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Joined: January 19, 2011 10:31 am
Topics: 18 / Replies: 1106
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RE: Well somebody is way cheaper than me.

Surveying is a strange business. Most large ownership clients that want a simple title upon death transfer when subdividing (+5 acre parcels so no s...

11 years ago
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RE: Well somebody is way cheaper than me.

Surveying is a strange business. Most large ownership clients that want a simple title upon death transfer when subdividing (+5 acre parcels so no s...

11 years ago
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RE: Title Report Exception based on???

Mike Marks, post: 335240, member: 1108 wrote: Not quite right. The Survey exception generally is: "This is an exception that the title insurance comp...

11 years ago
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RE: Measuring HI

Measuring HI was easy when using Kern forced centering tripods, just read the rod:

11 years ago
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RE: Poll: Do You Seal & Sign your Metes & Bounds Descriptions?

Whut? Every State I've worked in requires a licensed Land Surveyor to write, sign and seal the recorded description for transfer (not mortgage) if it'...

11 years ago
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RE: Title Report Exception based on???

A Harris, post: 335183, member: 81 wrote: If they can't afford a survey, they need to stay in their present home. Had they paid for survey already, th...

11 years ago
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RE: Clockwise or Counter Clockwise? Inquiring minds want to know.

Had a county reviewer insist I replace a bearing of "WEST" on a subdivision map to "N90å¡00'00"W". Whatever.

11 years ago
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RE: What is in a name for a business?

In a town I used to live in the obstetrician was Dr. Peter Strange.

11 years ago
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RE: USGS Quad printing plates

More than I'd pay for a plate. The original prints are much more interesting, although they do not command high prices due to massive publication. I...

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RE: 4 wheel drive

MightyMoe, post: 332959, member: 700 wrote: It's not an FJ but I did find this on for sale: A "slightly" modified wrangler A bad idea. There's a re...

11 years ago
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RE: Vinyl for Survey vehicle

No graphics on any of our survey vehicles. We'd often work in a metropolis, and every municipality insisted you buy a business license even if you we...

11 years ago
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RE: Pilot Had to Swerve to Avoid Drone in South NJ After JFK and EWR Incidents

Witnessed an interesting event during my morning constitutional on the bay. A drone pilot (nice one, GPS and live camera feed) appears, sets up and *...

11 years ago
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RE: @&*#$ town & state employees

Went to the DOT Records Dept. for some asbuilts. Nobody at the counter so I knocked loudly and witnessed the fellow crawling out from under some shel...

11 years ago
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RE: Where is the R-O-W Point?

LRDay, post: 331961, member: 571 wrote: In my little part of the world the questions is, What Records? So far I haven't been able to locate any, the ...

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RE: Funny call the other day

toivo1037, post: 331310, member: 973 wrote: Because a lawyer will litigate any case, and try to win in a trial. Most surveyors will tell them how it i...

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RE: Surveys for Real Estate Closings

MightyMoe, post: 330462, member: 700 wrote: 2%? wow, I never would have thought it was anywhere near that high, I figured more like .2% or something ...

11 years ago
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RE: Surveys for Real Estate Closings

Norman Oklahoma, post: 330399, member: 9981 wrote: When the cost of a title insurance premium is greater than the cost of a (proper) survey you will s...

11 years ago
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RE: Drone Video with a Surveyor in it

Witnessed a little shock yesterday when hoofing on my favorite jogging path. Some guy wheeled a Pelican suitcase next to the Bay, calibrated and init...

11 years ago
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RE: PA Man dies from rattlesnake bite

Ah, rattlesnakes. Spent 25 years in rattlesnake country both at home in the woods and surveying in the field. Saw dozens of them, either in the cold...

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RE: Calc points on Latitude

Andy Nold, post: 306111, member: 7 wrote: I find that the survey I am retracing is based on a east-west line which has been broken for curvature every...

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