I hit the ground early this morning to get out and get the exterior lines recovered on two sections out in the middle of nowhere. The local "hamlet" boasts a small store (no gas) and a population a few over 200. And I think that's stretching it.
I've got roads on the east mile and the south two miles so I decided to get the corners dug in the roads first. Found six out of seven. It is so unpopulated out there you could lay down nekkid in the middle of the dirt road and take a nap with no worries. After I dug up all the corners in the roads I pulled up on a hill to set a good control point and get the base cooking. After that I drove back out on the section line to get some locations on the corners I had just dug up....
The damned county motor patrol had gotten out there and graded over EVERY corner I had exposed. I had to dig every last one of them back up...
What are the chances of that happening? I think the operator saw me out there and just had to mess with someone....;)
he most likely saw you earlier and was chuckling the entire time he was blading them in....
Its hard work clearing the road of nekkid people. Sleeping.
You must've triggered that new fangled pothole detector they just bought down at the highway department.
Well, hopefully you were rested from your nap. 😀
One more reason to tie as you go...
We were out doing a topo of a bridge and waterway on the main road into the capital city and a street cleaner (a two-legged one) breezed through with an empty bag and a broom. Out the corner of my eye I saw him sweeping the litter into the ditches and not picking it up, hence the empty bag. "Fair enough" I thought until later on I found he'd also stuffed litter into all of our control holes.
Once upon a time we opened a smallish hole in a paved road about 4:30 Saturday afternoon. Returned at about 8:15 on Monday morning to find it full of cold patch.
My wife says she wants window coverings so no one sees her. My response is if someone looks in my window and sees me nekkid then that's on them. Maybe they'll learn a lesson, don't look in my windows.
paden cash, post: 452157, member: 20 wrote: I hit the ground early this morning to get out and get the exterior lines recovered on two sections out in the middle of nowhere. The local "hamlet" boasts a small store (no gas) and a population a few over 200. And I think that's stretching it.
I've got roads on the east mile and the south two miles so I decided to get the corners dug in the roads first. Found six out of seven. It is so unpopulated out there you could lay down nekkid in the middle of the dirt road and take a nap with no worries. After I dug up all the corners in the roads I pulled up on a hill to set a good control point and get the base cooking. After that I drove back out on the section line to get some locations on the corners I had just dug up....
The damned county motor patrol had gotten out there and graded over EVERY corner I had exposed. I had to dig every last one of them back up...
What are the chances of that happening? I think the operator saw me out there and just had to mess with someone....;)
Along the same vein, spent about 4 hrs one winter clearing 50' x sections along a highway of 3-5' of snow from eop to back of ditch. while getting lunch a plow came through and pushed the banks back to the top front of the ditch. Spent the afternoon digging them back out and shot it the next morning. A real bummer.
paden cash, post: 452157, member: 20 wrote: I hit the ground early this morning to get out and get the exterior lines recovered on two sections out in the middle of nowhere. The local "hamlet" boasts a small store (no gas) and a population a few over 200. And I think that's stretching it.
I've got roads on the east mile and the south two miles so I decided to get the corners dug in the roads first. Found six out of seven. It is so unpopulated out there you could lay down nekkid in the middle of the dirt road and take a nap with no worries. After I dug up all the corners in the roads I pulled up on a hill to set a good control point and get the base cooking. After that I drove back out on the section line to get some locations on the corners I had just dug up....
The damned county motor patrol had gotten out there and graded over EVERY corner I had exposed. I had to dig every last one of them back up...
What are the chances of that happening? I think the operator saw me out there and just had to mess with someone....;)
You initially found the buried corners with a locator and eyeballing it?
BStrand, post: 452213, member: 13049 wrote: You initially found the buried corners with a locator and eyeballing it?
Along with a few old corner reference sheets, a rag tape, an aerial photo and a GMC odometer. Easy-peazy-square-and-breezy....;)
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Well you know the old saying, "If you get lost in the woods set a lath and hub, flag 'em up real good and wait. In no time a bulldozer will show up and run it over." 😎
paden cash, post: 452157, member: 20 wrote: Found six out of seven.
Sorry to hear. Better get Kent out there with his ground-penetrating radar and find that seventh.
Tom Adams, post: 452275, member: 7285 wrote: Sorry to hear. Better get Kent out there with his ground-penetrating radar and find that seventh.
Kent would probably self-destruct if he found himself north of the Rio Roxo surveying in a PLSS setting. It wouldn't be pretty.
And as for the seventh corner, I'm afraid it's either lost or buried under about 6' of county fill for the road bed as the location originally fell in a pronounced draw.
As for the retracement, I'm pleased with what I've found so far. As most of our original monuments fell prey to the county and road construction the perpetuation was left to the local surveyor. Surviving notes from private surveyors are rare in these parts, but all in all I think our predecessors have done a fairly good job of keeping the corners where they were originally set. An old RR spike about a foot below grade and an almost disintegrated rebar (reported as #4 in 1947) a half mile away and every bit as deep measured 2639.7' between them yesterday.
120 years ago they were reported thus:
The difference between then and now being about 1 link. And the corner fell within a half a foot of being on a line of sight between opposing section corners in some fairly wooly terrain.
And if I get bored with surveying there is a cryptic note on the original plat concerning an area about a mile south:
I might finally make some money...;)
paden cash, post: 452285, member: 20 wrote: The difference between then and now being about 1 link.
That sir is not a 'difference'. In my part of PLSSia my suspicious nature is kickstarted by anything within a hoola hoop. Steve
paden cash, post: 452157, member: 20 wrote: I hit the ground early this morning to get out and get the exterior lines recovered on two sections out in the middle of nowhere. The local "hamlet" boasts a small store (no gas) and a population a few over 200. And I think that's stretching it.
I've got roads on the east mile and the south two miles so I decided to get the corners dug in the roads first. Found six out of seven. It is so unpopulated out there you could lay down nekkid in the middle of the dirt road and take a nap with no worries. After I dug up all the corners in the roads I pulled up on a hill to set a good control point and get the base cooking. After that I drove back out on the section line to get some locations on the corners I had just dug up....
The damned county motor patrol had gotten out there and graded over EVERY corner I had exposed. I had to dig every last one of them back up...
What are the chances of that happening? I think the operator saw me out there and just had to mess with someone....;)
Like my old mentor said "It's like the lady sittin on the sidewalk with a nosebleed. If it ain't one thing its another"
paden cash, post: 452285, member: 20 wrote: And if I get bored with surveying there is a cryptic note on the original plat concerning an area about a mile south:
I might finally make some money...;)
probably a typo
James Fleming, post: 452292, member: 136 wrote: probably a typo
Reminds me of Cybil Shepherd