Great pics and discussion.
I always enjoy the details you post about the process you follow to recover corners.
It is nice to find the points that back up what your research indicates you should be finding out there.
You obviously go to the effort required to find the actually evidence of the corner:
record research
the old fence location
leading to the bearing tree
which puts you in a search area for digging
to find the stones, bottles, and probed location
Do you find that others in your area would bother to have found the bearing tree location then went to the effort to uncover the actual corner location - or would they just go out and extend the old fence line the distance called for and slap a corner in place?
In my area of Kentucky, there is a shortage of calls to accessories to the corner monument. I try to be much more diligent (and could always improve on it) in placing information in my description to assist in recovering the corner location.
For the most part, the newer descriptions I follow generally have a locative call to the POB then just a series of calls around the property. When I run into the ones that call for accessories to the monument, it sure is nice. While the older descriptions might call for accessories as '...to a stake black oak, poplar, cherry pointer; thence ...' Without the details of a bearing and distance ot the corner location.
Great pics and discussion.
> Do you find that others in your area would bother to have found the bearing tree location then went to the effort to uncover the actual corner location - or would they just go out and extend the old fence line the distance called for and slap a corner in place?
Well, to be frank, there is a wide variation in the level of diligence exercised in rural boundary retracements like that. The last survey that had been made hadn't apparently even bothered to discover where the fence had once been, but had constructed the corner in question by some method that apparently didn't include a careful search for the original evidence.
While I consider a tile probe to be a fundamental and necessary tool for rural surveying, I don't think that many surveyors have one as part of their standard field equipment. So, lacking the proper tool, some simple tasks like probing for fence post holes and buried stones become just unthinkable, apparently.
Great pics and discussion.
:good: :good: We had one in the survey vehicle. as long as I can remember.