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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: Land surveyors producing sectional elevations?? Is it something we do?

DTMs are routine. Itƒ??s a short step from there to cutting sections.

6 years ago
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RE: Mystery aluminum spikes and washers

@bill93 These were common concrete nails from the hardware store. With a black head about 1/4" across. We would hammer them into asphalt and they wer...

6 years ago
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RE: Mystery aluminum spikes and washers

@andy-bruner At one time I would drive nails through pennies for monuments. The boss complained about the expense! I pointed out that they were my ow...

6 years ago
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RE: property stob corner question

@bill93 I can't imagine how you did that with the information we've been shown.

6 years ago
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RE: property stob corner question

The seemingly surplus iron found along the west line may be marking the intersection of a line dividing lots to the west of the subject property.?ÿ F...

6 years ago
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RE: Mystery aluminum spikes and washers

Washers sold in HD and Lowes have a 3 letter code stamped on them. Different codes for different sizes. That's how the cashier figures out what to cha...

6 years ago
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RE: New Methods for Invert Measurement

I have found that one of these Bosch distance meters can be set to return Vertical Distance, corrected for slope, in decimal feet. It will even penetr...

6 years ago
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RE: Where do you carry yours?

That picture was taken in Venezuela c.1996. I suspect that the need to have armed guards around valuable equipment while there has only gotten greater...

6 years ago
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RE: Hold the steel fence posts? or Ignore them? (Appology for a surveying related post, during all the other activities!)

If the original surveyor set wood stakes, those would be the original monuments. T-posts set by the land owner would have naturally been beside the wo...

6 years ago
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RE: describe this

A shot in the dark here - it could be the concrete core of a concrete filled 2" pipe, from which the iron has completed corroded. Which seems unlikely...

6 years ago
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RE: Single Civil 3D License on multiple computers

I think that there will be no problem with the program being loaded on 2 computers as long as you aren't using both at the same time. Neverthess I'd r...

6 years ago
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RE: See ya topcon

This confirms the virtue of the advise I have repeated a number of times- shop for the data collector software and take the hardware it comes with.

6 years ago
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RE: Non-owner wants survey

@thebionicman I should be clear that I would not just assume that permission had been granted and plunge merrily on.  

6 years ago
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RE: Non-owner wants survey

I'd lay that getting permission part on the client.?ÿ Now, in Oregon, there is a statutory procedure to be followed before entering any non-public lan...

6 years ago
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RE: Non-owner wants survey

Sure he can, with the owners permission. We only wish that more buyers would do it. Get a big retainer. You don’t want to be in a position of n...

6 years ago
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RE: Fence line and deed line

@bigd1320 The term you are looking for is "practical location". You have a deed description that is quite clear and unambiguous. But when it got loca...

6 years ago
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