I'll pose this question for curiosity's sake.
My own experience was a Habitat Survey. My rodman had just driven the rebar, hammered on the cap and we had done the check shot. He went 20 feet towards the next cap and as I watched an excavator took the rebar out. Now I realize that Habitat jobs are a good thing, but destroying a monument in less than a minute.:'( The operator was watching it being installed:-@ .
> I'll pose this question for curiosity's sake.
> My own experience was a Habitat Survey. My rodman had just driven the rebar, hammered on the cap and we had done the check shot. He went 20 feet towards the next cap and as I watched an excavator took the rebar out. Now I realize that Habitat jobs are a good thing, but destroying a monument in less than a minute.:'( The operator was watching it being installed:-@ .
Did you flag the operator and let him know it will be $50 charged to him for replacing the rod?
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> but destroying a monument in less than a minute.:'( The operator was watching it being installed:-@ .
Premature monumentation? Maybe he was wondering why you were setting that if you knew there was still work to do there.
The old joke goes if you ever find yourself lost someone, drive a stake down and tie a bunch of ribbon on it. A D-9 will be along shortly.
What is a Habitat Survey?
> > but destroying a monument in less than a minute.:'( The operator was watching it being installed:-@ .
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> Premature monumentation? Maybe he was wondering why you were setting that if you knew there was still work to do there.
He was trying to take out the old foundation which was 3 ft away. we both thought it was far enougho.O
I tell people I don't guarantee anything 5 minutes after we leave the job.
Habitat for Humanity, the boss did these jobs at cost rather than hourly rates. (this was a prior employer)
Staked a straight line of pins along a string of lots, partly so the subdivider could dig in a water line in the easement that was 15' off the line. The next day the contractor came out and went right down the line digging out the pins and putting in the waterline partly outside the easement.
"The universe is made of protons, neutrons, electrons and morons."
Had a similar occurrence with a new gas line. We walked the line with the boss of the crew installing the gas pipe. He saw each and every marker with flag and seemed to grasp that they had to stay about seven feet to the east of them. The next day the pipe was within inches of where we had set the markers.....sometimes to the east side, sometimes to the west side, and sometimes right down the line. Morons!
About a day or two for a job that did not involve overgrown Tonka toys. That's how long it took for the adjoining property owner to learn they had been placed and then drive two hours from his home so he could pull every last one of them. He was not a happy camper. It all wound up in court and the judge ruled in the adjoiner's favor.
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I once drove a 1/2" rebar into a 10" plastic irrigation main. Fate would have it I hit exactly at a joint. The little 3lb. shop hammer I had wouldn't do it. It kept bouncing back up and I thought I was on a tree root.
A quick trip back to the truck for an 8lb. sledge...and as soon as hit the pin it went down and came right back up...on top of about a 600 gpm geyser. I was lucky to get away before the ground gave way.
We never found the pin.
The groundskeeper at that golf course (who had sworn the pipe had 36" of cover) was a little chagrined.
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Grinning from ear to ear imagining that scene!
he was obnoxious about it too, said we should have marked them better, I guess the fence post and aluminum cap wasn't enough.
I picked up one of the aluminum caps lying on the ground and put in front of his face so he could see the cap marked with property lines and Lot1 Lot2 on each side of them, and asked him if that is enough.............
It wasn't a huge cost to replace the pins, but pulling out the water line, and then relocating it............
I staked the north line of El Con Mall, drove around front to get the contractor to show him the stakes, and minutes later when we got back the stakes were gone, pulled by the neighbors.
My personal record was measured in hours and not minutes. Set some property corners to settle a dispute between two neighbors. They were all yanked out that night by the clients' neighbor who in turn hired another surveyor to put them back in a week later. Got the impression he wasn't playing with a full deck of cards. If nothing I walked away with a new appreciation for just how good I have it with my own neighbors.
We had some in a new subdivision go in about a month, but the best part is that they got reset very quickly. The electric company would run their lines along our staked lot lines. They wouldn't put in the service unless they had pipe. They would run through with the ditch witch spitting lot corners out the back, they then had a guy walking behind it putting them back in where he thought he saw them before the machine got them.
> ....walking behind it putting them back in where he thought he saw them before the machine got them.
Actually pretty common around here. For a while, a few years back, we would "stake" the rear property lines in subdivisions with wood only for the utility placing.
I do remember how satisfying it felt to watch a trenching crew dismantle their trencher to get a piece of rebar unstuck that had made the chain jump the track on the trencher's stinger. Life's little gifts..;-)
