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(@j-penry)
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This is one of my weirdest monument finds. Mrs. Penry was working in her flower garden when she needed assistance with lifting a water pail up the wall. I had previously noticed the last few inches of the end of a 5/8" rebar in the flower garden, but didn't give it much thought. Tonight I decided to pull it out and low and behold its a survey monument! The flower garden is fill dirt from some unknown location and the capped rebar must have been brought in with the dirt. My lot had been surveyed by a different surveyor several years ago and we moved here about 4 months ago. I know the surveyor who this belongs to, so will make a delivery some day.

 
Posted : August 17, 2014 4:36 pm
(@nate-the-surveyor)
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So, that's what you do with stray mons and caps, that belong to other surveyors. You return them. I have a few floating around, in the back of my truck that belong to a surveyor that is deceased Hmmmm Maybe I could go stick it in somebody's flower bed! 🙂

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Posted : August 17, 2014 5:56 pm
(@bill93)
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Sure there was just one?

Don't those things come in pincushion groups?

Maybe you've answered the question of whether it is ever justified to pull someone else's monument.

 
Posted : August 17, 2014 6:04 pm
(@bill93)
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>stick it in somebody's flower bed

Or find the guy's grave and pound his monument next to the stone?

 
Posted : August 17, 2014 6:06 pm
(@mike-berry)
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That's quite a coincidence... surveyor finding survey monument in garden.

Good thing you're not a mortician.

 
Posted : August 17, 2014 7:00 pm
(@a-harris)
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[sarcasm]Aren't you supposed to save those to invent corner when there are none, lol.[/sarcasm]

 
Posted : August 18, 2014 5:26 am
(@nate-the-surveyor)
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Whellll, I suppose so. Maybe that explains some things....... (!)

 
Posted : August 18, 2014 10:42 am