I always worry when I don't find a stone.
We had a survey in a very undisturbed area, the PC went out looking and found a stone almost ready to vanish.
He had to rescue it from a prairie dog hole.
It probably wouldn't have lasted much longer, makes me wonder how many have got lost that way
Don't mean to hijack but your post made me think of this.
Poor stone...
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Probably quite a few have vanished that way....strengthening many surveyors' belief that the glo never set them in the first place.... If there's no apparent reason for it NOT to be there, the next reasonable conclusion is that it's just not in plain sight.... Which takes more time than the just proportioning it back in. The other likely place to look is dismantling rock chuck mounds. They frequently pile debris and burrow around stone mounds.... Those are nasty undertakings, but rewarding when you do recover the monumenent 18" inches or so below *ehem- "ground"...
Rankin_File, post: 348315, member: 101 wrote: Probably quite a few have vanished that way....strengthening many surveyors' belief that the glo never set them in the first place.... If there's no apparent reason for it NOT to be there, the next reasonable conclusion is that it's just not in plain sight.... Which takes more time than the just proportioning it back in. The other likely place to look is dismantling rock chuck mounds. They frequently pile debris and burrow around stone mounds.... Those are nasty undertakings, but rewarding when you do recover the monumenent 18" inches or so below *ehem- "ground"...
I don't get the rock chucks much but no lack of prairie dogs.
Still remember going to the national zoo and they had a display of them.
Son and I looked at each other, burst out laughing, of all the animals to put in a zoo.......................
Got lucky with that one, snow melted, warm weather, was looking like stone hunting season was over.
He pulled it out of the hole and it is marked.
Nice granite
A few weeks ago spent a very frustrating hour in a big flat, in the middle of a town, looking for a stone - NE Sec33.
Didn't HAVE to have it if the 1/4 to the west was in (it is), but it was so easy to get to, there is a big X on the quad, was driving by, figured I'd stop and it would be a "quickie" but a hour of poking, prodding, listening to chirpping, it was time to move on,,,,,,,
If I ever do need that one, think I'll get a grader in there, the stone HAS to be in an old hole.
Do those prairie dogs eat Wheaties for breakfast every day? Grabbing a GLO stone, raising it above your head and throwing it down a hole would take much more strength than I would expect a prairie dog to possess.o.Oo.Oo.O Dad always told me when I wasn't big enough to do what needed done that I hadn't eaten enough Wheaties yet.
(Yes, I know how they did it.)
Holy Cow, post: 348340, member: 50 wrote: Do those prairie dogs eat Wheaties for breakfast every day? Grabbing a GLO stone, raising it above your head and throwing it down a hole would take much more strength than I would expect a prairie dog to possess.o.Oo.Oo.O Dad always told me when I wasn't big enough to do what needed done that I hadn't eaten enough Wheaties yet.
(Yes, I know how they did it.)
We have special dogs out here, big enough to carry a man off, kinda like the jackalopes
We have catfish like that around here. STAY OUT of the water.
I'll remember that, might be out there later in the spring,,,,,,,,,