Loyal, post: 444330, member: 228 wrote: Toucans play at that game.l
Yes, they do, but biologists have never determined why they do. Obviously, at the higher altitudes, lack of oxygen may be a factor. Geology cannot be ruled out at this point, though.
I've always been of the opinion that surveying in Texas is "easy".
Contains all the elements that I enjoy, reading, writing, arithmetic and wandering around outdoors to most everywhere imaginable.
Get together several times a year with associates for BBQ & beer or a sitdown meal at an interesting restaurant to chew thru common day to day events.
And they actually pay me to do what I enjoy...........
BTW, I have many many hammers from an 8oz ballpein handsized pocket model to an 8lb sledge with a 36in wood handle. Most are knockoff and generic.
My favorite is a 42oz ballpien with an 18in red poly handle.
A Harris, post: 444383, member: 81 wrote: I've always been of the opinion that surveying in Texas is "easy".
Oh, but that's most likely because you haven't spent the last three days trying to find the orders in the minutes of Commissioners Court that established a road (most likely in the 1880s), but describing it not by township and section line, but by the adjoining landowners of as many metes and bounds tracts as existed at the time, and using their names, of course.
In Wilbarger County, at the edge of the PKLSSia of Okieland, that would have been the work of maybe fifteen minutes since nearly the entire county was cut up into 1900 vara x 1900 vara sections in the 1850s and 60s, and remains so. It makes a nice, neat checkerboard for all sorts of stuff, including keeping track of county roads.
That is not, however, the case in the true system of metes and bounds land grants that exists over much of the state removed from the Red River.
Opps, I forgot to add that "easy" can sometimes involve blood, sweat and tears and many hours to enjoy the trials and tribulations that go along with our professional addiction.
I will admit that my time has been spent following numerous surveys that are in the immediate vicinity of Headright boundaries and the previous surveyors did nothing to attempt to locate those locations.
Some times it was due to the fact that following an existing fence or road centerline was much easier than going outside the box and well beyond the limit set where that property ended and extending the search thru Public Records and evidence found on the ground retracing the location of the Headright boundary.
Most of the time it was due to a party not wanting to purchase any property that fell within a county road and pay useless property taxes on land they feel that they do not use.
They then go on to complain that the graveled county road only gets maintained one time a year and drainage waters wash out portions of it making it difficult to travel.
While not happy to find they must now begin paying taxes on these strips of land, they are soon happy to find out that the county has begun to maintain their road on a regular basis.
Carry on............
A Harris, post: 444393, member: 81 wrote: Opps, I forgot to add that "easy" can sometimes involve blood, sweat and tears and many hours to enjoy the trials and tribulations that go along with our professional addiction.
In the instance to which I referred, the complication is that the road net that made sense in the 19th century was generally one that doesn't seem natural today after the from-to structure of most trips has changed. So, it's a matter of peeling back the various layers of history to the time when the road was created by order of Commissioners Court and figuring out both (a) what they had in view and (b) that the various descriptive clues really mean.
Kent McMillan, post: 444320, member: 3 wrote: Yes, I can see how if a person were working all day on barren spots above the tree line, he'd have to claim to find interest in what little that sterile scene had to offer, and that would be something like "geology". "Yes," he'd tell the folks at the bar later, "we may not have much oxygen here in Colorado, but there's a reason we have more geologists than land suveyors."
Ahem, it is "surveyors" not "suveyors".
Sterile my arse. I know you are just being obtuse, again, but you should realize by now that I retrace mineral surveys Hint: The land is valuable for its minerals and geology really does matter. One mine in the area is estimated to have extracted over $10 million in silver by 1890. The mining property that I set the witness corners on has that beat by an order of magnitude
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Cuts lawns, tall grass, brush, briars, small trees, large trees, and threatening animals at a distance. Doubles as a shovel, walking stick, a brace for the prism pole or GPS pole, temp stake for line or corner, etc.....
I have yet to meet anyone that can hang with this 52 year old man cutting line in any type of growth, hot or cold weather...... hence my handle, BushAxe.
These tools are just like all other surveying equipment. They're only as good as the operator.
