Berntsen Sectional Rod Monument with Floating Sleeve

Berntsen's exclusive Top Security™ Sleeve 3-Dimensional Rod Monument System is specifically designed for high-precision geodetic and GPS surveys.  Its patented design helps protect against excessive movements in the control monument.  The Berntsen extendible rods, when driven to refusal, provide excellent vertical stability.  The unique Y-shaped design of the Top Security Sleeve adds the second and third dimension to provide the most stable 3-D survey monument available.

Eliminate most common and unexpected shifts in stability by eliminating most of the direct transfer of shifts in movement from ground level or surface movement. Here's how: Rod markers (driven to refusal) have good vertical stability but can be disturbed by the natural phenomenon known as frost heave. Rod markers, installed with a greased-filled PVC pipe surrounding the upper three or four feet (900 or 1200 mm) (or more) of rod, are known to be effective in combating movement caused by frost heave but offer little protection against possible horizontal movement of surrounding earth (another major cause of differences in readings on rod markers). For the first time, Berntsen's Top Security Sleeve^TM with the horizontal stability of the original Berntsen Top Security^TM finned rod marker system, this is now available in a commercially available survey monument.

It's even extendible! 3' (914mm) lengths of Top Security Sleeves can also be connected together by Berntsen's exclusive End Cap Alignment Bushings and a little PVC Cement. When used in combination(s), nearly any even-foot length over six feet long (1.83m) of support for the rod marker is possible. That's innovative and flexible design at work for you.

More good news! The Top Security Sleeves' greatest advantage at installation time is speed. Simply drive standard Berntsen round rods to refusal, slip on the grease-filled finned Top Security Sleeve (recommended sleeve length greater than maximum recorded local frost depth), back-fill around the fins with sand, tamp firmly. The color coded End Cap Alignment Bushings follow Berntsen's long established universal color codes for rod marker systems and tell other surveyor's at a glance what size rod is installed - 9/16" (14 mm) Yellow;  3/4" (19 mm) Blue. We recommend NO-TOX lubricating grease to fill the Top Security Sleeve. It is specially formulated to be non-toxic and environmentally safe. It is available in an easy to use cartridge that fits a standard "grease gun". One cartridge should be used for each 36" (915mm) long Top Security Sleeve.