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Joined: January 19, 2011 10:31 am
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RE: New truck blues

"I suppose that if you can tolerate an automatic transmission (I can't and never will)."I too was an anti-dentite and only bought manual tranny cars u...

7 years ago
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RE: Surveyor Retainer/Research Fees

I've never charged a research retainer fee prior to proffering a proposal.?ÿ Demanding money prior to offering an estimate is silly.?ÿ Estimates are n...

7 years ago
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RE: Client Pushing Me to Go Against Neighbor's Survey

Concerning doing two surveys on the same parcel years apart, I've had to call myself wrong a few times.?ÿ Worst one was where I did an ROS on a large ...

7 years ago
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RE: Google Earth imagery and "surveying"

Yup.?ÿ The only concern I have is ancillary maps where a valid Record of Survey (or equivalent) is overlaid on Google Earth/GIS/local non-orthorectifi...

7 years ago
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RE: Google Earth imagery and "surveying"

I used Google Earth extensively for checking photogrammetrically derived topo mapping.?ÿ Dive in to "Street View"?ÿ and walk down the road, looking le...

7 years ago
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RE: Hub & Tack curb staking

I dunno, 1/4" (0.02') for position seems excessively tight,?ÿ but 1/4" for the vertical it isn't unreasonable.?ÿ It's hardscape, and in some cases bui...

7 years ago
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RE: Land Surveyors Are Paying the Price of Progress

Looks like the Board is backing off;?ÿ from the Feb. 2019 Board Opinion referenced below:?ÿ?ÿ "The following items are not to be considered as activit...

7 years ago
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RE: Land Surveyors Are Paying the Price of Progress

"The boardƒ??s action, says?ÿthe complaint, ƒ??will silence Vizalineƒ??s constitutionally protected speech.ƒ? Interesting defense I've not seen befor...

7 years ago
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RE: So close but so far away!

Around here (recording PLSS State) "pull them out" is frowned upon, although permitted if you file a ROS or corner record showing  what you found...

7 years ago
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RE: Disclosure of Surveys in California

"Recently I've been told by several land surveyors that if a property owner wants to have a survey of a property in Calif. performed by a licensed sur...

7 years ago
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RE: Underwater property boundary

This is a complex situation.?ÿ Is ownership to the center of the pond, or is it US waters with Federal and States rights concerning navigable waters??...

7 years ago
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RE: NGS Webinar Apr 25 on the fate of the US Survey foot

I assume you're talking about Canada. Actually is was a difficult transition.  "The process was fraught with political interference and public re...

7 years ago
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RE: NGS Webinar Apr 25 on the fate of the US Survey foot

Which is what I said:  "Surveyors working with coordinate systems where the point of origin is a million feet from the situs must pay attention, ...

7 years ago
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RE: NGS Webinar Apr 25 on the fate of the US Survey foot

Hear-hear!  Meters are not a problem for surveyors, but a big problem for construction contractors.  Their brains (and machinery) are calibr...

7 years ago
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RE: Night Shot

"I would also, if possible, try to get the backsight closer to you. 400 feet is quite a distance. I don't know the constraints of your site, and it mi...

7 years ago
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RE: Oldest recommended GPS system?

I ran a Trimble 4000 series receiver set on a 1st order control station continuously during the last rollover event;  no problems whatsoever with...

7 years ago
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RE: Let one go

I retired my Washington state license a few years ago. If you're (or will be) 65 you can apply for retirement status which means no more registration ...

7 years ago
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RE: more merger of title

Yes,?ÿ it does matter.?ÿ If it's an ingress/egress easement for the Northern Tract it's private and the owner can bar public use.?ÿ ?ÿIf dedicated (an...

7 years ago
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RE: Back in the day.....

Back in the day I worked both private and guv'mnt as an employee and the up front wages are a small part of the package.?ÿ Is the company financially ...

7 years ago
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RE: DOG SPRAY REPELLENT

I got bit by dogs early in my career until I learned it ain't worth it, and I don't want to hurt or kill somebody's dog just to do my job.?ÿ So if con...

7 years ago
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