the Station Captain comes out and sets the crew to digging the hole for us.
They wouldn't let us touch a digging implement 🙂
This is a 2" aluminum pipe monument with 3-1/4" diameter cap like you get from Berntsen. We backfilled it by tamping sack concrete in the hole with a little water. That thing will be solid.
Reminds me of when I worked construction in a union environment.
Process to build a picket fence for alignment.
3 or 4 man survey crew, some days chief of parties came out to lead
2 to 4 laborers
2 to 4 carpenters
Number of personnel dependent upon size of project, more bolt patterns, more men
Surveyors would pull a distance,
Laborers would dig holes and set posts or simply drive posts if possible,
Surveyors would shoot grade and pencil mark a line,
Carpenters would hang a board,
Surveyors would shoot alignment and pencil mark a line,
Carpenters would drive a form nail and hang string.
> We backfilled it by tamping sack concrete in the hole with a little water. That thing will be solid.
That's the way I set the steel channel fence posts along the south side of my lot about 8 years ago. It's much less work than mixing and placing concrete, and the result is solid with no signs of loosening.
Did you have them fetch up a bunch of stones for a rock collar or just set it semi-flush?
In this case it is semi-urban (very small town) so we just left it up about a tenth.
