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a-harris
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Joined: July 1, 2010 6:10 pm
Topics: 78 / Replies: 8683
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RE: Oregon Man Fined by Board for Studying Traffic Light Timing

I am glad I'm not the only one that has noticed this. It is not that often I see traffic lights and that yellow sucker is a dangerous time indeed. Ver...

5 years ago
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RE: Rip rap ?

$40 to $60 a square yard Multiply the?ÿriprap's?ÿcubic yardage by its density. For example, if the you are?ÿcalculating?ÿthe weight of 15 cubic yards ...

5 years ago
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RE: Site Unseen

@loyal Most clients don't know the difference and expect whatever number you say is the number you will charge them. We have to inform them that wha...

5 years ago
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RE: New legal descriptions of lots on a BLA

In Texas, we do not write metes and bounds on lots that are in a recorded subdivision. The Lot#, Block#, Subdivision name, Survey name, County and rec...

5 years ago
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RE: Loose caps on rebar

Mountain Mold and Dye make the best caps that I've ever used and they have a wide selection?ÿ of styles to choose from in most colors I am an orange p...

5 years ago
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RE: How practical is it for someone who is not a professional surveyor to own a surveying company?

The situation is controlled by the State BOR that your business is in. For Texas, you have to be involved with the surveying company and can not simpl...

5 years ago
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RE: Site Unseen

I use the term "a number to put into your budget" when callers want me to bid or give them a price or any mention about how much any survey will cost....

5 years ago
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RE: Disgustingly survey related

The worst thing that I was ever around was excrement that was brought in from Detroit, Michigan and had been sprayed on several hundred acres halfway ...

5 years ago
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RE: Just so you know ahead and can plan accordingly...

The mere thought of a little frozen stuff around here makes people leave the highway and hit a tree in my yard or ramp over one of my two driveways.

5 years ago
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RE: How to keep post from going to other formats of social media

Once it is put on the internet you can bet a google search will find it.

5 years ago
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RE: How big is the Big Fill?

In some parts of NE Texas, there is sand that has to be put down with a lot of water and at 1:3 slope minimum. The roads have to have lime mixed in to...

5 years ago
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RE: Solo Business??

Solo has been the best decision I've made for business. I tried to work with a larger outfit an engineering company and a 1 crew bunch and they all we...

5 years ago
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RE: Reviewer Does Not Understand Rounding

I would not put anything less than a square foot on a precise lot job in the middle of metro America. Autocad or any Cadd does not round off numbers t...

5 years ago
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RE: Hat advice required

@david3038 carry it to the dry cleaners and ask them to starch it how you want it

5 years ago
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RE: Prevailing Wage

@party-chef I doubt that any union shop is doing lot surveys

5 years ago
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RE: Maybe this is the end

The pear tree is loaded and I saw green pecans in the tree and oak nuts already falling on the ground, so fall is around the corner;

5 years ago
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RE: Hat advice required

I wear natural unvarnished straw hats that I find at feed stores around the local area and use a bandana as a hatband so it can be easily adjusted thr...

5 years ago
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RE: Drifter

I'd critically inspect the tripod and check for any worn or broken parts of the legs where they attach to the hardware and shim and tighten any place ...

5 years ago
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RE: I'm trying not to scream.

@norman-oklahoma I was doing a Texas VLB survey inside an HOA subdivision and showed everything just beyond the adjacent lot's building offset as I w...

5 years ago
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RE: But I have a "Plaque".

Let the appraisal district send out their boundary specialist to show where the line is. can not find the sarcasm button

5 years ago
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