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RE: Grip Edit Problem

My grips are working with GRIPS variable set to "2". Sometimes things get changed somehow... Command: GRIPS, enter "2" Let me know if that helps. ...

1 year ago
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RE: How to Organize Survey Data

Carlson software does this with .dwg files, with the option to browse a map to open drawings. If you have GIS software, it is not that difficult to k...

1 year ago
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RE: What is a good build spec for a PC in 2023

Carlson has a good page on hardware requirements.

1 year ago
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RE: How do you do it! Holy Cow send me your secret!

Ole Man River, I can relate. Working full time, with a couple part time gigs, one kid still at home, and remodeling an old house. Had horses growing...

1 year ago
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RE: Transit Notes

Steel tape (chain), plumb bob, and transit is as far back as I go.

1 year ago
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RE: How long does it take?

Until it's right.... Seriously, though, I would have a hard time putting a number on the drafting time too. I find it varies greatly, but I do a lot...

1 year ago
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RE: Good Nail Belt for Land Surveying

@minbarwinkle You can buy a leather hammer holster that goes on a belt and has steel hinged jaws so you just slap the hammer into it instead of havi...

1 year ago
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RE: Sewer tank, field, and distribution box

I've eaten my share of crow. It's hydrogen sulfide gas that does the concrete in....

1 year ago
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RE: Dig deeper day

It wasn't driven plumb, so it was driven deeper to make the top closer to the correct coordinates 😉

1 year ago
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RE: On accepting and rejecting monuments

The longer I do this, and the more I see threads like this one, the more I think that pincushions ought to be the first course or lesson of any survey...

1 year ago
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RE: I should have saved the photo

Found one like that recently. Old iron pipe that agreed as well with the plat as anything in the subdivision that I could find, with two newer 1/2" r...

2 years ago
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RE: Different underground installation method

Sounds like a mighty mole. Guided by the start of the hole and operator's luck from what I've seen.

2 years ago
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RE: Favorite found monument.

Found several really cool monuments. Axles, gigantic white oaks, old stone piles, old pipes. One of my favorites is a control point I set early on i...

2 years ago
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RE: Test the new guy?

I wanna learn from Murphy!

2 years ago
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RE: Flagging

Chased a big FAT cow out of the road and back to the pasture one day, only to realize she was stopped at a cattle guard.?ÿ She made a move to try to g...

2 years ago
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RE: Why bother...

There's a dimple in a tack in a cap on a pin in a pipe.....

2 years ago
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RE: Elevation Cert

Your approach looks sound to me.?ÿ I'd say you've met the typical standard of care, and then some, with the results you've given above.

2 years ago
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