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JimMac

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Hi All, a bit about myself

COGS 2001 Grad and been surveying In Alberta Canada since.?ÿ Started with a couple years in the Oil Field, the moved into Construction Survey for and Engineering Consults Company for 6 years.?ÿ Moved onto Structural (Hi Rises, Bridges, and Light Rail Transit for the next 4 years, and have now settled Back into the Civil world where i manage the Construction Survey operations at an Engineering Consults Company (Urban Systems / Urban Systems Survey Inc)

We are all Trimble in Calgary (yay), and all Leica in Edmonton (boo).. lol not really boo, i loved Leica's software back in the day when they were based off SMI (not sure if they still are)

We run a Leica scanner, fly an EB (since retired), multiple Phantoms (including RTK), and are about to get into LiDar (currently trying to decide between Yellow Scan and Rock Robotics), also now looking at setting up our own permanent bases around the city.

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Glad to be here and plan to be active!

Posted : March 4, 2022 10:01 am

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Welcome @jimmac, so glad you could join us! 🙂

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Posted : March 4, 2022 10:05 am

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Welcome to the group! We're glad you've joined us. Just watch out for the old grumpy guy, he can be a handful. ??? ?????ÿ

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Posted : March 4, 2022 11:19 am

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Welcome, jump into the discussions which are educational and fun too! ?????ÿ

Posted : March 4, 2022 11:27 am

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Posted by: @squirl

Welcome to the group! We're glad you've joined us. Just watch out for the old grumpy guy, he can be a handful. ??? ?????ÿ

I think that should be grumpy GUYS.

Posted : March 4, 2022 12:21 pm

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Posted by: @dave-lindell

Posted by: @squirl

Welcome to the group! We're glad you've joined us. Just watch out for the old grumpy guy, he can be a handful. ??? ?????ÿ

I think that should be grumpy GUYS.

I don't have enough fingers for all that pointing...they know who they are?ÿ??? ??? ????ÿ

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Posted : March 4, 2022 2:00 pm

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I resemble that remark.

Posted : March 4, 2022 2:21 pm

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@squirl?ÿ

Why don't you just shut up and welcome the newbie instead of scaring him off? And i'm not grumpy either! ?????ÿ

Posted : March 4, 2022 3:41 pm

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COGS 2001 Grad

2006 me. A great school! Welcome

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Posted : March 4, 2022 4:09 pm

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Welcome! I just started going through the slow painful process of learning Trimble last week. I could probably learn something off of you. I had some experience with the older access on rtk but using the new version and with robotic is a learning curve compared with fieldgenius.?ÿ
Sounds like you??ve got experience with a lot of cool stuff.?ÿ

Posted : March 5, 2022 5:39 am

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Welcome to an incredible site.?ÿ BTW, there are no grumpy old guys on this site.?ÿ Some, however, have seen much more of the survey world than others.?ÿ Their advice is sometimes mistaken as grumpiness.?ÿ I don't qualify as I am not a septuagenarian.

Be warned, some of the alleged grumpy old guys are very, very sneaky.

Posted : March 5, 2022 7:15 am

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Welcome, friend.

Posted : March 5, 2022 8:31 pm

JimMac

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@350rocketmike Hi, yes its a learning curve for sure, i was beyond frustrated when i moved from TDS to Access, but once you know it the workflow is pretty fluid.?ÿ Ask me anything!

Posted : March 7, 2022 8:23 am

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@jimmac?ÿ

Which Trimble equipment are you running? I'm now using a tsc5, an s5 and an r10 on vrs. Still waiting for a sim card so the r10 only runs with a half functional tsc3 and all of a sudden I'm getting a bunch of gps jobs, when normally it's all robotic work.?ÿ

Posted : March 7, 2022 10:19 am

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I don't qualify...

Be warned, some of the alleged grumpy old guys are very, very sneaky.

Riiiigggghhhhhht ?????ÿ

T. Nelson - SAM

Posted : March 7, 2022 10:55 am

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@350rocketmike we run R8's, R10's, and R12i's, Along with S6's and an S7.?ÿ We have our TSC3's on our Can-net Rovers, TSC7's for the crews, and i am about to pickup a couple of TSC5's as i want to move away from the TSC7's.?ÿ Most of our work is Land Development, so GPS it utilized the most.

Posted : March 7, 2022 11:32 am