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Post by talltimber on Jul 11, 2019 4:43:40 GMT -6
Here is another stone we found back in the winter. If you notice, we're actually shooting a rebar next to it. The stone was disturbed, called for in older surveys, but had a rebar there next to it. It's a shame the stone was laying loose.
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Post by talltimber on Jul 11, 2019 20:33:53 GMT -6
Here's something we find occasionally, a cut cross in concrete. Sometimes in the street, bridge, concrete box culvert, etc   |
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Post by randy on Jul 12, 2019 5:22:32 GMT -6
Simple Works.
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Post by talltimber on Jul 15, 2019 13:49:52 GMT -6
This one got wet  |
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Post by greybeard on Jul 15, 2019 14:53:23 GMT -6
Fun fun.. I watched them 2 poor guys resurveying my brother property east side in 2018.
Legal property line is 'center of river channel'. The weren't having much fun..
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Post by talltimber on Jul 16, 2019 18:59:11 GMT -6
 Another weighted down post. This one is a corner post with a 1/2” rebar nearby |
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Post by JMJ on Jul 19, 2019 16:18:27 GMT -6
Ran across this one today while working at the oldest church in the county. Church is said to be built in 1868. Not sure when the marker was placed. You can still read the writing well.  |
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Post by birddog on Jul 19, 2019 18:06:51 GMT -6
A couple comments from what I have found in this area. . If you own the center of the street, you can offset your fence from the street and any distance you want. Lots of the monuments in the middle of the road are set in concrete and have an elevation on them. Elevation markers are always set along major concrete streets.
Used to be where every time you started a commercial building you had to find the nearest marker with a confirmed elevation. You would have to transfer that to your site to make a bench mark that everything was referenced to. I am sure GPS does that now.
It really gets messy when the center of the creek is your boundary. The place I am currently on has a creek boundary along two sides. When I bought it and had it surveyed, the new survey came out 6 acres less from the what the owner had on his survey. I found another old contract at the place that ind1cated the survey before that was larger still.
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Post by talltimber on Jul 21, 2019 5:20:38 GMT -6
That's cool, JMJ. Those are always fun to find.
I had forgotten to describe the water pic above. That's my partner at what we think is a Corp corner underwater. We need to verify that it is the one we think it is, they are all stamped with an angle point number. He's making a mud ball to press down on the monument so he can read it. Water is too deep and muddy to be able to see it.
birddog, be careful pulling offsets from a road centerline. Even if you find a monument to pull from, any variance from perpendicular to the centerline will affect your actual offset distance. GPS is not what you want to use for elevations in something that is critical. It's pretty good, but not for stake out in an urban setting.
Good stuff.
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Post by talltimber on Jul 21, 2019 5:21:37 GMT -6
Does anyone know what that weight is on the corner post above? I could never determine what it was.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 21, 2019 5:33:06 GMT -6
Maybe some kind of counterweight off a drag line or something like that?
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Post by talltimber on Jul 21, 2019 19:20:52 GMT -6
We see all kinds of things when we are out and about. This rig is a classic
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Post by birddog on Jul 22, 2019 13:11:28 GMT -6
Boy that brings back memories. I won one of those one time for selling subscriptions to the local paper. The first week I rode it, I popped a wheelie and the front tire came off. Over the handle bars we go. Daddy made sure all the bolts were tight after that. My fenders were a little better. That back one don't look like it would help much.
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Post by talltimber on Jul 23, 2019 20:05:05 GMT -6
You're right. That would stripe your t shirt with muddy water in a hurry.
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