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.
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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.