Image pretty much explains it. 3 capped irons, all from same surveyor. All my crews know on our jobs or subdivision where we've set pins and have to go back to look look look cause they know I would have a hard attack if this happened.
Just another fun day of surveying
There's a person that should be in front of a board, or fire his crews.
amen... just realized i put hard attack.... lol... its getting late and I need to go to bed.
Everyone in the Southeast stay cool this weekend and drink plenty of water.... or beer in my case :beer:
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wow, that's a pretty small lot!
there is a surveyor in my county, an older guy, been a surveyor all his life. his father was one too. he will set a new rebar a tenth or two away from an old corner. he also likes to go over other surveyors plats and maps trying to find some small mistake so he can turn them into the board. he's such a jerk nobody will work for him. he works by himself. no gps or robot. works by himself with a regular transit.
Show the numbers, it he complains, let him explain it.:-)
Take the center of the triangle and set your own monument. LOL
Probably not necessary to block out the numbers. They're there for the world to see in person.
Out of curiosity are any of them right? lol
Blocking out the numbers, on a surveyor's forum, is like hiding the fact that a doctor found a hemostat, inside another patient, from a previous doctor, who has a bad habit of leaving behind tools, on surgical projects.
Now, having said that, I have actually thought of a site where it could be ethical to do that. Sort of.
Yrs ago, I FOUND a 3/4" Pipe. Shot it.
Dozer hit it, and pushed it 0.25' North. Surveyor B found it, and set a 1/2" rebar and cap inside it, and called it his own.
Surveyor C used the 0.25' north position.
Now, I come along, and SET a new marker, in the OLD and ORIGINAL location.
🙂 Snort!
Nate
Did you probe in the center? I know at one time I worked for a company that would set reference capped rebar around degraded ancient monuments such as wood stakes or cement blocks that had no ferric signal. The purpose was to protect the degraded monument. We never set caps any different from our usual ones with either CA or PLS numbers.
The boss's reasoning was if somebody found 3 of his capped rebar within a small area, they would contact him and he would provide what information he had specific to local deeded references to said monument.
You're funny!:snarky:
> Did you probe in the center? I know at one time I worked for a company that would set reference capped rebar around degraded ancient monuments such as wood stakes or cement blocks that had no ferric signal. The purpose was to protect the degraded monument. We never set caps any different from our usual ones with either CA or PLS numbers.
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> The boss's reasoning was if somebody found 3 of his capped rebar within a small area, they would contact him and he would provide what information he had specific to local deeded references to said monument.
Wouldn't it be much easier to record a survey (or anything) with the information on it???
Jham,
Did you contact the surveyor and ask about it? It's possible they have no idea it exists.
Also, where in Alabama are you?
> Probably not necessary to block out the numbers. They're there for the world to see in person.
I agree with that in general. They are called "monuments" (for the world to see like you said)
Regardless, I would want to contact the surveyor and find out why he has three markers in the same area. I have seen other things in the past that I had assumed to be outrageous and when I later got an explanation, it made a lot of sense....just you need to talk to the guy and/or see their plats before going too far off the deep end. (was it a deliberate act on his part? Does he hava a plat showing all three with an explanation on it? Does he not even know about it? Could a land owner have found his monuments and drove them all in the ground in the same area?
Two were within a foot and one was outside the foot...so two of them were right.;-)
a company that would set reference capped rebar around degraded ancient monuments such as wood stakes or cement blocks that had no ferric signal. The purpose was to protect the degraded monument.
Yep.
It's a law that's actually on the books!
(In Florida, anyway)
Dang it! Who stole my caps and put them on those rebars? I want my caps back.
> Jham,
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> Did you contact the surveyor and ask about it? It's possible they have no idea it exists.
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> Also, where in Alabama are you?
Sorry for blacking out the numbers, I don't like to bad mouth other fellow surveyors. No I didn't contact the other surveyor, we're new in the Montgomery area and I didn't want to start any fires. I'm pretty sure that he has no idea that 3 are there, probably just a crew being lazy.
I'm in Opelika. About once a month I'm in Guntersville working helping my dad pick up his slack.
How's the Birmingham area?
