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I Own Property

I'm surveying a 20 acre property. The property boarders a nature preserve. It's a two day job.

There are no fences or idication of the back property line. You can't pull a tape measure through this thick wooded back yard to get an accurate distance from the front of the property. (times gps tech would be better)

All of this combines into a day of having to blindly roam through thick patches of trees and shrubs looking for existing corners and guessing which corner I just found to search for others. It took hours to find the back two property corners.

Don't get me wrong, this is a good time story. I'm really not complaining. I just want to remember crawling through the woods and digging up almost every piece of metal back there.

Today was a blast. I'm soaking wet from the snow. I'm covered in dirt from digging and chisseling through frozen ground. But I really hope I remeber days like today. Getting to play in basically a forrest preserve all day.
SW-User
I have done this on the three different farms I have bought. Yes it is a pleasure and great memory. Now what you should do too is to take a role of marking tape with you and mark your corners and borders. Then when it warms up take T-Posts out and replace the tape markers with the T-Posts. T-Posts are green with 6 inch white tips; which make seeing your marked boundaries and corners extremely easy in the future. Why not you already are doing the hard part now!
anotheruser · 31-35, M
O.o

I is a property surveyer, sir...

Couldn't pull tape... too many trees and elevation changes to get accurate measurements across 400 feet.

I do this all day.

And I'm not just marking the corners... I'll just hang flags on the branches all day for that.

I'm having to locate the original moments left from the loting and development of this area.

As far as putting t posts or other type of marker over a corner: its federally illegal to place anything over a property corner... its nv enforced, and obviously many people do it, but as a surveyer, I can't break that law.
bigjohndl · 70-79, M
And get paid to do it. LOL
anotheruser · 31-35, M
@bigjohndl money is kinda secondary to me. Ive quit a few jobs now that pay really well to try to find something I want to do
newtomountainlife · 61-69, M
Come do ours now! 🙂
anotheruser · 31-35, M
Hire me.

 
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