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Kent McMillan
Kent McMillan
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Joined: June 30, 2010 7:03 pm
Topics: 588 / Replies: 10828
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

Allen Wrench, post: 432220, member: 6172 wrote: I'm interested to know why you're shooting the top center of the leaning monument, and not plumbing it...

9 years ago
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RE: An Easy Way to Improve Survey Accuracy

Rankin_File, post: 432169, member: 101 wrote: actually, thanks for the info- Definitely something to consider in our networks here)I'll post an exampl...

9 years ago
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RE: An Easy Way to Improve Survey Accuracy

JMH4825, post: 432180, member: 10876 wrote: I have just began mixing gps with convential methods. I have never used LSA, only compass rule. I really...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

Gene Kooper, post: 432113, member: 9850 wrote: After downloading Kent's photo and taking a close look, there is no groove for a "c" clip anywhere on t...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

One of the corners had a Cedar (Ashe Juniper) with an old mark cut into it on the side facing the corner that, although not mentioned in any of the re...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

jsavage977, post: 432104, member: 9464 wrote: Im a gear head. Those are definatly axle shafts from a truck or car. Higher splines suggest stronger axl...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

paden cash, post: 432098, member: 20 wrote: Probably the galley for a 'keeper clip'. Both truck and car differentials utilized them. They keep the ax...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

Here, for example, are a couple of the other Axles in what I take to probably be the remains of the 1915 surveyor's rock mounds. My tentative hypothes...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

Jim Connelley, post: 432102, member: 12008 wrote: I'll bet those axle shafts replaced the original pile of rocks still scattered around.I think that's...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

paden cash, post: 432092, member: 20 wrote: PTO shafts generally have the larger square keyway splines. My bet is that is that is an axle. Pre-war a...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

R.J. Schneider, post: 432085, member: 409 wrote: PTO shaftI thought about a PTO shaft, but wondered how many of those would have ended up in the scrap...

9 years ago
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RE: Identify this Splined Shaft, Please

paden cash, post: 432080, member: 20 wrote: 20 splines makes me think you're approaching antiquedom.I think it's a safe bet that whatever it is was ma...

9 years ago
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RE: An Easy Way to Improve Survey Accuracy

Peter Lothian - MA ME, post: 431844, member: 4512 wrote: You mentioned doing this as efficiently as possible. Is it possible that hitting all the con...

9 years ago
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RE: Presidio, TX area surveyors?

Monte, post: 431934, member: 11913 wrote: Our next to last morning in town, we stopped at the three palms, and the waiter did not show up. The locals...

9 years ago
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RE: Presidio, TX area surveyors?

Monte, post: 431927, member: 11913 wrote: Not only does the three palms have palms, several homes have palms planted in the yards. The sign greeting ...

9 years ago
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RE: An Easy Way to Improve Survey Accuracy

Peter Lothian - MA ME, post: 431844, member: 4512 wrote: You mentioned doing this as efficiently as possible. Is it possible that hitting all the con...

9 years ago
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RE: An Easy Way to Improve Survey Accuracy

Andy J, post: 431836, member: 44 wrote: Nice work! do you do your traverses solo??Yes, that was just me and some prism pole tripods. That and 8-minut...

9 years ago
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RE: An Easy Way to Improve Survey Accuracy

Jim Frame, post: 431818, member: 10 wrote: It's underutilized for a reason: you don't know what you've got until you're no longer on site. I agree t...

9 years ago
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RE: An Easy Way to Improve Survey Accuracy

Combining GPS and conventional measurements is also a very good way to test the estimated uncertainties of each. For example, when the point-to-point...

9 years ago
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