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RE: Finding monuments buried deep

FlaSurveyor, post: 410040, member: 10854 wrote: I have tied flagging and ran it up as I back filled the hole, also have just dumped extra flagging in ...

8 years ago
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RE: Improvements and references on Surveys

aliquot, post: 410345, member: 2486 wrote: Mapping improvements is time consuming and requires little proffesional judgment.I think the the profession...

8 years ago
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RE: Paper Surveys

If this practice continues the Clerk and Recorders Office will to be full of unstaked recorded plats. We as Surveyors are entrusted with preserving bo...

8 years ago
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RE: SurveyPro

Your right R.J. a fixed backsight would be a backsight at a fixed height which may not be the same as the foresight rod. This allows you to check your...

8 years ago
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RE: Town corner

This reminds me of a subdivision that was originally an aliquot part of a section surrounded by forest service land. Years later the forest service de...

8 years ago
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RE: Rover Poles & Backpacks

Backpacking the rover sounds like such a good idea, until Murphy's law bites you and you just hiked 20 minutes up a steep grade to find out the base i...

8 years ago
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RE: Replacing printers

I purchased a HP color laser printer last year for about $400 which I thought a the time was a good price. It does an excellent job, however, when it ...

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RE: Line tangent to two circles

epoch date, post: 409078, member: 485 wrote: Regular Autocad (I'm in 2009 right now) generates this geometry with the tangent functions on both ends.D...

8 years ago
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RE: Mortgage Surveys

I remember working in New Mexico, we would do mortgage surveys where a portion of a larger parcel was mortgaged usually with a new home or mobile home...

8 years ago
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RE: Blunder of the week

christ lambrecht, post: 408472, member: 284 wrote: Tip of the day!Take 2 measurements, top of Pipe and Bottom of pipe, may help in avoiding An additio...

8 years ago
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RE: Highway surveying

I have always liked the station and offset method where everything is based off of centerline. I have noticed a change from that method to coordinate ...

8 years ago
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RE: AutoCAD 360

There must be a file size limit on the free version, my son told me today that when he tried to open the drawing today that a message popped up saying...

8 years ago
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RE: So where should the survey monuments go

Dave Karoly, post: 408340, member: 94 wrote: This is what is known in the trade as an "original boundary."Only if you can get both parties to agree of...

8 years ago
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RE: Best Base Station Tripod

I understand the issue with the height, but I just don't have as much faith in the rod bubble vs the tribrach optical plumb. Most of my gps work is RT...

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RE: Best Base Station Tripod

I use a Dutch Hill fiberglass for the base. It's the best tripod I've ever used.

8 years ago
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RE: Identify these objects?

A right angle prism and a concrete nail

8 years ago
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