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john-putnam
john-putnam
@john-putnam
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Joined: February 4, 2011 9:44 am
Last seen: September 23, 2026 9:30 am
Topics: 82 / Replies: 2381
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RE: Prism carriers with level bubble

Posted by: not my real name Sorry, but, I don't agree. Level up and sight the point through the optical plummet on the adapter. Rotate the adapter 180...

9 years ago
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RE: Viva Smartworks

Infinity does not appear to have a way to import description keys from C3D.?ÿ I'm don't have LGO loaded on my laptop but I don't recall a way to impor...

9 years ago
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RE: Night work pay rate question

However if you are a company principal the prevailing wage does not apply to you but it does to your helpers. therefore at times the help makes more t...

9 years ago
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RE: The field book and the goat.

Four words, Birds on GNSS Receivers.

9 years ago
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RE: Take your alpaca to work day

Even and alpaca can survey!?ÿ I made the mistake of saying even a monkey could use Shelby's TC1100 to my wife she was helping out on decades ago.?ÿ I ...

9 years ago
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RE: GPS Static Large Network Planning

If you are planning on using standard OPUS or OPUS-RS for that matter then why bother planning at all.?ÿ All you are going to have is 24 to 30 discret...

9 years ago
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RE: Lighted bar code leveling rods

Thanks for the info report John,?ÿ I thinking about getting one to replace my 15 year old fiberglass rod.?ÿ Let us know how the manufacture responds.

9 years ago
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RE: The 2018 Tax Act : Surveyors and Engineers are being left out of the tax cut

Not to get too political, but I don't think you can blame any of this on NSPS.?ÿ It is not like the proposed bills have gone through any public proces...

9 years ago
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RE: Mean Sea Level

What a coincidence, I'm just starting out on a monitoring well project that requires MLLW on monitoring well casings. In this case it makes sense sin...

9 years ago
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RE: Setting GPS control for other surveyors

20 years ago I left my job running GPS operations for a large CE firm to start a company doing just that. And thus Orion GPS, Inc was born. It made ...

9 years ago
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RE: Can you scale my SPC (rant)

The problem with meta data is that it never seems to come with the data. Just my experience in the nearly 30 years I've been doing this.

9 years ago
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RE: Can you scale my SPC (rant)

Not to sound like a broken record, but if you must scale your SPC to APROXIMATE ground distances then truncate them. I can not tell you the number of...

9 years ago
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RE: Street Vacation Reversion

While that makes sense for a partial take, it just seems down right mean for a complete take. As for the past fee owner getting title to the vacated ...

9 years ago
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RE: Street Vacation Reversion

It seems strange to me that the state would have taken the entire property by means of eminent domain and not acquired fee title.

9 years ago
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RE: Monitoring points

I do quite a bit of long term wall monitoring. On high walls (tamper-prof) we set permanent monitoring prisms. The are in the $100+ range if you get...

9 years ago
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RE: Collapsable Traffic Cone

I have a set that I use for air travel work. They are great but mine cost about 3 times much about 10 years ago. Also, mine are lit for night work. ...

9 years ago
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RE: Anyone still in the office?

Just sitting in the office playing with some tree scans. Home is less than a chain away so when I'm bored I'll tell the boss to bite me and walk out ...

9 years ago
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RE: Lighted bar code leveling rods

Ross,Your desk looks a little like mine.

9 years ago
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