Monuments are no match for these milling machines! I'm losing a section corner at this intersection in Lincoln, but already have it referenced out prior to construction. After they remove the asphalt, they are going to rip out the concrete with a track hoe bucket. I hope to be there to see if any remnants of the original stone might still be there just to add to the historical report I'll write. A lot of our paved rural roads get milled and then resurfaced. PK and MAG nails that some surveyors set for monuments are quickly dissolved with this machine.
Looks like job security to me 🙂
At least in your county the corner is referenced and will be replaced. The counties around here REFUSE to obey state statutes and make arrangements for referencing and replacing section corners and 1/4 corners when they build, repair or resurface roads.
Too bad there isn't a criminal statute to nail the commissioners with. They ignore civil penalties. They just vote to have to county pay them, if they are ever levied.
SJ
Oh, yeah. Our county has a "reclaimer" that will chew up asphalt, rock and danged near anything else that gets in its way. You can skim off an inch or go a foot deep in a single pass. It has a couple hundred very hard-tipped cutting fingers that will grind off anything short of cast iron. It will grab a rebar and simply toss it out of the way.
Yup. I hate those things. They use them everywhere around here, including little subdivision roads where the control points are typically set on the centerline. I miss the good old days when they'd just added a couple inches over the top. I could get down on my hands and knees in the middle of road with distracted, cellphone yapping, soccer mom's abound, and spend 30 minutes to an hour chipping away asphalt in the blazing Florida sun -- occasionally having the vice secretary of the HOA stopping to yell "WTF are you doing! We just had these roads paved!" -- but actually find an original subdivision monument .
Looking at the picture, I wonder what would win in a fight ... that machine or TDD? Hmmmm.
