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Joined: September 25, 2012 7:39 am
Last seen: April 10, 2026 1:16 am
Topics: 68 / Replies: 427
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RE: Specs for new Drafting computer

@a-harris The most time consuming thing for this build was spending all the time reading/researching what components to use. Just going and buying pa...

6 years ago
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RE: Specs for new Drafting computer

Just finished building a new desktop system with open-architecture off the shelf components. Total cost (ie cost of parts) = $4741.48. Do some Pix4dM...

6 years ago
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RE: Today, we're essential!

@just-a-surveyor I suspect we have a considerable number of authoritarians here that will angered by such sentiments, but I wholeheartedly concur. An...

6 years ago
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RE: Things found while surveying

Come up on an active still (with smoke coming out) in the North Alabama mountains in 1965, when I was the Forest Engineer for Georgia Kraft Company (p...

6 years ago
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6 years ago
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RE: Anyone Still Using Kern Centering-Rod Tripods for Real Work?

@andy-bruner "The "fourth leg" tripods were great unless you had to set up over a raised point such as a right of way monument."   Yep. Had fo...

6 years ago
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RE: Anyone Still Using Kern Centering-Rod Tripods for Real Work?

Bought a brand new Kern DKM 2AE with wood centering rod tripod in late 1960's from Ben Meadows in Atlanta, Georgia. Fast setup and excellent angles.?ÿ...

6 years ago
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RE: How many retired surveyors keep their license active?

@mark-mayer Exactly how I see it.  Continuing education isn't that much of a problem, as I use the correspondence method.  Have enough old...

6 years ago
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RE: Lump Sum

Lump sum almost exclusive. In business in same rural county for 45 years. Non recording state, but have a fairly large exclusive file of 10,000 bounda...

6 years ago
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RE: How old were you when you started your own surveying company?

30. After 7 years being the Forest Engineer for a paper company.

6 years ago
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RE: Out of State Surveyor (4th removed)

@dmyhill My personal approach is to talk directly with the other surveyor whenever I catch something. Thus far, potential problems have been worked t...

6 years ago
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RE: Out of State Surveyor (4th removed)

I believe most every state has a rule requiring surveyors to turn in surveyors who were in violation of a rule. In recording states the exposure of er...

6 years ago
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RE: Out of State Surveyor (4th removed)

Years ago a Florida surveyor (now deceased) told me about an experience he had when turning in someone whom he believed to have been negligent. He swo...

6 years ago
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RE: Malfeasance???

In Florida it is not uncommon to see unrecorded subdivisions, sometimes with miles of recorded metes and bounds easements. Whenever a parcel is convey...

6 years ago
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RE: Downward Spiral

@just-a-surveyor I'm with Just A. Surveyor on this, the lower the numbers of licensed surveyors the better the money will be. After Florida changed t...

7 years ago
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RE: Any Florida Trimble users tracking Galileo sats with DOT FPRN?

@kjac Thanks for the info. Whenever I go out, it's always base/rover, because I would be missing sats by limiting my use to just those sats offered b...

7 years ago
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RE: Three generations

Done a few for 4 gens...no 5's yet. 😐 Survey for a dad (born 1902), daughter (1934), grand daughter (1955), great grandson (1979).?ÿ

7 years ago
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