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sjc1989
sjc1989
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Joined: August 13, 2012 6:48 am
Last seen: July 3, 2025 9:47 am
Topics: 19 / Replies: 495
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RE: new kid surveying for the city.

Poor guy. I think I would reconsider the position if you stuck me with the orange anchor.

13 years ago
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RE: cast stationing in gutter

usually not perfect, but does give a guy a little confidence when ya start looking fer/finding the points that really matter.Utterly useless to the +/...

13 years ago
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RE: Land Surveyors Now Subject To Davis-Bacon Act

Good luck in my part of rural America hiring someone for DB Wages. Other than the big brother aspect, which I am not trying to minimize nor promote 'c...

13 years ago
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RE: Where do you carry your field book?`

Amazing you post this...... Wondering the same thing. Made a 1/2mi march across the fields and creeks today surveying/tick hunting. I was successful i...

13 years ago
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RE: Retracement Dilema

>...I find the mon laying on it's side, mangled with a bushhog or other farm equipment. I look for the bearing trees, and I find one stump hole. HO...

13 years ago
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RE: RPN Scientific Calculator for Android?

First, sorry for your loss.Second, I have a 'new-ish' hp33s at my desk for quick calcs- the kind w/ the chevron keys.Third, I have a HP35s in my lapto...

13 years ago
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RE: Should a PS stamped survey be good for more than 6 months?

10" apart eh? Sounds like you need a 12" dia. corner post.Some of the fiercest fights are between crews/surveyors within the same company. As for six ...

13 years ago
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RE: Low price = demanding client

Truer words rarely spoken... ...er typed.Steve

13 years ago
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RE: Thence EAST, Thence SOUTH...etc.

I'm going from memory, always dangerous, but early on I was told all caps meant cardinal and it said so in Blacks Law Dictionary and I think I read it...

13 years ago
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RE: Thence EAST, Thence SOUTH...etc.

I do not disagree with what you've done. Your area, you know best the what's, why's and wherefores, but round here......North and NORTH are two differ...

13 years ago
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RE: Thence EAST, Thence SOUTH...etc.

444 ft, 309 ft, and 187 ft lead me to believe the distances were at least chained/taped. Bearings are obviously more iffy.Steve

13 years ago
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RE: Thence EAST, Thence SOUTH...etc.

:good: If this is one of those sections that has interior angles of 88deg/92deg then the biggest variable in my mind would be the east line. Is it pa...

13 years ago
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RE: Why Independently Reproducible Bearings are Bad

> ... Well, woop-te-doo I say, who's fault is that? The innocent land owner who relies on them? :good: :good:

13 years ago
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RE: Why Independently Reproducible Bearings are Bad

> ...push the FUGARWE Button...Thank you fer naming the blue button on my 2500. Let it be written, let it be said.Steve

13 years ago
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RE: Why Independently Reproducible Bearings are Bad

Just curious?Yes I do, and that is the one argument that carries weight with me. The first time some guy using GPS to plant his corn (that guy being m...

13 years ago
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RE: Why Independently Reproducible Bearings are Bad

Just curious?Now I am confused. Eight hours of drawing or a couple of totties has gotten the better of me. If the 1850 surveyor used his equipment jud...

13 years ago
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RE: Why Independently Reproducible Bearings are Bad

Just curious?I think you are further west than I am. Original Plats don't ever show a bearing. Just the correction for magnetic. Soooo, they always th...

13 years ago
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RE: Why Independently Reproducible Bearings are Bad

Just curious?If you think I'm saying that I don't report any bearings on a plat I've explained myself poorly. Yes, I show on my plats that the east li...

13 years ago
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