A 1930 era dependent resurvey:
Found monument in excellent condition:
And another one, also in excellent condition:
It appears they left the shovel back in the truck;-)
Thats sad. Just Sad.
I saw a situation where *** (I Believe) the PLS saw the steep hill, and THREW the monument at the location, and left. I found it laying on its side. At least this one MIGHT be on top of where it was supposed to be!!
Really, we have a HISTORY of fraud. Fake numbers.
Really!
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They are in remarkable shape for 85 years, not positive that they ever actually touched the ground but they appear to have been left there unset all this time.
But the piles are there:-D
> A 1930 era dependent resurvey:
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> Found monument in excellent condition:
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> It appears they left the shovel back in the truck;-)
Likely the end of the day was coming, and the second said to the party chief: "Let's do this tomorrow!"
The chief of parties had a different idea...
I'd check the notes, but it seems to me that the pile of rocks are the monuments and the "iron rods" are just accessories.
That's how I've seen it around here anyhow. You are supposed to set an IR/C with your number as an accessory when the monument is "substandard". Problem is, modern surveyors see the cap and think that's the corner. That could be why they weren't set vertical in the ground, so as not to confuse the cap with the real monument.
I'd buy that crew chief a beer.
:stakeout:
Purely a case of extreme frost heave. 🙂
I'd check the notes, but it seems to me that the pile of rocks are the monuments and the "iron rods" are just accessories.
Very good point!!
Only in these cases they "set" a prorate and monumented a fence corner, which is still there, so pretty easy to fix.;-)
Appears to be the type used for making 'horizontal' measurements.
It can get frosty there:-P
Simple explanation to this: they were doubling as azimuth marks 😛
The only superior evidence is that which you haven't yet found.
Actually- they were set at a given coordinate- and the tectonic plates have moved, thus pulling the pipes out of the ground..., but leaving the cap to mark the true location of the corner.....:-P..
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or is it COORDINATE?!?! dang, this stuff confuses me.... :-S
I must confess I was pounding on the Geoid with a 16lb sledge the other day and some monuments may have popped out of the ground as a result.
Once upon a time
We cut out a tract of something like 10 acres from a quarter section with a house on it. One of the back corners fell near the middle of a pond larger than one acre. We set witness bars on each line. Then my helper grabbed a bar, gave a short run and a mighty heave and tossed it as close to the true corner as possible, thus sinking promptly to the bottom of the pond. His glorious thought was that, someday, someone would have a reason to drain the pond, thus exposing the errant bar, much like the monuments displayed on the rock mounds above.
Are they quarter corners?
They are