I believe that it is likely that a lot of the pin cushion stuff we may see is the simple result of laziness and the lack of effort to scratch, dig and probe for a corner monument, and instead just setting one and moving on.
I think it would be an interesting study to determine how many pin cushions were created in Louisiana in the hot summer time, as compared to the statistics in the dead of winter with no leaves on the trees. I'd bet that pin cushions are generated a lot more frequently in the summer. Also might be interesting how many pin cushions are set in awful thickets or when earlier monument is under deep cover in a junk yard or area of much metal.
I say this after working by myself today in a subdivision with metal everywhere, and finding double rods on 3 of 8 corners, all about 6 inches from each other--and from a lot of years seeing this kind of mess.
I think you may have hit on something. I gave a crew some new opportunities to explore other careers after going back to set some corners they didn't find, and when I went to reset the corners, I found the originals at all the places they said they hadn't.
During a recent inventory of another office I noted there were two metal detectors for every surveyor. There is a lesson there somewhere...
thebionicman, post: 435085, member: 8136 wrote: During a recent inventory of another office I noted there were two metal detectors for every surveyor. There is a lesson there somewhere...
When I closed my own small shop and went back to the corporate world, I sold all my equipment except the most important tool--the Schonstedt.
Pincushions are caused by?
a) Ignorance
b) Arrogance
c) Incompetence
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
f) It Depends
🙂
Loyal
What do you mean you couldn't find the Pipe?
This pic is from last friday's job. Yes this is in the area of the corner. Yes, some of the other lot corners were of the same vintage, size and wall thickness. That picture shows some of the about 20 pipes someone had driven in trying to hold the hillside back. OK, so I did pincushion this corner, I punted and set my own.
toivo1037, post: 435098, member: 973 wrote: What do you mean you couldn't find the Pipe?
What a beating. Once, in the Houston Heights, a landowner had used a smattering of IPs to pin down the bottom of his chain link fence thus keeping the dirt and gravel from the alley roadbed from washing down onto his lot(s).
I found the first one at or about where an original lot corner should have been located and thought I was in original monument heaven.
Quick calculation down the rear property line, a minute or two of shoveling, and lo and behold! another IP! .. then a foot away I found another, then another ..:confused:
The Houston Heights can be difficult
In Utah pincoushions would undoubtedly be more frequent in the winter due to snow and frozen ground.
FrozenNorth, post: 435088, member: 10219 wrote: When I closed my own small shop and went back to the corporate world, I sold all my equipment except the most important tool--the Schonstedt.
You are right. One seldom see's a used Schonstedt for sale. Jp
It's going to a riot to watch whoever surveys my yard after I croak the bucket. Most of my sprinkler heads are along the P/L's and close to the corners, all of which (38) are accompanied by a 1/2" iron rod. :scream:
FL/GA PLS., post: 435121, member: 379 wrote: croak the bucket
While working on a small lot survey that was originally laid out by the surveyor I work for, I was surprised to find all the original lot corners accompanied with pins set by another company. All of the original property corners were still in and had caps that seemed to have been busted; approximately 0.3' from each pin was the another pin. It wasn't until after finding the third or forth pin that I realized that I was finding two pins per corner. At that point, I went back and dug larger plugs at all the corners where I found only one pin and then revealed the second one. At the end of the job I uncovered fifteen pins at nine corners.
Monte, post: 435084, member: 11913 wrote: I gave a crew some new opportunities to explore other careers after going back to set some corners they didn't find, and when I went to reset the corners, I found the originals at all the places they said they hadn't.
I bet that green thing is good on a transit.
toivo1037, post: 435098, member: 973 wrote: What do you mean you couldn't find the Pipe?
This pic is from last friday's job. Yes this is in the area of the corner. Yes, some of the other lot corners were of the same vintage, size and wall thickness. That picture shows some of the about 20 pipes someone had driven in trying to hold the hillside back. OK, so I did pincushion this corner, I punted and set my own.
At least they were all set plumb and flush to perpetuate their positions.:0
Frank Willis, post: 435240, member: 472 wrote: I bet that green thing is good on a transit.
Probably wouldn't even have to extend the legs.