I posted in June pictures of a point surrounded by construction fencing, bollards, three witness posts, etc.
Here is another one:
and, today, at a point that we really need to use, but they have strung razor wire around it:
I don't know what to say. Did you get to the one on the wall, or not?
I think of all kinds of solutions in cases like this. Talk to a few guards first. Fail ok, throw a rope down, and use a descender. fail ok, use a carpet on the razor wire. fail, ok use a bucket truck. fail ok, sky track fail. OK, call the supervisor, and tell them that unless you get access, that their bill will be _____ fail ok, I don't know. CALL the sheriff! Let him go there with you!!
Then, establish a ctrl station that is easier to access.
OK, I'm done!
NAte
No, we didn't get to it. I do have a coordinate from the last survey we did, in 2010. The client is the one who put the razor wire there, so it is their problem. It is one end of an alignment line (the other end is a pedestal monument across the river) that is used to check the alignment (i.e. movement upstream-downstream) of theree piers. But, we were able to shoot those pier points from other setups, and then use the 2010 coordinate to compute the offsets.
Both of them look like examples one of my crews should of used the last time they came into the office with broken equipment from cattle that migrated to the base once they left to survey.
I believe the fence was to keep prairie dogs out, they were all over the place. It took a while to dig down to the mark, as the ground was really soft, probably from them digging around it. It was a rod mark inside a lid, so it was protected.
Anytime I setup a fixed height for GPS where cattle are around, I stay with it to shoo them away.
Off Topic Question
How Close to Gillette are you and did you know a surveyor named "Cuomo"(I am unsure of the spelling)? My father worked for him for a short time in 1965.
B-)