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Dan Patterson
Dan Patterson
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Joined: February 3, 2011 7:29 am
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RE: Deliverables

Did they at least 'E-transmit' so it didn't blow out all the XREFS and include the plot styles?

11 years ago
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RE: Building Core Location Checking

:good: :good: :good: That's still how they do it for some of the largest buildings. I don't think I'd want to rely on GPS either. I both love and tr...

11 years ago
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RE: Concrete wall panel flatness & plumbness

Jimmy has the right idea. Plumbness can also be assessed in the other direction by sighting the top of the column or wall edge with the crosshairs an...

11 years ago
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RE: Best practice for tagging iron pipe property corners?

I used to recover these custom corners that one surveyor used to set in northwest Jersey. I've never seen anything like them except for his. They we...

11 years ago
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RE: Shopping for bipod legs... Anyone heard of site pro?

They're cheaper, but everything seems to be put together the same way. Maybe they use cheaper materials or manufacture in a cheaper country or someth...

11 years ago
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RE: short prism pole

Not the exact range you're looking for, but I remember we had one where the minimum height was about 2.7' and I believe the max was roughly twice that...

11 years ago
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RE: How do you check your prism pole???

> We use a True Plum. At another place. We drilled a small hole in the door jam and another in the floor. We screwed a prism pole point onto the to...

11 years ago
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RE: How do you check your prism pole???

Never did the truck thing, but in a 2-man crew we used to verify plumbness by sighting through the gun then rotate the pole in 90° increments and obse...

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RE: PLAYMOBIL Surveyor Playset

I bought one for my son for Christmas back in 2013.....Maybe I'll get another one for my desk at that price!

11 years ago
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RE: Hire professional or rent equipment?

South 44° 42' 27" East Is Relative:good: :good: :good: Paul is right. The bearing or direction of the line you wish to mark is relative to North, but...

11 years ago
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RE: What is a Record Survey?

Here surveys don't really get reviewed or recorded. Subdivisions do, but that is often done by an engineer :pinch: I think I'd rather nobody review t...

11 years ago
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RE: What is a Record Survey?

At least nobody is 'checking' them so the lowballers can do as crappy a job as they want. Same way up here. I've seen ALTAs without the description,...

11 years ago
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RE: Forced Centering aka Leap Frogging Traverses

If you're really trying to be that accurate with the elevations I would carry HI on the traverse, but nothing beats a good old fashioned level loop. ...

11 years ago
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RE: C3D - point to point inverse

Thanks.....didn't know that was in there. I have the inquiry tool as a shortcut tool palette but it doesn't have all the same bells and whistles as i...

11 years ago
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