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Unexpected Corners
Came across a lot today that would have been a relatively easy survey but the corners were COVERED UP. Hard to judge from an aerial, but on the ground, what a mess. Large invasive species and a ditch between any traverse point and the corner. No ditch noted in the legal, in the plat, or an easement otherwise noted. One corner had a dilapidated fence corner at it, +/- 25′ from the corner, and on a hunch figuring that there has to be some sort of something going on, fired up the schonstedt and sure enough a rod and cap rang out. I set our corner as pertained to the subjugated centerline. Next corner after that revealed two points, a rod and cap and a 4″x4″ concrete monument with a mag and disk in the top, relatively interesting but of little significance. The most difficult corner, and the subject of this thread, required cutting only nearly 75′ of line though dense brush and walking through the for mentioned ditch to the corner location.
The ditch isn’t quite visible here, but in order to reach the range pole in the background, you had to go under the brush which had its’ own obstacles. I am in no way complaining about the obstacles involved, in fact I find this type of stuff to to be a challenge and breaks up the monotony. However, if you bid a job not expecting to find such items and then come across this, how do you approach it? Is the surveyor contractually obligated to spend the time to cut through the mess to find or set an otherwise inaccessible corner? Does the type of survey dictate the thoroughness required? Seems that this type of situation is what hurts surveyors as a whole the most. Surveyors want the job, take it and lose money due to the requirements of the law. Or is that just the fact that surveyors as a whole do not charge enough for services and refuse to turn in less satisfactory surveyors to the board?
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