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it is a good idea to paint the monument with fluorescent paint and run a piece of
surveyors orange ribbon from the monument to the ground surface while backfill-
ing. If another surveyor were to look for the same bound, the tip of the probe may
bring back some of the orange paint. As soon as anyone starts digging they will
see the orange ribbon and know they are on the right track.
Surveying in winter, when there is snow cover, makes the process of finding
monuments considerably more difficult. In some cases it would be best to post-
pone the survey until after the snow has melted, although this does little to help
a surveyor pay the mortgage during long winter months. Figure
11.15
shows
a bound buried beneath the snow. Its location would have been obvious without
snow cover. Finding monuments under these conditions can be difficult unless the
surveyor knows exactly where to look. Frozen ground presents an additional diffi-
culty because it makes it more difficult, if not impossible to use a probe and shovel
to dig for evidence.
Fig. 11.15
Bound buried beneath the snow
