JPH, post: 325556, member: 6636 wrote: Yes, people do online searches all the time. It's actually pretty simple to do. I've been contacted many times by other surveyors who found my caps, and then looked me up online on the state website.
I never said that it was, "difficult to follow", the state standards. I'm just trying to do something that lets other surveyors know who set these rods, rather than leaving a bunch of bastard monuments out there.
I guess I'm missing something...
Be sure to record your map too.
JPH, post: 325489, member: 6636 wrote: This state doesn't require caps or monument identification.
Just set bare pins.
JPH, post: 325489, member: 6636 wrote: If I don't use the caps, then no one will know who set them.
You will know. There are hundreds of points out there that I have set without my name on them. Take a drill hole in stone for instance or a mag nail in the driveway: You can't scribe your name into every single point you ever set.
Give the people a map and they'll cling to it like life-support. 25 years from now, if they have a problem, they'll find you.
They will find you.
Holy Cow, post: 325560, member: 50 wrote: For fun, you could borrow some from a friend licensed in the State. I've always wanted to set someone else's caps. And, I've had the ability to do so.
I keep a pretty tight control over my caps, I have heard of crews setting leftover caps after a PLS leaves a firm and then folks later on finding them and having questions!
In the case of original poster, if your law allows, go without a cap OR better yet put the correct cap on the rebar, DO NOT muddle the future by putting some other state number on your monuments, it means zero in the state where they are being set.
SHG
If you feel compelled to leave your calling card on these point your going to set, stop at the local plant nursery and pick up some aluminium plant tags that you can scribe your LS and telephone number on and wire it to the bar. Probably not the industry standard but it will last a long time and accomplish your goal and give the guy that follows you a chuckle.
And yes, follow that up with a map or report of some sort which ideally would be filed in the public record.