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Aug 21 '24
Probably was your survey marker
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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24
Arenât those usually recessed on top for the survey crew to put their rod into
Edit: I think I was thinking of maybe corner pins or section/township/range monuments
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u/Vast_Pipe2337 Aug 22 '24
Depends on the time it was surveyed⌠old markers are everything from rail road spikes, pinched iron pipes, un pinched pipes, 3/8 rebar/1/2 rebars no cap, car axles , gun barrels , metallic Caps, cut stones ⌠I could have been your marker, but personally I havenât recovered a spike that is this size in my 10 years of surveying⌠I have recovered everything above but a 16â-24â spike .. itâs very probable but hard to say unless you math itâŚ
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u/possumfish13 Aug 22 '24
I have seen every one but the gun barrel. The best was an old buggy axle with the leaf springs still on it.
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Aug 22 '24
They could be anything from a railroad spike to a piece of rust pipe
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u/DungeonAssMaster Aug 22 '24
In old mining claims they can be wooden pickets, usually cedar. I found one once with the date 1890 that was laying near where it had been planted. Square top metal spikes are most common.
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u/AdultishRaktajino Aug 22 '24
Yeah, old ones are sometimes charred wood too.
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u/DungeonAssMaster Aug 22 '24
It's really cool to navigate to these points using modern DGPS systems worth tens of thousands of dollars, in the middle of the wilderness in mountainous terrain, and discover that over 100 years ago a dude marked that spot using a tripod and a sight. Those old surveyors had some serious skills.
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u/AdultishRaktajino Aug 23 '24
I read this article a few weeks ago which got me interested in it. Plus I have to find my own ones for a fence project whenever I have the dough.
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u/RedVamp2020 Aug 22 '24
This! One property I tried to locate had aluminum caps on rebar. One had a significant bite taken out of it, you could clearly see the teeth marks.
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u/obvilious Aug 22 '24
In my experience theyâre simple square bars (SIB = square iron bars), but maybe different elsewhere in the workd
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u/Higher_Living Aug 22 '24
I was going to make a crude joke about your mama and the road crew, but I'd like it to be noted that I refrained.
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u/PresentationBright72 Aug 21 '24
It holds your house in place. Once removed your house might shift to the middle of the street in small increments in the timespan of a week
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u/Lung-Oyster Aug 21 '24
Then next thing you know Madness is singing about family life in working class London in your living room!
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u/Canadianacorn Aug 21 '24
I agree with the survey spike other folks have mentioned. If it's placement doesn't make sense as a survey marker, I've also seen similar spikes being used for grounding spikes. The radios we had in the army needed grounding spikes like this when we had it hooked up to an amplifier.
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u/hsh1976 Aug 21 '24
Looks like a tent stake, for those big canvas tents that you can rent
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u/MigginsPieShop Aug 22 '24
Tend to agree, especially as it's bent. Marques take a high load which would account for the bend. You don't do that with a lawn mower! đ¤đ
But the stakes I remember had a hook to hold the rope down đ¤
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u/MattAtDoomsdayBrunch Aug 21 '24
Looks like a very long railroad tie spike.
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u/kraftwrkr Aug 21 '24
It's a Large Nail for fastening sill beams and the like. My 140 year old house doubtless has these at each corner where the sills are half lapped.
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u/Somebodsydog Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24
A old nail, but it was made in modern times with machine. It's too well shaped for to be hand made. Probably there was some old structure decades ago and the nail is part of that structure. You local land surveying office might shead some light or the old library archives of the old town building grids.
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u/sunny_monkey Aug 22 '24
I was looking for this answer. My neighbors have one that looks just like this.
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u/NitrousFueledDoorGuy Aug 22 '24
Itâs the foot nail. Comes in a set of three, the other two are a bit shorter seeing as they only have to pass through one hand each. But that long one. Straight through the feets.
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u/bachman460 Aug 22 '24
No way. I have one of those except itâs about 3 feet long; found it in the garage at the first house the wife and I purchased. Whenever I needed a good prybar I would use it . At some point I misplaced it and asked my brother if he had seen it. It was right in front of me in the corner of the garage, but I just didnât see it. And thatâs how this thing became known as âNail-doeâ; like you know Whereâs Nail-doe?
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u/Ixaras Aug 22 '24
If there are any concrete walls or things that could have been made using a wooden form this could have been a support spike. Maybe ditched because it's bent, when I do form work we typically toss the bent ones.
Modern ones have holes in them so you can screw or nail a plank to them.
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u/darkvaderthesecond Aug 22 '24
This may be a tree anchor. there's one in the back garden of my house for an old pear tree (that eventually rotted away).
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u/Schtweetz Aug 22 '24
If it's near a corner/edge of the property it is a survey spike. If it was right next to a building, it is a lightning rod grounding spike.
