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Post by Alex Liggett on Oct 23, 2014 4:21:25 GMT
This originally appeared on the NZIS forum and the Land Surveyors NZ Facebook Page, but it is too good not to repost:
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Post by Alex Liggett on Oct 23, 2014 4:24:22 GMT
This is another favourite of mine:
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Post by Alex Liggett on Dec 4, 2014 9:32:56 GMT
There is nothing that aficionados of the Trimble 4000 like better than a good yak.
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Post by Brent George on Dec 4, 2014 19:00:46 GMT
There is nothing that aficionados of the Trimble 4000 like better than a good yak. ...and what are you implying Mr Liggett??!! Our trusty 4000's are still in service (well, most of them, and albeit used only on special occasions) so this surely bears [like the pun?] their true value and longevity. For a GPS model from 1995 they have stood the test of time. Will an R8 or R10 still be around circa 2025??
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Post by Alex Liggett on Dec 4, 2014 19:21:51 GMT
The R8s won't as all of their J2 connectors will have sheared off their main boards. Trimble are way too smart to ever make another receiver as robust as the 4000. A bit like HP with the old 11c-15c etc, cf the poor build quality of more recent offerings.
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Post by Ian Gillespie on Apr 2, 2015 2:08:47 GMT
Surveying down on the farm. A cow checking out my antique pack a goat checking my antique ute
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Post by Alex Liggett on Sept 21, 2015 7:48:31 GMT
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Post by Alex Liggett on Jan 3, 2016 20:29:05 GMT
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Post by Ian Gillespie on Nov 24, 2016 18:57:27 GMT
turned my back for 5 seconds and they snuck up behind me. Attachments:
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Post by Brent George on Nov 24, 2016 19:31:31 GMT
They just love the smell and taste of fresh dirt! It happened to me in my younger days on a job in Pahiatua - I plumbed a back mark and walked back to the jigger about 50m away. I looked back in time to see a small steer with a tripod on its hind quarters bucking around in surprise. (It had walked under the legs but its hind quarters were wider than the gap offered...)
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Post by Ian Gillespie on Apr 10, 2018 20:08:55 GMT
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Post by Brent George on Apr 11, 2018 21:26:10 GMT
.... sad. Removed by the landowner? - as an attempt to claim more land.... Removed by a Surveyor? - because (as an old peg) it just didn't fit with their definition.... Removed by a Fencer? - because it gets in the way of their important post... Placed by a Surveyor? - because they couldn't be pfaffed emplacing it in its brg/dist position... Placed by a Thespian? - in an oblique reference to Hamlet's real feelings to a lost love....
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Post by Pat Sole on Apr 11, 2018 23:05:33 GMT
Or perhaps signs of liquifaction and fault rupture north of Auckland - how will surveyors decide where the boundary is now, or shall we promote the idea of dynamic (floating) boundaries.
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Post by Ian Gillespie on Jan 24, 2019 18:33:40 GMT
I was going to use that! (Trig 2 ML8670 is now disturbed) Attachments:
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Post by Brent George on Jan 24, 2019 18:58:29 GMT
I was going to use that! (Trig 2 ML8670 is now disturbed) Pity. Looks like it was burnt out???
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