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thebionicman, post: 444323, member: 8136 wrote: I have thank you. Left when it got too easy... ;^)
It's always easy, till you have to sign and stamp the boundary.
Gene Kooper, post: 444410, member: 9850 wrote: I know you are just being obtuse, again, but you should realize by now that I retrace mineral surveys Hint: The land is valuable for its minerals and geology really does matter. One mine in the area is estimated to have extracted over $10 million in silver by 1890. The mining property that I set the witness corners on has that beat by an order of magnitude
So, is this why you set markers that by your own description could be easily removed without hand tools in an area where you also mentioned that other markers had already been removed? It seems nuts, but that may be the oxygen-rich Texas air talking.
Well, there you go assuming again. I suppose one could spend a few extra days with an airless jack hammer and set some flared-base monuments, but in my professional opinion, those rebars with aluminum caps will most likely remain for many years to come. If not, I or another surveyor can rely on the two, steel "T" fence posts that I set as accessories and submitted to the state licensing board to reestablish them. I also went back and occupied each rebar with my Leica static gear for at least 30 minutes, so if there is any Cadastral vandalism, they can easily be reestablished by their geodetic coordinates, which I also provide to the BLM for inclusion in their GCDB database.
Those rebars were set as witness corners to interior corners of the property. They replace th original corners that were set in the scree slope and were destroyed by mass wasting processes over time. I'm not worried at all about the possible loss of a corner or two. It won't impact the boundary in the least. I found 99 original stone corners and set 25 rebar and cap or flared base aluminum post with cap monuments. The property has 59 angle points. I either have or will file 118 monument records for the project. Only you would find fault in the slim possibility that someone will vandalize a monument.
Keep trying though, Kent. Your willful ignorance of the PLSS and its versions of metes and bounds always gets me to giggling. I know that the concept of a land tenure system that is initially based on the mineral value of the land is completely foreign to you. Take some time to consider the situation of land claims and their location based solely on the discovery of a locatable mineral. A mineralized vein that is discovered by the development of a 10-foot cut/shaft/tunnel/adit is the natural geologic monument that establishes a mining claim and is far harder to move or destroy than your precious bearing trees!
Gene Kooper, post: 444650, member: 9850 wrote: Well, there you go assuming again. I suppose one could spend a few extra days with an airless jack hammer and set some flared-base monuments, but in my professional opinion, those rebars with aluminum caps will most likely remain for many years to come.
So, you were lying when you mentioned that the rebars you set in that gravelly mess could be easily pulled out of the ground without tools of any sort?
Keep trying though, Kent. Your willful ignorance of the PLSS and its versions of metes and bounds always gets me to giggling.
I wonder whether light-headed giggling is a symptom of something oxygen-related. You're breaking new ground if you're claiming that in PLSSia monumentation doesn't really matter that much since the corners can always be re-established by whatever means are at hand at the time.
Up to your old debating tricks again, hey Kent?!? Whenever, you find yourself on the short end of a discussion, you redirect/deflect the conversation to a point of minutiae or you create bald-faced misstatements of the other's post. It does nothing to further the discussion, but you do it whenever you have no reasoned response.
Sort of like me going hey, those are not gravelly deposits up there, Kent. Your amateurish (at best) knowledge of geology is showing once again. Gravelly deposits are created by fluvial processes. That "loose rock" is bedrock that has weathered in situ. It is often defined as a regolithic deposit. At that altitude the soil is very thin to nonexistant where a few tundra grasses can grow. The weathering is mostly from physical processes. That is the main reason there is little to no clay in the soil. Clay is created by chemical weathering.
[SARCASM]Do let me know when you are done playing and have something interesting to read. [/SARCASM]
Peter Kozub, post: 443899, member: 375 wrote: Stil Industrial weed wacker with tri blade very tough
oil mix four stroke = noisy heavy powerfull
the earlier 2 stroke where more lite and quieter and just as powerfull
don't go for these four stroke oil mix types get a true 2 stroke from husky or stil.
we use these for bush topo in heavy rose bush/black berry jungles so thick you can't see 2 feet
wear mesh full face shield and chain saw chaps the protect legs from thorns.
and welders gloves for hands.If its real ugly
prefer steel track mini like this kx 80
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I've never used one of these industrial weed whackers but have wondered if they truly do the job or if they simply flail around and make noise.
