Strange Symbols Painted on Ground

[wmfamily]

I don't know if it would work, but could you call the locate number and find out who asked for the locate?

Doug in SW IA

My wife just mentioned that. We met the person who does the local utility locates in the area back in the spring when they were doing power line work up the road. He was turning around in our drive since it is basically a pasture access and he needed a place for his dog to run for a bit.

 

[wmfamily]

Wow I bought that land and I'm building my dream house starting in a few weeks. LOL..

Great! We can be neighbors but that commute to NH may be a bit long.

 

[WM75Guy]

Keep the picture for liability issues in case you hit something. We had them locate our utilities when we were putting in a new fence along the road. The telecom said clear. I had to get them out 2 more times to mark our phone line. Second time they said clear again, third time I met them and showed them where their line crossed. The locate guy, a contractor for the telecom, said the telecom didn't know where their lines were.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Me? On my property? I have lots of different color spray paint.
Nearby in purple I'd spray a pentagram.
In white "NKL.43"
black "MeK2T"
orange ">4DE..P"
Maybe a few marking flags also.
And so on. Check later see what happens.

 

[wmfamily]

I found the attached painted on the ground at the end of my driveway. I only go to my property every couple of weeks but from the looks of it they were painted fairly recently. Does anyone have any ideas? They look something like survey markings but I didn't find anything else nearby.View attachment 826765

I finally figured out the symbols. The orange is for a company called Fidelity that maintains most/all of the fiber in the county. The other is for Ameren for power. They have been working on the fiber in the local area and their little flags are everywhere. This is most likely for their survey.

 

[Alan W.]

I remember my grandfather came up to my house, he lived within sight of me, and saw a case of orange marking paint in my truck.
He asked about it and I gave him a couple of cans. He left really tickled
Wife came home later that day and asked me what they were going to do on the road. I asked her what she was talking about and she said it was marked up from the hill and past our place.
After going down and looking it was obvious that my grandfather had walked the road marking all perceived problems.

 

[Yander]

I remember my grandfather came up to my house, he lived within sight of me, and saw a case of orange marking paint in my truck.
He asked about it and I gave him a couple of cans. He left really tickled
Wife came home later that day and asked me what they were going to do on the road. I asked her what she was talking about and she said it was marked up from the hill and past our place.
After going down and looking it was obvious that my grandfather had walked the road marking all perceived problems.

LOL, I could just see my gramps doing something like that!