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Somebody pulled my pin!!

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(@foggyidea)
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And left it outside my office door..

Here's what I found outside my office door yesterday. No note, or clue of where it came from . I checked with one likely suspect and it wasn't him....

Thadd, was it your guys?? O'Reilly maybe? R&W? Scobro's? CEC? Felco, DownCape, and that's just the guys within one towns distance from my office! (There are a lot of surveyors within a few miles of my office...)

or was it an abutter that didn't like where it was?? Good thing i had my cap on it!!

Note: Thadd, it wasn't Chet, already checked in with him!

Dtp

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 3:48 am
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Somebody needs a good talking too, Maybe a swift kick in the ass

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 4:14 am
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I bet it was a very courteous fence builder who had to remove it to put the fence precisely where the client told him to put it.

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 4:20 am
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OK OK

Don't blow up!

He he he, like a grenade!

Just be thankful, with the cost of those things, consider it "Money in the bank!"

Nate

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 4:37 am
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At least it didn't wind up thrown through the window of your office or truck.

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 5:16 am
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Don,

Do you think another surveyor returned it in jest? Or were they being seriously douchey? If somebody returned one of my monuments that I had set, without contacting me first, I'd be rather insulted. Are you able to determine which corner/project it is from?

Or are you taking the path of, "they replaced it with something bigger (like an 8" X 8" post") so the rod would have been disturbed anyway.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Carl

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 5:36 am
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At least they didn't put it at a corner you'd never seen, just because it needed one.

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 5:39 am
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I'd be willing to bet that it came up during a fencing operation, another surveyor went out to remark the line, found it, set another one, and left it as a present for you.

I would also bet, you'll never figure it out. 🙂

It wasn't me though. 🙂

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 5:42 am
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Somebody pulled my pin!!> I figure

Well I'm NOT upset about it. I think it's related to a pin that was pulled a few months ago that I never did find, although I was paid to re-set it by the fence company that pulled it originally.

Or it's another surveyor/or crew that pulled it when setting something more permanent.. As a "funny" because we all know each other around here... And there are a lot of surveyors practicing locally. I've been here the past 30 years so they all know me anyway, and I've probably worked with most of them one time or another.

I think it's someone local that didn't have to go very far out of their way. Kris is most likely right, I'll never know! Just like the time I found a 16' brown trout laying in my driveway.. (I thought that I'd be 'sleeping with the fishes' after that one!)

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 5:54 am
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Wasn't me....

this time...:-P 😉

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 6:25 am
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That's a big brown trout either way

> .. Just like the time I found a 16' brown trout laying in my driveway..
Please tell me that was a 16 inch trout!

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 6:29 am
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That's a big brown trout either way

> > .. Just like the time I found a 16' brown trout laying in my driveway..
> Please tell me that was a 16 inch trout!

That's what she said.

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 6:55 am
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That's a big brown trout either way

whoops...yeah, 16 inches!!!! I wondered if an osprey might have dropped it...

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 6:59 am
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That's a big brown trout either way

OH! I thought you meant one of those brown trout that float past while dipping sewer manholes.

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 8:00 am
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it wasn't me, [sarcasm]but we do have a whole pile of them behind the office. everybody seems to pull them, we just don't deliver.[/sarcasm]

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 8:08 am
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Somebody pulled my pin!!> I figure

> As a "funny" because we all know each other around here...

Hmmm...It sounds like someone might be pulling your chain...;-)

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 10:48 am
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We stamp a unique ID number on each cap that we set so that it can be identified. We have over 30,000 in a database now, and should be adding another 25,000 in a few weeks.

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 11:52 am
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Somebody pulled my pin!!>Steve

Wow, that's hardcore Steve... each and every set point eh? I guess that would have helped me with my little mystery..

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 12:06 pm
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Somebody pulled my pin!!>Steve

Steve,
Give Foggy a link to your database...It is a work of art!

DDSM:beer:

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 2:07 pm
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Somebody pulled my pin!!>Steve

> Steve,
> Give Foggy a link to your database...It is a work of art!
>
> DDSM:beer:

Yeah! I'd like to see that too!!

 
Posted : 17/07/2012 2:09 pm
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