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Joined: October 22, 2014 4:06 pm
Last seen: August 13, 2025 1:18 pm
Topics: 11 / Replies: 644
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RE: OPUS and US feet

@peter-ehlert?ÿ ?ÿ'flavor of foot', really?

5 years ago
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RE: Proofing is vital.

I plot bearing-distance on drawing from linework and write legals from point-to-point geometry, hoping this corroboration will prevent most errors. St...

5 years ago
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RE: Wanna kill two hours??????

@stlsurveyor?ÿ Yep,?ÿ Survey a pasture with a Scanner, a Lot Survey with a network Rover, a level loop with a Robotic TS and a tree diameter with a Di...

5 years ago
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RE: 3 to 4 month backlog

@mike-shepp?ÿ That's what's so crazy. I give new clients a crazy price and time frame. They say 'ooh, sorry', then call back in two days and say 'go a...

5 years ago
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RE: 3 to 4 month backlog

@flyin-solo?ÿ ?ÿRight, You get it. There ARE things I could do, but I DON'T want to.

5 years ago
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RE: 3 to 4 month backlog

@tommy-young?ÿ ?ÿ Yes, but efficiency has suffered. I drive by the job I have to do tomorrow on the way to the job I have to do this morning, then dri...

5 years ago
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RE: Total Station Skill Heat Map

@paul-d?ÿ ?ÿ Yep, The crews in my area that use GNSS data collection over RTS; collect less data, less detail, record no raw data, are less accurate a...

5 years ago
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RE: On the placing of nails in witness trees

@mightymoe?ÿ ?ÿVery few surveyors even understand what you just said, much less actually reproduce a twenty year old coordinate correctly.

5 years ago
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RE: Old Surveys

@holy-cow?ÿ ?ÿGuess that makes me a wittle button pushin pup.

5 years ago
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RE: Scrap To Stakes

Hey, those look better than the ones I pay for.

5 years ago
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RE: deed description

It could be a deflection from the foresight; or not a deflection at all, but an angle. See if the angles add up or if the commentary angles add up.

5 years ago
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RE: Liability

@mike-marks?ÿ ?ÿYes, get in and get out; and the fact that FDOT employees knock off early.

5 years ago
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RE: Liability

@john-putnam?ÿ ?ÿYes, trucks work good. You hit my truck, I am still working tomorrow. You hit me or my robot, we are not working tomorrow.

5 years ago
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RE: Old Surveys

@aliquot?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ You STILL don't get it. It has NOTHING to do with the client wanting (or not wanting) their improvements located.

5 years ago
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RE: Liability

@bruce-small?ÿ ?ÿCones on the centerline often works well to slow traffic; causes drivers to point at their roof with their middle finger also.

5 years ago
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RE: Liability

@jph?ÿ ?ÿI have become if-fy on wearing a vest in residential or local arterial areas. We had a MAJOR storm event and now EVERYONE wears chartreuse. N...

5 years ago
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RE: Liability

That is the one of the things I worry about the most. Someone looking at me on the side of the road with that camera thing and magic pole, having a wr...

5 years ago
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RE: Old Surveys

@aliquot?ÿ ?ÿYou just don't get it, 99.9% of the surveys I prepare, ARE NOT because the client just wants to have a survey for no reason. If they are ...

5 years ago
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RE: Old Surveys

@aliquot?ÿ I am going to stop locating improvement in Florida. When I no longer get any work and get called before the Board, I'll be sure to tell the...

5 years ago
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RE: Old Surveys

@aliquot?ÿ ?ÿIn 44 years of surveying in Florida, I have prepared two Boundary Surveys 'without improvements at the request of the client'.?ÿ Both sho...

5 years ago
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