SC Se corner S36 T21N R24W, P. M., M. Looking North.
looking South.
GLO Notes 1905
Cool! You could take it home and put it in your bathroom...next to that killer fire hydrant....
Rankin_File, post: 360488, member: 101 wrote: SC Se corner S36 T21N R24W, P. M., M. Looking North.
looking South.
GLO Notes 1905
I'm slaving away, attempting to squeeze the last .02' of error out of my observations; stressing out over a piece of rebar that you can push sideways in the soft dirt a tenth or two....
And I see these very cool "monuments" that look like stones a foot or more across that you guys are privileged to find, again and again....
So, I gotta ask....
Where's the "point"? The corner? The precise spot that Kent would call good to .005'? Is it at those "T" marked scratches? Do you measure the thing across 12 times at 30 degree increments and put into LSA and then chip a divot into it? Curious minds want to know.
I love your stone monuments. Thanks for sharing.
I gather a lot are soft stone (Sandstone in this case), but wonder how often they're Dolerite, or Basalt, Granite etc?
I've chipped away in days past trying to impress a mark on our local rock.
Obviously Sandstone would be a relative breeze.
Do they utilise igneous, metamorphic stone? Or avoid due to the hardness of making marks on such?
Where I predominate, rocks are all extremely hard.
Richard, post: 360498, member: 833 wrote: I love your stone monuments. Thanks for sharing.
I gather a lot are soft stone (Sandstone in this case), but wonder how often they're Dolerite, or Basalt, Granite etc?
I've chipped away in days past trying to impress a mark on our local rock.
Obviously Sandstone would be a relative breeze.
Do they utilise igneous, metamorphic stone? Or avoid due to the hardness of making marks on such?
Where I predominate, rocks are all extremely hard.
The point is a figment of the imagination of every surveyor who comes along. The stone IS the monument. There is no single point. Anywhere one surveyor selects is just as good as one chosen by a different surveyor. The goal is to be able to find the monument, not some infinitesimal imaginary point.
The same holds true for other types of monuments.
Nice one, a SC and township corner, sweet!!!!
What does it look like now, did you rehabilitate or replace?
Richard, post: 360498, member: 833 wrote: I love your stone monuments. Thanks for sharing.
I gather a lot are soft stone (Sandstone in this case), but wonder how often they're Dolerite, or Basalt, Granite etc?
I've chipped away in days past trying to impress a mark on our local rock.
Obviously Sandstone would be a relative breeze.
Do they utilise igneous, metamorphic stone? Or avoid due to the hardness of making marks on such?
Where I predominate, rocks are all extremely hard.
Richard- they very in hardness, - the instructions were to use a non-native stone- sometimes they did sometime they didn't, I', just happy they used stones and not posts and pits/ mounds...
MightyMoe, post: 360541, member: 700 wrote: Nice one, a SC and township corner, sweet!!!!
What does it look like now, did you rehabilitate or replace?
I figure I'll rehab it. It's fairly well set and somewhat out of the way. I'll put in a couple of good witness posts.
This is the classic... hmmm. stone..... it is set but the markings are 90 off in a CW direction and when you look at it, it looks like the lichen pattern (See top photo is on the right hand side of the stone... was the stone disturbed and reset? Good question...... I put a little dit half way between the 1 and the N on top and took my shot there this morning... Wire brushed it and found the 6 grooves on the side next to the "23" the other 6 gooves weren't as readily apparent......[sarcasm] since I can't be 100% sure that the stone it undisturbed, I'll probably call it off and proportion in a better position....[/sarcasm] :whistle:
Rankin_File, post: 360636, member: 101 wrote: I figure I'll rehab it. It's fairly well set and somewhat out of the way. I'll put in a couple of good witness posts.
This is the classic... hmmm. stone..... it is set but the markings are 90 off in a CW direction and when you look at it, it looks like the lichen pattern (See top photo is on the right hand side of the stone... was the stone disturbed and reset? Good question...... I put a little dit half way between the 1 and the N on top and took my shot there this morning... Wire brushed it and found the 6 grooves on the side next to the "23" the other 6 gooves weren't as readily apparent......[sarcasm] since I can't be 100% sure that the stone it undisturbed, I'll probably call it off and proportion in a better position....[/sarcasm] :whistle:
That's just what I would do........cough, cough.......B-)
I'm really happy that notes have gotten easier to get in Montucky, but that scanner they used,,,,,,,,,,:pissed:
I THINK they say the mound is north of the corner, but it's hard to tell.
