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RE: uh oh, an Engineer signed up

You know the difference between a surveyor and an engineer??ÿ The surveyor doesn't think he is an engineer.

7 years ago
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RE: Do Boundary Surveys only show the location of "Record Title Boundaries"?

I can imagine some surveyors will use this as an excuse to just layout the deed word for word and skip looking at all the evidence and making an infor...

7 years ago
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RE: That Pesky 1855 Stream Crossing

In the case I remember it along the Spoon River. At the time I figured how many times it would have taken them to cross this river but I don't rememb...

7 years ago
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RE: That Pesky 1855 Stream Crossing

The question is did they really cross it that many times? I've seen that happen in my area and some of the distances seem out of whack in one case an...

7 years ago
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RE: Nearly Normal

I can't remember exactly why, because Illinois is similar, but Lucas is saying even though saying the Manual is "adopted", that doesn't mean you have ...

7 years ago
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RE: Nearly Normal

I've heard Jeff Lucas also say the manual doesn't apply once the land goes to private ownership. In Illinois there is not a lot of Federal land, so h...

7 years ago
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RE: Nearly Normal

Richard Schaut, yes thats it. I don't know about other people said his name, but I always pronounced it Richard SHOUT. If you have ever been to a Je...

7 years ago
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RE: Nearly Normal

I rememeber when someone got an electronic copy of one of TDD's plat. Of course people picked it apart and TDD went balistic. That was a good one.Wh...

7 years ago
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RE: Are you a twenty-percenter?

Reminds me of a quiz where it seems like you are doing math. Its not writen down but you tell it to a person. It starts out Bob the farmer has 12 ch...

7 years ago
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RE: Are you a twenty-percenter?

Because I knew they were going to be trick questions, it actually made it easier. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have got them right.

7 years ago
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RE: In-house site calibration...

just some FYI, I've been told by someone that sets up jobs for machine control, that they can't work in State Plane Coordinates, they have to do a cal...

7 years ago
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RE: Let's discuss IMU's

I also know someone that was in the military that used something similar and he said it rode in a Hummer it was so large. I assume its some kind of g...

7 years ago
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RE: Protection in the woods

The Tarus Judge wouldn't be my first choice, but a modern 45 LC load can apporach 44 magnum power if I'm not mistaken.

7 years ago
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RE: Just a few random thoughts

A brain full of useless info? Hey, thats me. The 71 426 hemi was the only year to have a manual choke. Hows that for the fact of the day.

7 years ago
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RE: Any Shelby Cobra fans out there?

That actually wasn't a Demon but a Drag Pak Challenger that had Demon stickers on it. It was driven by a women that is a proffesional drag racer and ...

7 years ago
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RE: Any Shelby Cobra fans out there?

They found the green Mustang from the movie Bullit. The best car chase ever from a movie in my opinion,

7 years ago
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RE: Initialising at the base

I'm using Topcon gear with Survey Pro so this may or may not apply. If I set my base one day, and come back the next day and set up on the same point...

7 years ago
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RE: On the edge of allergy

I'm have allegerys about 10 months out of the year. There is a couple of months in the dead of winter they go away. Mine will flare up, get bettr, t...

7 years ago
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RE: Re-establishing Control after Natural Disaster

I know our former NGS advisor, Chris Pearson, went to Nepal to help them with control after the very severe earthquake they had a few years ago. I th...

7 years ago
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