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Joined: December 7, 2010 5:47 pm
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Topics: 80 / Replies: 534
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RE: Gophers in Ronan are MUTATING!!!!

greenhorne snype hunting, gotta love it.

15 years ago
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RE: Kenyan surveyor uses GPS to resolve tense land dispute

Am I understanding this correctly, he used a handheld to locate, divide and stakeout the property corners for the 128 AC tract of land? I guess with t...

15 years ago
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RE: Ring - Ring

Ring - Ring, NC SurveyorsBy way of NC, They don't play around. I have read the board meetings where they enforce the rules they established, brutal. I...

15 years ago
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RE: PS Exam

I want to thank you for the GIS link. There were a lot of terms on some practice tests that I have been studying with that I wasn't finding in any of ...

15 years ago
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RE: Rhode Island Bill would strip away all but Boundary Surveys.

What I'd like to know from all the 'professions' trying to simulate traditional land surveying, and more specifically the topo engineers can perform i...

15 years ago
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RE: level recommendations

Just looked at the specs, and Mr. Frame is right, I apologize for the loose verbage. I appreciate the correction. That would explain the decimals in t...

15 years ago
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RE: level recommendations

Perhaps, but when I collimate my digital level it reads in seconds with the actual " sign. If that actually refers to 'arc-seconds', I don't think it ...

15 years ago
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RE: level recommendations

I, like Mr. Putnam, use a DNA 03. The 03 refers to the seconds of the digital level, much like a regular total station. I think that Leica has both th...

15 years ago
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RE: A before and after plan

It looks as thought he (the surveyor who prepped that plan) didn't even make an attempt at flopping the tins to smooth out some of those contours, eve...

15 years ago
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RE: Autocad and Carlson Question

That's funny, I figured it out. For some reason it was pulling a different pin table file, even though it was named the exact same as the one I normal...

15 years ago
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RE: One More Archaeological Dig for 1940

Are you using one of those fancy anti-gravitational brass instruments for a string line to give a visual bearing on what your looking at? I tell ya, f...

15 years ago
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RE: Lower Overhead

I'VE ASKED MR. CLEVELAND, BUT I'M GOING TO ASK THE REST OF YA'LL. HAS ANYONE GOTTEN A BUSINESS LOAN THROUGH EITHER A BANK OR THROUGH THE SMALL BUSINES...

15 years ago
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RE: Lower Overhead

I have heard lease quite a bit. Do you buy the equipment when the lease is up at a predetermined price or is it more like a rent to own type thing?

15 years ago
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RE: Lower Overhead

While you are talking about getting things paid off, I've been doing some research on cost for a DC and an Instrument. If ya'll don't mind sharing wha...

15 years ago
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RE: I love GIS, but...

I personally love to see GIS'ers go to the field to stake out property corners based on their "accurately compiled metadata information". I wonder wha...

15 years ago
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RE: Safety Vest

I agree with Mr. Dan Robinson in that Filson is the best all around for the money, I have had one for seven years, but it fades after about three. So ...

15 years ago
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RE: Trimble VRS dual station observation

Another detail I just thought to add is that we are piggy backing off of the ODOT network, I assumed it was a program setting or option that we could ...

15 years ago
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RE: Trimble VRS dual station observation

We do a lot of Corp of Engineer work where we are and it is a requirement to use two different bases for a single control point and either average a s...

15 years ago
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