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Bruce Small
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: Fieldwork completion date

hlbennettpls, post: 436935, member: 10049 wrote: Last date you were there. Field work doesn't have to be with a total station or GPS. You were in th...

9 years ago
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RE: Monument in a Handicap Ramp

Did you know those bumps are coded? Different patterns for different situations, sort of like Braille.

9 years ago
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RE: Retirement Options for Solo Surveyors

I intend to work as long as I can and still enjoy it, then shut her down. Just walk away.

9 years ago
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RE: Do I have a chance to enter profession? (40+)

Two of the sharpest land surveyors I've ever known were women. Yes, if you like working outdoors, go for it.

9 years ago
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RE: Here lurk gremlins

I now know what I did years ago. I often have multiple codes/descriptors at one point, such as: B CURB/B SWK. I knew that a saguaro descriptor would a...

9 years ago
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RE: Equipment Lifecycle

It is tricky, because although the old equipment might still work perfectly there is a good chance the new stuff is way faster, and actually a lot che...

9 years ago
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RE: End of My Geomatics Career

Going back to a miserable place with electronic time sheets and the computer pointing out where hours charged are below expectations, I still have dre...

9 years ago
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RE: End of My Geomatics Career

James Fleming, post: 428772, member: 136 wrote: [SARCASM]I am surely going to miss the monthly automated emails from the accounting software when my u...

9 years ago
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RE: Comments from a certified paralegal.

Going a lot faster than I thought it would, but that's probably because of Darwin's close supervision. Pit Bull and Basset Hound, and the happiest dog...

9 years ago
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RE: Comments from a certified paralegal.

Chopping_Broccoli, post: 429210, member: 9083 wrote: Very best client.What he's asking is for additional detail. Not for you to cover up anything or t...

9 years ago
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RE: Tell us about an "epic failure" you've experienced

Late 1964 in Fort Lauderdale, Southeast corner of SR84 and I-95, both under construction, and I was the newly minted party chief. By then I understood...

9 years ago
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RE: Meeting another company's crew

Several years ago I saw a survey crew on a shopping center I had surveyed several years ago, and it was a difficult area. I stopped and offered to giv...

9 years ago
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RE: Would You Show This?

Mack00079, post: 427399, member: 11516 wrote: One of the jobs of the Surveyor performing an ALTA survey is to observe and report anything that may clo...

9 years ago
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