I found this recently and had no clue what it was or what to call it. The last surveyor called it an "Iron Pin". I followed the deeds back to the 70's and found a different name and when I googled it, I knew it was correct.
Can you name it?
Iron Pin.
Looks like a bolt stuck in the end of a pipe.
Sewer cleanout.
Black Iron pipe fitting plug.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
Tom Adams, post: 400851, member: 7285 wrote: Iron Pin.
The description "Iron Pin" is pretty usless.
Looks like a plumbers pipe with a cap screwed on it...
Well cap.
Warren Smith, post: 400853, member: 9900 wrote: Sewer cleanout.
FL/GA PLS., post: 400868, member: 379 wrote: Well cap.
Looks rather small for either.
It's a Prism rod on top of a Iron Square Solid Pipe Plug
My first thought was a cast iron pipe but it has a taper. Right below the square head is 1/2" narrower than at the bottom of the hole.
James
Bolt Spike inside a Iron Pipe.
In the mid 80's when I first started working in land surveying, the old guy I worked under called anything we didn't recognize a "buggy axle". It didn't matter if it was round or square, hollow or solid. If it was something oddball then it was a buggy axle. There may have been more buggy axles than what I thought. Google "wagon skein" (skein rhymes with rain)
James
Axle or shaft of some sort? It looks like the square insert and pipe go together and the hole the rod tip is sitting in is to attach something to it, like wheel or pulley?
Read right at the bottom of the first paragraph on page 5
http://www.landsurveyor.info/monuments5.htm
Looks like a axle or chunk of drill shaft or somekind of driveshaft for a machine maybe, but i would have called it an iron pin with the diameter in the description
gschrock, post: 400869, member: 556 wrote: Looks like it is slightly off vertical. This should spark a 50 page thread on determining its original orientation and placement, possibly to include a treatise on gravimetric changes since originally placed, and tracking down the hardware store where the original pipe and plug were purchased thus leading to the source of manufacture 😉
You are obviously too lazy to measure over to where it really should be per the Deed, maybe you could stop hiding behind the Law and Cooley and Survey correctly 😉
Wagon axle cone cap
I keep a few of those in the survey chariot along with a collection of slightly bent, very rusty, old bars, nails and pipes to simplify "finding" what the record shows I'm supposed to find.;);)
paden cash, post: 400932, member: 20 wrote: Wagon axle cone cap
Yeah, I kept thinking wagon axle skein, but
a) in the original picture the nut is smaller diameter than the "pipe" so a wheel would fall off,
b) the nut appears to be a different material, which wouldn't have been common,
and c) if that's an ordinary prism pole, the diameter is rather small for a wagon.