A half-mile hike through the woods was a fruitful endeavor yesterday. Found this puppy laying face down. But with a definite depression adjacent to it, standing it back up in its 'hole' seemed appropriate. A distinct weather line can be seen where the ground line probably was for years before it eroded enough to fall over.
I was glad to help it out.
When I returned to the office I realized this corner had been set on October 25, 1897. 120 years to the day. What a kwinky-dink.
That's what its all about...
Me. "What's the difference?"
T.C. Carroll "It's the difference between right and wrong!"
Very nice!!! E-W line?
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We don't get a lot of rocks with the notches in our area but more like this. I think it's because the GLO were operating from the then "new" Oregon manual. Did this one have any notches or apparent notches on it?
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paden cash, post: 452535, member: 20 wrote: A half-mile hike through the woods was a fruitful endeavor yesterday. Found this puppy laying face down. But with a definite depression adjacent to it, standing it back up in its 'hole' seemed appropriate. A distinct weather line can be seen where the ground line probably was for years before it eroded enough to fall over.
I was glad to help it out.
When I returned to the office I realized this corner had been set on October 25, 1897. 120 years to the day. What a kwinky-dink.
They used rocks in OKIE-LAND? I didn't think their was a rock in the whole freakin' state. :D:D:D:D
WHAT..... No Glo-Orange paint, flagging and black marker etchings on the cross cut ???
Howard Surveyor, post: 452551, member: 8835 wrote: We don't get a lot of rocks with the notches in our area but more like this. I think it's because the GLO were operating from the then "new" Oregon manual. Did this one have any notches or apparent notches on it?
I'm thinking that they didn't generally "notch" 1/4 corners did they? I'm thinking they just notched full-section corners.
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We feed our Engineers so we can afford to do those jobs...
Nice!
Tom Adams, post: 452567, member: 7285 wrote: I'm thinking that they didn't generally "notch" 1/4 corners did they? I'm thinking they just notched full-section corners.
I've never seen a notched 1/4,,,,,,but I haven't been everywhere, that is a very well marked 1/4
MightyMoe, post: 452548, member: 700 wrote: Very nice!!! E-W line?
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Howard Surveyor, post: 452551, member: 8835 wrote: We don't get a lot of rocks with the notches in our area but more like this.
MightyMoe, post: 452577, member: 700 wrote: that is a very well marked 1/4
The sandstone that was commonly used in OK is just soft enough to be easily etched and just hard enough to retain the marking. A stone well suited to the job.
The rocks in Oregon are largely volcanic basalts that would be much more difficult to scribe.
I spotted the mark but a different way in the first picture without a 1 over it. The 1/4 is lower on the stone than most but it's there. Always great to find them.
So, the question of the day still stands: what antics didn't get recorded (besides the tame one of finding a rock) happened out in the field? No hornets, falling down a steep slope, nothing truly exciting?
I know we can do better than such a tame story, even if it's not recorded (with a video contraption that is) :D:)
John, post: 452621, member: 791 wrote: So, the question of the day still stands: what antics didn't get recorded (besides the tame one of finding a rock) happened out in the field? No hornets, falling down a steep slope, nothing truly exciting?
I know we can do better than such a tame story, even if it's not recorded (with a video contraption that is) :D:)
It was a prime day for something to happen for sure, but it was all pretty mundane I'm sorry to say.
The real kicker was that my older brother Holden was my helper. It was a pretty day and we sometimes have breakfast on Wednesdays but had cancelled to get out in the field. Holden was bored and tagged along just to get out of the house. We wouldn't have any pics if he had not been there, I left my phone in the truck and he had his with him.
We had to relive all our stories of our "indentured servitude" while surveying with our father when we were young. Like me, Holden couldn't stand it. But it was mandatory. He confided in me that he was overjoyed when Pops took a shine to me helping instead of Holden...something that apparently escaped me at the time.
I wondered if there wasn't some of Pop's spiritual work from the great beyond at play. Holden and me both the field for the first time in 50 years and then finding the stone 120 years to the day from when it was first set.
Things that make you go hmmmmm....
Kewl, paden. Looks like you used a lettering guide when you applied the chalk. Or was that Holden's handiwork? 🙂
Gene Kooper, post: 452625, member: 9850 wrote: Kewl, paden. Looks like you used a lettering guide when you applied the chalk. Or was that Holden's handiwork? 🙂
That was actually me doctoring the pic with Windows "Paint". All I did was chase the dirt out of the grooves with a hackberry twig.
Sounds like those Texas surveyors were right after all. Surveying in PLSSia is easy peasy.