What exactly is the advantage of caps on your set corners? Other than knowing it's you're rod and a tax write off, I cannot see buying them.
It is required by law in three of the four states I am licensed in. I do put caps in my rods in the one state that doesn't require them. I figure that if I set it, it can bear my license number.
Required by law in 3 of the 3 states I'm licensed in. More precisely, a cap is not required but marking the rod with an identifying mark is, and a cap is a convenient way to achieve that.
Also, a little something official looking for the client to enjoy while he is writing the check.
Best answer I've heard.
I have to say that is one of the most idiotic questions I've seen on this board.
Pablo B-)
[sarcasm]It's so people can tell who set which iron in a pincushion.[/sarcasm]:-D
> I have to say that is one of the most idiotic questions I've seen on this board.
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> Pablo B-)
Perhaps that explains the writer's name.
It's required by law in NJ for the corner to have an identifying mark. Since we don't file surveys here, it can help you track down the last survey or adjoining survey to help with your boundary research.
So the next guy knows if it's the point you set or some goat stake. Don't care if it's required or not, it's the right thing unless your too busy to take the time.
> It's required by law in NJ for the corner to have an identifying mark. Since we don't file surveys here, it can help you track down the last survey or adjoining survey to help with your boundary research.
That would be the closest answer to what we have in Virginia (me and him). Non-recording state, but at least if you set something with an identifying cap somebody can track down a plat... that being said... I don't cap my pipes... but nearly 100% of the plats that I do get recorded.
Carl
It is required in my state (non-recording) and from experience, I know that the number on a found cap is the most critical piece of information as to how close to the corner you can expect it to be in this area. I spend a lot of time to get mine in the right spot and over a long period of time, hope that future surveyors breath a little sigh of relief when they find my cap much like I do now for so many local surveyors that I respect. If it weren't law, it would be on our state society agenda to make it so.
They've let me know several times that a corner was tampered with. If pulled out and driven back in at another location with the cap on, usually results in the pin smashing up through the cap. They don't think about pulling the cap off first.
In Maryland not only do they have to have the surveyors license number; they must have text that identifies the rod as a property marker.
That way when Harry Homeowner finds a property corner, an old traverse rebar, and a grounding rod from a utility pole within a ten foot circle of where he thinks his corner is, he knows which one to use.
It's not required In MA but I do use aluminum caps with the Company name, not my #. I figure the company may exist longer than me...
Dtp
Pablo, now don't tell me that you actually started putting CAPS on your monuments; whats the world coming to?;-)
> ...when Harry Homeowner finds a property corner, an old traverse rebar, and a grounding rod from a utility pole within a ten foot circle ...he knows which one to use.
Chances are he would find the grounding rod first and stop looking. So it goes.
In British Columbia they use 1/2" square galvanized bars with the letters "BCLS" stamped in the side. No caps. There is no mistaking them for anything else, and no mistaking anything else for a property corner. Quite effective.
a lot of truth to that, Bill.
To turn the question back around on the OP, what would be the disadvantage of capping your monuments?
> What exactly is the advantage of caps on your set corners? Other than knowing it's you're rod and a tax write off, I cannot see buying them.
To do it is to survey land.
To not do it.....
Ah, you'll figure it out some day.
Stephen
In six of the six states in which I am licensed, it is required, assuming you want to retain your license.
B-)
