I bid a job for a Section breakdown survey (NESE) in July.
Two weeks ago I got a call from the client saying; "could you go do that survey?"
Sure, except now a snow storm is coming the next day and we are looking for stones.
Also no premission to get on adjoiners.
I had located the S1/4 and SE corners just last year for another project. I started calling people and we dashed out that day to see what we could recover. But the N1/4 needed access from the north and I was unable to get in touch with the landowner.
Anyway, finally got him (he lives 500 miles away and had been on vacation). With a storm coming today we dashed out yesterday to look for the N1/4. More snow might just make almost impossible to recover a stone at that position.
The east 1/4-this was a hard one to find-yeah right.
The northeast corner-another of those hard to find monuments. Why can't surveyors set something bigger?
This is the one I was worried about. An aluminum cap and stone at an old fence corner. It would have been easy even in the deep snow-but you never know.
One of the easy Sections in this area (1881 survey)
Wrong catagory
I intended it to be in Land Surveying
Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, he eats you.
obviously poor business sense- the minimum stds in this state are 5/8 rebar and a 2" cap- anything more is a waste of $$$, 😉
get the right ground blizzard, and you wouldn't see that thing sticking up 3 feet, either.
Did they give any reason that they decided to pursue the survey at this time?
Once I get a good search area location and under those conditions it's easy to call in a Napalm strike. With WGS 84 lats and longs they get extremely close!!! Wipes out all the riff raff evidence and pits and mounds can become easier to find.
;o)
Pablo
Pablo
"Once I get a good search area location and under those conditions it's easy to call in a Napalm strike. With WGS 84 lats and longs they get extremely close!!! Wipes out all the riff raff evidence and pits and mounds can become easier to find."
RIGHT ON!
MANY times I have wished for (and REALLY needed) a good napalm strike the cleanse an overgrown but otherwise virgin searh area. Who's your contact with the Air Wing??? I need his phone number or Email address!
🙂
Loyal
Pablo
My employer has aircraft but the bombers drop retardant and the helicopters drop water 🙁
We've often said what good is an air force if they can't do a napalm strike to clear out all of this brush and slash (current timber harvest practice is to spread slash on the ground everywhere for erosion control).
I loaded the flame thrower on the atv but it sadly went unused.
No, but I think they had been trying to finish a sale and it drug on. The parcel is in an area that Lucas would almost call a "virgin" section. So I'm not even worried about other interior corners except for one along the E-W centerline. I'll have the party chief look for it when he goes to set the corners and I might adjust the NW corner, but if the surveyor in the 70's used his own corners it should be on line. I did find another of his monuments along the north section line and my location of it showed it 0.25' south of line-so he did great.
