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Mark Mayer
Mark Mayer
@mark-mayer
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Joined: July 21, 2010 9:32 am
Last seen: August 3, 2025 1:00 pm
Topics: 54 / Replies: 3317
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RE: Flagging vs staking

Satchell v. Dunsmoor (Oregon, 1946) A surveyor gave an estimate of $300 (something akin to $6k in today's dollars) to run a line. The clients balked ...

6 years ago
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RE: Mice

I recommend a docking station to help with your transportation and USB port shortage.?ÿ ?ÿ

6 years ago
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RE: RTK Survey Setup.

@jitterboogie 9.6 miles of security fence says military installation to me. Or maybe Hanford.

6 years ago
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RE: RTK Survey Setup.

@tim-v-pls If cell service is not real good, and I mean full bars always and everywhere,?ÿ (as 10 miles of silt fence in eastern Washington suggested...

6 years ago
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RE: RTK Survey Setup.

I'd probably be doing things just as you say, and bringing the vectors into StarNet. If you work in state plane or some other grid system you can disp...

6 years ago
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RE: Work experience verification for PS exam

I'm not sure, but I think that refusal to acknowledge your work experience could be grounds for a complaint to your state board. Probably the best cou...

6 years ago
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RE: Topcon GT Series Robotic Instrument - looking for reviews

@david-kendall Shortly after I wrote the preceding diatribe I took possession of a Trimble S5 and used it for several months. It definitely tracked t...

6 years ago
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RE: Yesterdays office

@hi-staker I presume that you mean fixed height rods supported by a 3 legged "bipod". Here's the reason.?ÿ The rod bubble is a 20 minute bubble. The ...

6 years ago
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RE: NSPS CST Survey

I think that formal education is a very good thing for surveyors. But I do not think that the traditional 4 year degree thing is the right way to do i...

6 years ago
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RE: Tree Location

Tree surveys and tree mitigation plans have been old hat around here (Portland) for at least 25 years. For as long as I've been doing topos I've just ...

6 years ago
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RE: Related to the "Trouble finding help " post

As a PLS you spend your career hoping against hope that the lord will send you an angel of light who will permit themselves to be mentored. After many...

6 years ago
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RE: Whoops

At the beginning of my survey career in British Columbia it was a routine job to survey single family residential formwork and provide a location cert...

6 years ago
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RE: Civil 3d vs Carlson HELP.

@rotatenorth My approach would be to prepare to take whatever the clients throw at you and make it work. So I'd have a copy of C3d available. But, ye...

6 years ago
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RE: Civil 3d vs Carlson HELP.

The horse is not only not dead, it has barely broken a sweat.?ÿ One thing you can do in C3d is "Export to AutoCAD", which will turn all those C3d Sur...

6 years ago
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RE: Related to the "Trouble finding help " post

A few comments: entry level starting wage is less of an issue than what the wage might be after 3, 6, 12 months and so on. At true entry level, some...

6 years ago
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