Holy Cow, post: 400938, member: 50 wrote: 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.;);)
That's why I carry a punch set - so I can match the record stamping. 😎
Bill93, post: 400940, member: 87 wrote: 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.
a) Quite often the original nut was lost, b) same for a replacement nut, but the axle could also be a casting not a forging, c) if the axle is in the 3" range then the pole is 1.5".
Paul in PA
Wagon Spindle
Here's Andy Nold's thread discussing the wagon boxing. It's kind of hard to figure out which is what, between these threads.
https://surveyorconnect.com/community/threads/what-do-you-think-this-says.325063/#post-352922
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JA, PLS SoCal
The party chief that mentored me in my younger years started surveying on a rural field crew around 1957. Because of his farming background (dairy) which was in a timber logging area, he almost never failed to identify the iron which was set for a monument. The one that stumped me in his field notes was "peeve head without the spike". I asked him how he knew what it was, his comment was it was tapered, looked like a pipe, but he dug down and found the "ears" for the hook. Now I ask the field crew members to take good photos with their phones since most of them have no idea what the iron they found came from. Maybe in the future, field crews will find phone plug in jacks set in a CD in concrete (with a magnet) for rural monuments.