I set My own pin and place the pipe alongside. I found it lying loose, thrown over in the brush.
The chewed-on YPC is a corner not of record and I haven't figured out whose it is yet.
(It does remind me that I should switch to AC's next time I order caps.....)
I have an idea- unrecorded survey in adjacent section. It is 7.59 feet away from mine. There is a gap between this tract and the section line due to some poor corner searching in the 70's. I've talked to the owner, and they are considering quiet title action to secure it.
7.59' Reject Because It Does Not Meet Positional Tolerance
Why drag in any other theory.
Paul in PA
It looks like it to me! Why is the pipe even there in the first place. It gives the appearance of a pin cushion. It leaves the next surveyor wondering WTF. One corner point one monument. Bury the pipe as a memorial and make a note on a record, if you do that in Montana. Plastic caps indicate to me you're cheap.
Pablo
I am with Pablo.
Looks like it to me also.
Since you found the other monument floating on the ground, bury it, put it under the rocks, leave it laying alongside, but don't confuse the issue by putting in back in the ground alongside yours! Sometimes surveyors don't research the records before going to the field and they may accept the other one.
I hope it is close to the road so you can stop by and fix this situation so that it "...is not what it looks like"....
TYIA
Sometimes surveyors don't research the records before going to the field and they may accept the other one.
I know in MA, the regulations are pretty clear that a surveyor will research the problem first, test the record data, prepare preliminary conclusions, then go to the field. If there is a plan on file that shows a rebar/cap set and witness pipe set, then any surveyor who performed the adequate research before running into the woods would know the story.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE----
The pipe was originally in the position of the chewed on YPC. The surveyor who set that YPC withdrew the pipe, set his bar in the hole, and threw the pipe up on the bank.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE----
Bad surveyor! If you remove it, take it with you. Keep the site clean!
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE----
Or if you drag it in. We were retracing a Corp survey for some ground being transfered to a Village along the Ohio River. We calced out a corner and it landed in a 5' diameter oak so my boss said we must be looking in the wrong spot and continued searching. I was hung over a p****d because of the delay in leaving town and heading home for the 6 hour trip. I stopped looking, went behind the tree to relieve myself and heard something odd when I looked over to see what I was peeing on and it turned out to be a 3' precast Corps monument that had been tossed to the side. The plat had been drawn before everything was set and when the crew came out and it landed in the middle of what was a big tree, they said the hell with it and tossed it to the side instead of carrying it out. It was 2 miles to the closest road.
I find more points that way, thats why I say I've got to go do some recon instead of having to relieve myself.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE----
Say, fella, that's one heck of a pin finder you got there. Hope you don't let just anyone grab it.