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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: Virtual Office

C Billingsley, post: 327779, member: 1965 wrote: I work solo from home and I was looking into the idea of a virtual office. If you're not familiar wi...

11 years ago
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RE: Partner Engineering and Science, Inc.

Dallas Morlan, post: 327678, member: 6020 wrote: If you haven't looked at their web site explanation of ALTA surveys I suggest you do. I looked at th...

11 years ago
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RE: Manhole lid

timothyhohara, post: 326627, member: 92 wrote: BFC is Brooks Fiber Communications, which was acquired by WorldCom. Most likely successor company woul...

11 years ago
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RE: Manhole lid

Paul in PA, post: 326645, member: 236 wrote: Is this not a question for One Call? Even if you find out exactly who the manhole belongs to, if you do n...

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RE: Home Office or "Store Front" Office

That's the one drawback in my home office, mainly because I'm a big softie. The cat sits in the hallway and hollers for someone to tuck him into bed, ...

11 years ago
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RE: Home Office or "Store Front" Office

We have a large home and all the kids are out of the nest, so my wife has a nice home office, I have a nice home office, and the dog and cat share a b...

11 years ago
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RE: California metes and bounds

Bruce Small, post: 326083, member: 1201 wrote: I have a request from a California attorney to convert a lot and block description in Tucson to a metes...

11 years ago
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RE: Billable hours for sole proprietor

When I started out (solo) I kept my rate the same as the large firms, and raised it from there. I correctly reasoned that I was highly experienced, hi...

11 years ago
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RE: If I ever get killed surveyin'..

1. Always wear a safety vest and put out cones. Have no faith in their ability to keep you safe because they won't have the slightest effect on the do...

11 years ago
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RE: Resume embellishment

My favorite, from decades ago before CAD, was the man who provided several examples of his drafting, and the maps were very nice indeed. The only prob...

11 years ago
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RE: What Is The worst Architect Blunder You've Ever Seen?

Both of the following have a common cause: The architect never visiting the site. You would think someone in the office could drive by on the way to w...

11 years ago
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RE: RTK and Relative Accuracy

That 0.10' seems fair for 1990s RTK, but today in open terrain you can certainly expect much better, more like 0.02'.

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RE: How many epochs needed when using RTK?

I learned long ago that most of the time fast shots are just fine, but every now and then you will get a funny one. Since then my practice is to reach...

11 years ago
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RE: F2F the new Leica Captivate way.

I can see how the "viewer" would be very useful, so you can quickly catch missed features or miscoded lines.However, the system looks slower to me, an...

11 years ago
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RE: Face, Back, or both?

I usually shoot the face of curb as it touches the pavement, then use AutoCAD to draw a parallel line for the back. Because double letters are faster ...

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