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Joined: October 4, 2012 3:21 pm
Topics: 3 / Replies: 596
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RE: Greetings

What part of AZ are the hinterlands? Or maybe, what part of AZ is NOT hinterlands? In any case, welcome!

11 years ago
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RE: Monuments, per Statute

paden cash, post: 345118, member: 20 wrote: That's not a bad idea. I've had several developers in the past ask for similar marks and such on curbs and...

11 years ago
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RE: Is there land no one owns?

paden cash, post: 345114, member: 20 wrote: And they have all sorts of standard forms they give me as the one preparing the descriptions for these R/W...

11 years ago
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RE: Monuments, per Statute

paden cash, post: 345023, member: 20 wrote: A few years ago it was argued that a "cut x" in something like concrete fails our minimum standards. Altho...

11 years ago
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RE: Is there land no one owns?

There are several things about this thread that interest and intrigue me. One is the concept of "public trust". Inasmuch that the government is (suppo...

11 years ago
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RE: Which came first

For me, math was my beginning. I did very well in school all the way up through high school. But mathematics was my best subject. I was "ahead of the ...

11 years ago
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RE: Nate Recommends:

I'm always looking for a good headlamp to use while camping. It seems that the ones I've purchased around the $20 range end up failing after one seaso...

11 years ago
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RE: California surveyors - bay area

Also, if you have a Lat and Long for the BM (even an approximate one) you can use this site: to do a radial search for any NGS control monuments arou...

11 years ago
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RE: Field Stencils

I had a chainman do that exact thing last summer. Poor kid, knocked him silly.

11 years ago
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RE: Half-Mile Confusion on the ALTA Survey

That's what I used to have to do. I learned quickly. Of course, there are issues with labor laws.

11 years ago
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RE: Half-Mile Confusion on the ALTA Survey

One of the biggest issues I have is my field crews giving me this description: "Found 3/4" IP". And that's it. I ask them if there was a tag of some s...

11 years ago
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RE: Half-Mile Confusion on the ALTA Survey

Rain? In California? Apart from a couple of recent storms, I had all but forgotten what rain was.

11 years ago
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RE: Watch yourself out there this time of year

I'll leave the snake talk to others. The response of "SHUDDER!" is not quite strong enough for my phobia of wild snakes. Anyway, another danger of lea...

11 years ago
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RE: Removing another Surveyor's monuments

Another vote for "don't pull the monuments" here. The reasons have all been cited already. The problem likely will never be "fixed" because there will...

11 years ago
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RE: Getting tired of this...

Well, my complaint is not that other people aren't using C3D. My complaint is that others are told that I am using C3D then complain when what I send ...

11 years ago
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RE: Watermarking PDFs

I'm not sure I understand the question. When I prepare a legal description, I sign and stamp it along with the date that I signed the description. If ...

11 years ago
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RE: Windows 10 Poll

There seems to be an answer missing. Below " No, but I plan to make the jump after a service pack or two has been released." and above "No, I will nev...

11 years ago
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RE: Watermarking PDFs

Well, I don't see how it would be "illegal" to make a PDF that is either non-printable or that expire. I actually think it is rather practical, really...

11 years ago
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RE: How to know if you're in the right profession

You're very fortunate.I played in one band that did pretty much exactly the kind of music I liked. We had a combination of cover tunes and original mu...

11 years ago
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RE: Calif. Additional Source of Historical Info

Maps like this are definitely a valuable resource. I've run across several deeds that cite artificial waterways as a boundary. Those ditches often get...

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