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Larry Best
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RE: Questions I get asked as a land surveyor

Bunch of high school kids walked up and asked "what should we study so we can do that?" Maybe they were just messing with me, but I was impressed.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Carlson SurvPC 6.03 forgets orientation after resection

I have seen it on SurvCE 6.06. Thought it was me missing something.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: What do you like about being a land surveyor ?

I was sitting by the pool eating my lunch and looking out over the sea at the rental villa I was surveying last week. The guests had left for the beac...

3 years ago
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RE: One 12v battery for 4 vehicles

I think moving batteries around, something will go wrong. You could put the one new battery in the vehicle you use most and use jumper cables to start...

3 years ago
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RE: Ethics Question?

Most of us have potential customers who we think violate wetland, zoning or other regulations. Maybe we just don't like their politics. You can think ...

3 years ago
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RE: Whats it mean to be a surveyor

Hold it right there, Nate. I have read more than one deed that I didnƒ??t fully understand. one in Massachusetts over 150 years old called out the a...

3 years ago
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RE: Homework Assignment

This wouldn't be in Kansas City, would it? ?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Emotional North. A new term, for an old condition.

I just went back and forth 4 times with an archichoke over why my survey and an adjacent survey don't line up exactly leaving a little triangle in bet...

3 years ago
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RE: WORLDLE

@bill93?ÿ Wordle was just sold to New York Times for megabucks. All these other games don't need to make money any more than Amazon did in the beginni...

3 years ago
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RE: WORLDLE

Today's is more typically difficult. Next game NERDLE, the mathmatical version of WORDLE. You write equations to find the correct numbers. Nerdle - ...

3 years ago
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RE: Corner Accessories

Decades ago when I set cup tacks in wooden stakes I left the tack proud so it would be apparent that it hadnƒ??t been disturbed. I donƒ??t think a nai...

3 years ago
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RE: View Easement

Look out the window of unit 202 with a hand level 42ƒ? off the floor?

3 years ago
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RE: How to get paid at closing (escrow)

the resulting surveying could be 100-acres or 160-acres. the resulting surveying could be 100-acres or 160-acres. Thats one reason the closing might ...

3 years ago
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RE: Buyer's Attorney Requests and Instrument Survey.

Frequently the lawyer wants a surveyor to play a violin at the closing.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: The Goldilocks Price

Your client isnƒ??t the owner of the property. My experience is that this makes the chances greater of something going wrong.

3 years ago
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RE: Answer the #@*% phone when it rings

I get very few of those calls. Maybe itƒ??s the 340 (USVI) area code. Many years ago in Mass I got the first robocall I had heard. I played along ƒ??...

3 years ago
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RE: Worst Instrument

At my first full time surveying job in 1968 we had a new Lufkin 200ƒ?? steel tape with the 113th foot missing. I kept a foto of it for many years.?ÿEa...

3 years ago
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RE: Future of auto racing?

Itƒ??s inevitable that computers will soon drive faster than humans. Some aircraft can only fly by wire - people arenƒ??t good enough. In most sailboa...

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