Logging A Benchmark Find

[+Kindergarten Teacher]

I just logged my first Benchmark find, but didn't take a picture of it. How do you know that I really found it?

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

We trust you.......until you gives us reason not to.....

 

Welcome to Benchmark hunting and to the forums.

 

Happy Hunting!

 

Shirley~

[+Spoo]

Teacher:

 

As Shirley says, we trust you. I do not have pix of all my claims.

 

There are no prizes here......no one gets money for the most finds. We all do this for fun and sport.

 

If you begin to log for NGS, you might want to have pix, and good notes to help substantiate your finds since you are then doing it for the Gov't and professional surveyors.

 

Welcome aboard and HAVE FUN !

[+Kindergarten Teacher]

Thank you Shirley and Disk Hunter.

Sue

K.T.

[+seventhings]

K.T.

 

As stated above, pictures not mandatory. You fulfilled the primary objective for benchmark hunting when you got out and about to solve a small riddle - "Where's the mark?" Everything beyond that is gravy.

 

The second (of several) reasons for searching for a mark is, whether found or not, to add to the body of knowledge that we (hobbyists, NGS, general public) have about both the marks in the database and the gazillions of marks that are not in the database. A couple of photos adds info to that body.

 

Other good things about photos:

 

They cause a benchmark hunter to impose a greater level of care upon him- or herself. It's mildly embarassing to claim you found ABC when the photo shows disk XYZ.

 

An area photo showing the location of the mark and, maybe, one or two environmental references, makes it very easy for a subseqent hunter to find the mark. One of the perverse pleasures of this activity is to render hard-to-find marks easy-to-find.

 

Many photos of marks and their environments are interesting in and of themselves. See the thread about the "Benchmark Picture Contest" - there are some Ansel Adams wannabe's among the eccentrics.

 

Showing benchmark photos to people who have over-stayed their welcome is an effective way to get them to leave. Believe me, I know.

 

Welcome aboard & good hunting.

Will

[+PFF]

Showing benchmark photos to people who have over-stayed their welcome is an effective way to get them to leave. Believe me, I know.

 

 

LOL! Better than my father's line:

"Dear, shall we go to bed so these people can go home?"

 

-Paul-

[Fenderstrat72]

I have a question, if the marker is underground but you find this can you log the benckmark or is this cheating?

Edited December 12, 2005 by Fenderstrat72

[+Black Dog Trackers]

It would be a logging error to log a find on a witness stake like you have pictured. It mean's you're close! But it is not a find.

 

Usually the markers are either visible from the surface or only an inch or less under the surface.

[Fenderstrat72]

Thanks.

[+Black Dog Trackers]

Fenderstrat72 -

 

What you should do, if you haven't done this already is to use the coordinates of the witness post and enter them here after clicking the "By Coordinates" radio button. You can use this to find out if the survey mark near the witness post is in the database of over 700,000 benchmarks. If it is, the description might tell the position of the mark relative to the witness post.

[Fenderstrat72]

I got the coordinates for this benchmark off of this website. I read the descripition however in my zeal to find the benchmark I failed to make a copy of it. I will do that and go back to recheck the area for the actual disc.