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LA Forester
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...and I'm a Forester!

And I own a transit. Three, in fact, and a level, 100ft tape, plumb bobs, etc.

And I had a 3 week course in surveying 30 years ago.

And I own a bulldozer.

And...my father was a civil engineer.

I've been reading old posts for the last month or so, golly gee, this seems like my kind of place...:)


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 6:06 pm
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Dont get your dozer before your transit!
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Posted : July 1, 2017 6:08 pm
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Do you offer mediation services, too?


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 6:25 pm
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Confused myself for a second. I saw LA and thought of Los Angeles, not Louisiana. Was trying to imagine being a forester in downtown LA.


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 6:40 pm
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Nate The Surveyor, post: 434842, member: 291 wrote: Dont get your dozer before your transit!
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Actually, I have three of these as well. One I own and two at work for wildfire control. You think you guys hit buried water lines and power lines? I had a boss that nicked a guy wire for a 200 ft. radio tower and dropped the whole thing on top of an adjacent electrical power substation.


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 7:54 pm

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Gene Kooper, post: 434852, member: 9850 wrote: Do you offer mediation services, too?

Whoa, no need to get personal here.:eek:


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 7:58 pm
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Holy Cow, post: 434859, member: 50 wrote: Confused myself for a second. I saw LA and thought of Los Angeles, not Louisiana. Was trying to imagine being a forester in downtown LA.

That would be Lower Alabama, oh Exalted Ruminant.

Same heat, humidity, thick flora, homicidal fauna, but generally higher ground.


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 8:04 pm
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O I C! Lower Alabama. Is that an elevation thing, a latitudinal thing or a lifestyle thing?


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 8:10 pm
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Holy Cow, post: 434882, member: 50 wrote: O I C! Lower Alabama. Is that an elevation thing, a latitudinal thing or a lifestyle thing?

According to my family history, its a wheel fell off the wagon thing.


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 8:18 pm
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LA Forester, post: 434877, member: 12836 wrote: I had a boss that nicked a guy wire for a 200 ft. radio tower and dropped the whole thing on top of an adjacent electrical power substation

Still your fault though.


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 8:18 pm

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Holy Cow, post: 434882, member: 50 wrote: O I C! Lower Alabama. Is that an elevation thing, a latitudinal thing or a lifestyle thing?

To paraphrase another, "Whoa, no need to get personal here." 😮


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 8:21 pm
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Howdy LA Forester,
Having a sense of humor will go far here.............


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 8:58 pm
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Howdy LA. I'm up in Huntsville. Non native like almost everyone else in the Rocket City. I came in via Kansas and the other LA (Lower Arkansas). But I am getting to know my way around here after three years now.
We did some work earlier this year down in your LA, providing ground control points for a statewide aerial mapping job.


 
Posted : July 1, 2017 9:15 pm
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LA here too... Lower Arkansas that is!
Me brother in law is in LA sometimes too. Lower Alaska, that is!
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Posted : July 1, 2017 9:31 pm
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A Harris, post: 434893, member: 81 wrote: Howdy LA Forester,
Having a sense of humor will go far here.............

Believe me, after 21 years of serving the public I have definitely developed a sense of humor.

Maybe not a healthy sense of humor...:)


 
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Is there a story there?


 
Posted : July 2, 2017 10:32 am
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LA Forester, post: 434877, member: 12836 wrote: I had a boss that nicked a guy wire for a 200 ft. radio tower and dropped the whole thing on top of an adjacent electrical power substation.

Clearly your fault.


 
Posted : July 2, 2017 3:57 pm