This once tall iron pipe was so bent both ends were in the ground. Afer careful excavation I could determine where the bottom was. With no bulldozer in sight, one can only wonder how this pipe got so mangled in the forest.
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tree fell on it?
Around here if they're sticking up too much ATVs and snowmachines in low snow years can clobber them. Skidding logs is hard on them as well.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
@jimcox yes, that could explain it.
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@williwaw thank you.
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I'm thinking I should set something there as close to the position as possible while leaving the bent pipe as evidence of finding the original corner.
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Ya need a pipe straightener! Always had a 4ft section of steel pipe to straighten up bent rebar. The pipe might break off at the crease though. Sounds like a rebar and cap set at the base of a "x" size bent iron pipe. That is if it is the actual corner. 😃
@gary_g Yeah. Might need a little heat on that crease. A flamethower would work, but I don't want to start a forest fire.
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...but seriously, the only bars I am able to bend are those half-inch ones. I also thought about cutting the pipe at the crease and resetting it. I am concerned the somebody will take it to be just a piece of junk and rip it out.
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That pipe looks amazingly similar to many of the 1/4 GLO brass caps I see, they used pipe sticking out often 12-18" and many get bent just like that one. If they can be rehabilitated I do that, however, that one looks iffy. Set your cap, bury the pipe alongside. I don't think it's always machines that bend them, livestock can wear out almost anything sticking out of the ground.
I also thought about cutting the pipe at the crease and resetting it.
Go to the hardware store and get a new length of pipe. Set it and put your cap in it.
I always make it a point to try and rehab these things because if I don't, who will? Sometimes it's just driving a 32" 5/8" down the side of it well below grade and putting my cap on it. Straightening a 5/8" rebar is easy with a section of plumbing pipe, but straightening iron pipe like that, too much a PIA.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
This is an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. In Oklahoma, a non-recording state, you could rehabilitate a found marker and move on. Unless it is a PLSS corner, in which case a CCR and $5 recording fee. If you find a damaged marker in Oregon and rehabilitate it you are on the hook to file a record of survey. Between your time and filing fees that will add around $2000 to the survey cost - minimum. In Washington State the mere fact of finding such a marker in the course of a survey - technically - puts you on that hook.
Finished!
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I've found you get good results by swinging a pipe or bar onto the hammer head. It focuses energy in just the right spot, though it can transfer a significant portion up your arm to the elbow.
This pipe appears a bit too 'pinched' to recover. I'd bury it alongside my new monument to avoid leaving two options. Tell the story in my narrative on my recorded map...
Awesome!
🤣 🤣 🤣 Search the area. You may find a croquet field laid out with such "wickets".
Sound like our back yard, we used to play extreme croquet. #1 rule, no blood, no foul.