Well, they said the surveyors would be out to day and it looks like they were.
And they even noticed the camera.
As mentioned earlier two of the four corners are marked with some somewhat-official markers – a recent modern marker, and another corner has the original cap from the General Land Office in 1915. THe surveyour-boss emailed me to say that the other two are the ones theyre going to have to ‘calculate’. Since the property lines run N-S and E-W. I cant imagine it would be anymore difficult than a) go to known corner b) travel XXX yards in a straight line on the compass bearing. Where you stop is your corner. But, what do I know……..
And that wasnt the only visitor today. The local fox came by and appears to have brought a lunch with him….
Where you stop is your corner. But, what do I know……..
Sounds like you know basic geometry.
But, then, I dropped out So..
Dammitall..
Using a total station, or GPS, finding corners should only take a few minutes, unless there is heavy tree cover, or brush. In the old days, they used a transit, and a chain, which took a small crew. These days, one man can arrive at the points and mark them, or place new points.
It’s all about legal stuff.
I worked for surveyor for awhile.Chainsaw and machete guy.
We found so much bad surveying work.
Oh that guy, shit.
Which required us to go back to regional boundary markers which were miles away.
What a PITA.
Kind of nice when people show up when they say they will, and keep you informed of what’s going on. That’s becoming a rare thing these days.
When the survey is done, before paying the final amount, be certain the metes and bounds described in the survey accurately show the property is completely closed (i.e. ends meet). When we had our small property surveyed, I drew up the line as shown and found one of the directions chosen was 90 degrees off. I called the surveyor to check his numbers and he agreed – the correction was made and transaction was completed. I wonder if I hadn’t checked, would I have been forced to pay to have it re-surveyed to correct the mistake ? I’m glad I didn’t have to find out. Our property has 8 different turns so a bit more complicated than other properties.
Right angle corners can be found very easily, accurately and precisely if you have 2 known points (non-right-angle triangles take a little trigonometry, but you can find them). Compasses are less precise, to say the least. Modern surveyors use GPS units they place at a known location (in cities they have boundary markers all over, in your case they need a clear-site to the sky for the base unit to hit the satellites). Then spots are marked using a remote-unit that connects to the base. The remote units are typically wireless, and accurate to within a foot or less. If they’re going old-school w/ a transit and compass, Good luck!
A foot? Hopefully a lot better than that. In the late 70’s we were running on interstate construction jobs with chains and transits that required a tenth or less in a mile. (That is tenths of a foot. Temperature corrected chain, that is actually a steel tape, etc.) Bridgework was a hundredth or less over 700 foot span. You had to come at every point from two or more knowns and directions to confirm your work. All data into the little yellow job book, of course.
As an elective in college, I took a plane surveying course – we surveyed the campus with old-school instruments: Levels, transits, chains.
Turns out that college campuses are very well surveyed from those classes.
One absolute bitch of a task was surveying (with a level) the front of the admin building – which had a nice slope, covered in ivy. Getting to ground to use the rod was nearly impossible because of it.
Bear spray at the ready!
I keep a Deagle .50 in a chest holster, myself
Really? Dude, thats a lot of weight to have flopping around on your chest.
More effective than a can of bear spray.
I run a brace of Deagles in a modified chest rig for bear medicine. I also have 2 JIC addons. In my ankle rig there is a vintage Wildey in 44 AMP. Also as my tertiary back up there is an Taurus Raging Bull in 454 Casull. I wanted to add a Benelli M4 but due to a spinal cord injury sustained during my time in REDACTED working for REDACTED I am limited to how much I can carry in the wilds of Rhode Island. Anyhoo, must run, some of my chums from REDACTED are stopping by and we are going to go REDACTED some REDACTED.
If you are shooting a line with a magnetic compass don’t forget the magnetic deviation. Where you are may not be much or maybe it will depending on how far you are shooting.