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Joined: July 2, 2010 11:18 am
Last seen: January 16, 2026 1:51 pm
Topics: 103 / Replies: 836
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RE: Setting Points In Old Concrete

I set one of the two today, with the only manual hammer drill I have ever seen, an odd plastic handled thing with a metal top and a drill bit somehow ...

4 years ago
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RE: There is a need for a land specialist profession

Recently helped a client who bought 5 acres with the concept that only 1/2 acre is buildable because of wetlands, and that to rent an excavator and st...

4 years ago
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RE: Setting Points In Old Concrete

Accepted practice here, along with no right of trespass. Difficult to swing a hammer on the other side of the fence. ?ÿ ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Setting Points In Old Concrete

I beg to differ, the mold never stops here because the humidity is always >50% and the concrete is the largest source of mold, as it gives the most...

4 years ago
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RE: Setting Points In Old Concrete

The concrete in question appears to be an aggregate of half pure mortar and half quartz and granite pea gravel.

4 years ago
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RE: Setting Points In Old Concrete

I'm seeing a Ryobi 18v hammer drill for $175, and if all I need is to put in a PK nail with a washer, might do it. The 36v Bosch sounds like a great t...

4 years ago
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RE: Ever Do A Cash Discount?

Dunno, have to contemplate why large chunks of cash are a red flag for me. To separate it out into components, yes, some people flash the cash to impr...

4 years ago
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RE: Best Way To Check For Rod Runout?

@chris-mills there are moments when I think the bubble is only a fiction and the only true rod would be one without any asymmetrical weights to confus...

4 years ago
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RE: Ever Do A Cash Discount?

Cash is something of a fiction these days, People have it, sure, usually for bad reasons. I especially question when people want to be at the front of...

4 years ago
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RE: Best Way To Check For Rod Runout?

The other day I had a strange experience which might have nothing to do with rod runout, the bubble, gravitometrics, or anything. Put the LS-plus on t...

4 years ago
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RE: Dangerous Jobs----where do you see yourself

The safety officer from the airport stopped to chat with me a while back. I was sitting on a monument at the edge of airport property and he was conce...

4 years ago
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RE: Today's pin cushion...

Would pincushioning be greatly reduced if every surveyor was required to personally witness anything being set with their cap?

4 years ago
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RE: Today's pin cushion...

There is a simple explanation for many pincushions, which is that the crew did not want to carry whatever they set back to the truck. ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: What do you look for in a resume? What are your thoughts on this as Surveyors, Survey Mangers or ones in hiring positions?

Long time ago, before surveying, I was a tech support manager for a startup. Hired about 25 people that year, probably made most of the hiring mistake...

4 years ago
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RE: What do you look for in a resume? What are your thoughts on this as Surveyors, Survey Mangers or ones in hiring positions?

Dunno man, I quit making resumes when I got licensed. Everything started over. Licensed. Like it, don't like it. I know a half dozen people who were s...

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