Once a surveyor, always a surveyor

Where is the after picture with scattered turf from all the probing for stones and digging down aside the xtie to see if it was set on top of the rock or rod.................;)

There was an old pipe at the fence corner. It appeared to be a rusty piece of automobile tail pipe.
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There was a local surveyor that used exhaust pipe for monuments. They would be from 6in long to just over a foot at most.
He would also use most any scrap piece of metal including woreout files.......

There was a local surveyor that used exhaust pipe for monuments. They would be from 6in long to just over a foot at most.
He would also use most any scrap piece of metal including woreout files.......

He mustve came down my way at least once. I saw a subdivision plat last week that called for a found lawn mowerblade at a fence corner post for one of the corners of the parent tract

I once was in the preliminary throws of retracing a survey (walking around with a pin finder) in the woods that came up with some wild corner locations contrary to mine.

After a little study I determined most of his work hinged on the location of a "found pipe" that fit nothing. About three paces in I "found" the pipe. As I dug it surely appeared to be a small diameter pipe. After a little more excavation I recognized it as a mid-sixties automotive distributor, sans the rotor bug and cap. In defense of the misguided surveyor I was following; it WAS almost perfectly vertical.

I looked around and also found a V8 block, carburetor and one exhaust manifold. Too bad none of them were in the correct position. 😉

I tied out 24 miles of corners in an asphalt highway and probably 75% of the corners were engine valves.

"Fd. Hex shaped gun barral"
"Fd shotgun barral".

I'm sure I'll find a range pole someday.

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Cotton gin spindles.
See one those in asphalt and you know you got something.

Nate The Surveyor, post: 420003, member: 291 wrote: "Fd. Hex shaped gun barral"
"Fd shotgun barral".

I'm sure I'll find a range pole someday.

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Shotgun barrel

Was about to stroll into a little breakfast joint in Denver Saturday morning, looked down at the sidewalk and there was a neat drill hole with a black "X" and the number 303.

There's a Costa Rican version of the type 1 concrete monuments made infamous by Kent and myself in some other thread. They're a little bit taller and a little bit skinnier, and they can be found way out in the middle of nowhere jungle. Who set them and whether they hold, I don't know. How I know about them, ask my wife...

Ed- then there was this thread: https://surveyorconnect.com/community/threads/never-fails.270232/#post-270232

most normal people are looking up, and pointing at beautiful things when on vacation. surveyors are looking and pointing down at something that really gets them excited.

If you find a double-barrel shotgun how do you know which barrel is the corner?

Dave Karoly, post: 420749, member: 94 wrote: If you find a double-barrel shotgun how do you know which barrel is the corner?

Unless specified differently in the notes it is generally the northernmost barrel...;)

the old timer pincushion.

It is only the northernmost barrel when in a Union state. It is the southernmost barrel in Confederate states. They are not allowed as monuments in states that fit neither of those categories.

Nate The Surveyor, post: 420003, member: 291 wrote: I'm sure I'll find a range pole someday.

If it's in the same vicinity of the "shotgun barral" I think I'd call it a range poel. 😉