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a-harris
@a-harris
Joined: July 1, 2010 6:10 pm
Topics: 78 / Replies: 8683
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RE: China Sends Surveyors to Mt. Everest Due to COVID-19 Lockdown

I am in the belief that the elevation changes upward and downward depending upon what is happening under the mountain and that the challenge will cont...

5 years ago
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RE: Don't you just love RFP specs.

Providing a .dwg file comes at a price of its own and above the chsrgr fpr hard copies and .pdf files of certified scans are more valuable than hard c...

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RE: Interesting Basis of Bearing...

I cringe when someone makes the reference to a drawing by another surveyor that the drawing is not of record and the surveyor and his records are long...

5 years ago
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RE: Point attribute font style

I've chosen RomanS for my font for most every drawing as it is easy to read. In the settings and with the changing of properties, the width can be ch...

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RE: Mount Saint Helens "Buldge". April 27, 1980.

@noodles Chocolate has replaced coffee for my get r done fix em up.

5 years ago
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RE: GNSS surveying hazards, and good ideas of practice

Can not count the times my helpers have set up on the wrong control because they did not check any of the accessories in place. It only takes a few m...

5 years ago
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RE: Naps

Naps, yes Beer, yes Fishing, yes

5 years ago
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RE: A conundrum

@just-a-surveyor It depends upon the barrel and then there is this option

5 years ago
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RE: A conundrum

@just-a-surveyor Glad to hear that 16ga is making a return. A few decades ago the shells became near impossible to obtain and I was really fond of t...

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RE: A conundrum

@just-a-surveyor That is probably the best shotgun on the planet. The Remington 1100 auto has never failed me either and has dozens upon dozens of i...

5 years ago
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RE: A conundrum

Remington 870 Express and Express Super Magnum

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RE: Old cars

@dave-karoly I 1978 #7 Red Pacer. It had a Chrysler slant 6, solid lifters and lots of power with a spyder type intake manifold. After the fire, I l...

5 years ago
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RE: Full blown Apple user?

The only people that I've met that are full-time Apple users are schools, building and remodeling designers, carpenters and graphic designers for sign...

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RE: Updating a 2007 Computer

I just turned on an EBay find of a refurbished Dell Precision T1650 with an I7 processor running Win10 Enterprise and went to EBay and found an AMD 10...

5 years ago
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RE: Railroad Challenge

Been lucky enough to find most RR information in the Region Office Design Section of TxDot.

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RE: Filling out forms

I've noticed that the only ones that are in the position to ask for a bid on their projects are also the ones that are in the position to be able to p...

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RE: Old cars

In 1970 as part of a side job of running errands for a neighbor, I had to drive a Nash Rambler station wagon, pink 4 door model with a huge engine wit...

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RE: Stake chaser whiskers

Use a long 16d nail driven halfway in to hold the chaser to the tree and point it at the monument.

5 years ago
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RE: E-mail service provider

Having a Gmail ID will practically sign you into most everything plus it is possible to forward any certain address to another email account you have.

5 years ago
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RE: Someone had to stake this...

RR builders used many erector and machine alignment methods and a lot of horsepower hours in cutting, moving timbers and driving spikes. It is a half...

5 years ago
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