The current monument is a 2" inside diamter iron pipe, sticking up about 1.5'. It has a pedigree and is best evidence of the original which has been used by numerous surveys. It is the corner.
Field Notes we have on file indicate they found it in 1972 with wood plug and brass LS tag and "it should be replaced." They would've replaced it with a 4x4 concrete monument with brass cap but they never did.
The pipe is still there with a badly decayed wooden plug and the same LS tag. It is firm in the ground and I don't see any reason to replace it. It's probably better than the aluminum monument I would replace it with.
So my plan is to shove the plug down 3" or so, pour some dry Rockite powder in there, add water, stir with a spike and put a brass cap into it. The cap is a blank that was in my truck already when I inherited it three years ago. It has a 2 pronged stem. The cap will be stamped for the corner with my LS number and 2012.
Do you think you might lower it abit to help witb preservation, pr is it so far out in the boonies that projecting up 1.5 ft aids in recovey? I guess I'd opt to lower it, rock it up in a good mound and and place a durable witness post alongside.
This is timberland so I think it's better sticking up like that.
Flag it up really well so the axe men see it and preserve it. They seem to be pretty good about that as long as it is really visible. There are a lot of concrete monuments around there sticking way up.
Jackson Demonstration State Forest (near Fort Bragg, CA) is one of my favorite places to work because of the knee-cap breaker monuments.
That kind leaves a real good reminder that you found it.
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This 2" I.D. iron pipe had a badly decayed wooden plug and an LS tag (not the original setter-he found it and tagged it). The original setter set his tag in two BTs (one tag survives, the other tree is clearly blazed but no scribing or tag).
I removed the tag, pushed the wood down, filled the top 3" of the pipe with expanding cement (like Rockite but the Ace brand) and set a brass cap in it. It firmed up nicely and is now rock solid.
Best plan was to use a larger die set I found. I didn't notice until the evening I was stamping the cap in the Apparatus Bay at the Fire Station in Fort Bragg (CA) that some of the letters were missing and had been replaced with smaller letters. Besides it was after work and I was tired. I was tempted to redo it but this thing is buried in the forest so it is sufficient for the job:
