Gene Kooper, post: 430696, member: 9850 wrote: You guys in Texas sure seem preoccupied with setting fancy ROW markers.
Well, the landowner responsible for that owned about 26,000 acres, so I guess he thought it was a smart investment to mark the corners so prominently. They probably average about one per 0.75 mile of boundary, so it wasn't exactly yard art.
A Harris, post: 430647, member: 81 wrote: With tension of the fence and the digging of the hole for the CLFC, the concrete post did not stand a chance to stay in position without having any cross support in place.
Tall concrete posts are a common monument put in place where the land is subject to be filled in.
If a person wanted to model the position of the center of the post before it was pulled out of plumb, I'm not certain whether treating the base :
(a) as if it rotated about a point midway between the bury line of the post and the bottom of the post or
(b) as if rotated about the center of the bottom of the post would give the more realistic result. In clayey soils usually the later would be the more reasonable model.
In this case, I'm not sure since the soil is basically silty muck that would be perfect for farming crawfish or rice when wet.
[USER=3]@Kent McMillan[/USER]
It is not so surprising that when any major connecting road crosses a ricefield or other bottom cropland at and near an intersection with other roads it gets filled in and becomes commercial.
A Harris, post: 430703, member: 81 wrote: [USER=3]@Kent McMillan[/USER]
It is not so surprising that when any major connecting road crosses a ricefield or other bottom cropland at and near an intersection with other roads it gets filled in and becomes commercial.
In this case, there isn't much reason to think that will happen anytime soon. The chain link fence is around a rice storage facility and the landowner in 1930 clearly expected that its use would continue to be rice farming for the foreseeable future, which it in fact has been.