I flew from the heart of Dixie (Georgia) to Omaha, NE to visit my sister who is in ICU. I guess everyone here knows what I began noticing.... Property corners, control points, etc.... Surveyors just can't help it.... I wasn't able to snap any pictures, but I saw two points that I assume are control points. They had two stakes driven in the ground crossed making an X with a third straight up and down making a sort of *. All three stakes were painted pink. I've never seen this before. Is it control? Why the * shape?
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
That's known as a Nathan in honor of early American hero Nathan Hale. ?ÿHe regretted that he had but one asterisk for his country
I see a lot of flagged X stakes, and single stakes, but not many with the 3-stake asterisk form.?ÿ The X always seems to be out of the way of whatever construction is going on so appears to be control.?ÿ The few I've investigated always had a rebar or square rod (city crew) below.
When surveying new?ÿpipeline alignments?ÿyears ago, we would build these at all the underground pipeline, cable, overhead crossing or any other feature crossing the centerline, ?ÿjust to alert the contractor to be extra cautious in that area.
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Interesting...the only time I have used the * stakes is when we were staking the location of a highway sign. When I first moved to Texas, they would put a "pig pen" around the control points and they were painted orange with orange flagging. Pink would represent a boundary corner.
T. Nelson - SAM
I have seen the 3 lathes as well, mostly pipeline survey crew use them.