I am working on what would seem to be a routine boundary survey in a very high value residential neighborhood where all the adjoining parcels have m/b descriptions that start at one of two places referenced to the same plat. Seems simple enough. At this point I have found no less than seven different surveyor's marks. Some pipes mostly rebar with cap. Some a couple of feet apart (used the wrong basis of bearing I think) and one like this where the only thing I can think is that they didn't have a metal detector. I dug down a couple of inches from the yellow cap on a hunch and voila!
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Oh, and only one record of survey on file. I need to make some calls.
By the way, the bluest sky you ever seen is not in Seattle at the moment. Fires in BC are making it quite hazy and burning my eyes.
The tack in the cap is the "piece de resistance". Pin cushioning the pin cushion.
Portland is also very smoky. The morning and evening sun is deep orange, almost red. Parallels are being drawn to the air in Shanghai. Dang Canajans and their fire.
Is that a tack, on top of the yellow cap???
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Nate The Surveyor, post: 440162, member: 291 wrote: Is that a tack, on top of the yellow cap???
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Why yes it is Nate. I sometimes do this when I am going to occupy the point but in this case it was deep inside of a laurel hedge less than a foot from a fence corner; certainly not a place one would set up their instrument.
Ok... Next question... Are you rejecting the rebar and cap, in favor of the hub tack?
(grin!)
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Daniel Ralph, post: 440156, member: 8817 wrote: By the way, the bluest sky you ever seen is not in Seattle at the moment. Fires in BC are making it quite hazy and burning my eyes.
This is bad for our friends in BC. Their province is on fire and it's affecting the air quality in Puyallup; in Portland!
Prayers go out to anyone affected by this devastation...
Nate The Surveyor, post: 440182, member: 291 wrote: Ok... Next question... Are you rejecting the rebar and cap, in favor of the hub tack?
Nate, that is a plugged iron pipe with tack and id tag, probably the oldest evidence we have found in the field. I am finding that out of the seven of us that have been to this site, Four have passed on, one does not answer his phone and I've determined that the other two I don't need more information from.
Daniel Ralph, post: 440472, member: 8817 wrote: Nate, that is a plugged iron pipe with tack and id tag,
I think Nate is referring to the tack in the yellow cap.
Have you been able to determine what circumstances the iron pipe was set under?