Maybe a wall needs to be built to restrict such things from entering (OR LEAVING) the country. (GO AHEAD. TELL ME I'M A BAAAAAAAAAAD BOY)
Bill93, post: 388995, member: 87 wrote: I suppose the picture is just for the novelty, but the thoughts arise
-Why use any paint at all, since the flagging is more visible and will last longer?
-Why take a picture that is neither close enough to clearly read the stamping on the cap, nor wide enough to show it in its surroundings?
Bill,
Some jobs you are required to mark the property corners with paint or laths, whatever it takes for someone else to find it easier than we did. Some jobs you just need to find the corners and survey them in.
However some field crews get confused on which jobs to mark and which jobs they do not have to mark. So if they just mark them all it makes life a little easier. No one wants to drive back an hour to mark a corner, and most of the time the client calls back after the job is done and ask, I decided I needed the corners flagged up I am having a fence built.
Finished a job on Monday for a standard town lot with no improvements, just a lawn. Called the client Tuesday morning to let him know we were done as he was in a hurry to get some footings dug. About 30 minutes later he called back to complain that at one corner there was nothing but a wire flag and I had told him there were bars at every corner. It took about two seconds to realize what had happened. That corner had one of our controlling found bars and the other three corners were set by us for his project with the top of bar at ground level. That bar had been found down about two inches. My rodman had simply done too good of a job of replacing the little plug of sod we had removed to find the bar in the first place.
Holy Cow, post: 389077, member: 50 wrote: Your metamucil probably hasn't had time to kick in yet.
At least my methane output is CONTROLLABLE. Any more snide remarks outta you and I'm telling Noodles.;)
Snide. Snide. Snide.
OK, here's another one. I was going to ask for suggestions, but while I was preparing the picture to upload and then talking to the crew chief who found this monument, I think I figured it out. He called it a sucker rod but after consideration I think it is the rear axle from a wagon or a trailer. It doesn't have a differential and that is not a coupling but looks like a spindle for a conical bearing. Brackets look like shackle mounts for leaf springs. Also, I've never seen square sucker rod. Not saying they didn't have it, I just wouldn't know.
[GALLERY=media, 21]Not A Sucker Rod by Andy Nold posted Sep 2, 2016 at 10:20 PM[/GALLERY]
Andy Nold, post: 389443, member: 7 wrote: OK, here's another one. I was going to ask for suggestions, but while I was preparing the picture to upload and then talking to the crew chief who found this monument, I think I figured it out. He called it a sucker rod but after consideration I think it is the rear axle from a wagon or a trailer. It doesn't have a differential and that is not a coupling but looks like a spindle for a conical bearing. Brackets look like shackle mounts for leaf springs. Also, I've never seen square sucker rod. Not saying they didn't have it, I just wouldn't know.
[GALLERY=media, 21]Not A Sucker Rod by Andy Nold posted Sep 2, 2016 at 10:20 PM[/GALLERY]
Doesn't look like a sucker rod to me. Looks like a big metal bar off of some type of farm equipment. You might be correct about it being an axle, but definitely not a sucker rod.
Looks more like a rain gauge to me.
What's a sucker rod?
Looks like a buggy or cart axle - some sort of light horse drawn conveyance, anyhow.
rberry5886, post: 389449, member: 232 wrote: What's a sucker rod?
It's the thing that connects the whirlygig to the suckifier in a grease orchard.
Connects the pumpjack to the ball valves to suck petroleum out of the ground. Basically a a 25 foot rod with threaded ends. Very common monument in the oilfield areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_rod
rberry5886, post: 389449, member: 232 wrote: What's a sucker rod?
The part of the pump that sucks up liquid...
I thought sucker rod was only found in scrap metal piles to be cut up and put to good use for 101 general purpose construction of darned near anything.
It makes good fences.
Well. This is educational.
Glad others asked the question. Thanks HC
Being associated with a survey monument I thought you blokes must have some fancy wriggly concrete anchor bolt. (We have a name for such but that'd probably bring the spelling constabulary into action) Obviously poles apart from reality.
Never heard of a sucker rod.
They would make excellent monuments.
All in the name of "professional development" :yum:
The beer cans at the corner. How do the beer cans keep showing up? Old rusted beer cans from decades past, some with the seam running down the side. They're not easily accessable corners either. These are old Schlitz or Pearl beer cans that haven't been visited in ages, and deep in SE Texas thicket. Who walks that far into the thicket to drink three or four beers at a property corner ?? There has to be some stories behind that.
R.J. Schneider, post: 389678, member: 409 wrote: These are old Schlitz or Pearl beer cans that haven't been visited in ages,
I like my cans BIG...
R.J. Schneider, post: 389678, member: 409 wrote: The beer cans at the corner. How do the beer cans keep showing up? Old rusted beer cans from decades past, some with the seam running down the side. They're not easily accessable corners either. These are old Schlitz or Pearl beer cans that haven't been visited in ages, and deep in SE Texas thicket. Who walks that far into the thicket to drink three or four beers at a property corner ?? There has to be some stories behind that.
Thirsty surveyors from the past would be a good guess.
Reminds me of years ago doing work at the Trans Alaska Pipeline Terminal in Valdez. Any kind of alcohol was a big, big No-No. Instant termination. I'd been working for a couple months inside and outside the giant tanks that store the petroleum before it gets loaded onto to tankers assisting with rebuilding them. Kind of nasty work really, but it paid the bills. Had to use respirators, fumes were bad, and hold the radio mike to your throat to talk, made us sound a bit like Darth Vader over the radio. I'd measured these tanks and interior parts in every conceivable way and one day had an excuse to go up on top of one of the tanks for some reason or another. Scattered about on the roof of that 60,000 barrel tank, were 6 empty beer cans.
The most common thing I find near survey corners is poison ivy, especially this time of year. In about a month, the most common thing will be four million spider webs.
