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dmyhill
dmyhill
@dmyhill
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Joined: January 26, 2011 4:49 pm
Last seen: February 14, 2025 12:13 pm
Topics: 175 / Replies: 2905
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RE: Elevation Data Accuracy/Precision/Error

The manual shows lots of pics of construction sites. ???

3 years ago
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RE: Elevation Data Accuracy/Precision/Error

Wild NA1 No one ever regretted buying one of those.

3 years ago
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RE: Elevation Data Accuracy/Precision/Error

That sounds like you are using a construction laser, not a survey grade level. A construction laser has a precision of maybe 1/16" in 100 feet (50mm/...

3 years ago
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RE: Control Monument Costs

So if Mag nails are used for control at least use those that are a couple inches long, minimum. Facts. IF you want a mag to stay...no tag and c...

3 years ago
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RE: Elevation Data Accuracy/Precision/Error

Is it ridiculous to think that accuracy could be 0.01 feet based on a benchmark located 1000 feet away. That sort of accuracy isn't ridiculous. ...

3 years ago
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RE: Elevation Data Accuracy/Precision/Error

Total Station: 0.03 feet leveling: 0.01 feet with fiberglass or wooden rod and digital level Done correctly, a total station (5" or better) can...

3 years ago
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RE: Surveyor Outfitted Cargo Trailers

Thanks to all for the replies. The vibrations and beating around is something that definitely concerns me. I'm still thinking on it but likely going t...

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

@dmyhill Things are lucrative now. I have more than doubled rates in recent years. Still more work than time to do it. Turning away jobs multiple...

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

My best guess would be that that list coincides pretty well with average salaries for Kansas as well. Not a lot of people are willing to work twice a...

3 years ago
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RE: Green Flagging

dark green is what we used to used for sanitary sewer...

3 years ago
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RE: Dig deeper day

@holy-cow : It was pounded down out of sight because some mathemagician missed it by 0.04'. More likely landscaping changes.

3 years ago
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RE: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT for SurveyorConnect Members

ESPECIALLY if you could get the old posts with it!!! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to do this, but not sure if it is possible. I will be looking into it, ...

3 years ago
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RE: Filing date or execution date for senior rights determination

placed on the ground at some point by someone with authority to do so What do you mean? Long standing occupation, acquiescence, etc...who has m...

3 years ago
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RE: Filing date or execution date for senior rights determination

I made the example simple. Say I own 500 feet. I sell the east 300 feet to A first and the east 300 to B later. B records first. B gets 309 feet. A ge...

3 years ago
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RE: Filing date or execution date for senior rights determination

It depends on the state (jurisdiction). For the win...and in some states the date matters, as they have switched from race to record to some other ...

3 years ago
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RE: That first step might be a doozy

Am I naively putting myself into a warming pot? My policy is to stay out of it. Keeping the mouth shut is a hard thing for me, but necessary. Polit...

3 years ago
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RE: GNSS vs Total Station and True North?

Amazing how frequently the phrase "True North" is used and yet it is almost a non existent concept. There are many "True"s...what is YOUR Truth? ...

3 years ago
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RE: How do you guys deal with engineers challenging settlement monitoring data (simply because the they don't like the results)

I'm curious where the thing is that you are monitoring and where your control is. If you are trying to detect 3mm, can you be sure your control has no...

3 years ago
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RE: Surveyors in the News - SD Pipeline Surveyors

The story has some hyperbole as in "seize his property and use it for a pipeline". He would get some compensation and still have use of the property a...

3 years ago
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