True story from many yrs ago. I was the PC and tasked to go start a nice topo. As I'm reviewing my file I notice there was no BM indicated, so asked if I should stop at the county or just figure it out on my own.
When I asked the very stupid and non thinking so called office manager (bosses wife) she threw her arms up and replied "oh great, how much is THAT going to cost us..."
I just stopped at county on way to job, then quit shortly thereafter
Interesting thread.
Diffrent' soil types for Diff'rent states I guess.
Driving a 6' 8" rebar around here might take ours...and you still might up with 4 feet of it sticking out of the ground.
Around here, there's not a telephone pole that doesn't have a pk nail in it
I sure don't a lot of trees out there either.
I would get 20ft sections of rebar, cut in half, stand on top of truck or ATV and drive with post driver and sledge till refusal or flush, cut off with battery angle grinder and cap, then place guard post to find it.
> I would get 20ft sections of rebar, cut in half, stand on top of truck or ATV and drive with post driver and sledge till refusal or flush, cut off with battery angle grinder and cap, then place guard post to find it.
The trick I've discovered is using a 3/4 pipe as a mandrel to make a hole for a PVC sleeve. Once you've got that hole made and the PVC sleeve in place, you can just drop the rebar into it and that leaves the top at a height you can use a tee post pounder on. I forgot to mention putting a drive cap over the top of the rod, but it's a good idea to use one. I save the sledge for the last couple of feet of driving, when the bar doesn't flop around as much.
processing facilities
For what? Is this oil field stuff?
Here is a scan of a portion of a COOP Newsletter that was in the envelope along with this months statement. It didn't mention RR Spikes or nails & stakes attached to the pole, but I wouldn't want a power company employee catching me putting anything on a pole.
This actually was used extensively by the Czarist Topographic Corps before the Russian Revolution. They set triangulation towers made of wood scantling over points monumented by (empty) vodka bottles. The local peasants later stole the scantling for fire wood, and the triangulation monuments were forever lost.
Good BMs we've set.
Hey, we set some "permanent BMs for couple facilities (plants)out here.
We got a gas operated post hole digger (±12"d), went 4' deep, set a 4½' x 4" IP in the center, filled them both completely with cement and domed the cement to the top of the pipe and set a domed brass cap with the s hook in the center of the concrete, let em set up a couple days and they were there for good, barring a damned bulldozer.