Please advise on their usefulness.
Kent McMillan, post: 444010, member: 3 wrote: I've found a short cross-cut saw to be surprisingly useful for cutting all sorts of things that good lopping shears such as the Fiskars ratchet loppers won't handle. Sure, a chain saw would be faster, but if it has to be packed in some distance where weight is at a premium, the lighter hand saw wins.
I would hope that with all of those horrible ash junipers that inhabit and infest your locale that you would have something more substantial than a 12" hand saw. I can see some explosives being the preferred choice.
In my neck of the woods we have a lot of brush, privet, briars, thorns, vines, some areas mountain laurel, etc. Privet grows so thick that you have to cut a tunnel through it and the briars and vines are horrible but we have nothing like those ash junipers.
Please advise on how you deal with those interlacing things to be able to survey through them without cutting down the entire tree.
Larry Scott, post: 444036, member: 8766 wrote: The best Machete is Ontario Knife. They are military gen issue. Far and away best.
Hatchet: Fiskars. 18" nylon handle. Best in class. Sharpened right it's not a bad machete.
I would disagree...the best machete I have ever owned is the Fiskars. Longer handle for 2 handed chopping and Far superior to the flimsy Ontario blade.
However the sheath for the Fiskars machete sucks and I had to spend 60 bucks to get a proper leather sheath made. Since the blade of the Fiskars is curved like a scimitar you can't use the regular straight sheaths.
Gene Kooper, post: 444198, member: 9850 wrote: John,
You really have not surveyed until you work solo carrying traverse equipment above timberline all day or carrying a bunch of steel to pound in the ground.A narrative aside: I only carry two hammers, a Estwing g-pick and a 3 lb. hand sledge. 😉
I get a kick out of folks that see photos of me up there wondering how an old, gray-haired, and fluffy guy makes it around.
Here I am at 13,200 ready to set a witness corner on the ridge line. The only part that gets cold on a windy day is my neck, so therefore the stylish and moth nibbled balaclava. The Leica RTK setup with the stakeout a line feature is awesome!
My gear and pack after setting the first pin and two accessories. The views at this altitude make it worthwhile. The stone in the mid ground had been pulled out of the ground by an enviro nerd so I got a warmup by replanting it before my scheduled work.
Fluffy?
For some reason I get the impression that "fluffy" is another word for something else that happens when one eats too much.
Just A. Surveyor, post: 444854, member: 12855 wrote: Fluffy?
For some reason I get the impression that "fluffy" is another word for something else that happens when one eats too much.
It is a one liner of comic Gabriel Iglesias, "I'm not fat, I'm fluffy!"
Just A. Surveyor, post: 444844, member: 12855 wrote: I've never used one of these industrial weed whackers but have wondered if they truly do the job or if they simply flail around and make noise.
Please advise on their usefulness.
Typically when i get a rose bush black berry jungle job i have two wackers going at once.
i only own one and rent the second.
I would rent a heavy industrial wacker and see how it works in your kind of bush
you will need a face shield and welder gloves and ear plugs
you may get by with heavy carhart bib coveralls versus chain saw chaps
but chain saw chaps are the best for thorns and you may be packing/using a chain saw now and then
Start with new blade and carry a file to sharpen it
Every body here uses weed wackers and hardly see a rusting machete any more leave the truck.
Rent a wacker with the D handle not the bull horn handle
Peter Kozub, post: 444878, member: 375 wrote: ..you may get by with heavy carhart bib coveralls...
Only if they're brand-spanking new. Blackberry thickets make short work of old comfy Carhartts down here..:(
paden cash, post: 444879, member: 20 wrote: Only if they're brand-spanking new. Blackberry thickets make short work of old comfy Carhartts down here..:(
Yes you need new carharts but chain saw chaps pro grade by Stihl are more comfy and cooler then bib carharts
