Remonumented a township corner today for a corner record and geodetic coordinate.
Here it is, the stone is covered up in the cairn.
Stone uncovered. 4 sets of 6 notches.
Another pic of the stone for the record.
Took a while for an old guy to dig a hole. Crowbar all the way bout a half inch at a time. Set a Deep One magnet directly under the new pipe and cap, then back filled with two bags of dry mix concrete. Should set up solid over winter. Set the stone in the new carin around the pipe.
Rebuilt the cairn.
Had to call a good friend on how to stamp the cap as I forgot my BLM Manual.
Cooked the GPS for a coordinate.
Now I just need to get the paper work done and collect my payment from the county.
Looks good Leon!
That cellphone comes in handy once and a while doesn't it?
Loyal
Cell is the only phone I have. Tried to edit the spelling of cairn but was late.
Thanks for the help Loyal!
You don't have to put your PLS # on that?
In Utah either PLS number or company/agency name. Doing this work for the county, so it's a county cap. My PLS number will be in the filed (public) documents with my stamp and cert.
Not much room left for any more stuff anyway!
You should have used a bigger cap. At least 3" dia. for a township corner, I prefer 4" Dia. for a township corner.
SJ
It's a 3-1/4 inch cap supplied by the county. They use the same one for everything. Used to be stainless pipe and brass cap but budget problems have resulted in going to all aluminum. It's probably good they are doing anything considering the money problems.
It's interesting work I like to do but I'm not going to retire rich from it. Making a little money is better than no money I suppose!
Good looking corner! Does the Co. have a formal corner preservation program, or do you just remonument ones you happen to come across while doing other jobs?
DJJ
The rural counties get some grant money for corners. I'm not sure where it comes from but the work must meet BLM specs. It's administered thru the Utah AGRC (State GIS). So we do enough corners every year to use the money. So local surveyors just do the ones they find doing other work. Be nice if we could go look for them. This year we are only doing corners with verified original monuments. NO PROPORTIONING of corners that are probably just obliterated and not lost. The temptation to proportion because of the ease of doing so is really screwing up the PLSS. Also the cost to restore obliterated corners just doesn't seem to get justified, just a few corners would eat up the entire grant funds.
At the rate we are going it all isn't going to get done in my life time.
I wish our counties had some of that money. I would dearly love to perpetuate a few section/quarter corners.
SJ
Township Line - More Pics and corners
Township line
I have what appears to be a 5 chain bust in my range line. Record for south of Section 31 is 85.75 chs and I'm about 80.4 chs. I know the range line is good for line as I have several other corners on the line. So I decided I needed to check the meridian line to the north. This is out in the hills but it looks like a dirt road (google maps) goes near the corners two miles north. Start the RTK and away I go. Stop on the road when I'm north of my township corner. Takes me about 20 minutes and I finally find a mound of stone.
Distance not so good but line better (pretty much north). Good stone here you can see the 4 notches on the north side.
There is is a closing corner coming in from the west (first tier correction line). 1.95 chs. So I go north on the line looking. Nothing, dig up a few stones but nothing like a mound in the vicinity. So I look up and down the line and finally find another mound, Looks promising.
On the north side of the mound I find the stone, its laying over but clearly notched. Can't see any CC but I didn't dig it clear up, but it's not on what would be the west side.
Now the hard part. The closing corner is about 5 feet off line, but it's a closing corner! But the falling distance is way bad. Instead of 1.95 chs it's 2.57 chs. So what's with that? There's no reason for anyone to have moved these corners. No fences in sight, land all around in common ownership (large acreage sheep pasture). The dirt road however does go right between the monuments within about 20 feet of the line controlling stone.
So I want to collect my pay and remonument these corners and file the corner records (with geodetic coords). I suppose they go right where I found them bad falling distance or not. I'll put the closing corner where I found it, let someone else amend it later as I don't know the location of the next line controlling quarter corner to the north, I'm not doing a boundary survey just locating original corners. The original Range line was surveyed in 1873, closing corners are from 1896.
All in all not a bad day, I searched for three other corners but only found one. So I'm 3 for 5 for the day. 60%, is that failing?
Township Line - More Pics and corners
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