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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: GNSS RTK Accuracy

Rather than comparing what the manufacturers say why don't you ask for a demonstration of each at a calibrated baseline. I have taken my Leica to the ...

2 years ago
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RE: Elevation certificates and geoids

Apparently there is an easier way. The Washington Post had a laudatory article on a young man in Miami who is raising awareness of climate change by p...

2 years ago
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RE: Area of an easement

Murphy, you might enjoy Alexander King's "May This House Be Safe From Tigers," where he explained he had learned to include an obvious blunder in his ...

2 years ago
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RE: Party/Crew Chief calculating and setting pins?

Solo land surveyor party chief here. Unless I am really certain in the field I prefer to go back to the officce and run the calculations while sitting...

2 years ago
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RE: Area of an easement

No, see, you didn't follow their rules either: Nearest square foot for under an acre, otherwise acreage with three (3) places to the right of the deci...

2 years ago
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RE: Minimum effort incompetence

The electric company and the communication company share a trench. That's standard operating agreement, and the two easements are in the same place.

3 years ago
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RE: Minimum effort incompetence

Good point, but in this case I've been surveying that site since 2006 when it was a junkyard. Also, the electic company and the water company are stic...

3 years ago
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RE: Client Doesn't Like Result of Survey, Withholds Payment, Threatens Complaints

Ah, yes, been there, done that. The old 5/8" rebar solidly set and exactly where I thought it should be, well, it just can't be right, so I'm not payi...

3 years ago
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RE: ALTA / NSPS Land Title Survey

No matter how vague the deed description may appear, if you can put the boundary on the ground in a unique manner, then it is a good description.

3 years ago
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RE: A peer's website

Oh, geez, he got into it with the neighbor on a site he was surveying and included his opinion of her mental condition on his ROS. That's not a good i...

3 years ago
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RE: A peer's website

Oh, boy, it is worse than we thought. Bear in mind that I’ve been in business for myself since 2000, and I’ve filed a record of survey on every site I...

3 years ago
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RE: To the bottom!

From day one my solo business has been built on the (correct) assumption that there are clients who will pay for quality because they can't afford to ...

3 years ago
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RE: A peer's website

The peer in question contacted me beause he found my tagged rebars from a "recent" survey and wanted to know why I had ignored the original monuments....

3 years ago
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3 years ago
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RE: Utter gall

To bring you up to date, they did indeed finally send a check...wait for it...and the check bounced. I didn't think they would be that dumb, nor did I...

3 years ago
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RE: ALTAs & RTK

I took my Leica RTK to the calibrated baseline - the results were impressive.

3 years ago
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