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Post by talltimber on Jul 7, 2019 8:54:15 GMT -6
I have been asked to post some survey pics, as there may be some interest. I have lots of survey pics. What has been set by GLO in the past generally differs greatly from what is set now on private resurveys. What that means is that there are a number of different items that may be at your corner location. Here we go:
This is a little unusual as it's an large aluminum monument with about a four inch pvc pipe around it. I think it was just used for grabbing attention, as we don't see this a lot out in the woods. We blazed three trees for corner witness. This is typical for section corners found out in the woods, especially if we couldn't find corner documents on them at the courthouse.
The yellow item leaning against the tree is a locator. It does very well at helping us find rebar, old fence, fence staples, screwdrivers, pliers, etc. Mostly we are just interested in the rebars.
This is a brass capped rebar in an asphault road subgrade. If you border a road and your property deed describes to the center of the road, you may have something like this. It's tough to find without a locator.
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Post by talltimber on Jul 7, 2019 9:41:33 GMT -6
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Post by greybeard on Jul 8, 2019 0:26:35 GMT -6
Here’s something every surveyor I know wants to find. This is an original stone from a very old subdivision at the edge of s small town. The top of it had broken off and was laying about thirty ft away. that would be almost 11 Varas away here...  |
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Post by talltimber on Jul 8, 2019 4:32:45 GMT -6
That’s a whole nuther country!
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Post by randy on Jul 8, 2019 4:56:50 GMT -6
Finding those old markers are pretty neat. The state pays for new marker to be placed at original section corners here. There is one across the creek from me that is a big rock with a x chipped into it.
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Post by talltimber on Jul 8, 2019 7:58:40 GMT -6
They do that here too, Randy. For corner documentation.
All recorded surveys, deeds, subdivision plats, corner docs, are available to the public at the Recorders office, a fee for a copy.
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Post by randy on Jul 8, 2019 13:16:03 GMT -6
They do that here too, Randy. For corner documentation. All recorded surveys, deeds, subdivision plats, corner docs, are available to the public at the Recorders office, a fee for a copy. It is amazing to me how well those old corners match up when you think about the equipment used today vs long ago. |
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Post by talltimber on Jul 8, 2019 15:38:08 GMT -6
Very true. Those guys cutting line, running a compass, and dragging chain through swamps, woods, very big and steep hills, and doing 3-5 miles of it a day were pretty impressive on what they turned out
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Post by talltimber on Jul 8, 2019 15:40:43 GMT -6
 This is a typical corner monument most places now. A 1/2” capped rebar. This is by far the most often set by surveyors on private resurveys here. This one has had a hard time. Bent pretty good. Looks like it was hit by a grader blade possibly |
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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jul 8, 2019 15:48:21 GMT -6
Why do you have to dig it up? Are you resetting it?
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Post by randy on Jul 8, 2019 15:51:35 GMT -6
See a lot of them in places around here. Some will steel t post i like those pretty good. I know where a old one is that a rock thats 8 to 10 inches thick 12 to 14 inches wide two to three feet of it sticking out of the ground. The story is they surveyor knew one of the land owners and wanted to set a corner that he couldn't move. They found that rock and had to drag to where they set it with a team of mules.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 8, 2019 16:44:43 GMT -6
They'll dig around it like that to see if the bottom is disturbed. Sometimes you can get a location or measurement where it goes into the ground before the bend. If that monument is needed, it would be re-set. If they are using it to verify a location, it would help tie another corner down to help aid in the second corners location. If that makes any sense.
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Post by greybeard on Jul 8, 2019 17:03:44 GMT -6
My county will only let you get a survey plat of your own property. Fee was $45 for the copy I got. It did include several parcels surrounding me, but not much information on them.
The metes and bounds along the whole East side of my property and the 2 immediately N & S of me reads like scales on a sidewinder's back. Center of river channel. Took the most recent surveyors 2 days to go the 755 ft of river channel on my brother's 24 acres when it sold.
(when I did the newer fences here in 2008-2009, the only survey I had was a very old one and was in Varas...amazing how close it was to the modern survey we paid big $$S for in 2009 too..there were a lot of 'bearing or witness tree' references. All 6 corners on the 124 ac were marked with what appeared to be old steel vehicle axles except one, which looks like a lead screw off some kind of machinery)
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 8, 2019 17:11:09 GMT -6
I used to be a surveyor, some 15 odd years. Finding old monuments and old witness tress had to be the best part of it. Sometimes it felt like a big ol jigsaw puzzle and a scavenger hunt all rolled into one. Florida is a coordinate geometry state, everything is based on square miles. I bet surveying in a metes and bounds state would be a bigger puzzle. Then start throwing varas in there and it's a whole different world.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 8, 2019 17:17:51 GMT -6
I've set hundreds of benchmarks for Florida Dept of Transportation. Typically a big brass disc in a poured concrete monument. They look like this.  I catch myself looking for monuments or markers every time I'm somewhere new. |
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