Yes it was Warren. We used two drills, one larger so we could countersink the tag in case a snow plow or shovel wouldn't catch and pull it out. I don't have those same callouses any longer.
I used to rent a core drill when I needed to set monuments in city concrete. Now we have the hilti.
Once again regulations are made because people don't do what is right on their own. All I have to do is go out on a retracement survey of an old subdivision where a surveyor did not report what monuments were set. Or surveys where the surveyor shows a symbol but does not state if the corner was found or set to understand why it is so important to give a good description of monuments found and set. We are supposed to be able to walk in the footsteps of our predecessors! Now we have been overregulated because of our past actions and I am left wondering what a City of X standard 2z26y12 monument is when I'm out hunting for corners. Thank God for smart phones and Google! My 2 cents, Jp
paden cash, post: 345118, member: 20 wrote: That's not a bad idea. I've had several developers in the past ask for similar marks and such on curbs and sidewalks. And it does help.
However, I could argue whether they actually should require the statutory "marking or tagging". If a property owner wants a nail line & lath every 100' for fence construction does the surveyor have to tag each and every one? Seems silly to me to be that picky about codes.
Must be a lot of Texans out there...;-)
This was actually a question that I discussed with some colleagues. The idea that one might be staking a boundary line for purposes of construction would seem to indicate that each stake would require a tag. But, the "way around" this is that if I were putting stakes in the ground for a land owner to build their fence, I'm simply putting construction stakes in the ground. These stakes may or may not also referenced the boundary (as there is no requirement that a fence be built ON the boundary line). So no tags are required on the stakes or lath. But technically, if I marked "boundary line" on the lath, then a tag would be required.
No one bothers with such things anyway. And those cuts in the sidewalk are VERY handy.
Holy Cow, post: 345005, member: 50 wrote: c. Have a minimum cross-section area of material of 0.2 square inches;
Does a nominal 1/2" rebar qualify? I don't have one handy to measure, but a 1/2" circle has a hair less than 0.2 sq in.
But it properly rounds off at 1 decimal place to 0.2 sq. in.
Colorado Revised Statues
38-51-104. Monumentation of land surveys.
(1) (a) The corners of lots, tracts, other parcels of land, aliquot corners not described in
subsection (4) of this section, and any line points or reference points which are set to perpetuate
the location of any land boundary or easement shall, when established on the ground by a land
survey, be marked by reasonably permanent markers solidly embedded in the ground.
(b) A durable cap bearing the registration number of the professional land surveyor
responsible for the establishment of the monument shall be affixed securely to the top of each
such monument embedded pursuant to this subsection (1).
38-51-106. Land survey plats.
(1) All land survey plats shall include but shall not be limited to the following:
(f) A description of all monuments, both found and set, that mark the boundaries of the
property and of all control monuments used in conducting the survey. If any such boundary
monument or control monument marks the location of a lost or obliterated public land survey
monument that was restored as a part of the survey on which the plat is based, the professional
land surveyor shall briefly describe the evidence and the procedure used for such restoration. If
any such boundary monument or control monument marks the location of a quarter section
corner or sixteenth section corner that was established as a part of the survey, the professional
land surveyor shall briefly describe the evidence and procedure used for such establishment,
unless the corner location was established by the mathematical procedure as outlined in section
38-51-103.