Monumented this corner today.
GlO Deputy really built a mound around this one!
Fire had burned down the fence and next to the hole in the ground where the corner post had been I was able to find the stone. Four notches shown. It should of had 2 nothes on the other side (township line) but I couldn't find them. Stone fits the notes though (except for the missing two notches).
After I set the new county marker I left the stone along side mostly buried.
Then left one of my buddies for the afternoon and night shift to collect the coordinate data. I told him I'd pick him up in the morning.
So all that is left to do is the paperwork.
Nice work and pictures!
The epitome of peaceful!
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Ain't it fun Leon??
Then we have days where we have to shake our heads.........
Monday I went to a std corner (NE cor. Sec 2) which the other local "surveyor" had visited and used two years ago, he set a rebar & cap at a fence corner as he couldn't find the original GLO stone.
Yep, after pulling back a sagebrush on the opposite side of the 10" corner post was the top of a stone with SC plainly carved into it (sigh). It also had the grooves (5 west and 1 east). I guess it is easier to "just grab a fence corner and run".
I guess I need to start carrying a camera......
I've been trying to impress on my office and fellow surveyors the value of a camera (and using it). Today, even cell phones often can take fairly good pictures. Nice sketches are, well...nice, but what better way to document your findings than a decent camera? You no longer have to use film, take it in for developing, etc.
That and a handheld GPS unit. Gosh, I have great memories of getting out a compass and chain (steel tape in my time) and chugging up mountains with a bearing and reducing a slope distance with the compass to look for a section corner in the woods (scaled from a quad map)....but gee, how about using a handheld to get close?
Both items these days are cheaper than a compass or a chain/tape and are such valuable instruments.
Okay enough of travelling down the tangent. back to the subject. Great pictures Leon.
Thanks to the wife washing and drying my cell phone in April I have a Samsung Galaxy S4. It has a great camera and video. I had to reduce the size of the pictures from 5Mb to the 300Kb or so to upload here.
I had looked at this corner years ago and hadn't found the stone. It was clear underground next to the corner post. The fire last year burned the fence. The post had burned to about a foot underground. I had to flag the corner to protect it from dozer chaining. So I dug into the hole and there was the stone. So fence corners at PLSS points deserve some special attention. I've found the stones loose near the fence corner, in place within a few feet, against the corner, and buried next to or near the fence corner. Then there is the fences that are NOT at the corner. Tearing up the fence corners looking for the stones doesn't happen that often. The fire helped here.
The wire that wrapped around the post was there with the loop. Staples were just laying on the surface of the ground.
I've seen how fire will damage stones. It heats them up and they will just crack or even sort of explode from the moisture in the rock.
Nice find and photos of some fantastic country. That's what Texas wants to be when it grows up.
