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Bruce Small
Bruce Small
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Joined: February 6, 2011 3:35 pm
Last seen: May 30, 2026 6:54 pm
Topics: 227 / Replies: 1346
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RE: How to Leverage Teaching to Improve Your Surveying Business

Amen, brother. I taught surveying at a community college, and for years I taught seminars on surveying for my peers, title companies, and attorneys. I...

7 years ago
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RE: Dying Breed

I have one (1) field book, the same one I had when I started my business in 2000. Some of the pages have notes, all from level runs.?ÿ

7 years ago
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RE: Protecting against sun damage

I'm going to bring this one back to the top because it is so important. I am faithful about heavy sunscreen protection and broad brimmed hats with a c...

9 years ago
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RE: 1903 Forensic Survey Map

Now that is one interesting map, and story.

9 years ago
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RE: Robot hit!

Astonishing to me how many times people have fallen over the traffic cones I set out. How can you not see bright orange traffic cones. Yes, I know, yo...

9 years ago
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RE: GPS to TS

I set control points with GPS RTK, in open areas using a bipod for stability, and shooting each point five times, which the unit then averages for me....

9 years ago
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RE: Your basic nightmare

An interesting development. Those record of surveys that show the section corner monument is in the wrong location by 0.3 feet - are wrong. I dug up t...

9 years ago
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RE: Non-Tangent Curve Nomenclature

JKinAK, post: 444526, member: 7219 wrote: The Department of Minutiae is seeking input for policy development.Calling out the Point of Curvature as PC ...

9 years ago
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RE: How would you do this job?

March down the street taking RTK shots as needed, and leaving PK nails in likely places with a spot (spot, not huge circle) of pink paint by each one....

9 years ago
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RE: Releasing Topographic survey to non-original client

Kent McMillan, post: 441667, member: 3 wrote: What sort of a relationship is built upon giving something away for free or deeply discounted? I may be ...

9 years ago
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RE: Angular Error Problems

In the old days at the big firm I used to take a crew out on Saturday. Same equipment, same instrument operator, yet my closures we always so much bet...

9 years ago
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RE: Releasing Topographic survey to non-original client

Relationships are everything. Cooperation opens doors. So far this morning I have sent out the AutoCAD file for a survey with topo done ten years ago ...

9 years ago
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RE: No BFE...now what?

Darryl Beard, post: 438940, member: 11556 wrote: So I have had several elevation certs lately with no established BFE on the firm maps and no FIS prof...

9 years ago
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RE: ALTA Table A Item 6(b)

Jim in AZ, post: 438957, member: 249 wrote: states "... if those requirements do not require an interpretation by the surveyor, graphically depict the...

9 years ago
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