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john-hamilton
john-hamilton
@john-hamilton
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Joined: September 13, 2010 5:25 am
Last seen: September 20, 2026 8:56 am
Topics: 409 / Replies: 3051
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RE: Surveyors finding dead bodies

why use cadaver dogs? Just send out the surveyors...

15 years ago
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RE: The boundary corner for Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.

I don't really know anything about this case, but if a monument was set in 1818, right or "wrong", isn't that where the corner is today?

15 years ago
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RE: The Wild T2 theodolite

The best all-around instrument ever made, in my opinion. I started with a T-2 (old style) doing triangulation. A good I-man and a good notekeper could...

15 years ago
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RE: basis of bearings-old RR plan?

no road docketNeil: I ahve been to Fayette County Courthouse a few times, for personal real estate searches (property I was interested in buying in Du...

15 years ago
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RE: basis of bearings-old RR plan?

no road docketAllegheny. All of the deeds, state highway plans, subdivision plans, etc are like that-self service. But apparently the road dockets wer...

15 years ago
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RE: basis of bearings-old RR plan?

no road docketI spoke to the county today. I had ordered the road docket on Friday. Strangely enough, road dockets are in the criminal division. Anywa...

15 years ago
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RE: Passed the Pennsylvania State Specific Exam

I took it twice-the first time I got a 73 (need 75 to pass). The second time I had materials I didn't have the first time-Boundary Retracement Princip...

15 years ago
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RE: Trimble Base/Rover problem

Just a wild a** guess, but is one set for CMR and the other CMR+ (assuming CMR+ is backwards compatible with CMR but CMR is not "forward" compatible w...

15 years ago
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RE: basis of bearings-old RR plan?

In PA no such thing as ROW monuments or C/L monuments, except maybe on the newer limited access highways. No monumentation requirements at all, no rec...

15 years ago
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RE: Not Enough Engineers ?

At LSU, graduation rates are improving for Civils ...Glad to hear CE's are taking a basic surveying course at LSU. Way too many universities graduate ...

15 years ago
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RE: basis of bearings-old RR plan?

Thanks, JB. Of course it would have to change, depending on how far E-W it goes. Interesting. The project actually has nothing to do with the railroad...

15 years ago
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RE: basis of bearings-old RR plan?

basis of bearings-old RR plan?> North arrow?it does have a double sided north arrow...

15 years ago
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RE: basis of bearings-old RR plan?

kinda interesting that they would do that way back then, but yet it is hard to get some people to do it today.....

15 years ago
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RE: gps measure up

I have been having this argument for 25 years now. It doesn't matter IF you don't care about elevations. The first time this came up I was at Edwards ...

15 years ago
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RE: Kayak, RTK GPS and sounder set up

Here is a picture of Mr Lubic as mentioned:

15 years ago
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RE: Anyone try NGS Beta Leveling Tool (LOCUS)?

we thought the BM in the outcrop would be the best. The one directly across the river is in an old rr bridge abutment (bridge gone), so that is stable...

15 years ago
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RE: Anyone try NGS Beta Leveling Tool (LOCUS)?

I have been using LOCUS for a couple of years, most recently on three projects I submitted last month. I didn't look to see if anything has changed fr...

15 years ago
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RE: RTK Setup

Multitech modemThe multitech modem(s) looks like what I would need. Their webpage has one specifically for Verizon. Also airlink appears to have simil...

15 years ago
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