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Jon Collins
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RE: Best Base Options with R-10 Rover? (VRS not available)

R8 and tdl work just fine. I use that combo every day. Some guys in my office will use an R10 base for the internal radio. The only advantage is the R...

5 years ago
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RE: Old gravel pit

I wouldnt meander it. Someday in the future someone may apply different methods to divide the currently submerged lands than you intend today. Plat it...

5 years ago
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RE: Range Poles

I've done 3 ranges poles with 6ft trimble rod a couple times, but it sway too much in all but flat calm. But I frequently can work with 2 sections and...

5 years ago
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RE: Hydrographic surveying

Sewer lagoons count? Been in far too many of them. One winter I drilled through 24in of ice to get water depths for an aerial lidar project.

5 years ago
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RE: Right of Entry

My primary state has easy right of entry...chapter 1 of our codified law, no notice, no restrictions. Of course I always knock and talk, I meet neat o...

5 years ago
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RE: Hammer drills

Yes I use my sds max drill all the time. Buy a quality one, I use a Bosch. I use the ground rod driver a lot. Even if you're setting in easy soil but ...

5 years ago
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RE: Replacement Part for Bipod

Yes. there is a seco part number for those. Twice I've figured it out and bought about a dozen of them to make it worth it and have spares.?ÿ

5 years ago
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RE: Leveling technique?

So you're running 2 separate forward runs and theoretically they would provide a check for each other instead of closing back. Might be crazy enough t...

5 years ago
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RE: New truck blues

Used to work for a medium size engineering firm. They figured out trucks were expensive and a pain, so eventually we just leaned from enterprise. Mayb...

5 years ago
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RE: Boundary corner signs

These sold by NDSPLS are great, but I dont know who made them. I've emailed the president of the society and received no response. I'd like to have my...

5 years ago
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RE: Pin cushion pics needed

?ÿ At another location one of these guys also politely told another surveyor in town that he wasnt accepting his cap by 0.13ft.

6 years ago
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RE: Almost March?

better make it 3 to be safe

6 years ago
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RE: Javad Equipment

The frozen great plains of South Dakota, flyover states. Thanks Adam

6 years ago
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RE: Hello from Virginia

welcome ƒ??.from the perpetually frozen great plains.

6 years ago
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RE: Javad Equipment

I've been trying to get a demo, but my closest dealer is 500 miles away.

6 years ago
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RE: Civil 3d vs. LDD

wow bob that is spot on! don't forget that mid level manager (MLM) selling this work will berate SLM for the overruns on their project that will affec...

6 years ago
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RE: Are any 1950ƒ??s subdivision plats self-consistent?

Around here we see the same stuff. Usually there isnt enough info, couple of the engineers around here were notorious for these.

6 years ago
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RE: Looking for Field Crew Help in Southwest Florida

Just keeps snowing and blowing snow around the plains. I'm dreaming of warm latitude fishing.....

6 years ago
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RE: Filing fee

SD we pay 60 plus 10 for each lot created. Ive always charged it as an expense, no markup. Here it takes a day sometimes more to chase down all of the...

6 years ago
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