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Tom Bushelman
Tom Bushelman
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Joined: March 4, 2011 2:13 pm
Last seen: February 18, 2025 8:09 am
Topics: 49 / Replies: 382
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RE: Let's Talk Tree Surveys

A tree fell in a residential area near me and killed a child. Last I heard, 5 different surveyors had been involved in locating the tree in relation ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Notes from the Virgin Islands

I looked up Lignum Vitae and among other things, it has been used to treat syphilis. Sounds like a good wood to use if it doesn't rot. Is iron commo...

4 weeks ago
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RE: Let's Talk Tree Surveys

In Kentucky, many corners are trees. I use a Javad GNSS unit with base and shoot the trees with an offset and I'm pretty close to the center of the t...

4 weeks ago
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RE: My annual reading list

You've been a busy guy. I could not begin to compile a list like that, except for the very great ones. One of my favorites that I was describing to ...

2 months ago
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RE: Easement encroachment on adjoining property

Around here, there are storm easements down most subdivision lot lines but fences are commonly erected on the property lines with no issue. Locating ...

3 months ago
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RE: Quad Runners in Surveying

About 90% of my jobs are too small, too dense, too many fence lines for it to be more trouble than the help it provides. But sometimes, a 4 wheeler i...

3 months ago
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RE: Survey Truck Size

I've been surveying out of the back of an F-350 dually 4 door, 8' bed for the last 18 years. Plenty of room for equipment and 4 wheeler right in the ...

4 months ago
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RE: Surveying with the Jeep

It does look pretty steep. It is very handy to be able to get close without just the use of your own two legs. I am working on big survey in the App...

4 months ago
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RE: Is This Fair/Legal?

I don't think it should be codified but the level of care for $1,000 an acre remote mountainside is a little different than one would handle a $1,000,...

4 months ago
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RE: Triple check your final work projects

A subdivision with Civil War themed streets was created a couple decades ago. Had Cannonball Lane, Battleridge Drive, etc. and the main drag through ...

6 months ago
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RE: Is working as a certified surveyor worth it in usa?

I worked with an immigrant 30 years ago from Romania that was a licensed surveyor in his home country. At the time, it was difficult getting his degr...

6 months ago
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RE: RTK radio range

Mountain top to mountain top, I once got 18,000 feet on a 1 watt internal radio on a Javad T-3 but that is the exception. Got a 6,000 footer once bu...

8 months ago
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RE: When did these completely disappear?

I even remember beer vending machines though not as ubiquitous as cigarette machines.

10 months ago
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RE: GA52cx vs Maggie version

I have been a big Subsurface fan for a long time. I did buy a Maggie a while back and just didn't like it as much. The shape of the handle wasn't er...

10 months ago
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RE: Deed exceptions

I was working with a 75 acre description once with 18+ exceptions and the remainder was about a one acre parcel. That was a lot of work for one littl...

11 months ago
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RE: Memories of the old swimming pool

I learned to swim in the same pond the horses drank out of. Swam every summer day of my childhood and ultimately became a rescue swimmer for the Navy...

11 months ago
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RE: Career Day

Nice outreach Radar. I've been to grade school and they had a ball with the metal detector. NSPS makes some great material for things like that.

11 months ago
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RE: You know who this is.................

The first ten minutes of Full Metal Jacket are some of the finest in cinema history. I wish I had the memory to spew out the insults the way he does ...

11 months ago
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