Spent about two hours looking for a section corner yesterday, just kept coming up empty. Big hole in the blacktop but no concrete monument with brass cap. Then I reached over on the side of the road to move a concrete chunk out of the way and by golly, flipped it over and there was the brass cap. I now have a portable benchmark! Pretty cool.
I don't quite know what to say.
That stinks... How do you describe that section corner now?
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Nate The Surveyor, post: 451851, member: 291 wrote: I don't quite know what to say.
That stinks... How do you describe that section corner now?
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Original corner monument recovered.
Tom Adams, post: 451852, member: 7285 wrote: Original corner monument recovered.
... And sitting on my desk!
That's exactly where it is right now. Until I need it for elevation. I'm thinking of putting it in the wife's flower garden, but I'm not sure that's gonna fly.
Nate, there are section corner tie sheets for all corners in our county. We can re-establish the corner from the accessory monuments, most times.
By the way, wife says I'm good to go! I can't wait to paint the sucker flo pink in her garden. Maybe she didn't get that part?
We found an old stone with a drill hole. It had been knocked out of the stone wall by a contractor. It was somewhere in the office ready to be placed in a stone wall...
Years ago I found the top third of a Mass Highway Bound with some illegally dumped debris. I hauled it to the office and popped it into the awake to slow the runoff into the swamp.
spledeus, post: 451991, member: 3579 wrote: We found an old stone with a drill hole. It had been knocked out of the stone wall by a contractor. It was somewhere in the office ready to be placed in a stone wall...
Years ago I found the top third of a Mass Highway Bound with some illegally dumped debris. I hauled it to the office and popped it into the awake to slow the runoff into the swamp.
Did one years ago where we couldn't find the NHDOT bounds that had been set. Found them later under the deck as a base for the supports.
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What's worse is coming back to a previously used benchmark to check in, finding it off, and then noticing that the concrete looks really new compared to the other sections. I guess I can't blame the construction crew that much, probably thought they were doing the right thing, putting it back where they (thought) they found it.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 451853, member: 291 wrote: ... And sitting on my desk!
Not me, I'd have that baby duct taped to the rear bumper for a permanent benchmark. :p
Paul D, post: 451997, member: 323 wrote: Did one years ago where we couldn't find the NHDOT bounds that had been set. Found them later under the deck as a base for the supports.
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Was surveying a farm years ago that a local builder had purchased and he called me over to show me one of the stones a previous owner had used as steps to get into a barn. The top "step" was an old turnpike mile marker and you could still make out the carving with the distances to Baltimore and Cumberland.
put note on recorded plat: "found 1950 brass cap removed by others. Determined that it was in the wrong place anyway by 1.57349 feet. . Took this opportunity to reinstall permanently in the correct position according to GPS Static observations, instead of setting our own monument in the correct position".
Paul D, post: 451997, member: 323 wrote: Did one years ago where we couldn't find the NHDOT bounds that had been set. Found them later under the deck as a base for the supports.
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Yeah, the number of times I find the concrete bound being used as a wheel stop or garden border is staggering. Relieves me of having to figure out how the monument matches the record distance. Hold the math...
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Is it the 6th PM initial point that was found on a nearby farmer's mantel? Someone check the facts for me please.
spledeus, post: 452013, member: 3579 wrote: Yeah, the number of times I find the concrete bound being used as a wheel stop or garden border is staggering. Relieves me of having to figure out how the monument matches the record distance. Hold the math...
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What about possession, reliable testimony or relation to nearby corners?
thebionicman, post: 452023, member: 8136 wrote: What about possession, reliable testimony or relation to nearby corners?
It's like a 90 year old's underwear: Depends
For the most part, I am retracing and fixing surveys from the 50s through 80's. The math is usually as good as the occupation.