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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: It's real and it's spectacular

I wish somebody told me that about 20 years ago. It would have saved me a lot of trouble with lugging these things around. Bifocal safety glasses and ...

4 years ago
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RE: Low Cost Beneficial Surveying Tools

Good. Also a stiff whisk broom. I prefer the old fashioned straw type, partly for its recyclability.?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Low Cost Beneficial Surveying Tools

Good one. I've got one and it beats standing on the instrument case any day.

4 years ago
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RE: Low Cost Beneficial Surveying Tools

Add to that a few rags, a sponge, a 1 pint plastic cup, and a 2 gallon bucket and you have a mon well cleaning kit.

4 years ago
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RE: Trying to decide what to do

If you stick with your current job for several years you will eventually get to a point where you are suited to "mortgages, boundary, line staking, ho...

4 years ago
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RE: Low Cost Beneficial Surveying Tools

Hori hori knife Hand pruners laser measurer folding ruler

4 years ago
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RE: Collecting & Processing Static Data

Possibly it is as simple as sending sub 2hr sessions to OPUS and not to OPUS-Rapid Static. Either that, or with using OPUS-Rapid Static you sometimes ...

4 years ago
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RE: Traversing with GPS

I agree that static would be the better way to go here, but we have an OP asking if a CR adjustment is possible, and for step by step instructions on ...

4 years ago
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RE: Traversing with GPS

Yes, you could do a CR adjustment on that. Although least squares is more commonly used with GPS vectors. In fact LS is more commonly used for every t...

4 years ago
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RE: This is the joy of surveying

Good to hear from you John. Its been awhile.

4 years ago
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RE: Old-School Surveying

The last time I ran a traverse with theodolite and steel tape was early 1993. I might add that I left that job because I realized that technology was...

4 years ago
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RE: Hire the plane

This is, literally, a case where until we see the pictures it didn't happen. Scheduled conventional flights have a way of being delayed for weather. D...

4 years ago
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RE: Ring ring

Good / Fast / Cheap. Pick any 2. I go first and select Good. Client can choose one of the remaining choices.

4 years ago
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RE: Chinese Prism Carrier

Cheap vials on the carriers is probably no more precise than the bullseye bubble on the tribrach. So I don't get the decision making process involved ...

4 years ago
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RE: Robot Questions

There is nothing you can buy new for that price. I think that you are going to have to go to the $10-$12k region to get something used that isn't comp...

4 years ago
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RE: Record Plat review and comments requested

It looks allright at first glance but it doesn't bear closer scrutiny.?ÿ There are some flat drafting issues (points near the north arrow, the word FL...

4 years ago
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