Blazing trees on timberland.?ÿ Never done as big a project.?ÿ What do you think an average crew could blaze and paint an hor marking min every 100 ft?
Thanks for the help,
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Matt
Hardwoods??ÿ Softwoods??ÿ Line already flagged??ÿ How are you finding the location of the line?
Proper Blazed Trees are based on the distance the tree is from the property, measure in axe handles.
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One gal per mile per day.
Running lines traditionally so approximate line will be cut out with trav pts down cut line.?ÿ Contract specifies how agency wants line marked and max distribution of 100' btwn.
So how does everyone mark witness trees and boundary trees (tree is the corner)?There is of course much literature which claims authority, but being in a colonial state, I see it different depending upon the area's surveyors.?ÿ
We usually estimate ?ÿ1/4 mile per day for the preliminary traverse and 1/4 per day to offset the traverse and mark the true line. This is in Western Oregon... fairly heavy brush and quite a bit of up-and-down terrain.
State and federal agencies have different specifications from one another that can differ from corporations and private land owners. I would suggest a thorugh review of the painting portion of the scope of work. In addition to paint, my agency also requires carsonite posts to be set on line in areas where the boundary may cross an open field or trees are not in the immediate vicinity of the boundary line.?ÿ
Jim, believe me that I read it thoroughly.?ÿ This agency calls for T post every 500 across fields.
Went with distance one of our other offices said they get a day marking 1/2 mile for same agency.
I used to blaze and paint for the Forest Service around the White Mountains in NH.?ÿ We were required to blaze everything then come back in a couple of months to paint after the blaze dried out.?ÿ If you try to blaze and paint during sugaring season (spring when the sap is starting to move up from where it is stored in the roots during winter) you can expect extremely poor results.?ÿ If you aren't being paid to care about quality, then make sure you slop a bunch of paint on the bark all around your fresh blaze.?ÿ
We blazed trees as shown on leegreen's diagram above.?ÿ Make sure your axe is sharp and fairly heavy as lighter axes seem to be slightly more prone to deflection.
When we were doing mostly Texas Veteran Land Board Sur eys?ÿ they had a clause that required flag every 50 feet along boundaries.
It was a pain to have to go back and flag fence thru open fields every fifty feet while cattle ranchers were complaining about fear of their herd dying from eating too much flagging.