doubts about Kent's "pile"
Paden,
by the title of you comment "doubts about Kent's "pile" ", i thought it might be related to Dirty Randy!!:-P
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
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Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
:good: :good:
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
Kent's itemized invoices:
1. Find Pile of Rocks 1 ea. $50
2. Ensure it is the correct pile of rocks 1 ea. $2000
3. Testify about it in court, convince Judge and Jury 1 ea. $11,950
Best Regards,
Kent's CPA
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
Did you put that sketch together?
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
> Did you put that sketch together?
Yes sir.
I use to do gag jokes for periodicals. I had a number of them in P.O.B. back in the early eighties. I never did really good at it. It is a hard way to make money. But from time to time a "funny one" hits me and I scratch it down.
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
Pile of Rocks ... $14,000
Paden's cartoon... priceless.
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
> Pile of Rocks ... $14,000
> Paden's cartoon... priceless.
Dave (the CPA)'s break down was good. The Client knowing that Kent is going to locate the other SIX corners...while not priceless...is $98,000.
DDSM;-)
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
Very nice! I wish I had that ability.
A True Renaissance Man
Very impressive, Paden.
🙂
Don
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
Ya know, if memory serves me correctly, Kent will, from time to time, mail out a painting...
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
Paden could go into competition with "Your Other Left." Especially since Wendell appears to be too busy to turn out comics.
Kent's Pile o' Rocks...
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That looks more like the late Irv Webb to me. :> Bit of trivia: Irv had an E-type Jaguar that he tooled around in.
Of Stones, Probes, and Goats
Today's field work was nominally half a mile East of the old corner found as posted above. When I asked him if there was a jeep trail up to the other side, the guy who has the place leased said "It's rough. I wouldn't drive my truck up there." Actually my older 4WD Toyota Tundra (before they got a case of the bloat) handled the trail perfectly well, so I save myself a half-mile hike.
One of the things I didn't have to lug in was the probe seen to the right of the goat in the photo below, although somewhat indistinctly. The goat was already on site.
It is probably the most serviceable probe I've used to date, just a 48" piece of 1/2" steel dowel with a braced tee handle, also of 1/2", all welded together. Some plumbers left that at my house years ago and never came back for it, so I figured they wanted me to try it out.
What the probe turned up was what appears to be the base of a stone mound, surrounded by stones that had probably originally been on the pile. I've set a capped rebar at the center of the cluster just because the odds are good and it's easier to tie it and later remove it if the entire weight of the evidence still being developed definitely shows the corner to be elsewhere.
Perpetuation...
Today's property corner is tomorrow's "goat stake", and I believe this to be the only photographic evidence of the goat stake status oh so often assigned to rusty irons.
Yours may not even be rusty yet!
Steve
Perpetuation...
Actually it is Hogans Goat and Kent has found him.
Perpetuation...
> Today's property corner is tomorrow's "goat stake", and I believe this to be the only photographic evidence of the goat stake status oh so often assigned to rusty irons.
LOL. In this case, the exercise is to find the original boundaries of two tracts as run in 1882 when the lands left the public domain. Generally speaking, rebuilding rock mounds is a poor practice, but leaving identifiable markers that get described in the public records with accurate NAD83 coordinates attached will definitely clarify the situation.
If you look closely enough you can see the faint etchings of the "1/4" in the stone on the left..;-)
For the record, this rock mound is about 92 ft. East and 70 ft. South of the position of the corner shown in the Texas GLO GIS.
This one was recovered last week, similar to the one you found, I had to reduce the size of the picture to post it, so you don't see all the stones, the one near the center that is split is the actual monument. Yes, yours sure looks like an old monument to me. This one is about 25' north, 150' east of the GIS, not that I spent anytime figuring that out, just a quick look to show my client why I don't match up to their lines cause it seemed to distress them for some reason, LOL.
