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@chris-mills I have this conversation with people new to surveying, that they need to develop situational awareness and be present in the moment, lear...
I always assumed the equipment would be on the next flight to Eastern Europe since taking it into a dealer for any maintenance or software upgrades wo...
I think with resumes when it comes to words, less is more. Keep everything direct, to the point and well organized with a minimum of flowery language....
The correct answer is ??Friday? But we??ve already started.???ÿ
No problem. Which Friday because it won??t be this one.
@skeeter1996 So he didn??t do an actual survey, but set a monument that was supposedly on the section line but wasn??t and filed a paper plat or som...
Station and offset. Lot of older subdivision here with a foot floating around. Old chain and transit stuff.
Anything is possible. There was a case here some years back. Some people built a nice house that turned out to be on State land. Somebody ended up buy...
@skeeter1996 I assume the drafter used records to draw it in, he didn??t survey it, implying that there wasn??t an error on the surveyor??s part, s...
@skeeter1996 Yea, but how did they figure that out is what I'd like to know. That would be a first for me, seeing a parcel with a land descriptor 'No ...
Something doesn't add up. If it was a legitimate error in the original survey lying undiscovered until now, how would the assesor know to plot the wed...
In other words, go to a geodetic system? Every bearing reported forward, back and mean? Perhaps on a township scale survey, but for most practical eve...
Use to be all the field books were kept in a safe. Now you need a safe big enough to keep all the high value equipment in.
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