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Mark Chain
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Joined: March 21, 2012 6:59 am
Topics: 6 / Replies: 507
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RE: Compass rule closure results

Compass rule closure results - starting-ending pointsMr. Schumann, I will provide you a traverse with variable misclosures if you tell me that you wil...

11 years ago
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RE: Happy Pi day

> Same to you! Preparing to consume 3.14159 liters of Heineken;-)If you drink those heinekens while walking a straight line, by the time you're don...

11 years ago
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RE: Compass rule closure results

If you run your traverse starting at point 1 and end at point 1 you will get a closure (perhaps 1/200,000). But if you run it from point 2 and back a...

11 years ago
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RE: Setting Control Inside Tunnels

My suggestion?I'd hire Mr. Hamilton to do the job. 😀

11 years ago
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RE: How close is close enough

You need to answer some of the questions asked.It sounds like you don't know how wide the road is. (1 chain, 1.5 chains, or 3/4 chains.) I am not su...

12 years ago
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RE: ring ring email version..

In my opinion, it was polite and professional.I hope a lot of guys consider that the realtor may not even understand what is involved with at second s...

12 years ago
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RE: Maybe...............

Punny....:-) Another older one....A painter took on a job at very little profit to paint a church, and, unfortunately, mis-estimated the amount of pai...

12 years ago
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RE: The evolution of surveying

What?You are saying from hand-calculating with sine and cosine tables to, calculators and computers, to edm's, to GPS; theodolites to total stations, ...

12 years ago
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RE: The letters we receive

> sorry but, " So I wrote back with: "oooooooooooh I guess you told me! LOL" is a challenge and an attempt to have the last word. Can't keep compla...

12 years ago
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RE: Acorns

> Those look like White Oak acorns. Water, Live, Red, and Post Oak acorns NEVER get that big around here. Overcup and Swamp Chestnut Oaks can and...

12 years ago
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RE: right-of-way fun

Maybe a maintenance guy hung the highway signs upside down, so they renamed the highway instead of turning them all right-side up....;-) Either that, ...

12 years ago
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RE: The letters we receive

> When you gonna turn on P&R? I'm still trying to find out who won the election.;-)hahaha....

12 years ago
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RE: This is too good!

"Measure twice, cut once."

12 years ago
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RE: The lost art of line

A lot of speculation here. You/we don't know how they were set, and/or whether they moved. It seems like pretty random if a GPS machine got them so ...

12 years ago
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RE: Football Quotes

> "Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a > contact sport." > Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State I guess Duffy ...

12 years ago
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RE: You know you are a surveyor when...

> When you have a stack of nails, and flagging, beside the washing machine.... ....and two nails rattling in the washing machine.

12 years ago
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RE: Beautiful Morning

I hear singing....listen real hard......:music: "I got a feelin’ called the blue-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oosSince Obama said good-bye..eeeI don’t know what to ...

12 years ago
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RE: Help! OPUS-RS aborting

hey hillbillyHah! I wasn't even close, (except a long a short leg if you will), but I was talking about tripod legs. With the term "hillbilly" I was...

12 years ago
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RE: Help! OPUS-RS aborting

hey hillbilly> ....By the way, does everybody know what the term "hillbilly leg" refers to, or is it just something the first Party Chief I worked ...

12 years ago
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RE: Secret to dealing with RR?

> Is there a secret to successfully dealing with a railroad company?> LOL....wrong category. You need the humor section. Railroad companies ar...

12 years ago
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