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jhframe
@jim-frame
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Joined: July 1, 2010 10:44 am
Last seen: October 11, 2026 6:08 pm
Topics: 465 / Replies: 7012
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RE: Architect wanting to gather and stake own information

What's your budget??ÿ If your intent is to do this solo, I think you can probably get a used robot and data collector with some life left in them for ...

4 years ago
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RE: Setting Points In Old Concrete

Yikes!?ÿ When I bought mine years ago it was a little over $500.

4 years ago
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RE: Setting Points In Old Concrete

I use a Bosch 36v rotohammer.?ÿ For onsey-twosey monuments it's great.?ÿ If you have dozens to set a corded machine would probably be better.

4 years ago
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RE: Accept or Reject

Assuming that both the 1903 and 1921 surveys were done in accordance with instructions and/or the standard of practice at the time, I see no reason to...

4 years ago
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RE: Turning the Pole 180?ø while collecting a point

For a long time I was skeptical about the value of antenna orientation for RTK because I figured the errors inherent in the method swamped those arisi...

4 years ago
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RE: Roundabout

I was told by our county's recently-retired Principal Civil Engineer that this is the main reason that Caltrans no longer funds 4-way stops on county ...

4 years ago
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RE: Mistakes happen

For 17 years I lived in a house that had a driveway with no observable slope -- it was pretty much dead flat from the garage to the curb.?ÿ Any signif...

4 years ago
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RE: Mistakes happen

Another term for that driveway is "funnel."

4 years ago
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RE: Mistakes happen

Somebody should have a chat with the inspector on that job... ...or maybe they did, and it involved a transfer of funds.

4 years ago
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RE: Where are all the up and comers?

It's even worse on a one-person crew.?ÿ I have no opportunity to sit back and watch the other guy work, because there isn't one. (On the other hand, ...

4 years ago
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RE: 2" Total Stations and Use

I've been using 2" robots for about 10 years now (first Leica, now GeoMax).?ÿ To me it's right at the sweet spot for general use.?ÿ I had a 3" Topcon ...

4 years ago
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RE: Trimble 4000 4400 7400 Manuals and Software DATM4000 wanted

Every time I look at my pile of 4000-series gear I think, "I should get rid of this stuff, it's just taking up space."?ÿ Right about then another camp...

4 years ago
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RE: Todayƒ??s Office

We both worked for the Spink Corporation at the time.?ÿ Spink had a PT&T contract and we did fiber route surveys all over Northern California, usu...

4 years ago
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RE: WILD Collection, T16, T2, T3

I suggest posting asking prices for these in order to maximize your base of potential buyers.?ÿ The figures can be aspirational, but should be realist...

4 years ago
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RE: Todayƒ??s Office

In the late '70s I was on a crew that surveyed a fiberoptic cable route from Kentfield in Marin County over the (almost) top of Mt. Tam and down to St...

4 years ago
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RE: Oddities and the 12-Mile Circle

You mean kind of like Austin?

4 years ago
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