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Williwaw
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Topics: 254 / Replies: 3067
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RE: Adventures today and yesterday

"It's okay, it's a rental."

2 years ago
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RE: Confused on Coordinates

I can see how a layman might jump to the conclusion that a bearing on a plat is part of a latitude and longitude coordinate because they use similar d...

2 years ago
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RE: Help w/ Carlson Survey Drafting w/ Intellicad

Thanks. Will give that a shot. ?ÿ

2 years ago
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RE: Help w/ Carlson Survey Drafting w/ Intellicad

I used the 'Create Points from Entities' with the line work to verify the line vertices were actually shifted off of the nodes, but otherwise in drawi...

2 years ago
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RE: Help w/ Carlson Survey Drafting w/ Intellicad

First thing I do is check that 'Locate on Real Z Axis' is not checked. I will double check 'Additional Draw Options'. Thanks for the suggestion.

2 years ago
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RE: Help w/ Carlson Survey Drafting w/ Intellicad

Mike, I spent some time on the phone with Carlson and they suggested that it might be that the view vantage was inadvertently getting skewed so it ap...

2 years ago
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RE: What would you do if forced to retire?

That is hard core. Not sure my tore up rotator and beat up elbow could handle those forces. Besides, I still have a long way to go in perfecting my do...

2 years ago
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RE: What would you do if forced to retire?

Probably just a pipe dream, but want to hike, not around the block but the Arizona Trail, the PCT, Patagonia, New Zealand, Nepal. Someone asked where ...

2 years ago
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RE: A silly question a about cell phones in the field

@olemanriver For me, needing a new prescription, with my preferred titanium rimless frames, right around the price of a new smartphone. ?ÿ Or maybe,...

2 years ago
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RE: A silly question a about cell phones in the field

I prefer to wear anoraks in the field, just light weight wind shell pullovers that have a single large kangaroo pocket on the front that I can keep my...

2 years ago
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RE: Constructing Staking

I find piss and vinegar makes a good substitute in a pinch, something rarely in short supply.

2 years ago
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RE: Constructing Staking

Big part of the reason I didn't take a shine to construction surveying after early on cutting my teeth on highway projects and high density housing de...

2 years ago
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RE: This guy would be breaking the law in my state...

Going to need at least a 30' wide hula hoop around here. Be kind of awkward to drag around.

2 years ago
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RE: What special skills make you exceptional?

Not sure if this qualifies but according to my significant other I possess the ability to tune out certain sound frequencies most often used in the co...

2 years ago
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RE: Snow!

Any day now. Just got the standard trani in my old 92 Chevy Cheyenne plow truck rebuilt, new crate engine in it it last year. Bring it on old man wint...

2 years ago
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RE: I'll Bet it was a Surveyor

@bill93 The petroglyphs show giraffe and other large African type herbivores which tells of a much a much wetter past and in winter it does drop below...

2 years ago
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RE: New release of Trimble Access

This seems like a good opportunity to pose a question. Typically I use the measure points/topo/control/rounds, ect.. Could someone elucidate a bit on ...

2 years ago
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RE: Plumbness of a chimney

From three radial directions +/- 60 degrees apart, using a theodolite to mean the angle from the two outside edges, first at the base, and then at the...

2 years ago
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