Other activities included a demonstration of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a pacing contest, chaining contest, searching for GLO closing corners on the military reservation boundary, and a lot of good fun and food.
© Jerry Penry 2015
PSAN Summer Seminar
Fort Robinson, Nebraska
July 17, 2015
The Professional Surveyors Association of Nebraska held their 2015 summer seminar at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Among the activities were restoring five of the cast iron boundary posts that marked the original Fort Robinson Military Reservation. Over the years, these historical markers have been stolen, damaged, and others were leaning badly or pulled out. In 1941, the General Land Office placed their own brass caps on iron posts at the corner locations and moved the remaining cast iron markers to the side which became witness monuments to the brass caps.
The portion of the military reservation (in green) that was retraced.
Boundary Post No. 27 leaning.
Boundary Post No. 27. Measuring to GLO brass cap.
Boundary Post No. 27. Some of the group doing the restoration work.
Boundary Post No. 26. Digging a hole for the cast iron post.
Boundary Post No. 26 lying flat on the ground.
Boundary Post No. 26. Resetting the marker into the hole.
Phil Curd and Don Brush calculating search positions to look for the closing corners.
Rollin Curd. Nebraska's longtime surveyor and historian.
Vehicles parked along the nearest access trail.
Boundary Post No. 26. Tamping the soil around the post.
Boundary Post No. 26. Saving the excavated soil in one place on a tarp.
Boundary Post No. 26. Finishing the restoration.
Boundary Post No. 25. Found pulled out and lying flat on the ground.
Boundary Post No. 25. Leveling the GLO brass cap which was found leaning.
Boundary Post No. 25. Moving the cast iron post toward the hole.
Boundary Post No. 25. Moving the estimated 600-lb. marker.
Boundary Post No. 25. Mark Streit adjusting the marker as Jay Dubbs brings the level.
Boundary Post No. 25 finished.
Boundary Post No. 23 found badly leaning.
Boundary Post No. 23. Tamping the soil after straightening the post.
Boundary Post No. 23 now finished and restored.
Scott Bosse demonstrating his UAV.
The UAV just prior to takeoff.
The UAV in flight.
The chaining contest under way with Phil Curd as head chainman.
Jerry Penry, John Thompson, and Kelly Beatty involved in the chaining contest.
The 'unofficial' creek jumping contest while going to Boundary Post No. 31.
The top of Boundary Post 31 exposed after being buried by a flood.
Boundary Post No. 31 not wanting to budge.
Boundary Post No. 31 requiring a lot more digging.
Boundary Post No. 31 being exposed.
Phil Curd down in the hole.
Boundary Post No. 31. Finding the GLO brass cap.
Boundary Post No. 31. Don Brush getting a position on the brass cap.
Boundary Post No. 31. Most of the group that ventured to the final post to be restored.
Boundary Post No. 31. Jay Dubbs taking his turn in the hole.
Boundary Post No. 31. Moving the post back to vertical.
Boundary Post No. 31. Mark Streit provides the extra leg power to push the top of the monument back into place.
Boundary Post No. 31. Both monuments exposed.
Boundary Post No. 31. Jeremy Fuesner inn the hole cleaning off the brass cap.
Boundary Post No. 31. Both monuments exposed.
Boundary Post No. 31. One last look.
Boundary Post No. 31. Obtaining a position on the cast iron monument.
Boundary Post No. 31. The backfilling is under way.
Boundary Post No. 31. Don Brush with the GPS.
Boundary Post No. 32 (brass cap only) getting a position in order to search for a nearby GLO closing corner.
Brass cap of Boundary Post No. 32.
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