Richard, post: 423826, member: 833 wrote: [USER=228]@Loyal[/USER]
That country fascinates me. Any photos looking about the horizon please?
Interested in your reason for the observations.
Is it a job or an interest?
Either way it'd be both for me.You've got some fascinating country.
(I've watched Longmire for a while, gives a good look at your neck of the woods, but probably filmed all over the place?)
I'd miss the smell of our eucalyptus forests though.
Longmire location shots are actually in Northern New Mexico, but still gives a decent sense of wide open country. It's East of the Rocky Mountain range after all.
[USER=228]@Loyal[/USER]
Just the type of Public PR photo us Surveyors need. It would confirm their perception of us. 😉
An early version of government non-thinking, messing up that beautiful stone with a crappy disk:(.
They didn't even stencil it, maybe they didn't have permission...........
ahhh, sunny with a refreshing breeze.....
FL/GA PLS., post: 423857, member: 379 wrote: [USER=228]@Loyal[/USER]
Just the type of Public PR photo us Surveyors need. It would confirm their perception of us. 😉
Well, but it COULD attract more into our "great profession". 😉
So in what state, other than bliss, are you fellers sitting? Which direction was the photographer aiming the camera?
Based on the shadows I'm guessing Utah and sort of West.
Cool! I helped restore that back in the 80's or 90's with Surveyor Scherbel.
I think that this link: https://goo.gl/photos/vu9VEz3FiwQj8wsC8 will get anyone a bucket of photos.
Funny, we had my dog (the Zoom) who must have been busy working because she didn't manage to get in any of the pictures.
I have not looked at it too closely yet but: the elevation was within 1 cm, but the horizontal... (Edward, is there a chance it is tilting about 10 cm?) It sure felt solid. We probably need to hit some other nearby stuff to try to make any conclusions. Also, there is the fact that we literally processed the data on bar stools at Kate's in downtown Evanston. Not that it would affect the results.
One thing, everyone should check out the super-trick-tribrach (4-legged so perhaps a quad-brach?) that Loyal brought. He even had special sandbags to hold it down in case of possible wind. (The wind really blows in that part of Wyoming because Utah really sucks.)
I am kind of hurt that no one noticed my new chariot. 😉 I sold the old one, but ended up buying it back and man am I glad to have it in my driveway. The new one was recalled 3-days after I picked it up.
Hope everyone is having a great spring. It was wonderful to get out and even though the road was snowed in 4 miles south, we are getting close to having some great times again.
M
Nice pictures. I don't think so Mark, that thing is set a LOT of concrete. According to the plaque it was 1996 when we re-set it. As I remember, the monument had rolled down the hill and was re-set in the original position.
Edward Reading, post: 424009, member: 132 wrote: Nice pictures. I don't think so Mark, that thing is set a LOT of concrete. According to the plaque it was 1996 when we re-set it. As I remember, the monument had rolled down the hill and was re-set in the original position.
That seems strange to me, I was invited to participate in the "restoration," and spoke with Paul Scherbel on the phone several times prior to the "expedition."
I had also recovered and remonumented Mile Posts 1,2, and 3 going North out of there, and when I tied in said Sandstone Obelisk back in ~1981, it was still in situ (standing tall and looking good), and it fit very well with the 1938 USGS Triangulation Network in the Area (Yellow & Porcupine). I can believe (I suppose) that it may have been "pushed over" (vandalized) between 1981 and 1996, but I doubt that it went very far (it's pretty flat there).
I still have a LDP coordinate listing of that project (somewhere), and I know where our original observation notes are (if they can find them). Maybe I need to visit Yellow and Porcupine this summer too!
Loyal
I found this fom"Lines and Points" which aligns with my memory:
"Another of PaulÛªs historical projects was to find the common corner of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming set by deputy surveyor A.W. Richards (in 1874). The site is located about ten miles southwest of Cokeville, Wyoming. Paul and his survey crew spent three days attempting to locate the original site of RichardsÛª monument (a stone), which had been dislodged. RichardsÛª monument was nearly three-quarters of a mile west of the location set in 1871 by Daniel Major, which had been marked by an earthen bottle. Paul found MajorÛªs survey monument, and correctly reestablished RichardÛªs corner. A news article of the feat was reported in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle (Cheyenne: 6 March 1992; page 6)."
Edward Reading, post: 424018, member: 132 wrote: I found this fom"Lines and Points" which aligns with my memory:
"Another of PaulÛªs historical projects was to find the common corner of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming set by deputy surveyor A.W. Richards (in 1874). The site is located about ten miles southwest of Cokeville, Wyoming. Paul and his survey crew spent three days attempting to locate the original site of RichardsÛª monument (a stone), which had been dislodged. RichardsÛª monument was nearly three-quarters of a mile west of the location set in 1871 by Daniel Major, which had been marked by an earthen bottle. Paul found MajorÛªs survey monument, and correctly reestablished RichardÛªs corner. A news article of the feat was reported in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle (Cheyenne: 6 March 1992; page 6)."
Ahhh...we are talking about different monuments (by about 65 miles or so). Mark and I were at the Southwest Corner of Wyoming (and the angle point of Utah). I remember Paul's work on the Idaho, Utah, Wyoming Corner, although I have never been to that baby. A side Note, ol' Dan Major had a habit of "getting lost" (see Nevada, California, Oregon Boundaries). He also did some 3-mile "work" in the Uintah Basin (which was somewhat less than stellar).
Loyal
Oh, my bad.
Edward Reading, post: 424021, member: 132 wrote: Oh, my bad.
Me too...
I just did a little research on "our" SW Corner of Wyoming. The USGS Disk was set by E.W. Hills in 1898 (not 1899) during his Level Circuit between Coalville Utah and Evanston Wyoming, and the initial Triangulation work was by H.L. Baldwin Jr. (also in 1898) as part of the Uinta Forest Reserve Network.
Loyal
Thanks for pictures Mark.
Do those monuments have reference marks placed around them?
Seems a sure way of replacing accurately or checking if suspected movement.
Our state control has them and they're often easier to occupy than the monument.
Mark Silver, post: 423988, member: 1087 wrote: I think that this link: https://goo.gl/photos/vu9VEz3FiwQj8wsC8 will get anyone a bucket of photos.
That is some sweet survey porn.
Loyal, post: 423808, member: 228 wrote: 4+ hour static session on SW Corner of Wyoming
Sandstone obelisk set in 1873, USGS Disk set in 1899
Hard work, but somebody has to do it!
That's Mark Silver w/ the Banjo...
Loyal
Sandstone obelisk set in 1873, Cool, whats the date of the Banjo?
Do those monuments have reference marks placed around them?
Why yes they do! With 1 mm ties to boot. And I have already started planning a second trip.
However, it won't be quite as much fun. I will not take my robot out of the box if there is even a hint of beer or dogs in the vicinity. So the next trip will be work first. Perhaps we can make a day of it and hit a few other monuments too.
Funny how I have time for non-work stuff but can't get all my chores at the office and home done.
I will check on the Banjo age. It seems to be pretty nice. It is a Deering or something like that. BTW, I don't really play it. I just own it and drag it around.
I will check on the Banjo age. It seems to be pretty nice. It is a Deering or something like that. BTW, I don't really play it. I just own it and drag it around.
Thanks Mark, My next question was how do you keep it in tune that high up and in cold weather, I can't keep mine in tune at the kitchen table watching RPLS threads. 🙂 I try to play mine and it is a 1925 Gibson TB-3 (8069-63) converted to 5 string.
Robert
Looks like a great day!
