Been chatting about how to set them. By Memorial I mean a found disturbed or "distressed" monument that needs a new one.?ÿ
Normally when a stone are monument needs to be replaced and can't be rehabilitated the stone gets buried alongside the new monument. I will lay them flat. There was another surveyor who would bury them plumb under his new monument which is a stone with his info carved into it.?ÿ
A recent one was a disturbed pipe which was replaced with a new monument and the pipe was buried alongside also horizontally.?ÿ
Just curious how others do it.
Well, I think like a Jr. Rodman.
I try to leave it so that there is only one place to shoot. Many solutions.?ÿ
Nail under stone.
Rebar under stone.
Cotton spindle.
Some sort of something.
If the found Mon is rehabed, I sometimes straighten it, reset it, and shoot top.
A point desc might be:?ÿ
Fd bnt 1/2" reb. Mangled. (Bush hog?) Replaced w fresh one in vert. Part of hole. Top up 1" W/cap.
Now, what to do with Mr bent and mangled?
I have probably a dozen in my scrap pile.
If I do leave it in the field, I usually straighten and reset it. I keep some pieces of 1/2" pipe, and 3/4" pipe, in the ATV. I use these to couple the monuments, and stack them on top of each other.
Most of them say something like:
Fd.3/4" pipe, bent over. Staightened, reset. Top up 3" in rk pl. Shot top.
I try not to leave "two possible locations" when I leave.
Nate
I'm big on rehabilitation like you describe.?ÿ
We had one sectional survey where the requirement was brass caps at all corners. I thought it would be simple since the BLM had resurveyed some of it and other parts were resurveyed by a local. Problems cropped up and the resurveys missed the original stones so we set brass caps at them and buried the stones alongside in boxes to make them easy to recover. A real memorial.?ÿ
