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Jon Collins
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Joined: January 30, 2016 6:46 pm
Topics: 9 / Replies: 386
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RE: Collecting Highway Maps

Hell of a collection neighbor.

9 years ago
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RE: Western Nebraska surveying

Looks like a blast. I'll be applying to NE very soon. Looking forward to doing some work in western region of the state one day.

9 years ago
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RE: No Benchmarks

Happens all the time when out of state consultants hire the chop shops around here. Bit me in the ass recently. My staking contracts now say you must ...

9 years ago
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RE: Water Well Survey

Andrew, I do a ton of these for several different firms. They all have tolerances for 1ft horizontal and .01 vertical. I use static gnss for 15 minute...

9 years ago
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RE: US Survey vs. International Feet

Beware civil 3d defaults to international, and not every firm has figured this out yet. I still get plans in ift. ND is survey for for nad27, but ift ...

9 years ago
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RE: Maybe an Answer About a Monument

Agree is its a mound. I've driven rebar right in the middle of a mound absent of the corner stone. But the stone is the monument.

9 years ago
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RE: Maybe an Answer About a Monument

Reminds me of this one I found in 07, I still can't believe the ego of this surveyor. How pristine and visible is this stone? One could argue he wante...

9 years ago
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RE: PS exam Curves

That1surveyor is right, you will breeze through it. Mostly it's a test of how you survey something, ie what types of evidence, when to proportion, whe...

9 years ago
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RE: GNSS Static Observation Time

I prefer to do 15 min. I'll go longer if I feel like it, and of course longer for longer baselines.... I do a lot of these for monitoring wells and fo...

9 years ago
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RE: PS exam Curves

Haha touche. There is a lot of that. I'm sure you guys wonder "they really have rectangular lands?"

9 years ago
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RE: PS exam Curves

Ouch, that one is brutal. I had a question on vertical datum refenced of tidal charts. Needless to say I picked the wrong one. I live in South frickin...

9 years ago
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RE: Hello from Denver

Went to school in Butte. Live in sodak now.

9 years ago
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RE: PS exam Curves

I also agree with wgd and paul.

9 years ago
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RE: PS exam Curves

Ncees exam is good. Seems easy to you because you are ready. I took it in October, I was scared to fail because I felt there wasn't any studying to pa...

9 years ago
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RE: Hello from Denver

Welcome. Im new, still lurking. Couple states north of you.

9 years ago
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RE: Magnetic Locators

I have 2 hound dogs. The polarity switch.... ie fence ignoring is handy. It's very light and easy to carry compared to the 52x. Con is speaker is quie...

9 years ago
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RE: Maybe an Answer About a Monument

Love the pin driven next to it

9 years ago
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RE: Channel Spacing

amdomag, post: 360042, member: 1683 wrote: Hi guys!I am not a telecom guy and my knowledge about frequency is basically zero.My question is about chan...

9 years ago
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RE: New 2016 ALTA/NSPS Standards Effective TODAY

Working on one now. When I drafted the contract I specifically said 2016 because they are much better than 2011

9 years ago
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RE: FS Exam

Clint, I took it in Nov 14. I agree the practice tests are the same as the real test. I was running 70 75 % on those and passed. I self graded with my...

9 years ago
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