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@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...
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...
@just-a-surveyor I suspect we have a considerable number of authoritarians here that will angered by such sentiments, but I wholeheartedly concur. An...
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...
Another vote for the Leica wooden tripods.
@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...
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...
@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...
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...
30. After 7 years being the Forest Engineer for a paper company.
@dmyhill My personal approach is to talk directly with the other surveyor whenever I catch something. Thus far, potential problems have been worked t...
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...
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...
In Florida it is not uncommon to see unrecorded subdivisions, sometimes with miles of recorded metes and bounds easements. Whenever a parcel is convey...
@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...
@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...
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