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bill93
bill93
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Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
Last seen: September 19, 2026 8:39 pm
Topics: 291 / Replies: 9708
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RE: Where were you surveying 25 years ago 9/11?

Somebody in the office told me the news and I went over to where somebody had it on their computer. Watched a replay and some talk for a little while ...

1 week ago
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RE: A first look at Surveying Resources (still under construction)

Include reference documents or links to them elsewhere?

2 weeks ago
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RE: Thence south 00 degrees 38 minutes 52 seconds east, 1284.36 feet along a fence

James, that seems odd. In common usage, when you walk ALONG the fence you don't straddle it. That would seem applicable here.

4 weeks ago
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RE: One Man Crew Fun

When you said lake I envisioned a larger body of water. Is this a backwater of a large lake? Large enough to be concerned about seiche? Looks pretty...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Question about RTN Field Procedure

Longer is probably getting a more realistic estimate of the variation, not getting a worse average. With unbiased random variation, longer average is ...

1 month ago
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RE: What benefits do courts provide to society?

Neighbor puts up fence ... The right answer should be that the party wanting the fence can require the other to put up a fence meeting state minimum...

1 month ago
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RE: What benefits do courts provide to society?

Courts provide an alternative to lethal weapons. Not everybody takes advantage of that, unfortunately.

1 month ago
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RE: Question about RTN Field Procedure

Well, at least all the monuments were found. But if someone needs to reset one in the future from his survey drawing, I wouldn't expect it to be as ...

1 month ago
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RE: Schonstedt over the other brands.

Anyone have a clue as to what in it could have degraded if it still nominally works?  

2 months ago
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RE: Legal Descriptions: To write or not to write?

If this is a small amount of land being acquired, would a boundary line adjustment document work in your jurisdiction as opposed to writing all new de...

2 months ago
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RE: Mile High marker in Denver

Denverite sounds like a mineral. The story was pretty good, at least compared to some of the stories about the four corner monument.

2 months ago
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RE: My First OPUS Submission

When I was doing OPUS Shares for GPSonBM, I pasted a table in the field book showing (slant - vertical) versus slant. It's a simple right triangle cal...

3 months ago
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RE: Easement Question

How deep do you think it might be? Unless it is very deep I would think a magnetic locator might find it. You would need to operate the locator such t...

3 months ago
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RE: Hadn’t seen this annotation before

My father in law filed an "Affidavit of Possession" when he signed the purchase contract for the farm in the 1960's. I never figured out what his reas...

3 months ago
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RE: A PLSS section approximately 1430 feet wide

In the sections near my wife's family lands in Iowa south of a "correction line" (equivalent to what was later named a standard parallel), the descrip...

3 months ago
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RE: A PLSS section approximately 1430 feet wide

Is Lot 1 the whole north tier, or if not what are the other pieces?

3 months ago
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