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david-baalman
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RE: Determining my Chord bearing and distance

Chord length is easy: arc length/radius = delta (in radians) x180/pi= delta (in degrees) chord is 2*radius*sin(1/2delta) = 116.31' I don't see enoug...

2 years ago
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RE: 2009 Manual Signing Ceremony

One of my employees "won" a signed copy of the manual (including a photo of the signing ceremony) at the 2022 PLSO (Oregon) conference. He gets to kee...

2 years ago
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RE: Equipment for sale -- not quite vintage but nothing overly modern

Update: Trimble 5700 stuff is sold, still have the rest

3 years ago
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RE: Trench Danger

They don't even have to be 20' deep. About a decade ago an acquaintance of mine, who had worked for the company I now own many years before I started ...

3 years ago
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RE: What Does a Note like This, Mean to You?

It is, unfortunately, standard practice in WA, but that doesn't make it right. It's bad here on my side of the state, but it's much worse on the other...

3 years ago
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RE: So you found a monument 0.XX' from where you calculated it...

Based on the facts given: 1. Yes it controls the sideline. More importantly why wouldn't it? Why would the monuments set to mark the centerline of th...

3 years ago
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RE: How in the world are lenders still sending out requirements 2016 ALTA/NSPS Minimum Standards???

Funny I had a request this morning that included their ALTA requirements, which are from the 2011 standard. And you guessed it, they want it certified...

3 years ago
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RE: Oddball street names

There's a road in a neighboring County that has 3 spellings, one on the road sign at the intersection, and one on each "intersection ahead" sign. Ric...

4 years ago
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RE: Why is there such a weak signal from some iron rods?

My dad (retired PLS) had to find and dig up his septic tank about 5 years ago. It took some effort to find it, so we swung it in off the corners of th...

4 years ago
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RE: I hate this

I think a lot of people get bogged down on the wrong issue. Jeff Lucas puts it well in?ÿThe Pincushion Effect by saying that there are 2 questions whe...

4 years ago
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RE: I hate this

I agree with Nate, record & measured dimensions, like this: (not sure if that's actually big enough to read, bottom line: S7?ø04'54"W 83.69'(M) ...

4 years ago
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RE: Where does the line run today?

@holy-cow so he accepted the section corners but not the 1/4? At that point why not go to the initial point and work your way in from there? Here that...

4 years ago
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