Walking around looking for rocks among other rocks
I'm stayin' away from this one....;)
So what was the premise of the class?
Mike Gallick, post: 447875, member: 3629 wrote: Walking around looking for rocks among other rocks
I presume this is the course currently happening at the Annandale Ranch in the Texas Hill Country.
From what I've read here and elsewhere they are looking for rock mounds (in various states of decay/scattering) among other rocks. The only difference for me is looking for marked stones amongst all the rocks.
One thing that I'm not certain about regarding rock mounds in Texas is whether there were certain surveyors or during a specific time periods where the underside of the mound's cap stone was marked. If so, how was the stone normally marked?
Yes outside of Concan Texas
Typically they are 3 to 4 feet in diameter made of local materials. These were set in the mid 1860s and are on the interior of the ranch. The ones we found were in fairly good condition. I'm unable to upload photos due to no cell and poor wifi
We used chain and compass to develope a search area and then found them fairly fast.
We also used some old gurly compasses and various chains to stake out points that they tied with gps. They will give the results tomorrow. If I was off I'll blame the new fangeled equipment
[SARCASM]What's going on with the thin guy ? [/SARCASM] 🙂
He obviously skipped class.
Paul in PA
It was a great experience and all the instructor were out standing. Definitely a good experience for the younger surveyors or SIT's in their process of obtaining the RPLS. In general an excellent course for those of us that love this job. Thanks Mike, I will pass on your greetings to Budd!
The iron ore rocks of NE TEXAS did not take marks or numerals or letters.In some areas the iron ore rocks were every where and in others there were none.
I have found many forms of home made mortar and stone, brick and non typical stone to the area.
More typical and lasting were pine knot set with a ring of iron ore rock.
Most of these are difficult to find in a mesh of tree roots in dense forest without having good references to follow.