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Joined: September 15, 2011 5:01 am
Last seen: June 3, 2026 9:52 am
Topics: 2 / Replies: 282
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RE: Finding Massachusetts County Road Layouts

Middlesex used to mail out a CD for a fee that had additional scanned plans and docs which are not available on the website.?ÿ I haven't seen them pop...

6 years ago
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RE: Bob Vollmer

"Surveyor can finally afford to retire"

6 years ago
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RE: Hosting Server Updates 2020-01-12

Here in Boston the response times are about twice as fast as before.?ÿ Thanks Wendell!

6 years ago
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RE: Cut/Fill Reports

@tim-v-pls   The text you can add into the custom formatting in Excel could be:   F#,##0.00;[Red]C#,##0.00   You can tweak it to ...

6 years ago
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RE: I have not encountered this one before

My all time favorite save was the pillar of dirt they left in place.?ÿ We asked them to preserve the trav point and the cut about 5-6 feet of dirt all...

6 years ago
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RE: I'm going to say this right now

@bill93 damn low ballers.?ÿ Always leaving money on the table. 😉

7 years ago
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RE: Downward Spiral

The solution is here: Maybe it time to become a robot repair tech. ?ÿ

7 years ago
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RE: Downward Spiral

@just-a-surveyor Couldn't agree more on this.  For what it's worth, as the elder class continues to age they will need to incentivize the younge...

7 years ago
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RE: Surveying around a NRQZ

Think of all the chores that would get done without the wifi interference.?ÿ That sounds like a good place to move to.

7 years ago
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RE: Engineer and his road

Customer is always right...even when they are wrong.?ÿ I like to give two prices for things like this.?ÿ $1500 for the overdone version or $500 for th...

7 years ago
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RE: Deprecation of the ƒ??U.S. Survey Footƒ? on December 31, 2022

When I first heard about this a few weeks back, I was thinking that there is no way that the NGS would ever do something like this.?ÿ Something that I...

7 years ago
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RE: Conundrum

Seems about split amongst the crowd.?ÿ My opinion is to help teach but charge to help correct anything.?ÿ That would put some limits on the negative s...

7 years ago
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RE: Dealing with more responsibility at your job

It's really only a question that you can answer.?ÿ My advice is to go for it.?ÿ There are a lot of surveyors in the world with a lot of grey hair and ...

7 years ago
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RE: kitty-corner

So if #1 and #3 add in fences up to their common corner blocking this path then someone couldn't travel between 2 and 4 and I would think would need a...

7 years ago
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RE: What would it take?

@field-dog one more thing to have nightmares over... 😮

7 years ago
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RE: What would it take?

@just-a-surveyor Just to politely counter, I never said the ones staying were working.  Many were there learning.  I never advocate working...

7 years ago
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RE: What would it take?

3 man crews seem less and less warranted with the advancement of our tools.?ÿ They are still needed especially on labor intensive jobs or jobs that th...

7 years ago
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RE: Is Autodesk Civil 3D a chimera?

@blitzkriegbob Was the XML the version with the error?  If so, any ideas on what could be the cause?  We send them out all the time and I d...

7 years ago
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