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Joined: July 2, 2010 11:18 am
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RE: Setting semi-permanent control

Some of that epoxy fridge paint and maybe the gold paint pen this time. ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Setting semi-permanent control

Laser on a paint spot has the fewest moving parts. No hardware required. ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Setting semi-permanent control

The redneck version might be to saturate the rock face with many somethings like a PK nail or a flat brassie drilled in and epoxied and do reflectorle...

4 years ago
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RE: Do you also do topographic surveys?

None of my mentors ever used F2F, most never used data collectors. ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: RIP my print shop guy

@holy-cow Pretty sure he was full Tlingit. The toner on his prints was dark as a raven. Made my ROS look amazing.

4 years ago
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RE: Best Practices on Identifying Monitoring Points for a Large Concrete Silo

A silver paint pen directly on the concrete and a reflectorless TS? ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Fitting Record Drawing to Field Points

Primacode Transform does this better than anything else I have found. 2D conformal best fit, tells you statistics on rotation and scaling. Very qui...

4 years ago
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RE: Ideal Monitor Size for duals

Could be an eyesight thing. For me, anything bigger than a 15" is outside the center of useful eyeglasses astigmatism correction and I have to keep tu...

4 years ago
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RE: Surveying not a profession?

It's what Florida said. Furthermore I believe they implied that the degreed licensed surveyors were not professional, either, because the experience/a...

4 years ago
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RE: Surveying not a profession?

IIRC it was in Florida, and the distinguishing factor was that there was / is an experience or apprenticeship path to licensure with no degrees requir...

4 years ago
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RE: What are some reasons that you will turn a client down for a job?

Many correlations between stories here and recent learning experiences: Anyone who asks for a discount will avoid paying anything after the 50% depos...

4 years ago
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RE: What percentage of your time is divided among the various survey tasks? How many do you need in a crew>?

Weighted mean duration of jobs: 11 days. Weighted mean hours expended on research, fieldwork, GPS post-processing?ÿ & note reduction, drafting: 40...

4 years ago
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RE: Drafter and/or LSIT

It is. Just do it.

4 years ago
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RE: NAD27, is it US survey feet or International feet?

You're off on a tangent about verticals. It actually does matter quite a bit if you are trusting a conversion tool to get you from NAD27 to NAD83. The...

4 years ago
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RE: The North 5 Acres

This seems to be the lesson of the whole thing. Someone did. The difference is, if we hold the road and the aliquot parts implied, it's 3.6 something ...

4 years ago
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RE: The North 5 Acres

There has been a long trail of grantors and grantees, and, although I cannot read their minds now or retroactively, it would seem they all thought the...

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