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Joined: Jul 1, 2010
Last seen: Nov 17, 2024
Topics: 11 / Replies: 955
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RE: Plane survey setting up over known point: Any point in setting instrument height?

Even in the most pure planimetric survey I want my measurements to reflect the existing ground and if I do something naughty like wing a corner in on ...

2 years ago
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RE: Button pushers

Not the same but I once had a 7-11 employee refuse to honor the 99 cent cup of coffee price if I used my own cup. I poured the coffee from my cup into...

2 years ago
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RE: SX12 Scan Saving Bug

Re-install Access fixed that issue for me, along with using cable for data and keeping things clean.

2 years ago
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RE: Survey Truck Inventory

For the first time in years I do not have a golf ball in the truck.

2 years ago
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RE: Deep thoughts

Why is it that reading notes aloud to the person processing the data is so much more effective than them reading the note alone? Presumably it is a c...

2 years ago
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RE: Pipe Mic safety handling

RinseKit?? Portable Showers // Keep You & Your Gear Clean Anywhere

2 years ago
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RE: Utility locator training....

I have known some locate companies to put down a dot as a possible location and then come back and line it when they are certain. I worked for a shop...

2 years ago
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RE: Leica Mini Prism used as a peanut prism constant?

Prisms ƒ?› Bohnenstingl GmbH - Special Surveying Equipment ?ÿ There are tools designed especially for such tasks. I usually just use RL or DR as Tr...

2 years ago
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RE: I thought i was going to be lucky and not get covid.

I have been home all week with not Covid, will return tomorrow, could have maybe returned today but I do not want to get anyone else sick. It has bee...

2 years ago
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RE: Scratch Awl for concrete

The tool you want is called a tile scoring knife. They keep making the plastic handle bigger every decade. you should be able to find one in any good ...

2 years ago
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RE: Mold in a tribrach

Q tip up the bottom side will clear the field of view usually.

2 years ago
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RE: Double Beerleg

Better than getting all set up and finding you are blocked on the fs, so I have heard anyway.

2 years ago
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RE: How much has a recession effect survey demand?

In 2006 there were managers pulling over on the side of the road to offer me jobs, in 2009 many of those same dudes were out of work. ?ÿ

2 years ago
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RE: Just for fun---Add another odd expression

Punk-Punk-Punk! ƒ?? Surveying & Geomatics ƒ?? Community Forums for Land Surveying & Geomatics (surveyorconnect.com) ?ÿ This thread came to m...

2 years ago
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RE: Free CAD software

What about that sitecomp soft? Cogo up the points and put some lines on it seems simple enough. I think cogo for the maths and hand drawn for the fin...

2 years ago
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RE: Favorite Pens

Normans story reminds me of an old shop where they wanted you to write your hours in pencil and then sign in ink. Funny how some can be a stickler fo...

2 years ago
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RE: memory problem

Trying to short your crew wages for a good faith error is a way bigger mistake than forgetting a piece of equipment. ?ÿ ?ÿ

2 years ago
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RE: safety in heat

If anyone can recomend a class 3 vest for working in hot weather, or any hi-vis clothing for hot weather I am all ears.

2 years ago
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RE: Ever Do A Cash Discount?

My father in law gave a ten or fifteen percent "discount" for cash up front which he describes as being more or less a upcharge for having to chase af...

2 years ago
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