Foothills platted subdivision from 40 years ago, the plat math works, original tagged iron rebars at each corner. But about 0.2' behind both front monuments is a 12" aluminum spike and an aluminum washer stamped ALC. Nothing else. I asked SurvKap and they don't remember doing a washer like that. I've never seen anything like this before. Any ideas?
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Maybe a utility easement?
Maybe the manufacturer ID. ALCoa Corp.?
Approximate Lot Corner? (grin)
Andy
Accurate (Arizona, etc.) Landscaping Company! Or some such BS
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Aloysius Leonhard Chippendale---fence builder extraordinaire
Washers sold in HD and Lowes have a 3 letter code stamped on them. Different codes for different sizes. That's how the cashier figures out what to charge you. So do the nuts and bolts.?ÿ
@andy-bruner That had not occurred to me, but I think you are correct. The property was sold last year and the realtor may have stuck them in. That would explain why the back monuments don't have them - very difficult to find.
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I was thinking the same thing.
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See https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-3-8-in-x-1-1-2-in-Zinc-Plated-Fender-Washer-804816/204632769
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The washers I get at Home Depot or Lowes that I stamp my License number on for use with 60d and 80d nails have "AJC" stamped on them.
They are zinc coated steel with a 5/16" hole and 1 1/4" diameter
So, now that we know the letters are meaningless in the survey context, why would anyone put washers on the nails?
Shawn Billings puts washers on his spikes. As I recall, it's to "be distinctive". In a world full of survey control nails. So, where is @Shawn Billings? Maybe he can tell us more.
It's not a habit that I've developed. I'm "old school". Wrap flagging around the nail, and bury it well.
Thank you,
Nate
Probably the spike/washer combo was intended for a different use and was something handy to grab for use as a temporarily obvious marker for some reason.?ÿ That reason must not have turned into a reality or they would have been pulled.?ÿ Seeing a spikehead/washer would be much easier than just the spikehead.
For years we would drive the nail through a bottle cap.?ÿ PK or concrete nails in the streets and 60d in the dirt.?ÿ Makes it just a little easier to recover and they are cheap (free).
Andy
I've been making hubs with 60d nail thru a beer cap since 1970 except from June 1973 till end of May 1974 when I had to use ash hubs with a tack. Now that was primitive, lol.
We got buckets full of beer caps from bars.
On TxDot projects, they would supply gallon cans of white bottle caps with cork inserts.
The washers are for monuments and other important control in high traffic locations.
@a-harris That's about the beginning of the time frame of which I speak.?ÿ Almost any bar, pool hall, bowling alley, etc. would be glad for you to have all the caps you wanted.
Andy
Alabama Lectric Company. ?ÿ
At one time I would drive nails through pennies for monuments. The boss complained about the expense! I pointed out that they were my own pennies, not his.?ÿ He countered that he must be paying me too much. A short time later I took another job.?ÿ
I had a party chief that found a half of a $10 bill and nailed it to the asphalt with a mag nail and used it for a control point.
He thought it was funny; I thought it wouldn't last very long; it didn't...