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Fencing
Surveying a property, the description along the west line had a bunch of tiny “turns” along it. What happened is that the fence was held and located with pins along a “straight” section and the fence wondered “off-line”. This is a pasture fence along a 1/4 mile of fence. Putting in the calls between the NW and SW corners leave the largest off-line offset at .5′.
I must note that fences get built between brace panels. In a case like this there isn’t any topography to need more than the two braces at the NW and SW corners. From there the line should be called straight, not S00-25-30E, 215′, thence S00-35-12E, 220′.
Putting “turns” in a fence like this isn’t a good idea. Just saying.
When fencers re-fence it they will string line between the two main brace panels and it will then be straight like it probably was originally. There isn’t any way to “turn” a barbed wire steel post fence without braces, even slightly.
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