I spent an hour hacking through bush honeysuckle so thick you couldn't walk through it on a lot that is only 150 feet deep. I had an idea where to look from found monuments a quarter mile away. The metal detector started zinging and there was a beautiful pin, cap, flagging from a well respected surveyor deceased some years now. Just what I was looking for. On a lark, I swung the detector around just to be on the thorough side and there was zinging from all directions.
4 pins in a six foot circle for the same lot corner. As my NC drinking buddy would say, "Dambit!" On further inspection down the creek, I found a chunk of concrete on it's side with a pin in it and back at my pincushion there appears to be a similiar chunk of concrete sans pin. Perhaps five monuments in an area that is "geometrically unstable" to begin with.
How does the old elementary school choosing rhyme go where everybody puts out a hand and the last word in the rhyme is the chosen one. Something like, "One potato, two potatoe, three potato, four."
Everyone thought five was great until six came along.:-$
> How does the old elementary school choosing rhyme go where everybody puts out a hand and the last word in the rhyme is the chosen one. Something like, "One potato, two potatoe, three potato, four."
The complete rhyme might be even more apropos 😉
one potato, two potato, three potato, four
five potato, six potato, seven potato, more!
That's retracement, roll your own! Or do we have 6 original surveys?
Or are any of them original?
I'm guessing Kentucky is a non-recording state? Roll the dice, wonder what you'll find, and then wonder what it is once you find it.
You nailed it Clearcut. I do a show and tell/career day at an elementary school occasionally and I tell the kids my job is like a treasure hunt. I used to think that was an oversimplification but that description seems to be more accurate all the time. I don't know what it is that I'm looking for but if I find anything it is pretty exciting. I'd make a fine pirate.
