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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: The Business of Land Surveying - A POLL

We started our business eleven years ago today, and I just graphed our yearly income.Steady fast growth, with the high points being years 6 and 7, the...

15 years ago
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RE: monument case lids

Pry the lid up and move it two feet out of the way, within the cone area but out of the way of the tripod. Tip: I wear disposable surgical gloves when...

15 years ago
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RE: Date of Survey

Leave a trail showing when and what.

15 years ago
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RE: Surveying profession as seen thru the windshield

I spent the entire day surveying a shopping center, the high was 106, and I baked while wearing a safety jacket, but the way people drive in the parki...

15 years ago
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RE: Encroach-Protrude-Intrude

I just report the facts, as in: Chain link fence 1.2' north of line. What and where is my obligation.

15 years ago
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RE: What does your state board call it.

There are plenty of areas in the Tucson foothills where there are informal unrecorded agreements on driveways crossing the property lines (a common oc...

15 years ago
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RE: The evil word...

Gary Kent article on this subjectZoning Setbacks and ALTA/ACSM Land Title Surveys(Reprinted with permission from ACSM Bulletin no. 250 (April 2011), p...

15 years ago
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RE: Getting hot

Getting hot...No, I had to get to the junkyard for a meeting with the architect. It has been my experience that the police take those calls seriously ...

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RE: Reserving the right to be wrong, this is the closest categor

I know it is theft, which is clearly wrong, but I have pity for him. He must have been desperate. Unless his peers show a lot of compassion his profes...

15 years ago
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RE: FreeCOGO - Software Evaluation and Feedback

This is how I do it, based upon maximum efficiency for my style:Bearing entries.When the program asks for a bearing:NE or 1 calls a northeast bearing....

15 years ago
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RE: Volusia County, Florida Surveyors

For years I had a big roll of Blanton section maps at the large firm where I worked. They were priceless. After I left the new management took them to...

15 years ago
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RE: I tried to be pleasant

I admit that was a second draft. I held it while I mellowed during dinner, then I put myself in her place and toned it down. Everyone was a rookie onc...

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RE: So what is your annual advertising budget...and

My ad budget is zero. Not one penny. I've never been in the phone book.Referrals from quality clients are gold. They are my only source of new clients...

15 years ago
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RE: Bringing in vertical control via GPS

We had a discussion on this subject last year on the other site, and I posted a detailed comment on March 13, 2010. I tried to import it, but all I ca...

15 years ago
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RE: Bearing label

If you like the word “due” you might want to look up the disastrous court case in California involving the word.From Wattles:"The cardinal directions,...

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