Here is a stone monument from a 1950 survey. Set by a surveyor who later started a well established firm that continues today. This stone was set when he was still drafting his own maps and surveying with a transit.
Here is an original monument from 1950.
The land surveyor later started a firm that continues today.
This stone was set when he was surveying with a transit and steel tape. He also drafted his own maps.
What a treat to find this and four other original monuments from the 1950 survey. The property owners have carefully mowed around it.
This stone is fashioned from pink granite. You can see where the stone was cut by wedge and feather. There is also a nice drill hole at the top of the stone.
I found the monuments in reconnaissance after studying the maps. I have yet to make measurements.
Somebody's gonna dig that rascal up and put it in their living room as a conversation piece.
Blaspheme!
Holy Cow, post: 433421, member: 50 wrote: Somebody's gonna dig that rascal up and put it in their living room as a conversation piece.
Holy Cow, post: 433421, member: 50 wrote: Somebody's gonna dig that rascal up and put it in their living room as a conversation piece.
Blaspheme!
I have given some thought to the idea of setting my own rebar, exactly at 1 ft offset, N S E W. (Cardinal directions). But I was afraid some gumbo headed, party chief would find just one of them, and use it.
I have resorted to setting my own rebar, buried, some distance away. And, referencing it. To prevent confusion.
Any cogo jockey, with a bit of care, and proper tools, can replace the stone, if it gets bumped, that way.
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That's called the LAG in Fl. (lowest adjacent grade) 😉
I have had a landowner admit to removing the stone marking a corner, as the carving was so neat, they had it made into a centerpiece of their coffee table. I wondered if I could hide the body, but realized his family might know where he had gone that day...
Nate The Surveyor, post: 433447, member: 291 wrote: But I was afraid some gumbo headed, party chief would find just one of them, and use it.
Is that a slur against Louisiana surveyors?? (j/k)
A'hv ate me share o' gumbo...
I was more thinking of a visitor to mardi gras...
We don't have anything like that down here. Wooden hammer handles set in the 50's are long gone.
That monument type (granite, but not pink) is pretty typical in the northeast. Unless there's something etched in the far side that makes it somewhat unique, or my perspective is off, and that thing is of a Stonehenge size, I'm not seeing anything all too amazing about it.
JPH, post: 433703, member: 6636 wrote: That monument type (granite, but not pink) is pretty typical in the northeast. Unless there's something etched in the far side that makes it somewhat unique, or my perspective is off, and that thing is of a Stonehenge size, I'm not seeing anything all too amazing about it.
It's a chunk off of Stonehenge.
It looks like your garden variety quartz biotite granite. I do see a slight pinkish cast that would most likely be K-feldspar. 🙂
Geologists will often add to the beginning of the rock type, the most common minerals such as quartz and biotite (black-colored mica mineral). This is of course a generalization. There is a classic USGS Bulletin that goes into the weeds. For those interested it is, The Commercial Granites of New England by T. Nelson Dale, USGS Bulletin 738, 1923
[SARCASM]Aren't you supposed to dig that up and bury it inverted alongside your shiny new stainless steel post?
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Sorry... BLM joke 😉
FrozenNorth, post: 433722, member: 10219 wrote: [SARCASM]Aren't you supposed to dig that up and bury it inverted alongside your shiny new stainless steel post?
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Sorry... BLM joke 😉
No, you drive your capped rebar next to it to show you were there.
Or, you drill and epoxy a dimpled disc into the top of it so you can record a measurement to a precise mm.
