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Joined: July 1, 2010 8:29 pm
Last seen: November 17, 2024 2:11 am
Topics: 11 / Replies: 955
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RE: Total Station Skill Heat Map

I started surveying in Seattle in 2001 and started working on tunnel works in 2011. I only recently started using GPS for anything beyond establishing...

4 years ago
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RE: Monitoring a 200 year old dry laid stone wall for movement

The scope needs more definition. The best approach is to measure it with the equipment and procedures you are comfortable with and report accordingly...

4 years ago
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RE: ** ABSOLUTELY NO POLITICS **

2012, seems like only yesterday.?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: New kid at the block

Glad to see someone from Argentina, we have another new member from Chile, I think, who introduced themselves a couple months ago. I am not able to o...

4 years ago
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RE: Referencing Pictures

The nodal ninja reminds me of the old Dibit system, which used to be simply a digital camera on a rotating plate. It looks like over the past couple y...

4 years ago
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RE: Reflectorless total stations

It's been a long time but i have run a NPL with a ranger. Better RL is worth the money if there is any option for long range or wherever then go for ...

4 years ago
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RE: Covid-19 vaccine day for me

Good luck, I am home in isolation after testing positive yesterday.?ÿ ?ÿ It is way more boring than quarantine.

4 years ago
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RE: Scrap To Stakes

I had a party chief that would bring in home made stakes if he happened to demo anything built of cedar. He was a bit of a scavenger but not in a rau...

4 years ago
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RE: MH Measure downs

Safety concerns aside I know they got a lot less accurate when we stopped going down them.?ÿ It surprises me that no companies stepped up to the chal...

4 years ago
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RE: Things I Can Never Get Right

Ollie Had A Hairy Old Asshole

4 years ago
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RE: Things I Can Never Get Right

The USB has two holes on each face, on one face the holes are blocked by plastic or whatever and on the other they penetrate the metal to a gap in the...

4 years ago
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RE: No More Autonomy

@jim-frame I always just called that C-Channel, good to know the proper name. Funny how far a person can get without knowing what it is they have in ...

4 years ago
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RE: No More Autonomy

@field-dog What the heck is a channel iron?

4 years ago
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RE: No More Autonomy

Back in Seattle we used to bench off Lake Washington as the elevation is controlled by the locks which are controlled by the Army Corp of Engineers. F...

4 years ago
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RE: Trouble finding help...appropriate salary range/expectations

@tim-v-pls Leave it to Surveyors to lobby the government for lower wages, tell me again why it is hard to find good help.

4 years ago
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RE: Good drafting practice

I would like to see examples of what the members here consider good work, of course old hand dimensioned drawings would be interesting but what would ...

4 years ago
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RE: Building Grid lines - venting some steam...

The majority of layout blunders are a failure of information management in my experience. I wonder if things are getting better or worse with the adv...

4 years ago
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RE: Building Grid lines - venting some steam...

Good to hear the super can use a tape, better than finding out with a beam. ?ÿ I would not be surprised if this comes up again despite the appearanc...

4 years ago
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RE: Leica Digital Level precision

You can change the display. If I recall correctly there is some nominal bump up in precision from the DNA 03 line. The manual has the information you ...

4 years ago
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