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david-livingstone
@david-livingstone
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Joined: July 22, 2010 12:44 pm
Last seen: March 13, 2025 3:36 pm
Topics: 47 / Replies: 1079
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RE: Remaining Land

I did one several years ago and surveyed just the house and the access to it. I don’t see anything wrong with that. No approval needed in rural area...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Survey Plat with aerial imagery in background

I agree, it’s been a while since I’ve done it but in Land Development you can fade the images and mess with the contrast to make your line work show u...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Codes

Depending on the area storm retention is a good idea. You start paving and developing areas eventually people downstream will get flooded.

3 months ago
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RE: Best Places to Buy Big and Tall Work Shirts in the USA?

Kohls has a Big and Tall section. Not a great selection but at least you can try it on and see it.

6 months ago
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RE: Illinois River Survey - 1903

I found this on the Mississippi River bluff a few years ago. My understanding is it was early geodetic work. This had updated coordinates on the NGS...

2 years ago
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RE: New engineers vs land surveyors and others

My daughter went to the same school I did, SIU Carbondale. With my degree I could have been a PE in several states but not Illinois. There are more ...

2 years ago
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RE: New engineers vs land surveyors and others

My daughter is a civil engineering grad and has passed her EIT with 3 years of experience. In Illinois PLS wages have increased a lot but engineers a...

2 years ago
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RE: What is the best way to setup an external radio UHF antenna for a GNSS Base

I often just put a regular range pole on a tribrach and used one or two sections of range poke depending on how high I wanted it.

2 years ago
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RE: How to handle a Pin Farmer

I suspect the new surveyor had a measurement that didn’t fit the existing pin something set a new one. It seems like I was at a seminar that said ...

2 years ago
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RE: I should have saved the photo

Here’s your picture or one like it.

2 years ago
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RE: Deral "TrimbleMan" Paulk has passed away

That’s a shame, he dates back to when the POB forum was going big.

2 years ago
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RE: Unexpected

I’ve always been cool, the rest of the world is just catching up to me.

2 years ago
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RE: Who would you remove or add?

I didnƒ??t recognize 59 of the names. ?ÿI suspect Iƒ??ve heard of some of there music but donƒ??t know it. I didnƒ??t see anything from the Eagles or...

2 years ago
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RE: Platted rights of way versus original monuments.

My understanding is 10 feet of ROW is ƒ??missingƒ? as monumented. ?ÿIƒ??m not clear where the 10 feet went? ?ÿAre the lots longer or was the 10 feet ...

2 years ago
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RE: Very annoying "feature" on new Jeeps and Fords

Ford has a program called Forscan. ?ÿI think itƒ??s free and you just need a hookup to your phone to the OBD port. ?ÿYou can change or disable certain...

2 years ago
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RE: Professional Land Surveyor - California

All joking aside your ad listing the job description reads like a short novel and little too much like a Dilbert cartoon. ?ÿ BTW, a trammel is somet...

2 years ago
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RE: Base battery housing

We went with cheaper but heavy trolling motor batteries. ?ÿ12 volt marine batteries and put them in trolling motor plastic boxes. ?ÿThe good part is t...

2 years ago
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RE: If you could do it all againƒ??

My degree is in civil engineering but I would have had to leave Illinois to get my license as a PE, which was my long term plan. ?ÿI did a lot of surv...

2 years ago
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RE: Add a name to this list

A more infamous one is Hub Northing, I think he is still doing hard time. ?ÿMotorcycle Surveyor is another one that come to mind, not a big contributo...

2 years ago
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RE: What's This - and what does it do?

High performance Mopars had dual point distributors. ?ÿI had a 70 440 six barrel Road Runner that originally had dual points. ?ÿIt didnƒ??t last long ...

2 years ago
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