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[USER=87]@Bill93[/USER] I agree I don't have 30 measurements to one point, but with 8 points, I have 28 different measurements across an old tract bet...
Not that I'm a math nerd by any stretch, but I noticed something one time surveying. I saw a direct correlation between the number of points occupied...
Lee D, post: 389326, member: 7971 wrote: Failure to plan on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part. Depends on the client. Sometimes it i...
FL/GA PLS., post: 389306, member: 379 wrote: My experience with those "types" is that they never learned to communicate properly. The "my way or the h...
I hate layout work. I did one layout job where the GC was one of those old hard a$$es that liked to run the job by intimidation. Tried to scare me w...
Andy J, post: 388524, member: 44 wrote: You did ASK for any advice.. Just because you don't agree with it doesn't make it less useful. If you will n...
Jim in AZ, post: 388510, member: 249 wrote: I've never really understood why anyone would want to work out of a shed or barn... It really doesn't pres...
rfc, post: 388400, member: 8882 wrote: I found this note on a survey:"Boundaries on the plat represent the retracement of those previously described b...
As a bona-fide Texan, I can tell you unequivocally that many use the term "cotton-pickin" to replace "God D&#n". That is a derivative, I'm told, ...
Land Stealer, post: 388421, member: 7446 wrote: I'm looking at starting a solo practice. It looks like my best option is to have an option at home. ...
MightyMoe, post: 388215, member: 700 wrote: The 4000 receivers were also RTK, the 4400's I had looked pretty much like the 4000's, they took some time...
Jim Frame, post: 388186, member: 10 wrote: How do you spend an hour setting up a 4000SSi? In the early days of it, the radio antenna was actually a t...
Some of you folks are damn old! :-)I started surveying in 1989 at the ripe age of 12. Back then, we still REGULARLY used chains and theodolites beca...
Loyal, post: 387939, member: 228 wrote: Really?These ARE GROUND coordinates! REF FRAME: NAD_83(2011)(EPOCH:2010.0000) IGS08 (EPOCH:2016.3604) X: -...
Allen Wrench, post: 386562, member: 6172 wrote: I don't run into a lot of situations where the measured and record distances between found monuments v...