Here is a station I visited yesterday. A little overboard on the marking and protection...
As if that wasn't enough, notice the multiple vintages of flagging that was on each of the three witness posts:
I thought I should urinate on each of the witness posts to mark my territory, but I didn't have to go at the time....
Wow! That is really something!
...It'll be bulldozed over by next week...
Abnormally dry spring in Pittsburgh? 😉
I can sort of understand actually. It's the only thing of value for about 1000 feet. The vegetation, if you can call it that, is deceptive as to the true value of what it is hiding.
how did you ever find it?
It's okay, but still lacking a can of pink flo around the monument.
I don't see a problem... I was always told "Flag it up so an engineer can find it"
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> It's okay, but still lacking a can of pink flo around the monument.
I bet the can of paint got sprayed on after the setup was removed...
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Just kidding...
Given the cost of installing and positioning a driven-rod mark, I don't blame anyone for going to extraordinary means to prevent it from becoming obliterated. It looks to me like someone knew that construction activity was imminent, and took precautionary measures to protect the mark.
> It looks to me like someone knew that construction activity was imminent, and took precautionary measures to protect the mark.
Yes, I can't see a thing in the world wrong with that. Anyone who has dealt with the sort of geniuses who gravitate toward the field of land clearing will know that just leaving some witness posts around a mark in the brush won't likely accomplish anything when clearing and grubbing operations are in progress.
Naw, but it was 105° yesterday at 5 PM when I was there (undiclosed location).
I will admit it did protect it...
What gets me is that it appears that every surveyor who came there in the last couple of years felt it necessary to put their own flagging on all three witness posts.
I think the best solution would have been to install three bollards around it. Paint them yellow. Point protected.
yeah that's kind of stupid, all that flagging....
I use flagging to help me re-find something. Doesn't look like that site needs any flagging!
Veni, Vedi, Flagi?
I came
I saw
I flagged
Veni, Vidi, Flagi?
The "i" at the end denotes "we"
We came, we saw, we flagged.
Think of veni as being similar to convene or come together.
Think of vidi as being similar to video, something we saw.
Flagi? It's been far too long since I took Latin to have a clue as to what to use for "we flagged". I do remember that lapida means stone. So, a stone house is delapidated.