I got dazzled by the 6 rolls of flagging the foresters left up there.
This is a ridge top meandering boundary first described in 1906. The rebars were set in 1976 per an unrecorded survey by the adjoiner that I found in our files. There's a lot of trees with a big blue R painted on there. I'm racking my brain, what does R mean, rebar? Middle initial of current adjoiner timber company?
I relate this to Dan when we meet up again, he says it probably stands for ridge. Duh.
Carry on.
Makes you feel like a dope, doesn't it?
Has happened too many times to count. One time I had my foot directly on the exposed cap on the bar I was seeking.
> I relate this to Dan when we meet up again, he says it probably stands for ridge. Duh.
Would this be in Siskyou County, by any chance? If so, I'm almost certain that the "R" stands for "Rumi".
Shhhhh!
That is the secret to how I find many monuments. It is a combination of luck and clumsiness just as this post is a combination of truth and sarcasm.
Shhhhh!
Ever knelt down on one hiding in the grass? Whew.
My problem is that when I think and hope I've tripped over the rebar or pin it turns out to be a little stump.
Mendocino County.
Mr. Unrecorded Surveyor (he wasn't proud enough of his work to put his name on it) reports that blazed old growth Redwoods fit his solution. Those are all gone now :-(. There are a few large Douglas firs up there, though.
The map dated in 1976 is on a Louisiana Pacific border sheet (they don't own it anymore). The report is just a typewritten plain sheet with no names but it goes with the map because it references the map.
I was always the guy that the other crewmembers wanted to stay away from the job site because I would find something they skipped, overlooked, could not find and wasn't supposed to be there.
My toe worked good before pin finders were popular.
Sound like a brass cap we were looking for while surveying the Redwood National Park. We had looked for about a 1/2 hour when one of the crew found it. On closer inspection it had several shiny fresh chalk boot marks in the cap.
I found another one this morning. It was bent over on the edge of a skid trail.
3Chop Ridge runs roughly east-west across Section 22, T18N, R15W, M.D.M. A road runs along the ridge, more or less. Originally I tied two big Tan Oak trees (24" & 30") as I traversed along the road west to east. These were blazed for line-angle point trees. I dropped the 1906 record meanders on top of the trees in Microsurvey and they fit fairly close. Then back in the office I found the unrecorded Louisiana-Pacific survey which set 3/8" rebars. After some crashing through a lot of ridge top brush I finally found what looks like a 1/2" rebar up 5" about 20' from one of my calc'd angle points. This is about 2/3rds of the way across going east. Then I found two more going east. Then I found a fourth between those two which marks a boundary which runs north.
So holding these and rotating to a t-bar (missing its bathey cap) on the west line of section 22 I got short bearings and distances from the tan oaks to possible rebar. I found the first bent over right where it should be this morning, I straightened it up. The other I buzzed all around, nothing. It looks graded by yellow machines. Both spots are on the center of the ridge, they look good. Now I can develop more look 4s and look for them next time I get over there.
