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Joined: January 19, 2011 8:31 am
Topics: 18 / Replies: 1107
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RE: Blanket Easement Court Decisions

The bully concerning utility easements is the powerline people.?ÿ If they have a blanket easement on your parcel, they can do what they want with impu...

5 years ago
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RE: Old Transit

It's worthless.?ÿ I'd pay a moderate sum for a brass Gurley or K&E actual transit with the compass and the silvered plates type.?ÿ But that's only...

5 years ago
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RE: Pet Peeves- American "English"

I would assert almost all.?ÿ Certainly everyday construction and boundary surveyors who either survey using local plane ground coordinates or State Pl...

5 years ago
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RE: Pet Peeves- American "English"

Nope, I watched the vid and he definitely was instantaneously killed upon impact.

5 years ago
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RE: COVID-19 is not the only killer out there

@holy-cow  A modern oddity is that the oral vaccine, which was phased out in developed countries decades ago but is still used in third world cou...

5 years ago
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RE: Things found while surveying

Oh, I forgot about plane crashes.?ÿ When surveying into willows after a long stretch of sandbank on?ÿ the Resurrection River (helicopter insertion) fo...

5 years ago
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RE: Things found while surveying

Found an almost buried skull in a brushy area next to an onion field.?ÿ Reported it and a few months later got a nice letter from the paleontology dep...

5 years ago
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RE: Looking to get into surveying

Not really useful but a few years ago a co-worker who'd obtained his LS 4 years prior quit and took an entry level position in Project Management.?ÿ I...

5 years ago
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RE: Survey required for easements?

Years ago I had to deal with a 50 mile powerline easement which essentially said beginning at the power station in Township 15W Range 12 E Sec 3, thro...

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RE: Investments, IRA's, 401's etc.

Here's?ÿ something I did at the start of this year.?ÿ Bank & credit union savings accounts pay next to nothing in interest, offering only liquidit...

5 years ago
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RE: Investments, IRA's, 401's etc.

I'm retired and 70 now so I'll trace the paper trail from when I was 20: 20-25 was living from paycheck to paycheck and spent any surplus on hookers...

5 years ago
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RE: Boy Scouts

I actually took the trouble to read the particulars of the bankruptcy action.?ÿ It's not what it seems.?ÿ Only the national authority will go into Cha...

5 years ago
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RE: Out of town surveyors, out of town crews

????ÿ County Officials are not in the business of vetting local surveyors.?ÿ When I worked in County survey offices if the question came up (rarely) w...

5 years ago
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RE: Out of town surveyors, out of town crews

Nope, we've made our simple 15%?ÿ on sewer staking where the control was tight, easily confirmed & it was a business as usual operation where our ...

5 years ago
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RE: Ever had such a review

Years ago I was charged with scanning, validating and indexing 100,000 Survey records (in storage boxes) for database intranet accessibility dating ba...

5 years ago
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RE: Hard to compete when you are the part of the few following the rules

Odd.?ÿ A City/County can establish permitting & planning strictures especially for Subdivision activities,?ÿ but I fail to understand how they can...

5 years ago
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RE: Eye Glasses vs Contact Lenses

My lenses are slightly different colors,?ÿ blue = left, a slight greenish tint to blue =?ÿ right.

5 years ago
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RE: Eye Glasses vs Contact Lenses

The docs going above -8 diopters are carefully selecting their patients and the adverse results still skyrocket (from 0.5% to 4% or so).?ÿ Anything ab...

5 years ago
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RE: On line Professional Development Hours

Sorry to be a pooper but prior to and early in my licensure I was an avid attendant at seminars, national ACSM meetings at my own expense, membership ...

5 years ago
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RE: Blame the surveyors

?ÿYou can be the most cooperative member of the onsite team, alert the engineers there's a bust in their design, advise the mass grading contractor th...

5 years ago
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