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david-livingstone
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Joined: July 22, 2010 10:44 am
Topics: 47 / Replies: 1076
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RE: Spelling Police Take Note

I live in a town that has a college, Western Illinois University. A few years ago they played a game with new shirts and Illinois was spelled Illinio...

7 years ago
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RE: Exactly 103 Years Ago Today

I can see some day in the future when the say the measurements we take today aren't very accurate and they can measure to an accuracy of better than 0...

7 years ago
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RE: Section division on existing fences

Holy Cow, that was well said and exactly the way I look at the issue.

7 years ago
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RE: Section division on existing fences

I don't think Lincoln wrote the when he was president, it was before.

7 years ago
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RE: Section division on existing fences

Found the above link, dated 1859. Like mentioned above by someone else, some rules had been issued saying just run the east-west center of section li...

7 years ago
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RE: Section division on existing fences

The KGB, post: 432170, member: 10394 wrote: It's my understanding that statuatory method of non-fractional section subdivision has remained basically ...

7 years ago
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RE: Section division on existing fences

In theory, the center of section is the intersection of the quarter corners. The story is Abe Linclon made this recomendation. How did this info get...

7 years ago
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RE: Hold my beer and watch this

I belong to a local gun club and they have a sign up "NO TANNERIRITE". Now I know why.

7 years ago
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RE: Equipment Lifecycle

I usually figure anything that takes batteries, such as radios, data collectors, computers, GPS, Total Station etc will last about 10 years.

7 years ago
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RE: VRS Subscription or Single Base

A suggestion, which is what I do, is use a base and broadcast by radio. I've got enough control points around and there are enough points published t...

7 years ago
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RE: My mystery with a canine malady

Do you dogs like Jack Daniels?

8 years ago
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RE: Civil 3D: Point Grouping Utility

If you didn't have a lot of them you could put them in a spread sheet and cut and paste them in the order you want. Otherwise you would almost have ...

8 years ago
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RE: First day advice

Just from my experience working with first timers, they often don't have the correct clothing, boots, cold weather cloths, mud boots etc.Me personally...

8 years ago
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RE: "Waste" Parcel on Subdivision Plat

Most places discourage leaving strips of ground to stop streets being extended, I've heard them called spite strips.

8 years ago
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RE: "Waste" Parcel on Subdivision Plat

If I were doing that sub and knew that parcel wasn't buildable, I would have included it with lot 50 and 51. I guess the question is, who owns it, t...

8 years ago
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RE: Oregon Man Fined by Board for Studying Traffic Light Timing

Dave Karoly, post: 425807, member: 94 wrote: He poked the bear, the bear nicely said stop that, but he kept poking the bear.This is my take also. The...

8 years ago
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RE: Double Corners

In Illinois, tags aren't used, I've never seen one, but this is a good example of where tags would be usefull. If the guy that set the caps was reall...

8 years ago
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RE: On the fly GPS "calibration" against benchmark

If the offset is the same direction, it MIGHT be O.K. to do that. Meaning if you checked into that benchmark with your network RTK and it was always ...

8 years ago
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RE: To slide or not to slide?

I guess I just don't understand the logic of not moving the gun over the point when you set up on it. Like someone above said, your surveying points ...

8 years ago
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RE: To slide or not to slide?

I slide it to match the point. Unless like mentioned above where you have the better level bubble on an adaptor, you gun will have a better level bub...

8 years ago
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