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@chris-bouffard
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Joined: December 12, 2016 10:53 am
Last seen: June 4, 2026 10:18 am
Topics: 64 / Replies: 1427
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RE: Classes on Leica Captivate

There are online tutorials on Leica's website.

3 years ago
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RE: TopCon Software License

That would depend on what your dealer tacks on to the actual cost.

3 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring

Not knowing the full business relationship between the poster and his client, I will say without any hesitation that the offer to go back out and flag...

3 years ago
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RE: Exceptionally shoddy work

Title reports have been degrading in quality and completeness for years. It is not uncommon for me to receive missing documents and only get a list o...

3 years ago
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RE: Rake/Battered Pile Survey Procedure

@dougie Ring Ring from my COO, "We need to meet tomorrow morning to discuss putting together a proposal for a large bridge layout proposal. It includ...

3 years ago
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RE: Request for Reduced Rate

Things like this kill me as our fees almost always amount to the smallest, or close to the smallest, percentage of the overall budget. My rates are w...

3 years ago
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RE: What do you tell your client?

As the client is paying for your work it is your obligation to advise them of your findings in detail and explain that there may be ramifications if l...

3 years ago
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RE: What do you tell your client?

@norman-oklahoma the clock does not start until the date of discovery. The possession may be open and notorious but not hostile. Your advice is not ...

3 years ago
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RE: CRM Systems for Quote Request Intake

Nothing is going to beat a conversation with a prospective to figure out what the real scope of work is and what their expectations are. Many laymen ...

3 years ago
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RE: Some surveyors should stay away from Construction work

I hate working with steel. Staking grid and column lines are a walk in the park but when it comes to anchor bolts, it seems they are never set where ...

3 years ago
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RE: Anybody have any recommendations for in-person Civil3D training.

Check with your community college, they might have night courses and check with your local technical high school if you have one, they may too.

3 years ago
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RE: illinois Licensing procedure

You should only have to take the State Specific portion of the test when getting licensed by reciprocity. I'm licensed in NJ and know a few people wh...

3 years ago
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RE: Surveying Tattoos

I have two tatts, (one on each arm and both above my short sleeve line) both have a meaning to me, especially the one in honor of my late wife. They ...

3 years ago
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RE: Ink Jet Plats, and making your own office papers

When I started my own shop in the great depression of 2008 I found a large format plotter that would print up to 36 x 42 dwgs. I found it on craiglis...

3 years ago
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RE: Plane survey setting up over known point: Any point in setting instrument height?

@bill93 employing the formula that you mention assumes that the height of the instrument and target are the same when not entering both the target hei...

3 years ago
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RE: You Had One Job

When the bottom fell out in 2008 I started my own shop after being laid off. My biggest client was a multi millionaire land speculator who bought som...

3 years ago
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RE: Plane survey setting up over known point: Any point in setting instrument height?

@bill93 it the HI & HT are not at the same height you are introducing error into the reduction equation.

3 years ago
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RE: Trimble Access Resection Routine

I'll probably get blowback from this but it's my opinion that resections are a risky thing and in cases where the DC software isn't cooperating, you a...

3 years ago
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RE: Removing Geoid for Machine control. (TRIMBLE)

Two things strike me as curious, if you are working on projects miles long in grading operations, why would the data not be scaled to ground as workin...

3 years ago
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