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RE: BLM Original Survey in Texas Records Location

The only land that belongs to the BLM in Texas that I am aware of is the Helium Storage Facility near Amarillo. There are National Forest in Texas. T...

4 years ago
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RE: Thing youƒ??re snake savvy?

@bill93 In East Texas we call it a Spreading Adder which (according to wikipedia) is another name for a Eastern Hognose. If you pester them a little ...

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RE: A personal question or four

My Sister is the youngest and the only girl. When someone ask her if she has any sisters, she says " No but both of my brothers do"

4 years ago
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RE: A personal question or four

Two Parent Middle of three Moved three times, From West Texas to East Texas, back to West Texas, back to East Texas Three different schools. My pa...

4 years ago
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RE: Blazing Saddles

It took me a little while but I finally get it. I hadn't seen Blazing Saddles in many years. ?????ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Keep hands warm in field

I was trying to post a link, not sure how that happened  

4 years ago
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RE: Keep hands warm in field

Being in East Texas, the only gloves I ever wear surveying during the winter are fingerless gloves. These were the last ones I bought. It it is too c...

4 years ago
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RE: Location of the Sun

Go to this page and download the spreadsheet. You can enter your Lat Long and see the results for any day of the year. For my area, the azimuth at su...

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RE: Building stakeout using a total station and a scale factor

@tim-v-pls But if the project was done on State Plane, a scale factor would be needed just to get true ground distances. Without the project info, ho...

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RE: Local news story

Summer of 1980 I was running lines in East Tennessee and we had permission to go across the Bush Bros Farm that was about 30 miles North of Gatlinburg...

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RE: Portable chain saw

The only advantage to the chain is having a longer rope on each end, then throwing it over a limb you would not be able to cut with another saw. The ...

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RE: Guess which song from guitar riffs.

I only named one. I kept listening just in case there was some Merle or Conway coming up.

4 years ago
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RE: How many business owners allow field employees to carry personal cell phones on the job?

@dave-karoly I keep two phones. My company phone is call forwarded to my personal phone but I keep the text  and emails separate. If a legal iss...

4 years ago
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RE: A First....well, sorta

I haven't had a "store bought" haircut in decades. Sometime in the early 90's I bought a Flowbee (attaches to a vacuum cleaner) and I have been using ...

4 years ago
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RE: The Best Tripod Ever

I agree with you on that. I never liked them god-awful aluminum tripods either. Just the good aluminum tripod! 😉 ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: The Best Tripod Ever

Lietz/Sokkisha/Sokkia Aluminum tripod. Not sure of the model number but it has the gold tubes for the upper part of the legs and it has screw clamps. ...

4 years ago
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RE: Outrageous land owner - This was a first for me

I would have been tempted right before I left to walk over to the fence and stick one finger past the wire, then look at him and smile!

4 years ago
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