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Timberwolf
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RE: FEMA certificate

You can fill them in, save them as a PDF, and then add the photos with a program called Snagit. That's how I have been doing it anyway. Just keep the ...

9 years ago
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RE: Gentlemen, this is a football

You know, I have had this conversation with several guys I work with. When I went back to school to become a surveyor, I had this idea of solving peop...

9 years ago
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RE: Stubby Pencil time. AKA Typos in Concrete.

Wait, you found a ROW marker from 1941 that hasn't been run over!?? Nice job!:good:

9 years ago
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RE: Architects Aarghhhh

If that's all the trouble you ever have with an architect, consider yourself lucky.

9 years ago
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RE: Elevation Certificate on a very large Building

I have done a huge building (800x200 I think) and we just took a lot of shots and a lot of photos. It took half a day to get our measurements and the ...

9 years ago
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RE: What control points do you use?

Depends on the purpose. Everything from a hub and tack for a traverse point on a lot survey to a concrete encased capped rebar stamped "survey control...

9 years ago
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RE: Improvised Traverse Points

I have done that exact thing. I have also used marker dots on a hard surface such as a rock.

9 years ago
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RE: Drill recommendation

Before I went back to school to be a surveyor, I spent 21 years building custom cabinetry and millwork. I made my living in part, with my cordless dri...

9 years ago
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RE: Let's keep the camera rolling......

Check out the vine choked tree we found yesterday.

9 years ago
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RE: Strategy for determining the Basis of Bearings of a control network

If this is all GPS, with no shots between points with a total station, it is going to be "loose" no matter how many observations were made. I wouldn't...

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RE: Photos through a transit

Got a great photo of Albert Pujols through my binoculars from the cheap seats back when he was still a Cardinal. Haven't tried it through the gun thou...

9 years ago
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RE: Pics this week

Great photos! Thanks for sharing. Makes me homesick.

9 years ago
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RE: Best Paint Marker/Other?

Ditto the clear coat. Worth the investment.

9 years ago
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RE: measuring and calculating control points along a Road

GPS both ends, hold one for vertical and level loop between them. Traverse between the two ends for horizontal.

9 years ago
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RE: So, you want to be a surveyor?

Nate, my old party chief is from your town too. I heard a lot of stories of the goings on down in your neck of the woods. Funny stuff, unless you are ...

9 years ago
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RE: Construction Site Control

I like several offsite controls to start with, and onsite, I like to set rebar and caps. I currently am responsible for the layout of a new high schoo...

9 years ago
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RE: Trouble with Trimble S7 Holding Zero while performing high precision radial , after wathstakeout

A couple of possible issues I see here, are the legs being set too deeply, which can cause uneven pressure and thus movement, the sunshine in cold tem...

9 years ago
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RE: Texas RPLS Fee discussion

Let me tell you that "price fixing scandal" in NW Arkansas is anything but an urban legend! I have met several of those involved, and they reeeaaaalll...

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