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bill93
bill93
@bill93
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Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
Last seen: September 15, 2026 7:40 am
Topics: 291 / Replies: 9708
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RE: True confession

Well, if they are oxen they aren't great great grandpa.

5 years ago
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RE: I've Been Waiting For This

IANAL but my impression is that AP is rare in Iowa, but our 10-year boundary acquiescence law gets exercised a lot. Although both end up taking land, ...

5 years ago
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RE: True confession

Funny clip, but he wouldn't be happy about that order of magnitude for his fuel economy.

5 years ago
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RE: True confession

A furlong (furrow long) was the length a good ox could pull a plow before resting (10 chains). It could plow that length by a chain wide in a day, and...

5 years ago
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RE: An old man's ramblings after 40 yrs surveying

A lot of vehicles now don't even come from the factory fitted to carry a spare. My 2015 van is one, although I think a mechanic could install the hard...

5 years ago
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RE: Obtuse Scalene Triangle calculation

You use any monuments that seem original. You assume bearings on a plat are all relative to some arbitrarily chosen reference that isn't actual north,...

5 years ago
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RE: Obtuse Scalene Triangle calculation

I can duplicate your numbers by changing the bearing from N52?ø 47'E to approximately N48?ø 56' 42"E.?ÿ Are you basing this on monuments at the road R...

5 years ago
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RE: Horizontal Curve Calculations

On a long curve or sharp curve, the PI may not be able to be occupied?

5 years ago
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RE: An old man's ramblings after 40 yrs surveying

Do they work with some sand and mud mixed in with the water?

5 years ago
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RE: Living dangerously today

We used to see a guy at music sessions who was a bull rider.?ÿ Little wiry guy who must have been the toughest man per pound I've ever met.?ÿ He had a...

5 years ago
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RE: Horizontal Curve Calculations

It's been too long for me to recall Newton-Raphson in detail.?ÿ I think you put the functions into the form f(x)=(mess)=0, and use that with its deriv...

5 years ago
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RE: The Rabbit Hole comes with pictures

I read an interesting story about Unix security.?ÿ In the early days, the developers of the operating system often needed to help others with their se...

5 years ago
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RE: Living dangerously today

The expression about wearing many hats comes from an era when many occupations did indeed have a more or less standard and distinctive hat. That era ...

5 years ago
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RE: Horizontal Curve Calculations

I once proved the ?ÿ??/4 relationship with geometry but don't remember how. Many sets of two inputs theoretically define the curve but a small change...

5 years ago
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