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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: Article in "American Surveyor" about cutting tools

The article is 100% wrong about brush-ax's not being dangerous and should be used by the novice. That's the worst advice I've ever heard. Also, I wi...

9 years ago
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RE: Renting survey equipment to non-surveyors

StLSurveyor, post: 349965, member: 7070 wrote: Turn them into your State Board for practicing Land Surveying without a license. Why? It's perfectly ...

9 years ago
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RE: What new pact has formed between Finance & Title Company

We have run into this with our local title company. Their explanation, and they were very nice about it, was that the underwriters deemed certain inf...

9 years ago
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RE: Who's right?

I have seen several deeds that called for one acreage, but then computed another, some very different. 🙂

9 years ago
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RE: Getting Started With Carlson Survey

Your problem is nothing compared to moving from PacSoft to Carlson with AutoCAD. I'll tell you like I told every one of my guys who drafts for me tha...

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

Got this in an email today. Please follow this link and make your comments regarding the proposed rules changes by the Railroad Commission. TSPS gene...

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

Here is one we prepared that is not signed and sealed. It looks like the other thousand that we've drawn. 🙂

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

See, that's what I was worried about. I didn't want you to take it badly. I know you do good work, but my point was and is that it's exceedingly dif...

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

Also, the Act specifically states: Sec. 1071.002. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:6) "Professional surveying" means the practice of land, boundary, or pr...

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

If the board would say and agree with your statement, then I'd say that Andy and others are compliant; however, each conversation we've had with the b...

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

[USER=7]@Andy Nold[/USER] , thanks for putting that out there. I want to point out a few things, and it's not criticism but an illustration of my poi...

9 years ago
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RE: Hunting season

We don't worry about it. Fridays are the only days that I'm even half leary as folks take a three day weekend. Bow season starts here Oct. 1 (MLD gun...

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

They have always kicked back my oversized plats and forced me to go to 1"=2000' to maintain the 8.5x14 sheet.

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Punishes Violators for failure to note ID caps on plat/description

Good luck with that. He's on the ignore list because of his obtuseness.

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

The current regs for the "legal sheet" do not, in my opinion, allow the surveyor enough real estate to properly show a boundary breakdown or any compo...

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Railroad Commission Proposes New Well Platting Rule

Ah yes. Now for the hat trick. How many location plats have you seen, signed by surveyors, that didn't meet the MTS? I've seen plenty and a cursory...

9 years ago
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RE: What constitutes good field notes?

I don't subtend the bearings between GPS pairs unless I have to, and then, I write it in the book so it's not an issue. If I compute it with the GPS ...

9 years ago
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RE: What constitutes good field notes?

All of our field notes include the followingLeft side of the book: Volume/page, Brief description of the tract and where it is located, then, from th...

9 years ago
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RE: Velocity in Rubber Boots per Second

Fall is my favorite time of the year! Its the best time to build projects due to a lack of heat. It's great and you get to hunt!

9 years ago
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RE: Texas Punishes Violators for failure to note ID caps on plat/description

The other little ditty that the LSLS like to say is that when acting in their official capacity, they are not required to meet the MTS. They actually...

9 years ago
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