I had computed a boundary corner from a 2000 plat that called for a 1/2" rebar set. Of course it was in a large hedgerow with kudzu, briars, privet and more briars. Also found an old barbed wire fence. As Matt was climbing over the fence, he spotted this iron (something) under the fence. Anybody know what it is? It was ~20' from a 1/2" rebar found at my computed position. I suspect the surveyor missed the iron in 2000. I was going to tie my survey to an established corner. Ended up using something else. I didn't want to open that can of worms.
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Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
Leaves, broads, grass, and a piece of rock that was melted and shaped, so it could be used as a tractor draw bar, but it's ends have been removed.
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Did you probe to see if the shape remains further down?
Did you test it for magnetic properties or scratch to see the color/texture under the oxidation?
My first thought was an old washing machine agitator that would widen out further down, but those more often had 3 wings instead of 2 and were usually cast of some aluminum alloy.
My initial thought was that it has the shape of a bike pedal (off a cheap vintage kids bike).
Looks like a landscaping stake to guy a tree.
Not iron
Looks galvanized.
It is definitely steel or iron. Makes the pin finder scream. It was in the ground solid. I didn't investigate very long after figuring out that something didn't fit. It isn't my can of worms to open. I've seen neighbors become enemies because of confusion about property lines and I sure didn't want to stir things up. I wasn't working for either property owner that share ownership in whichever piece of iron is correct. I just wanted to tie the survey to what I thought would be a well established corner of the parent tract. I ended up using a more accepted corner elsewhere. Sleeping dogs and all.
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
That is the locking paddle in a 1930s era tobacco packing mill common throughout central Appalachia.?ÿ They were made in great quantities but the technology never really took off and the excess inventory is often used as tractor drawbars and high school "swat paddles".
Me too, except the green vegetation stalk gave me the initial impression of a ground wire. Duh! ?????ÿ
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Are you sure it's not a petrified whiskey flask?
@stacy-carroll the you at least locate it to see how it fit your resolution??ÿ It may have been some sort of witness or tie point.
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Yes, we located it. It wasn't part of the boundary I was working on but it appears that the whole survey from 2000 might be shifted 22' North. A lot more work would have to be done to be sure. I wouldn't mind figuring it out but I would want to be paid for it.?ÿ
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
@flga-2-2?ÿ
Wow, we be thinking alike. (And you be not thinking it's a bong).
@dmyhill?ÿ
When I first starting reading this Board, "evidence of survey" was often discarded marital aids.