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Topics: 5 / Replies: 825
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RE: What is It?

Cross Gutter

3 years ago
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RE: What really is the role of a survey technician....

When I was an LSIT in the 1970s, I drafted a lot of plan and profile drawings in addition to the final maps.?ÿ It is useful skill when doing construct...

3 years ago
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RE: Deeding Property to yourself

@mightymoe Fortunately, in California, we can show up at the Recorder's counter and request a Conformed Copy along with the receipts for deeds.?ÿ They...

3 years ago
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RE: Deeding Property to yourself

I've owned some valuable real estate on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for about three seconds each.?ÿ This was the result of being a 'straw man' f...

3 years ago
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RE: An old man's ramblings after 40 yrs surveying

A turkey baster works well for drawing water out of a tight monument well, and can also be used for blowing concrete dust out of a drill hole.

3 years ago
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RE: If you can dream of a mistake possibly happening, it has already happened to someone, somewhere, sometime

This would be easy to do now.?ÿ When i was a sports editor in the 60s, linotype operators cast each line (in reverse) from hot lead; then columns lock...

3 years ago
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RE: Physical Stamp

I've been licensed 41 years, but I tend to replace my stamp every ten years.

3 years ago
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RE: Heading out to the weekly County Commission meeting

I usually have items on the consent agenda - road vacations, acceptance of easements and right of way dedications, a map for approval, an ordinance am...

4 years ago
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RE: Video

@rover83?ÿ Yep, when I was taking my exam in 1979, there were a lot of great party chiefs who had shown up year after year trying to pass the test - w...

4 years ago
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RE: This'll make you scratch yer head...

@bill93?ÿ Don retired from this office then, and has been offline since.

4 years ago
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RE: Could be worse....

Oooh - dirty pictures!

4 years ago
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RE: Creating Field2Finish

I've taken a leaf, and a photo with me to stop by a landscaping store on the way back to the office.?ÿ They would give me the species and formal name ...

4 years ago
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RE: Acronyms

Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco!

4 years ago
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RE: Alley vacation

Typically, when public rights of way are created simultaneously with the lots on a subdivision map, when right of way is vacated, the underlying fee t...

4 years ago
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RE: First shot today

Math Teacher, ?ÿ I lost my wife of only 26 years in 2008.?ÿ It was also a long term illness.?ÿ The passage of time does not erase the memories.?ÿ Th...

4 years ago
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RE: Kids learning about legal descriptions?

@notsomuch That sounds right - 6th grade I think.

4 years ago
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RE: Kids learning about legal descriptions?

I didn't think I was that old but, yes, I remember in elementary school being exposed to acreage calculations starting at a fence corner, some history...

4 years ago
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RE: Legal Description Formatting

I have used 'a distance of' when its absence could raise ambiguity, such as: N45dW along said Parcel 2, 234 feet.?ÿ It reads better as N45dW along sa...

4 years ago
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RE: a +/- discussion within the office... want you opinion

It's not always about area (which is a derived value), but when a course recites a "more or less" distance to a closing line or point, the intent is t...

4 years ago
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