Surveyor 1 surveys and plats a subdivision circa 1975, it sits and not much happens for a number of years, then it gets constructed. Lots 7 and 8 are purchased and occupied by an industrial company. They decide to sell and need the dividing pins between 7 and 8. The exterior pins are in by Surveyor 2 and 3, none are original, so I ask the crew is there fill or something and they just laugh. They guess it's 20 feet minimum.
So.......pins are maybe there, but you have to really dig for them,,,,,,,
[SARCASM]too easy..... now you can sound like one of those high speed/low drag outfits..... "buzz down"........ [/SARCASM] (eye roll)
Did something similar a couple years ago, except it was the yard where an asphalt contractor dumped all the milled pavement from decades of road work. Company who bought the lot knew they'd just stolen a piece of land. After they got done dealing with the environmental issues they soon found out what trenching utilities on a site that's 10+ feet thick with asphalt costs. Oh- I reset every last interior angle point on the tract.
Rankin_File, post: 411609, member: 101 wrote: [SARCASM]too easy..... now you can sound like one of those high speed/low drag outfits..... "buzz down"........ [/SARCASM] (eye roll)
There's no need to dig, all that needs done is to turn up the pin finder 😎
There was one monument we did not attempt to look for or set on a local property because it was the site where the neighbor had been changing the fluids in his pulpwood truck for years and it was basically a toxic waste dump of oil and oil filters at the corner of his and the neighboring land.
I called the county agent and got a great big "that dude is crazy and I ain't going out there" answer.
Neighbor lady is going to be pissed when she sees what you did to her yard.
Pole is not straight. Just sayin'. One of my pet peeves with people who actually believe their work is precise to the nearest micron simply because their computer will kick out that many digits.
Holy Cow, post: 411692, member: 50 wrote: Pole is not straight. Just sayin'. One of my pet peeves with people who actually believe their work is precise to the nearest micron simply because their computer will kick out that many digits.
That photo may not have been taking at the same moment the instrument was taking a measurement, he could have been plumbing up the rod or taking it off the point.
40 mph breeze and a wonky bubble are standard situations. We need to remember that we are hitting a "monument" not a speck on an object. The purpose of the bearings and distances are to get you to the monument. Closure is a mythological beast created by surveyors to replace the typical inconvenience of trying to find a safe place to hold a pissing contest.
Monte, post: 411681, member: 11913 wrote:
Who is the kid in loafers?
Pretty small shovel for such a big hole.
Pole is not on top of the stone..........
I have to say I was not there for the photo, as it was taken in the early 80's, when I was still attending public schools. So I cannot put forth any information about if the photo was taken during active measurement of the stone, or if the pole was being moved into or from the position of being on top of the stone. However, I can comment that that that stone was set to the nearest 33 1/3 inches, so a couple of tenths difference in measurement was not going to affect the locating surveyors distance any noticeable amount.
As Elvis might say............thank you, thank you, vara, vara much.
