying ƒ?? it is a great career, but a lousy business.ƒ?

Credit is due to... A surveyor somewhere...


 
Posted : August 5, 2018 6:19 pm
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I once found a pin... Where I believe the surveyor threw it. It was laying on it's side, on a rocky hillside.


 
Posted : August 5, 2018 6:25 pm
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Surveying: "it's like committing a crime, that costs more than it pays".


 
Posted : August 5, 2018 6:30 pm
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I'm stealing all of those!?ÿ


 
Posted : August 5, 2018 6:59 pm
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Your BEST one:?ÿ

Surveying is more than a Job; it is a passion to provide a foundation for a future generation, that is beyond reproach.


 
Posted : August 5, 2018 7:09 pm

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People know where they own!

?ÿ


 
Posted : August 5, 2018 7:46 pm
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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.


 
Posted : August 5, 2018 9:03 pm
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We don't need no Surveyors that what Realtors are for.?ÿ ??ÿ


 
Posted : August 6, 2018 6:14 am
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"If we're surveying on top of a building and you start falling, hand me the total station first!"

"If I'll need your help, I'll ask for it!"-he said it slamming the field book shut as I was trying to look at how he's?ÿdoing his math (It was only my 2nd year of surveying)

""Close enough" only works in hand grenades and horse shoe competitions!" - my first boss who considered a closing of a boundary of 0.02' crap

"We had to do all their engineering work for them! They had no idea what they were doing!" - my former boss. He genuinely believed he did all the engineering?ÿwork (plans, calcs, etc) for a major?ÿengineering & design?ÿfirm that hired us to?ÿstake some columns and steel beams.

"Only pussies use sun-screen!" also my former boss. A year later i was found with a mild form of skin cancer. ?ÿ


 
Posted : August 6, 2018 9:28 am
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"I only hire you so I can use the carpool lane." -- my first LS mentor, during the year I took off from school.?ÿ


 
Posted : August 6, 2018 9:35 am

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I don't give a d**n about elevations.


 
Posted : August 6, 2018 12:02 pm
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"Their failure to plan does not constitute an emergency on my part".


Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

 
Posted : August 6, 2018 12:24 pm
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It takes just as much time and effort to do this the right way as it does to do it wrong.

After an hour or so trek to locate a place to start - Pay attention on how you got here cause you gotta find your own way back to the truck.


 
Posted : August 6, 2018 12:28 pm
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Posted by: A Harris

It takes just as much time and effort to do this the right way as it does to do it wrong.

After an hour or so trek to locate a place to start - Pay attention on how you got here cause you gotta find your own way back to the truck.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.carfind

?


 
Posted : August 6, 2018 4:55 pm
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"Chain! " - several party chiefs.


 
Posted : August 7, 2018 3:28 am

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"good....good.....good..." rear chainman to head chainman to let him know the plumb bob was over the tack.

I remember the old days.....


 
Posted : August 7, 2018 6:55 am
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Posted by: NotSoMuch

"Chain! " - several party chiefs.

That reminds me. "Gimme a foot" or "Take a foot".

Or, "Wave your arms".

Nate


 
Posted : August 7, 2018 6:55 am
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@FL/GA

There were no locate the truck apps in 1970.


 
Posted : August 7, 2018 8:17 am
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"Your other left"


 
Posted : August 7, 2018 8:41 am
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In a tenth, ok another tenth, back half, good for wood.


 
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