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Joined: January 19, 2011 8:31 am
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RE: Leveling Adjustment

Yep, that's how it should be done. Establish TBMs every mile or so but don't reoccupy turning points because it introduces bias. Spirit level surveyi...

5 years ago
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RE: More about reflector prisms

I read your tome and cites.?ÿ Is my takeaway correct; a moderately misaligned cheap prism or 360?ø prism could result in distance errors of up to 5mm?...

5 years ago
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RE: Stake chaser whiskers

We called them turkey tails and used them exclusively for marking hubs in final grade staking.?ÿ I've never considered a found witness (bearing) tree ...

5 years ago
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RE: Chairman Pai Circulates Draft Order To Approve Ligado's Application

I was alarmed during the Lightsquared battle when I learned about 30% of my retirement fund was invested in an especially lucrative annuity marketed b...

5 years ago
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RE: Livestock eating flagging liability

@skeeter1996  We're the champs. a pine needle with a skiff of flagging up their asses beats anything you folks did.

5 years ago
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RE: Question for the Experts - Dependent Resurveys

It's so sad when a GLO corner is declared lost and proportioned in, compared to an obliterated corner which can be accurately restored.?ÿ Of course on...

5 years ago
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RE: Work Ethic

Yup, those were the days.?ÿ I worked for an office?ÿ 20 man (five field crews) civil firm making its name doing large subdivision development/infrastr...

5 years ago
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RE: Livestock eating flagging liability

I heard about this in the '70s.?ÿ I was working for the Forest Service (no domestic animals) and sure enough, we'd flag up P-line for logging roads an...

5 years ago
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RE: Gunsmoke

Yup, my Dad being a former WWII submarine radio operator was a hobbiest and assembled the Heathkit "295" color TV in the 60's(?) and it was astounding...

5 years ago
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RE: Overused words

It's accepted informally in the English language:?ÿ Pretty ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿadverb INFORMAL:?ÿ to a moderately high degree; fairly. I find myself (note co...

5 years ago
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RE: Schedule B

Good Title Companies are acute businessmen. If they're reissuing a Commitment on a parcel they insured decades ago they assume their previous Commitme...

5 years ago
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RE: Surveying - Field Best Practices

Assuming a thorough research of the record and calculation of search point coordinates to get a good crew within a few feet for digging/probing purpos...

5 years ago
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RE: On Confidentiality and the Mandated Recording of Plats

It seems to me 0.50' is arbitrary and denys the surveyor's purview to determine what is or is not a material discrepancy when conducting a survey.?ÿ 0...

5 years ago
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RE: Extending Certification (not ALTA) to additional parties

Recertified many ALTA surveys a year or five later in repose, when the original parties dissolved/bankrupted and the new owners/bank(s) need a new ALT...

5 years ago
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RE: Tilt of Earth's Axis and Surveying

Considering the earth's change in axis tilt, although measurable, GPS is a Earth Centered Earth Fixed (ECEF) reference frame so the main problem is wh...

5 years ago
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RE: On Confidentiality and the Mandated Recording of Plats

In recording States an ALTA survey is a viable alternative to a boundary ROS if the client wants the survey to be private.?ÿ There's some caveats in t...

5 years ago
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RE: UPPER or Lower?

Whoa, a deed description and a map are two different horses.?ÿ Of course I use English with proper upper/lowercase in a deed with proper capitalizatio...

5 years ago
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RE: USGS Volcanoes...Mt. St Helens. 40 Years Ago!! Surveying Theodolite Mentioned... 🙂

I was there, sort of.?ÿ Mushroom hunting with friends in the Blue Mountains near Dayton Wa, in the path of the heaviest ashfall.?ÿ It was a clear day ...

5 years ago
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RE: UPPER or Lower?

Crazy, but that's the rules.?ÿ Coords for every found monument & record bearing/distances for every leg alongside my observations.?ÿ This is an ac...

5 years ago
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RE: DC-3 (C-47)

Had no idea a DC-3 could be float equipped.?ÿ Impressive.

5 years ago
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