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Equipment Advice
Hello, I am a land owner with some property both in Arizona and New Hampshire. I have a reasonable working knowledge of basics like bearing and distance, drawing plot maps etc. I am looking to a purchasing some equipment to help me with things like locating existing pins, planning fence lines etc. I understand that anything legally sensitive needs to be done by a licensed pro. I am willing to spend up to $1,000. I see used items like “Trimble geo xh pocket PC 2005″ for very low prices and newer items like “Reach RS2′, but I don’t really understand GPS surveying well enough to know what actually works in the real world and or what may need an additional expensive RTK base station or can be cheaply tied into TRIPs type setup. I would love sub meter accuracy in the field and sub foot post processing back at home. Is this just silly or does something fit into this? I’m probably just showing my ignorance but I would appreciate any ideas.
Thank you very much in advance.
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Let me clarify things here.
I am not trying to survey anything and I don’t have any issues with neighbors and I have/do/will hire a professional when it is appropriate. All I want to do is what I have done many times before with a tape/compass/handheld GPS and back in the day an old dumpy level. Just more accurately. Totally just for my own planning purposes and general edification. I have an anal retentive side that does not like the 20′ or so accuracy of hand help GPS. If I’m looking at locating something well within the boundaries of my own property I just like to know exactly where it is and be able to draft it on my plot plan accurately. I have before pulled a tape and angles from pins 100’s of feet away just to satisfy my own sense of wanting to know, but that is a pain. So with that in mind would the above mentioned equipment be of help? Would you recommend something else that can be purchased used for under a grand or is what I want just not possible?
Thank you.
PS: When I talk about finding pins and corners I literally mean physically finding the pins, not surveying them. I have before drawn a property line plot into my drafting program then gone to the location and found a pin, updated the map in my laptop and then used a handheld GPS to find a distant corner 1,000 plus feet away, but spending and hour or two finding it because the hand held is not accurate enough. It would be nice to look in a smaller circle. Not worth hiring a pro if I’m just looking at the property.
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