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Cracked spark plug wire, too fine to visually see. Every time it rains and humidity jumps, car won't start. Couple hours later after sun comes out and...
Personally I like to give the total station a good spin and wherever it stops, I call that (assumed) NORTH. I can always use my compass to get a rough...
Years ago we had to go back to stake one of these contentious lines between neighbors, crazy neighbor kept pulling the stakes, even took a bulldozer t...
@fairbanksls Yes, exactly. I don??t lose sleep over a couple of tenths. It??s the brain fart when staking a line where a number gets fat fingered an...
@jed I am looking for a helper but it??s seasonal. I try and hire surveying students to give them practical hands on, one on one experience. Draw bac...
@robertusa Fair question. Because this project requires staking something on the order of 15,000?? of utility easement and ROW for fiber optic placem...
@jitterboogie Gobs of it, and cow parsnip, close relative of hog weed.?ÿ
Yeaaaaa??No thanks.
I was just thinking how much fun this would have been not that long ago having to hack sight lines through this jungle to traverse conventionally. I d...
@brad-ott One man??s Yuk is another man??s Ka-Ching!
What I've done in the past under similar circumstances is use my tape to pull out from the corner in 3 directions with good geometry and set spikes an...
Maybe there is an element of human nature involved, turf protection, knowledge is power. Perhaps it comes down to maturity. People that know that in o...
@fairbanksls The?ÿ Gov. Lot owner between him and the lake. The plat shows meanders extending to the gov lot?ÿ he purchased but on the ground the mean...
The BLM did a number of subdivision plats involving lakes around here in the 1950s and according to the notes used aerial photography to come up with ...
When working with plane geometry, that is treating the world as though it were flat for purposes of a survey covering only a limited area where conver...
I think your assessment is spot on. It's definitely not for everyone and does require somebody that thrives on being challenged and has the right atti...
@bstrand I??ve experienced this myself so I know where you??re coming from. Maybe it??s something of an old school hazing culture that treats new p...
I can??t help but think that with the push for efficiency over last decade, with robotic totalstations and GNSS, the profession has effectively eaten...
