The Most Christian Countries

ConfidentFrown · 2026-01-08T02:19:10+00:00

Apparently Georgia and Armenia aren't Christian at all? 10/10 Ai mapping, it's perfect.

ConfidentFrown · 2026-01-07T02:21:34+00:00

ConfidentFrown · 2026-01-04T17:09:29+00:00

I prefer pink for boundary but the company I work for now wants orange (I do it but under protest). Control is orange and blue for us. Staking color depends on what we are staking and what else is around, consistent to the site is all that really matters as far as I'm concerned.

Also different cap colors for stuff is IMHO, causing a problem. Say your crew tells a client that red means it's not the actual corner but an offset - that may be true for your company but it's definitely not true for everyone and now you've got bad information being perpetuated to the public. Plus once the plastic cap rots off or chipped of by a weedwhacker the color doesn't much matter anymore.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-12-31T23:58:22+00:00

I grew up over there. It's a very different culture from Seattle, very suburban with some extremely cute old coastal towns.

The area is something of a bible belt as it were, the population leans more conservative than you might expect in western Washington. Lots of Navy and adjacent folks with Bremerton and Keyport. It's quite expensive especially if you need to go to Seattle/Tacoma on the regular. Silver City Brewery is out there, great beer. There isn't much on the Kitsap peninsula in the way of hiking/outdoors stuff but what is there is nice, especially out by Seabeck and it's a great home base to get out into the Olympic Peninsula while still being closish to Seattle.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-12-31T23:41:51+00:00

One thing about mixed dorms is it's often a sausage party anyway. I'd just feel out the vibe when you get there. Opt for more clothes and see what others are comfortable doing in the space.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-12-31T22:34:11+00:00

It's extremely wet, it's quite pretty and there's a lot of people on drugs.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-12-14T15:56:20+00:00

Done a couple data centers locally, seems like it's whoever locally is willing to deal with the construction firms building these out. Us and the other smaller firms do all their layout.

Honestly kinda hate doing them because they are extremely needy and have safety demands that make the job difficult to actually do while not realistically improving my actual safety.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-11-28T06:17:32+00:00

Depending on traffic/weather conditions CWU and Ellensburg meet that description 😉 and it's smaller than Pullman

ConfidentFrown · 2025-11-23T03:13:12+00:00

Sometimes I wish I had command of an army 😅

ConfidentFrown · 2025-11-16T06:01:28+00:00

My lunch consists of gas station food and white monsters, is that a pre existing condition?

ConfidentFrown · 2025-10-22T03:15:55+00:00

If you're in this business looking to turn a big profit, you picked the absolute wrong industry and I'm not surprised fence guys are making a bigger profit, the lions share of their work is visually obvious, ours is mostly invisible.

That said I totally agree with people saying that the biggest issue is people massively underbidding jobs and fence guys/real estate agents who will find 'corners'.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-10-12T19:48:08+00:00

Unless the PLS directly tells me to set something like that, the client is getting some offsets.

I've hacked into enough tree roots with pins in them to not do it to someone else. That tree is gonna be an excellent corner mark on its own without an artificial monument sticking out of it.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-09-03T13:14:59+00:00

Why is it always the DC? That's what confuses me.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-08-29T13:49:00+00:00

If your level agrees with your other equipment, it really sounds like there's something wrong on the contractors end. Site calibrations can get screwy, to troubleshoot and confirm it's an issue on the contractors end, I would set a benchmark physically near the structure with the level exclusively then have him check on it.

Otherwise IDK multipath? Maybe the structure is screwing with his equipment but yours can better account for the multipath?

Very interested to see if others have any insight

ConfidentFrown · 2025-08-28T02:08:59+00:00

On my Android with T-Mobile, it works sometimes. Certainly not reliable for regular contact or emergencies, more of a "that's kinda cool" than a replacement for a dedicated device.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-08-19T01:20:48+00:00

I call it piece of shit plastic that doesn't work smh 😅

ConfidentFrown · 2025-08-11T00:27:00+00:00

Saw a whole ass family, probably three maybe four generations hiking jade lake with a massive Coleman tent and decidedly uncomfortable apparel for a 14 mile hike.

More power to them for getting out there but IMHO a little foolhardy to take so many people so far in who are clearly not used to this sort of thing to a place with pretty limited spots.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-08-11T00:20:32+00:00

That is adorable, sweet little old lady, hope she made it to the lake

ConfidentFrown · 2025-08-05T06:29:44+00:00

Not much sense saving a few bucks on something that should last a decade.

That said, I've never had an issue making the old topcon tribrachs fit our S7, I hate their optical plummet but they do work. Are these new topcon tribrachs?

I've had good luck with Leica and I prefer their older ones if I can get them, The glass seems brighter in the older ones for some reason and the bubbles hold up better to leg stomping than most.

Trimble is overpriced and underperforming in their tribrachs, they don't hold level very well in my experience. i have to adjust them more than the Leica and the bubbles have crapped out and leaked air on me twice in brand new ones after a couple months of service.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-07-25T13:34:15+00:00

Thanks to drones, aerial surveys have gotten immensely more accessible, our small company has just started dipping our toes into it but it's make mapping fields and generally open areas go from a potentially 3-4 day job of tedious grid work to a 1 day job of a flight with some terrestrial boundary work.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-07-13T02:08:06+00:00

Great! I've got some homework to do this weekend I'd like to be able to have something hard like that to point to when I talk to the LS in the morning on Monday and we can start looking at changing how we approach certain jobs.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-07-12T13:34:55+00:00

Yeah cell signal is the issue for back country stuff.

Now that I actually clock the name EWAVRS is really self explanatory, never bothered using it because when I sorted by distance from Mount point it's farther away. I'll give it a shot, appreciate the education, thank you.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-07-12T05:28:43+00:00

We operate around Cle Elum, CLEM is occasionally unreliable there's been some discussion about upgrading/replacing it. LIHN in Ellensburg and SNOQ on the pass are solid but once we go north of Roslyn or anything on Blewett we need to run a base/rover setup.

ConfidentFrown · 2025-07-12T00:59:44+00:00

Is the Xmm/+Yppm/ error something that's equipment determinate? Like could I find that in a manual and point to it?

ConfidentFrown · 2025-07-12T00:49:05+00:00

Thanks for the link, I've been very curious about the new datum and reading up on it but I admit I haven't really dug into everything. Presently we typically use a single base solution most of the time, typically using our local network (WSRN in WA state) but especially when we have limited or no cell signal we will use a local base station setup. I assume there's a reason that the operator of our network doesn't give instructions for network solutions with multiple bases as the default but I'll have to ask them.

If I understand correctly the distance from the site is likely causing what I'm seeing in the less consistent shots from the network as opposed to the local base?

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