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Topics: 18 / Replies: 1107
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RE: Long Backsight or long resection

Educate me.?ÿ Why would any angle, including a "flat" one, be measured less precisely by a T2 compared to a total station?

3 years ago
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RE: Staking Curb - Top or Flowline

Yep, TBC is the fiduciary mark.?ÿ I've staked dozens of miles of curbs, for hand forming with batter boards and they want offsets on long curves, tigh...

3 years ago
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RE: Directions

@rover83 Map & Compass Orienteering Rule #1.?ÿ Place the map flat, then place your Silva compass with its edge on the magnetic North compass rose ...

3 years ago
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RE: Stockpile Volume Calcs with UAV

Been burnt by that, I've assumed a flat plane beneath the stockpile?ÿ & it turned out there was much less gravel because of a grade hump underneat...

3 years ago
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RE: High, how are youƒ??..

Last June I broke two ribs and was given Hydrocodone pain pills.?ÿ First time I've taken an opiate.?ÿ They dulled the pain somewhat and there were no ...

3 years ago
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RE: Tinnitus

I have severe tinnutus in one ear with an 80% hearing loss.?ÿ It's super high pitched tones, like the whine of a CRT TV, quite irritating.?ÿ It develo...

3 years ago
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RE: Old books and equipment

My nonagenarian Mom moved 4 blocks two years ago to a smaller house.?ÿ She lives 800 miles from me so the next year I visited and was shocked to see m...

3 years ago
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RE: Bought Grandmaƒ??s Car

@bill93 Volvo Has a Moose-Strike Test for that.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Professional Quandary

Um, I think it's mandatory.?ÿ I've stacked record dimension anno four or more high on some ROSs.?ÿ It ties your "opinion" of the boundary location to ...

3 years ago
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RE: Original Monuments....That Aren't

Measuring does not prove disturbance.?ÿ An evaluation of its condition concerning age,?ÿ its embedment (i.e. rust contamination of the soil, etc.), ne...

3 years ago
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RE: Poison Oak

?ÿ Could be a vaccine is just around the corner.?ÿ Scientists at the University of Mississippi and Hapten Sciences are: "proceeding with a compound...

3 years ago
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RE: On the philosophy of chainsaws

Nope.?ÿ They're some sort of "Swedish Steel" (carbon steel?) that a file just bounces off of. Edit:?ÿ My info is 45 years out of date.?ÿ The blades a...

3 years ago
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RE: Can you answer these 21 geography questions everyone should know?

18/21.?ÿ The Prime Meridian question is kinda goofy, it defines 0?ø longitude.?ÿ All meridians pass through the North and South Poles.?ÿ The question ...

3 years ago
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RE: On the philosophy of chainsaws

One summer the PNW USFS outfit I worked for decided machetes were too dangerous and replaced them with Sandviks.?ÿ It was good for medium sized stuff,...

3 years ago
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RE: Bought Grandmaƒ??s Car

@jonathan50 ?ÿI've had the same mechanic (former Baja 1000 Trophy Truck racer) for 20+ years now,?ÿ maintaining my 21 year old Hyundai 2-Door(!) Accen...

3 years ago
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RE: Poison Oak

I'm susceptible and have had maybe a half dozen serious encounters in my life.?ÿ Here's what I've learned that may not be old wives' tales: Become a...

3 years ago
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RE: On dealing with the police, and surveying

Agreed on the driver's window but if you have to reach across to lower a hand crank passenger window hold off till the LEO asks for it because that's ...

3 years ago
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RE: On dealing with the police, and surveying

Totally illegal in the US and if he did not give permission for the LEO to do a search anything the?ÿ LEO discovered would be inadmissible in Court.?ÿ...

3 years ago
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