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bill93
bill93
@bill93
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Joined: July 1, 2010 9:00 pm
Last seen: September 22, 2026 9:31 pm
Topics: 291 / Replies: 9708
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RE: Can you ethically survey your own property? Can you prepare survey for closing?

And why is that?  It would seem they could lack perspective on their own case and be better served by someone independent, but I don't see anythi...

7 years ago
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RE: Letƒ??s go Metric they said, Itƒ??ll be fun they said...

I eyeball between the marks, whether it's 1/16", 0.01 ft, or 1 mm marks. But it's a principle of woodworking that dimensions are rarely critical: 1/1...

7 years ago
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RE: Business Owners - Side Projects/Ventures

Gates was darned near selling the bridge when he sold DOS to IBM. He rented furniture and hired people off the street for a few days to look busy for...

7 years ago
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RE: Letƒ??s go Metric they said, Itƒ??ll be fun they said...

I'm currently doing a minor woodworking project and chose to design it in millimeters. It's a musical instrument stand (for my wife's hammered dulcime...

7 years ago
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RE: Can you ethically survey your own property? Can you prepare survey for closing?

Like the coach, you will be suspected of bias.?ÿ If you sued a judge would you trust them to hear the case??ÿ

7 years ago
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RE: Adjusting the EDM on a Topcon PS-101A

What instrument??ÿ There may be differences in what is user-adjustable. Did you have accurate temperature and pressure settings??ÿ If not, then the re...

7 years ago
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RE: Payments by check

>over $150K sitting in an "overpaid" account. We have addressed this with them on numerous occasions to no avail. Apparently it would cost them mor...

7 years ago
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RE: 2 Fathoms Deep

He posted several times on this forum just two weeks ago.

7 years ago
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RE: right angles (spherical triangle rectangle)

All meridians form right angles with the tangent to each parallel of latitude.

7 years ago
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RE: Face left and face right and large delta Horizontal angles

Great approach.  I did something like this only more extreme one time.  My brother wondered what he was seeing on the horizon several miles...

7 years ago
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RE: U.S. Survey Foot Scheduled to Die of Natural Causes in 2022

We had a long discussion of this when NGS talked about it in a webinar.

7 years ago
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RE: Staking out from another surveyor's station co-ordinates or mine?

It is important to think about?ÿ which tolerances need to be tight.?ÿ Nobody is going to get excited if the foundation is .04 ft further from the boun...

7 years ago
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RE: Really bad plat

I tried to fit a curve to lots 1,2, 3, and part of 4 in order to learn more about that part of lot4.  I find the radius to be a bit more than 400...

7 years ago
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RE: Maps that suck...

Board of Registration report for each and every?ÿ map that doesn't meet minimum standards in your state. I'd forgive an occasional lapse, but if that'...

7 years ago
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