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@squirl Thanks for the link! Looks like a good read!
@mark-mayer Very kind of you! Thank you very much!
A movie with no significant shots about surveying, but one scene worth mentioning is Raiders of the Lost Ark: Marion And Excavations (1981)2:06 wher...
That must be tough to deal with from a communication standpoint. I was unaware that Hilti made total stations. In a perfect world, your site surveyors...
@flga-2-2 Housing construction is certainly taking off out here in Rocket City!
@jp7191 I agree with your train of thought on this. It's as bad as watching an instrument man doubling angles and watching the numbers on the total s...
@holy-cow Wouldn't common sense tell you to split it between the two tracts?
I miss doing jobs like staking out new retention pond slopes because the existing ones were too steep. They told me people were afraid that their youn...
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@holy-cow So, on a smaller scale, you northern surveyors must experience this monument shifting annually due to frost heaving.
@bill93 When I was using a Topcon instrument-mounted (on a Wild T16) EDM back in 1988, I had to dial a knob until a string of flashing red lights bec...