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RE: Reading Glasses

I've worn Ortho-K gas permeable contacts for 25 years now.?ÿ I'm a severe myope, 20/800, which Lasik cannot fix.?ÿ Ortho-K contacts temporarily flatte...

3 years ago
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RE: Surveyors with Side Arms

Pretty much always when working for the Forest Service/BLM out in the boonies.?ÿ Big iron in bear country (though a sidearm is mostly useless against ...

3 years ago
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RE: Got a call

Yup, that's the proper approach.?ÿ Even assholes deserve representation be it lawyers or land surveyors but there should be a premium to guard against...

3 years ago
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RE: Asking for update on Gas Cans: general consensus on best options

CA legal gas cans are crap.?ÿ Luckily I have several pre-ban 5 and 2 gal cans that with basic nozzles that work great and if properly used aren't vapo...

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

Yup, super useful when staking logging road catch points in mountain severe side slopes after L-line has been calculated so centerline stakes are in p...

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

Yes to all.?ÿ Add eraser shields and electric erasers (with nasty solvent impregnated eraser sticks), sitckybacks until the County banned them, a Rhod...

3 years ago
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RE: Booster

Local injection site pain that lasted 24 hours on the first two shots (Pfizer);?ÿ the third shot two days ago added muscle/joint pain, tiredness and m...

3 years ago
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RE: Side-mounted solar attachment?

Used one in 1969-70 for traversing Section lines to stay on line.?ÿ Interesting was when traversing E-W the line ended up being a curve like the Manua...

3 years ago
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RE: Determining Railroad Right-of-way

Even when newly constructed the track may not be centered in the R/W by a considerable amount, in anticipation of double tracking the mainline (or mor...

3 years ago
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RE: Center of Section

Much of my career involved the PLSS, working for BLM, the USFS and rural Counties.?ÿ Most surveyors who are savvy hold original PLSS monuments of reco...

3 years ago
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RE: My new favorite shovel

Yah, a stinger or pinpointer.?ÿ?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Temperature & Pressure

Tellurometer measurements also require a humidity correction,?ÿ usually obtained by using a sling psychrometer.

3 years ago
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RE: Hunting stories

My father was an avid hunter, gunsmith and outdoorsman whose range was from Alaska and Canada to the Pacific Northwest.?ÿ One of his favorites was hun...

3 years ago
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RE: Hunting stories

My brother had a remote cabin surrounded by dense forest in the Chickaloon area of Alaska.?ÿ Every autumn?ÿ he would "hunt" moose on his property (3 a...

3 years ago
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RE: General timeline when bearings started changing from D?øM' to D?øM'S"

Off the top of my head ????.?ÿ Agreed 1-2" is achievable.

3 years ago
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RE: General timeline when bearings started changing from D?øM' to D?øM'S"

It's all kinda silly. Tape and transit surveys were only good to a few hundredths and maybe 20'' at best.?ÿ Geodetic observations with good targetry a...

3 years ago
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RE: New Workstation

I audited a freshman computer class during my 45th alumni reunion and the professor reviewed mass storage components and pooh-poohed hard drives as sl...

3 years ago
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RE: Difference between "RTK & Infill" and "RTK & Logging"

Surprised to see such an egregious atomic typo in what is a Trimble Manual.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: The Myth of Mobility for Professional Land Surveyors

I sense some above posters are stating the testing (and experience, references, etc.) requirement has become too lenient and applicants who are not qu...

3 years ago
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RE: Rounding Error

Good topographic field procedures when surveying improved property involves shooting break lines along TOC and shooting curb depressions for roadways,...

3 years ago
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