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Jon Payne
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Joined: July 6, 2010 7:31 pm
Topics: 187 / Replies: 1408
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RE: Odd boundary situation

"The original line has been occupied and recognized for over 100 years." Seems clear enough. The deflection one isn't as clear cut to me. But, g...

2 years ago
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RE: Definition of Geomatics

When someone askes me what I do for a living I say "Surveying" or I am a "Land Surveyor" and most people are at least somewhat familiar. That is m...

2 years ago
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RE: Bipod maintenance

Where the leg attaches to the top, and there is a screw holding the pivot, add superglue to the threads Does this fix the issue of the legs getting...

2 years ago
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RE: Within 1000 GPS points

I just looked it up and although it might be dated by now, there were about 1900 NGS CORS sites not too long ago. So I guess 1000 would put them pret...

2 years ago
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RE: Surveying rig overloading - got my truck weighed

one F-150, 2 wd, that was awful. It once got stuck on a slight incline on DAMP GRASS! Same - except with NO incline. I'm one of those mid-size ...

2 years ago
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RE: How Long Between GPS Control/Boundary Corner Occupations?

I think you guys are over thinking my request (but thanks!). I want my guys to quit giving me two 5 minute sessions 2 minutes apart. I am curious ...

2 years ago
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RE: Who takes care of this where you are?

Usually, this would fall to the developer or property owner. Although I have done the additional leg work for a fee on occasion.

2 years ago
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RE: Creek titles

Everything is to the nearest 0.01 feet and 1 arc-second. What a bunch of garbage! LOL. A while back you pointed out how rules can get in the way....

2 years ago
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RE: Carlson BRX6+ to OPUS problems

then something is likely wrong with either the OPUS input or with the RTK setup. Agree. 6.62 feet is suspiciously close to a 2M fixed height pole.

2 years ago
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RE: Members Map

Looking at the USA members, you can see the line discussed in this YouTube video. Kind of funny as I watched these a few weeks ago and never thought ...

2 years ago
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RE: Kentucky Degree Requirement

Either you don't know how laws get made, or you are being disingenuous with your remarks. Some lawmaker was pitched an idea, felt strong enough about...

2 years ago
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RE: SIT/FS...Here we go again

@squirl Darn it, life does have a way of messing up plans. Just make sure that "for the time being" stays as only "for the time being". With the eff...

2 years ago
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RE: Work Backlog & Client Expectations

Surveying is hardly ever a life/death matter, if clients can't wait half a day then they are usually not great clients to have. Since I could only ...

2 years ago
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RE: Land sale

I used to get unsolicited offers from some outfit from Texas for 15 acres I had on the outside of town. They were offering about 8% of what I paid fo...

2 years ago
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RE: Survey Truck Inventory

It might be blasphemy to some, but I would add in a water cooler. What's a kaiser blade (mmm-hmm)?

2 years ago
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RE: Lifting manhole lids safely

Sounds like several folks like the pick-axe method. I used that as well as the rebar method for a good bit when working at an engineering/surveying f...

2 years ago
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RE: today I learned...

Do you know the Alt+Tab one? If I can get in the habit of using it so that I remember that one, that is going to be very handy! Thanks.

2 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring

I don't think I'd take that client after the way it started.. In my experience, they don't really get better. I can't really blame him, Andy....

2 years ago
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