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RE: Rounding Error

Hmm, I'd have think about that. I assume you meant the monument *you* placed at 1,000.00' based on the Deed.?ÿ I also assume you filed a ROS at the Co...

3 years ago
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RE: Feedback from other Surveyors

I worked for a 70 person engineering outfit specializing in large scale development projects in the office, essentially making maps.?ÿ I asked for som...

3 years ago
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RE: Rounding Error

Option 2 unfortunately.?ÿ The plancheckers insist it all add up due to a tick mark on their review list.?ÿ Any discussion of sig figs is wasted breath...

3 years ago
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RE: Wild food fit for a king

My favorites when I lived in the PNW: Wild strawberries, the size of your fingernail, eaten on site because it would take all day to collect enough ...

3 years ago
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RE: HP 3800A Distance Meter Operating Manual

The?ÿ 6 man outfit I worked for (two engineers, 3 surveyors) bought one in the early seventies for big bucks (first one in Eastern Washington?) and it...

3 years ago
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RE: Ain't it the truth

So little time and so much to cover .?ÿ .?ÿ . Yes, EVs & solar manufacturing consumes resources but the break even point is achieved within a few...

3 years ago
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RE: Ain't it the truth

?ÿTrue on average but US gas prices vary by State due to taxation schemes.?ÿ I'm paying $4.60/gal for regular in Cali. while the folks in Texas are pa...

3 years ago
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RE: Denied access

What the...??ÿ Since when do cops get to charge extra for doing the job they were hired to do? You have not heard of the Off-Duty Sheriff's Program?...

3 years ago
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RE: Denied access

Back to the original question,?ÿ I'm surprised to learn there are some States where land surveyors are not privileged to innocuously trespass after se...

3 years ago
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RE: Elevation Certificate

@skeeter1996 FEMA/FIRMS/elevation certificates are a creation of?ÿ the National Flood Insurance Program that is woefully inadequate as an actuarial in...

3 years ago
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RE: Not sure what to do

As an office puke in a 40 man shop one thing always irked me.?ÿ Each "Project Surveyor" ran a job from preparing estimates, research & office surv...

3 years ago
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RE: HP Calculator Repair

I saw that, but it begs the question concerning how do you load HP41 programs into your PC to transfer into the HP41??ÿ And what about HP41 modules, l...

3 years ago
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RE: Favorite corner recoveries

My favorite is the 1970s BLM rehabilitation of the southern portion of the western boundary of?ÿ the Nez Perce Reservation in northern Idaho, surveyed...

3 years ago
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RE: Fishermen - How many of y'all had one of these occur?

"Packing" in brown/grizzly bear country takes on a whole new meaning.?ÿ Your polymer Glock 9mm only tickles them.?ÿ When I worked on the Kenai Peninsu...

3 years ago
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RE: Listening to surveyors argue

A Roelof's solar prism tightens things up a bit although they originally cost about $600.?ÿ It also eliminates semidiameter corrections.?ÿ Agreed Pola...

3 years ago
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RE: Price shoppers

Frankly, private concerns price shopping doesn't bother me. Survey services are usually triggered by Banks, local Govm'nt when subdividing, and the od...

3 years ago
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RE: HP Calculator Repair

@edward-reading That's amazing!?ÿ I wonder how many they've sold.?ÿ Their website is short on details;?ÿ like how do you load programs without a card ...

3 years ago
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RE: Why?

Meh.?ÿ In boundary surveys of less than 1,000' I'll measure and report ground, surely off less than a few hundredths compared to grid.?ÿ On surveys in...

3 years ago
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RE: Suggestions on building MS Access file database

That's a really big question.?ÿ In the last stage of my career I was pushed in to the "Survey Records Manager" position at a large outfit and given a ...

3 years ago
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RE: Long Backsight or long resection

I understand the mechanics.?ÿ But if I'm not out of date total stations do have a plate and measure angles by means of electro-optical scanning of pre...

3 years ago
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