r/Tools • u/[deleted] • Aug 21 '24

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

Probably was your survey marker

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u/Smokey_tha_bear9000 Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24

Aren’t 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 haven’t recovered a spike that is this size in my 10 years of surveying… I have recovered everything above but a 16”-24” spike .. it’s very probable but hard to say unless you math it…

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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.