Chains, Links, and Rods Mystery Cache
Goat Haunt: This area will soon start building for a new school. With a the activity around it is better to archive this before it starts.
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Modern-day surveyors use things like GPS, a laser level and a total station to do their work.
When the Western Reserve was surveyed they did not have these things. They didn’t even have a tape measure. In order to determine distance they used a chain made of a certain number of links. The chain and links were both of a standard length. The surveyor measured distances based on how many chains and links it took.
A rod is a long bar also used by surveyors to measure distance. It is usually metal with tips of jasper to reduce wear. The distance of a rod is still used for several things. When the land agents buy right-of-way for pipelines, fiber optic lines, and electric transmission lines, the distance they buy it in is in rods. The plats for legal land ownership in many courthouse documents are also in rods. It also measures the lengths of canoe portages.
To find this cache you will have to measure distances based upon these units of measure. The given coordinates will place you at your starting location. From there just follow the directions. All the bearings are magnetic.
Bearing 043, 4 chains, 33 links
Bearing 163, 76 links
Bearing 189, 8 rods
Bearing 089, 86 links
Bearing 020, 1 chain, 85 links
And you are at the cache.
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