JB, post: 410136, member: 346 wrote: I like to use the flagging approach. A surveyor will follow bits of flagging right down to the monument, I know I do anyway.
Shawn, please post the make/model of that 5oz detector, LOVE to have one!
JB, the locator is a Javad J-TIP. I would be happy to meet up with you one day and show it to you. I live in Cleveland county about an hour from Charlotte. I will also be at the NC conference in Pinehurst as an exhibitor and will have it with me.
Adam, post: 410138, member: 8900 wrote: JB, the locator is a Javad J-TIP. I would be happy to meet up with you one day and show it to you. I live in Cleveland county about an hour from Charlotte. I will also be at the NC conference in Pinehurst as an exhibitor and will have it with me.
I would like to see a video of it in action. The only one I found had the feller using it with an extendable pole attachment. Will this truly fit in one of my pockets and be a legitimate replacement of my trusty old yeller? Can you operate it while standing upright like we have traditionally?
I'm planning to order one... After my truck gets fixed!
I wish that guy would get into the development of coin detectors.
As crazy as some of his stuff sounds at first, he is innovating.
Brad Ott, post: 410139, member: 197 wrote: I would like to see a video of it in action. The only one I found had the feller using it with an extendable pole attachment. Will this truly fit in one of my pockets and be a legitimate replacement of my trusty old yeller? Can you operate it while standing upright like we have traditionally?
It will fit in your pocket and you can use on the pole or just hold it in your hand. The J-TIP works with the Triumph LS. All audio comes from the LS and not the Tip.
What i have done in a situation like this is wrapped a railroad spike in flagging and threw it in the hole on top of the pin. After digging through 18" of packed gravel i wanted to make it easier for the next guy to find the corner. Hopefully they will find the spike and then the corner.
Digging for the center quarter corner in a pecan grove, a foot down I found an upended bucket with the words, ÛÏYouÛªre almost there.Û Once I dug that out, and deeper, I found a big ACP. I so appreciate the crew that left that message behind.
Bruce Small, post: 410242, member: 1201 wrote: Digging for the center quarter corner in a pecan grove, a foot down I found an upended bucket with the words, ÛÏYouÛªre almost there.Û Once I dug that out, and deeper, I found a big ACP. I so appreciate the crew that left that message behind.
That's pretty good
Robert Hill, post: 409962, member: 378 wrote: Ditto..Finally after digging 2' + found an old horseshoe. Crew started to give me a hard time about it amid their laughter.
Got the horse shoe out and buzzed again...beep...another foot or so down was the old pipe. Not a peep from the crew.
He who laughs last has....
Did you happen to find another one 40.00' away?
Licensed Land Surveyor
Finger Lakes Region, Upstate New York
I don't understand the question. The corner of my anecdote was found as part of a local civil project years ago. Usually, there was one firm that secured all of this Parish's work as the result of very cozy political connections. In this project, they passed because they knew that the establishment of the drainage easement between 2 old pre WW2 may cause problems with encroachments with the public. To add, the boundaries of these old S/Ds had gaps. The drainage ditch/easement were conveniently designed to slip in the excess and deficiencies of the original.
In this survey, fortunately there were a few backyards fence encroachments . Some sheds,greenhouses and a swimming pool came close.
In the end, they needed enough room to move equipment along canal to place concrete revetments and to concrete line in specific area.
Finally:
This state does not have a plat recordation law or a corner report affidavit or similar requirement by a surveyor. Placing a new rebar over the existing mark would only precipitate pincushions. Another surveyor doing a lot survey from title or original S/D plat would set another rebar not knowing the original corner is beneath the rebar that was set.
It is best to make it so that the original could be recovered more readily by magnet,more metal and glob of flagging leading to surface.
Sorry Robert, I was just trying to be a wise guy. I see lots of pipes with horseshoes in my travels that are 40.00' apart i.e. horseshoe pits. I didn't mean to get your gears turning too hard.
Licensed Land Surveyor
Finger Lakes Region, Upstate New York
dms330, post: 410341, member: 2118 wrote: Sorry Robert, I was just trying to be a wise guy. I see lots of pipes with horseshoes in my travels that are 40.00' apart i.e. horseshoe pits. I didn't mean to get your gears turning too hard.
That's ok good comment!
My bad that I didn't catch that.
FlaSurveyor, post: 410040, member: 10854 wrote: I have tied flagging and ran it up as I back filled the hole, also have just dumped extra flagging in the hole as well
That's the way I do it. Nothing excites a surveyor like following a trail of flagging.
billvhill, post: 410358, member: 8398 wrote: That's the way I do it. Nothing excites a surveyor like following a trail of flagging.
Agreed. As I also tie flagging around my i.r.'s At least that way I can have confidence that the point I'm digging on was set by a Surveyor, and generally not a homeowner or utility.
I'm in the habit of throwing a few crushed aluminum cans in the hole... It makes the soil not pack back so hard.
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Nate The Surveyor, post: 410379, member: 291 wrote: I'm in the habit of throwing a few crushed aluminum cans in the hole... It makes the soil not pack back so hard.
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..... wondering about the previous contents of those crushed cans and how it was removed ...... maybe this operation is performed at the last corner of the day? LoL!
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I hate to dissapoint... But I'm on the waggon as far as alcohol goes.
But, I do eat canned smoked fish. So, those get set with my corners often.
And, it seems there are plenty of old cans near roads.
I also poke a hole in the bottom of aluminum cans, and set me rebar through the can.
That, and a few rocks, and we are leaving footprints, that can be found and followed.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 410383, member: 291 wrote: I hate to dissapoint... But I'm on the waggon as far as alcohol goes.
But, I do eat canned smoked fish. So, those get set with my corners often.
And, it seems there are plenty of old cans near roads.
I also poke a hole in the bottom of aluminum cans, and set me rebar through the can.
That, and a few rocks, and we are leaving footprints, that can be found and followed.
Do you note the type of can set with your rebar on your plat?:)
Often not... But the landowner... Says stuff like "that corner with the mt dew can".
And, i don't know the corner, by the soft drink brand!
Adam, post: 410160, member: 8900 wrote: It will fit in your pocket and you can use on the pole or just hold it in your hand. The J-TIP works with the Triumph LS. All audio comes from the LS and not the Tip.
Will it work by itself?