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chris-bouffard
@chris-bouffard
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Joined: December 12, 2016 10:53 am
Last seen: April 22, 2025 11:39 am
Topics: 63 / Replies: 1401
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RE: Total Station Trunnion Axis Error

Always direct and reverse observations. Precision equipment isn't perfect equipment, you should do everything you can to try and cancel out systemati...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Thinking of starting my own business. What advice do those of you have?

I started my own business out of necessity when the market crashed in 2008. The biggest upfront demand that I faced was start up cash. I used what w...

2 months ago
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RE: New Member!

Welcome Cathy! I've been licensed in NJ for 32 years and assume that the NJ State Specific is all digital now as it relates to applications. When I...

2 months ago
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RE: Topcon GTS-2 infö and parts needed

@jamsden it's not a data collector, the key pad doesn't store anything.

2 months ago
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RE: Do you remember your first day as party chief

I filled in as a Junior Party Chief for about a year. One day, I showed up for work and there was a brand new Chevy Suburban in the parking lot, lett...

2 months ago
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RE: Standard survey accuracy standards for municipal projects

In past years I managed at least $150 million in Municipal projects ranging from roadway rehab to water towers. Never once in my bid specs did I incl...

2 months ago
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RE: Topcon GTS-2 infö and parts needed

Good luck finding anything for a GTS 2. That was the first "total station" that I ever ran back in 1983. I may remember wrong but the plug in key pa...

2 months ago
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RE: That will teach me

It's a simple matter of them wanting to hold onto their money for as long as possible and it's ridiculous.

3 months ago
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RE: Long Island Surveying

@tnt You will not find many blazed trees in either NY or NJ, these are not PLSS states, they are Colonial states and we work in a significantly differ...

3 months ago
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RE: Stolen TS16 P 1" R500

@norman-oklahoma Leica marks it as stolen when the victim reports the theft to their dealer or distributer. It's been my experience that when you buy...

3 months ago
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RE: Leica GS18 Firmware issues

I got at least two emails about this firmware update per week, beginning around Thanksgiving and completely disregarded them because my recievers don'...

3 months ago
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RE: Career crossroads

I've read your post and the responses that have been posted thus far and will offer some things to consider as well. I've been surveying for 42 year...

4 months ago
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RE: Conflicting elements in legal description that calls for a lot and block an additional and unnecessary metes and bound description-

@danemince it would appear to me that current physical locations and those that can be established (the road that you mention) will be superior to the...

4 months ago
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RE: Missouri State-Specific Exam

When I was considering getting licensed in Florida I was looking at the same problem. Somebody suggested that I contact the State to ask what materia...

4 months ago
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RE: New Member

@jim-frame I run Carlson Survey over Civil 3D and the pricing is wildly different between a shop with one or two seats versus a larger corporation. ...

4 months ago
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RE: New Member

@holy-cow I feel the same way and do the same thing. I do my own deed plots and boundary calcs, resolve the survey, and then pass it on for somebody ...

4 months ago
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