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Kris Morgan
@kris-morgan
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Joined: July 1, 2010 1:41 pm
Topics: 123 / Replies: 3753
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RE: Howdy from Texas

Andy Nold, post: 366896, member: 7 wrote: Are you saying Texas surveyors are disagreeable? I don't think your right about that. [USER=7]@Andy Nold[/U...

9 years ago
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RE: Reconstructing 19th-Century Compass Surveys in Central Texas

Kent McMillan, post: 366887, member: 3 wrote: You're welcome. For what? I've thanked you for nothing but simply noted your need to explain, for no ...

9 years ago
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RE: Reconstructing 19th-Century Compass Surveys in Central Texas

Don't hurt yourself patting your back like that.

9 years ago
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RE: Is it Found or is it Set? Fence Corner Post as Monument Sidebar

Kent McMillan, post: 366262, member: 3 wrote: If you consider the purpose of the rule in the first place, though, you should see that the main purpose...

9 years ago
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RE: Topo with 10' Grid

I guess there are people who didn't read my initial thesis, which was that I thought a 10' grid was ludicirous. I also think that shooting break line...

9 years ago
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RE: Topo with 10' Grid

RADAR, post: 366215, member: 413 wrote: Topo Grid? What's that? Isn't that the way George Washington did surveys? This is 2016 not 1776; how much time...

9 years ago
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RE: Are we any better off today?

[USER=136]@James Fleming[/USER], I've never lost one thin dime on a project where I could charge for all of my time. I've lost plenty on jobs that ha...

9 years ago
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RE: How far away is acceptable for a witness device?

I personally think that reference monuments "should" be placed along the property lines to provide synergy for the landowner and surveyor. That being...

9 years ago
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RE: Is it Found or is it Set? Fence Corner Post as Monument Sidebar

Kent McMillan, post: 366103, member: 3 wrote: That implies that the fence post is a marker of record dignity, though. If it wasn't ever previously des...

9 years ago
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RE: Topo with 10' Grid

It was a nice payday for sure and I was able to add a lot of synergy to the project. We have existing gear that's long been paid for. We did the bou...

9 years ago
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RE: Are we any better off today?

Dan Patterson, post: 366081, member: 1179 wrote: It just seems like we buy more expensive stuff so we can plow through all the work faster and charge ...

9 years ago
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RE: Is it Found or is it Set? Fence Corner Post as Monument Sidebar

We just drive 1/2" steel rods with caps at the major inflection points and at the fence corners (outside the fence). However, in the context of the q...

9 years ago
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RE: Topo with 10' Grid

Well, he wants, he gets!

9 years ago
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RE: Measuring two angles of a triangle as a substitute for the third.

The distance to "A" is as important and will be the dependent variable on how many sets should be turned to get the error ellipse to a real and workab...

9 years ago
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RE: Plumb bobs are not common anymore

Norm Larson, post: 363006, member: 7899 wrote: Our crews are in the field and the schedule guy forgot that we had an appointment to punch some monumen...

9 years ago
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RE: Maybe an Answer About a Monument

Jon Collins, post: 362795, member: 11135 wrote: Reminds me of this one I found in 07, I still can't believe the ego of this surveyor. How pristine and...

9 years ago
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RE: No Benchmarks

All topos get BM's. I haven't done one in years that wasn't on SPC of some sort. The formula we use is 3 per 2 acres. After all topo is done, the l...

9 years ago
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RE: Effect of falling snow on EDM

Williwaw, post: 362613, member: 7066 wrote: I was out yesterday doing an as-built on a wireless tower site and got hammered by a sudden spring snow st...

9 years ago
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RE: GNSS Static Observation Time

amdomag, post: 362081, member: 1683 wrote: Hello guys! I am doing my static the old way with longer observation time. With the expanded GNSS constella...

9 years ago
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