I also believe what I am seeing is a spike and not a pin cushion. Did you dig down to see if the spike was over a bend in the corner monument or over a very old recovered original monument. Did you call the surveyor who placed it there an ask why, or did you just shout fire and run with it. Hope that I would have set some straddles so I could preserve the position of both and done some digging.
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OK, now we have the theory of relativitty
OK, but what about the music? 🙂
Oregon Pincusion
So what's the problem?
Monument description: Corner is marked with 2 capped rebar marking its error ellipse.
I thought it looked like it might be a spike also, but based on his post, I assumed it is a rebar with flagging.
Oregon Pincusion
> Monument description: Corner is marked with 2 capped rebar marking its error ellipse.
An error ellipse of 0.75' is way too big - outside of minimum standard for Oregon.
Oh yeah, It's an I-pin (teflon coated rebar)...Turns out the prospective client didn't want the survey after all, would have really liked to hash this one out seeing how it's in my neighborhood but... it's an old coal mining town with very few original monuments to work from, finding "corners" in odd locations doesn't surprise me. I would love to retrace the whole town but I have to think I wouldn't be welcome anymore.:-D
Oregon Pincusion
for the record I was kidding
Oregon Pincusion
> surveyors in Columbia County will be cursing his name for generations to come.
Yes they will and do.o.O That county is one of those "local areas" that one needs to be aware of the history when recovering and verifying monuments.:bored: