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RE: what is real surveying?

Part of the statutory definition of surveying in Maryland is "conducting horizontal and vertical control surveys". Which means if you wanted to set up...

8 years ago
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RE: Latest pet peeve is ...

Policies and rules without serious consequences are worthless to a man with no sense of right and wrong [fixed]

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RE: Lawyers

I've had clients ask me to take their attorney off the email chain because they were charging to read them.?ÿ

8 years ago
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RE: I'm Pretty Easy Going

anyways, they ended up getting into a shouting match that nearly came to blows I listened to this on speaker phone a decade or so in the field coordin...

8 years ago
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RE: I'm Pretty Easy Going

Smart move giving him a company phone and not letting them use their personal phone for clients to call them on. We have a pretty robust IT system tha...

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RE: Lawyers

A lawyer died and arrived at the pearly gates.?ÿ To his dismay, there were thousands of people ahead of him in line to see St. Peter.?ÿ To his surpris...

8 years ago
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RE: Things once said by surveyors

If you remember the dialogue from Pulp Fiction I worked with a guy who would say when we pulled up to a job that looked to be difficult "we should hav...

8 years ago
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RE: Things once said by surveyors

Very company specific: traffic cones were Freds, as in "set a back site up and put some Freds around it." Small start up company in Frederick MD in th...

8 years ago
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RE: Books / Exam Prep Material

Somehow I think the guy asking $3,214.79 is going to be waiting a while for a buyer ?ÿ

8 years ago
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RE: Equipment purchase advice.

Heh.?ÿ You think like a Marine! (Improvise.?ÿ Adapt.?ÿ Overcome.)?ÿ My cousin just retired after thirty years as a Marine Corps aviator.?ÿ He said the...

8 years ago
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RE: Equipment purchase advice.

It's doesn't have to be robotic... Until you have a excavator waiting for you?ÿto stake a house on a wooded lot and either you or your son: a) have th...

8 years ago
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RE: Vertical Element to Easement

I use "having a lower boundary at elevation xxx.xx and an upper boundary at elevation xxx.xx" then give the reference datum information.?ÿ

8 years ago
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RE: NATRF2022

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission uses NGVD29.?ÿ When NAVD88 rolled around they had 50+ years worth of as-built information in 29 and decide...

8 years ago
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RE: Why boundary survey?

Being paid only for your hourly rate is like a plumber Or a lawyer

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