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MightyMoe
MightyMoe
@mightymoe
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Joined: September 22, 2010 9:13 am
Last seen: June 8, 2026 1:58 pm
Topics: 990 / Replies: 9552
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RE: Drones?

Apparently this site is on a flight path. You can only fly 100' so it's taking lots of time.

3 years ago
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RE: ALTAs & RTK

Nothing about least squares in that article. As it should be. Adjustment reports would be about #50 on the list of important items for an ALTA. It's...

3 years ago
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RE: Drones?

It's the age old drone issue. We have about 100 acres of topo: ag land pushing into urban. There is 85 acres of open hay meadow, as usual all the acti...

3 years ago
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RE: Drones?

dumb thing just showed up in the office like magic, I have no idea about software, we shall see how it works. I've not had much luck with data from dr...

3 years ago
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3 years ago
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RE: Wake up call!

I want my employees looking over my shoulder and I give them lots of leeway. My job is to review and fix problems, I expect them to do the same. I can...

3 years ago
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RE: Wake up call!

Either you work in a strange shop or it's time to be your own boss now. Time to get the license and go out on your own, I bet when you do your perspec...

3 years ago
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RE: Disposal of survey caps

Exactly!!! Or as some seem to do, keep using them. 😉

3 years ago
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RE: Disposal of survey caps

Keep setting them. JK JK!!! A grinder works well. That's what we do.

3 years ago
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RE: A surveying decision..

That's a tough one. Re-tracing a township tends to "give you a feel" of how the original surveyor and crews operated. But, there always seems to be su...

3 years ago
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RE: ALTAs & RTK

I would suspect they will ship out their QC report generated with their RTK DC. That would probably wow most attorneys asking for it. But, if you lo...

3 years ago
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RE: Problem Clients

That's a crazy potential client. He was clearly making up the low-ball number, no problem there, you stuck to your number. Then he threatens you, my G...

3 years ago
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RE: Problem Clients

Can't say it's happened to me. But, if I was threatened with court I'm calling my attorney. Every now and then they are needed. This would be one of t...

3 years ago
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RE: Problem Clients

I did twice in the last two weeks. One was going to crash cause I already knew the answer to the job which he didn't want to hear, and the other was t...

3 years ago
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RE: Last week was a bear

Put $20k on the table to get started with one of these court battles. It goes up from there.

3 years ago
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RE: The state of the Profession (in Oregon)

I was recently told about a drone survey that came up with some startling results. Not my monkey and not my circus, but I have one of those feelings.....

3 years ago
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RE: Last week was a bear

The lien holder didn't sign on for the easement so it's declared null and void? This was adjudicated or simply the opinion of the new young lawyer?

3 years ago
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RE: Bidding

I give clients estimates, I don't bid jobs anymore, giving out high numbers hoping to score one is an iffy exercise. Especially for public projects ca...

3 years ago
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RE: Trimble Access Site Calibration

If you have a long semi-straight corridor, it would be helpful to plot the Geoid Heights along the corridor on a graph. Once that's completed draw str...

3 years ago
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RE: Odd call in a deed

Thanks for the info Glenn. Working through an article it's "the quantity of water that will flow in one minute through a 1 inch square in a plank 2 ...

3 years ago
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