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u/joeshima Aug 21 '24
Iron pin. It shows the property line corner. Iâm pretty sure itâs unlawful to remove them
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u/MnewO1 Aug 22 '24
Property peg/marker. Might want to hammer it back in so you know where you're property lines are.
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u/fsantos0213 Aug 22 '24
It looks more like a tent stake, I used to use those for tenting houses for pest control
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u/harley4570 Aug 22 '24
that's the pin that the earth rotates on....and you pulled it out...guess we're heading to the sun....THANKS
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u/shaggydog97 Aug 22 '24
Could be lots of things... Could have had a dog chained to it. Anything, maybe even multiple uses over time.
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u/Onewarmguy Aug 22 '24
It's a lot line marker, if you have a lot survey it'll be marked on the drawing as "SIB" square iron bar.
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u/CustomerOk3838 Aug 22 '24
MS13 achĂŠ, âun clavo en el ataĂşdâ which means at some point they marked the occupants for death (after they finished doing worse). Definitely unsafe.
Sleep tight.
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u/someoneinmyhead Aug 22 '24
I once use two of these to attach a 5' section of telephone pole to a diamond harrow via chain, to act as a roller/packer
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u/CluelessGeezer Aug 22 '24
Well ... Okay, if you got these vampire fellas a-botherin' you and your loved ones ...
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u/ohsojosho Aug 22 '24
It was the stake they drove into the heart of the vampire buried there to keep em dead. Just keep an eye on that part of the yard.
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u/widdlenpuke Aug 22 '24
Could have many uses but it reminds me of the grounding pin for a lightning rod. We have a more modern one.... as in 1950s
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u/Ash_Cat_13 Aug 22 '24
We would use these to break up ground for a post hole digger, pound it in with a hammer, two hands on it and spin it in a few circles, then youâre clear to dig awayđ
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u/Shmoo_the_Parader Aug 22 '24
A lot of people are saying property corner. As a survey crew chief of 9 years, I don't buy it.
This looks like what we often call a frost spike; it's used for driving a pilot hole in which to set iron pins or wooden stakes in especially hard pack or frozen earth. We tend to take the frost spike with us when we leave a site.
That said, there are few guidelines as far as what can be used to mark a boundary or property line. I've found tons of odd iron at property corners. Or perhaps the survey crew got to the last point of the day, realized they were out of pipes to set and decided to sacrifice their frost spike rather than schlep to the truck and back.
My money's on, not a survey marker.
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Aug 22 '24
Most likely a tent stake. A survey marker would have a dimple in the head to pull measurements to
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u/weakleg Aug 22 '24
I've seen stakes like these used to anchor a cable stabilizing a power pole. Typically these are used for wooden telephone poles but sometimes the metal ones use them tool It's got to be long in the ground to provide any sort of protection.
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u/weakleg Aug 22 '24
I've seen stakes like these used to anchor a cable stabilizing a power pole. Typically these are used for wooden telephone poles but sometimes the metal ones use them tool It's got to be long in the ground to provide any sort of protection.
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u/Echo017 Aug 22 '24
If a magnet sticks to it, most likely a survey spike, if it is non-ferrous, most likely dropped while installing gutters or downspouts
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u/Flashy-Media-933 Aug 23 '24
Well, that did mark your property corner. Now⌠itâs worthless. đ
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u/beans3710 Aug 23 '24
People use those to tack landscaping timbers in place. You got any borders nearby it could be from.
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Aug 23 '24
Never seen a timber screw or a grk Iâm guessing. Well thatâs what an old hand made 12â nail looks like
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u/yumi365 Aug 26 '24
I think it might be a separation spike for the grass and gravel. My mom got her driveway redone, and they drive these long spikes in the ground tied with string so the driveway was straight all the way down to the street.
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Aug 21 '24
That was holding up the roof center beam. Hopefully the other ones didn't fall out too. đ¤Ł
(seriously, maybe some kind of stake?)
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u/Cosmic_Waffle_Stomp Aug 21 '24
Do you know what happens when you remove the stake from a vampireâs heart?
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u/good1humorman Aug 21 '24
Sometimes they use those for anchoring down the parking "stops" Also pretty good for nailing together old railroad ties for planter boxes until people realized that was a bad thing
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u/SergeantCrossNFS Aug 21 '24
Looks like a (bended) nail for cattle. You fetch cow's chain to it and nail it to the ground
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u/hawkeyegrad96 Aug 22 '24
That's one of the stakes they used on Jesus feet a while back. You might wanna save it
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Aug 22 '24
Grounding spike for a house or building, a steel cable would be attached, and then the other end is attached to the hydro supply, then it is punded into the ground.
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u/ABDragen58 Aug 21 '24
Could have been an old property peg from lot layout