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  1. fldengnr

    Traverse Loop for closure errors

    Yes Land Desktop will. I cant remember exactly where in the menu it is at. Your data collector will also do traverse adjustments. Hope this helps. TWD Timothy Day Field Engineer and Surveyor Brasfield and Gorrie Gen.Contractors Birmingham, Al. U.S.A.
  2. fldengnr

    Need to Survey Boundaries within Wood

    Call a land surveyor licensed in your area.It is against the law in all 50 states to survey without a license. If you have a survey crew at work you may want to utilize them. The same board that governs engineers also governs surveyors. Timothy Day Field Engineer and Surveyor Brasfield and...
  3. fldengnr

    House Foundation Formwork

    I think what all of you are forgeting is that you are giving all of this information on suppliers to rent and erect wall forms so that he can form and pour his basement. What everyone seems to have forgoten is that he has no physical experience in erecting concrete formwork. Gentleman this is...
  4. fldengnr

    House Foundation Formwork

    Do not try this yourself!!! Take this from someone who does formwork daily. Watching a contractor is not the same as doing the work for a contractor. All the aside wall ties,whalers,stiff backs and all the other components are set at specific locations and secured to prevent the concrete from...
  5. fldengnr

    Profiling a Vertical Curve

    What ever is in the contract documents and project drawings is what you should have used to bid this project. This is what you will be paid for. If the design data is that far off then you should request a change order for the discrepency in pay quantities. Most DOT projects are pretty close so...
  6. fldengnr

    Another Leica Instrument oddity

    It should be constant no matter what the prism is set at,but all of your measurements will also be off . I use a TCR803 but have never used anything that was onboard. I have seen Leica instruments do crazy stuff were you staking points on a tangent line or attempting to stake a curve. I will...
  7. fldengnr

    Another Leica Instrument oddity

    Did you check to see that the prism constant in the instrument is correct for the type of prism being used. Leica uses 3 or 4 types of prisms each with a diffrent setting or constant.Also if you regularly use a third party data recorder and a non leica prism then the settings are diffrent and...
  8. fldengnr

    Profiling a Vertical Curve

    I need to know a couple of things 1. Did your company design and stake omiting the VC 2. Are you designing new construction and do not have any original construction drawings I am puzzeled as to why you had an excessive amount of planing if all was built according to plan
  9. fldengnr

    Allowable Error on a Residential Boundary

    The state that i live in requires the following un adjusted errors for residential surveys. 1:25,000 for urban, 1:10,000 for suburban and 1:5000 for rural however with modern equipment you should easily exceed 1:25,000 if the survey crew does what they should.

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