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Williwaw
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Joined: Dec 12, 2012
Topics: 254 / Replies: 3067
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RE: A surveying decision..

Personally I would have held the RR tie, whether it was a chain off or not, it was the only physical evidence that somebody had taken the time and eff...

1 year ago
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RE: Following a GPS survey

From a practical stand point for me it comes down to awareness that change is a constant and no measurement is absolute, just a snapshot in time. I'm ...

1 year ago
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RE: Following a GPS survey

Must be nice. One of the issues I'm running into with GPS derived survey work I did a decade ago is the areas I work in is somewhat in a state of geol...

1 year ago
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RE: Boots Again

My Danners I had to retire after only two seasons. They just started coming apart and the water proofing failed after the first season. I've since gon...

1 year ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

I'm not sure a title report would have helped much. The (complete and total) lack of monumentation within the bounds of condo plat was between the mun...

1 year ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

Crickets. All I wanted was to confirm that none of the boundaries inside the subdivision had been changed and I was okay relying on the original plat ...

1 year ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

"This sounds like stuff you should have noticed as part of researching the job…" That's brilliant. Why didn't I think of that. My final thoughts on t...

1 year ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

Oh yea, it's definitely me. Hardly the first time I've run into other surveyors completely unwilling to talk about what they did and I can only assume...

1 year ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

Around here everything is an emergency with winter closing in. We have a number of pedestals that were placed in the foot print of new condo foundatio...

1 year ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

That in of itself is what had me thrown for a loop. No survey information, nothing in the legend, no bearings and distances, no statements in the note...

1 year ago
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RE: Adjusting bipod legs

Excellent. Very helpful. Thank you!

1 year ago
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RE: Alaska Surveyor?

Try Delta Surveys, Arthur Saarloos. He’s in Delta Junction, that’s all I got.

1 year ago
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RE: Alaska Surveyor?

I was just out there playing off the Denali Hwy an hour past the cutoff. Nope. Not going to happen. I hear you saying that you are the surveyor fo...

1 year ago
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RE: Alaska Surveyor?

@dmyhill More like 5 hours from Anchorage. There’s also a ton of road construction and portions of the Glenn Hwy that you can’t drive faster than 50 m...

1 year ago
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RE: Alaska Surveyor?

@norman-oklahoma Gulkana area, Richardson Hwy, along the Copper River, Chitina Recording District. You will be hard pressed to find any local survey...

1 year ago
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RE: Alaska Surveyor?

What recording district is that in?

1 year ago
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RE: Meal ticket or career?

I've had my share of meal ticket jobs. Surveying offered a path out of that trench and the promise that if I pushed the envelope on what I was capable...

1 year ago
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RE: 6:41 P.M. and 103 F

On the bright side this could be one of the coolest summers in the rest of our life times.

1 year ago
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