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Williwaw
Williwaw
@williwaw
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Joined: December 12, 2012 5:31 pm
Last seen: June 4, 2026 10:08 am
Topics: 278 / Replies: 3336
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RE: Solo Operators dealing with injuries

So thirty years later I learn that I wasn’t indestructible after all. Sort of, ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’, to which I now say, what do...

3 years ago
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RE: Solo Operators dealing with injuries

My lower back goes out couple times a year. About only thing helps is lots of walking and doing yoga plank and others to keep up core strength. I swea...

3 years ago
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RE: Working for a Surveyor that does not understand GPS.

Just about any surveying work you'll encounter is going to require a working knowledge of using GPS. Old school conventional is also important but the...

3 years ago
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RE: Last corner of the day

@richard-germiller Record snow year here. Number of roof collapses. In a couple weeks it’s all going to begin to rot and what comes after that will ma...

3 years ago
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RE: Last corner of the day

@holy-cow About 3’. Snow there was closer to 5’. Had to clear a couple feet to get any ring and by the time I got down to the darn thing, the hole was...

3 years ago
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RE: Not your standard set of Record of Survey Notes

@michigan-left I guess has a lot to do with most of these guy’s didn’t get into using GPS until much later in their careers, so projections and such a...

3 years ago
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RE: Not your standard set of Record of Survey Notes

@michigan-left Standard practice around here. He’s done a local projection, SF 1.0, with north determined from that location. Easy to follow assuming ...

3 years ago
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RE: Not your standard set of Record of Survey Notes

In the ‘what it’s worth’ department, the original ‘94 center 1/4 monument is shown ~3’ to the west with a tie on this ROS. The headache for me is virt...

3 years ago
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RE: Not your standard set of Record of Survey Notes

he didn't break down the section. Correct.

3 years ago
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RE: Survey Note

Must be one of those surveyors that thinks the only monuments without error worth holding are the ones that they set themselves and everything else is...

3 years ago
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RE: Survey Truck Inventory

A word on canned meat and sardines, when they freeze hard, when they get thawed out they’re going to have the texture of mush. Give me an inverter and...

3 years ago
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RE: Land sale

@dougie And a few with Alzheimer's. Elderly are particularly vulnerable. An offer might look favorable compared to what they paid in 1954.

3 years ago
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RE: Land sale

@mightymoe More like a numbers game where they identify properties from the tax rolls and blanket them with low ball offers and if they only get a cou...

3 years ago
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RE: Lifting manhole lids safely

I'm in same boat at the same age as Chris Bouffard. Fortunately haven't has to lift manhole lids in twenty years and I'm good with that. Just a thou...

3 years ago
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RE: Changing where Cogo point number displays in Carlson

Cool. Think I have it figured out. Thanks!

3 years ago
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