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RE: ALTA/ACSM Zoning standards

What they said.?ÿ This won't help on this particular project, but perhaps for the future: my ALTA proposals state that I will address one set of comme...

5 years ago
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RE: TBC - transform survey points question

Average them. Think of it this way: if you had gone out and collected static sessions on it first, and then processed and gone back out to shoot your ...

5 years ago
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RE: The Most Ridiculous Thing Ever

Saw this story this morning. I was impressed that one of the first comments was "wow no one thought to have the land surveyed before building?"?ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: $#%%&*# Pipeline

We did a boundary survey about 20 years ago for a new orchard. Every section corner, 1/4 corner, and 1/16th corner was monumented with an iron pipe an...

5 years ago
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RE: The variety of place names is entertaining

Boise, ID is in Ada County, which adjoins Boise County. I live in Richland, WA, which lies in the rain shadow of the cascade mountains and gets less t...

5 years ago
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RE: Site Unseen

I too give a lot of ESTIMATES based on experience and what is of record in the area. If someone is shopping prices, I tend to spend 5 minutes educatin...

5 years ago
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RE: Time wasters

Subdivision plat review: "subdivision is approved with the following condition of approval: Line 3 of legal description change 'following described le...

5 years ago
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RE: "Welcome to my world.."

Yep, this one sends me 20-30 jobs per year, pays bills 2x per month, and never complains about the price. One of my better contracts for sure. 

5 years ago
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RE: Bad day

Left a backsight set up on a construction job for a couple weeks because it was a royal pain to get to. When I picked it up, it was absolutely covered...

5 years ago
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RE: "Welcome to my world.."

I have been doing similar work for a local electric coop for the last 5 years or so. They used to write their own easement descriptions, and they had ...

5 years ago
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RE: "Apropriate Scale"

I've got a smart alecky fake subdivision drawing I created a while back when I was ticked off. The vicinity map shows "sun mercury venus project site ...

5 years ago
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RE: Is Somebody, Somewhere, Missing an Anvil

Cool. I'm guessing you found the original "iron stake". Be sure to call out that it's a few tenths from your comp of the face of your survey ;)?ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: Pin cushion pics needed

That's the same LS number on each cap, literally touching each other, about 0.1' away from a prominent fence corner. The second crew obviously didn't ...

6 years ago
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RE: So close but so far away!

Also remember the (poor) quality of 40 year old plastic. I've seen plastic caps disintegrate before my eyes from just trying to wipe some dirt off of ...

6 years ago
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RE: So close but so far away!

There are a number of surveyors here who will set yet another iron and there are a larger number of surveyors who will reference all those irons with ...

6 years ago
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RE: Underwater property boundary

Is this a seasonal fluctuation? Any chance if you go back in August it will be high & dry??ÿ

6 years ago
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RE: Nice tripod...are you short?

We did the construction staking for the LIGO observatory here in SE Washington many years ago. We had to set up on an offset line and then turn a 90 &...

6 years ago
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RE: Static baseline processing failure

Sent the files to trimble, they say TBC 5.00 processes them just fine, so guess what I just bought and am installing right now...?ÿ

6 years ago
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