Stake, Hub or Lath. How do you communicate between crew members which one, if you call them all stakes??ÿ Fat stake, thin stake, square stake.?ÿ I only set lath on construction sites where the ground has already been disturbed. You have plenty of room for multiply cut and fill instructions, or multiple offset information.?ÿ
?ÿ Wow! Saved the bar from getting knocked all screwy.
Reminds me of the day we set several bars then a tornado ripped through that exact spot a couple of hours later.?ÿ We finally found the last bar we had set in a nearly identical position, but we had to fight through the twisted limbs to get to it.?ÿ The tree was resting no more than six inches above the cap on the bar.
It's called lath on the bill sent to me.?ÿ
If you put a stake/lath beside a hub is it considered a witness stake/lath??ÿ
I would call it a witness. Again, for the benefit of my client's understanding, I would explain the survey terminology of that particular use of the word. My objective is to help my client, not to speak like other surveyors.
My concern is whether or not my client understands.?ÿ
When I use the term "witness" I am referring to something that will endure at a listed distance (sometimes bearing, too) from the true monument.?ÿ Or to where I would set a monument if that was possible.
A piece of lath next to a monument is the same as a wire flag or a length of flagging tied on a limb directly above the monument.?ÿ It is a guide. Nothing more.
About a month ago a male Boer goat arrived and decided that lath had invaded his territory.?ÿ He didn't know what it was, but, it had to go.?ÿ He pushed at it with his head and then his body.?ÿ Within a couple of minutes he had leveled it.
If you buy string, and proceed to tie knots with the string, is the result knots or just more string?
The real question here is how many of you guys are gnashing your teeth or biting your lips trying to keep from calling that piece of wood a LATHE?
That word has not shown up in any of the posts in this thread.
Come on. One of you has to have the balls to throw that out there.
JA, PLS, SoCal
Yes, all the time. If you are going to be word-perfect, then you at least know the meaning. Right? Surprising to not have seen it in this thread yet.
I agree with that. When we set witnesses it's a steel bar in the ground usually an even meter or 2 from a lot corner that cannot be monumented due to a tree or anything that makes it not possible to set. At least that's my experience here with other party chiefs I've worked with.?ÿ
Lath vs lathe
Cemetery vs Cemetary
Boundary vs Boundry
Instrument vs gun (some correct terms are long and un-spellable)
Plumb vs plum
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Lath is a thin piece of wood.
Lathe is a machine for turning metal.
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Does one go plum crazy or plumb crazy?
