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MitchPTD
MitchPTD
@mitchptd
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Joined: June 26, 2015 2:11 pm
Topics: 1 / Replies: 119
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RE: Everest

ease, post: 411371, member: 1584 wrote: So is there a benchmark up there or do I need to set one? I remember in 1999 they hauled a Trimble 4800 to th...

9 years ago
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RE: Tribrach adjustment

My old boss had a simpler solution, as an FYI. Involved one well adjusted tribrach. This never left the area where he had it mounted. Exactly above...

9 years ago
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RE: Mushroom Monument

Where abouts are you located? Planting Pins in frozen ground, gravel etc here can do that. Sometimes, sledgehammering an Iron pin into such a surfac...

9 years ago
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RE: Basic question about distance measuring

Of course he will only obtain a slope distance as well. So, if he is trying to use this for actual ground distances, it will not be helpful at all.

9 years ago
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RE: If you could tell a newbie one thing...what would it be?

jim.cox, post: 410323, member: 93 wrote: My advice to a newbie would be"Get into engineering instead"The opportunities are greater, The money is bette...

9 years ago
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RE: Important numbers

jim.cox, post: 406139, member: 93 wrote: 0.201168Converts links to metres Yep. This was what I was going to add.20.11715.2430.17530.4860.96All stand...

9 years ago
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RE: Today's Ring Ring

Tom Adams, post: 405218, member: 7285 wrote: Doesn't sound like a gentleman to me. These guys that think everyone is their minion, probably have a ha...

9 years ago
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RE: Today's Ring Ring

Tom Adams, post: 405218, member: 7285 wrote: Doesn't sound like a gentleman to me. These guys that think everyone is their minion, probably have a ha...

9 years ago
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RE: Pounding oak stakes into frozen ground

My dad told me when they had to dig up a pin in the 50's, they would put an old tire over it, and set it on fire. Come back in two hours, ground woul...

9 years ago
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RE: Today's humorous email

Draw it on in crayon and send it back, With a sun an a man walking a dog would be a nice touch.

9 years ago
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RE: Digging in hard soil, pavement, etc,

Nate The Surveyor, post: 403650, member: 291 wrote: I think that pionjar looks like a FINE tool!I'm afraid I would not use it more than once a month, ...

9 years ago
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RE: Careful out there cleaning out rod mark covers

In the intercity doing a job once, a newish rodman was sweeping out a hole with his bare hands. I damn near hit him with the shovel. Dug around it, ...

9 years ago
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RE: Digging in hard soil, pavement, etc,

We can't work in up here in winter time without one of these. Granted, I do like taking 6 months off, but hurts the wallet somewhat.

9 years ago
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RE: g.p.s.

Just because it was in for service, doesn't mean they upgraded the firmware. Do yourself a favour and check.

10 years ago
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RE: g.p.s.

Nate The Surveyor, post: 401980, member: 291 wrote: Whatever is going on... You should ascertain whats going on...When was the firmware last updated? ...

10 years ago
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RE: A couple of monuments

Jon Collins, post: 401823, member: 11135 wrote: Sometimes a stone prob will work too. oddly while working on a big boundary survey in a lot of snow, w...

10 years ago
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RE: Need help with surveying basics...

On large jobs in the winter time, I would stash a bundle of lathe into a culvert. Easy to find, keeps them dry. And, have them scattered around the ...

10 years ago
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RE: When the name tells a story

49å¡42'17.91"N 113å¡39'12.76"WYep. Look at that, and you can picture what happened there.

10 years ago
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