during a monument search today, I found this with flagging tied on .
When I began to clear the brush around it I discovered this.
That might come in handy someday.
oh lawdy... That's kinda funny and interesting at the same time...
You'd have thought the "monument" would have rocked and pivoted a bit and hope no surveyor would have actually used it. Was it near a calc'd position? It kinda looks like a homemade boat anchor of some sort.
Probably a good reason for it being there, have you asked around?
jud
I did poke around with the finder after moving it aside, but found nothing else at that spot. I did end up finding another about 40 feet away. The owner on one side knew nothing about it, and it does not jive with all the other found monuments on the other side (church property).
That's I would call a “floater” (mining claim terminology).
It can stop pincushioning though, you just move it over to the latest/greatest calculated position!
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Loyal
Gordon,
You may have stumbled upon the solution for the pincushion corner dilemma! All you need to do is place three castor wheels on it, and each visiting surveyor can simply "adjust" the monument to their "correct" position, thereby alleviating the need to place additional monuments.
JBS
You molested it!! 😀
I hope no one actually relied on that being a boundary marker?
Has anyone confirmed that Jeff Lucas didn't propose this solution in his new book?
> Has anyone confirmed that Jeff Lucas didn't propose this solution in his new book?
That's funny!
Silly boys......
That is a perfectly protected monument, it is encased in concrete. It was just set upside down!!!!!
> Silly boys......
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> That is a perfectly protected monument, it is encased in concrete. It was just set upside down!!!!!
Wrong.
Garden Gnome pole dancing
That would make a fine monument if put in a hole as deep as it happens to be long and back filled and tamped.
I have seen similar stands used for the purpose of partitioning areas to keep off or away from and even to guide traffic, as for church activities and functions.
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> That would make a fine monument if put in a hole as deep as it happens to be long and back filled and tamped.
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> I have seen similar stands used for the purpose of partitioning areas to keep off or away from and even to guide traffic, as for church activities and functions.
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I think A Harris nailed it. Maybe you could place several of these stands around the monument(s) with yellow tape that says "Warning-Pin Cushion nearby".
Those are the new fad. With the expense of monuments, etc. you set them, and then retrieve them after 30 days. And, then use them on the next project. This way, when the 30 days for the plat expire, then monuments go too! And, you charge them again, next time it sells!
🙂 N
