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@flga-2-2
Around these parts; everything will be covered with yellow dust, from Doug Fir pollen…
I hope everyone has a great day; I know I will!John,
Who are you addressing your OP to? Who do you want to correct this? Wouldn’t that be up to you?
I think he is expressing frustration with those who are sloppy with corner reports. It’s no different from finding a 5/8″ bar but reporting it to be a 1/2″ iron bar. Then the next half dozen surveyors find it from your report also report it as being a 1/2″ iron bar when it has been a 5/8″ iron bar the entire time. Too many surveyors are afraid to report anything different.
I’m glad I don’t have those trees to worry about. Oak? There are different kinds of oak trees?
Yellow pine or pine is the most noted tree for bearing trees here.
Yellow pine isn’t really a type but I know what they mean, and pine can mean almost anything, they use that a lot, later on they might use fir as a mention, sometimes spruce and very rarely an aspen.
Not many ever used boxelder or cottonwood, cottonwood is pointless anyway, they die so quickly.
And that’s it as far as I’ve ever seen.
Interesting comment on cottonwood trees. They are among the oldest surviving trees around here. There are some over 160 years old, pre-dating the government survey.
- Posted by: @holy-cow
I think he is expressing frustration with those who are sloppy with corner reports. It’s no different from finding a 5/8″ bar but reporting it to be a 1/2″ iron bar. Then the next half dozen surveyors find it from your report also report it as being a 1/2″ iron bar when it has been a 5/8″ iron bar the entire time. Too many surveyors are afraid to report anything different.
Previous surveyors probably don’t know and don’t want to rock the boat. ????
Recently, we were using corner reports from a nearby firm. They had been there numerous times and had reported all references to be identical since about 1995. The references that were nails in fence posts were all about 0.2 feet different based on which way they had leaned over the years. They were good enough to help us find the corner, but had never been checked by the other firm. This is sloppy work practice. Especially when one of the references listed on a recent corner report is to a power pole that was replaced several years ago and the new one is about two feet from where the old one was.
@dougie
Typical life span of a cottonwood tree is 70 years, so I’ve read. They hollow out and tip over in our high winds. More people regret planting cottonwood trees than any other in urban areas here.
Plus all that cotton. That’s our plains cottonwood, I suppose there are different types.
Life expectancy of hybrid cottonwoods is thirty years, lots of those were regretfully planted.
That reminds me of people who planted catalpa trees to mark the property lines of small city lots. They never get sunlight on the property until one dies, which is rare. Then they get to pay a fortune to have the tons of dead wood removed carefully.
This thread reminds me of a boundary northeast of Memphis, where the landowner planted bodock trees (osage orange) along a half mile stretch between himself and a neighbor he didn’t like. Although he did have a barbed wire fence on the property line, his cattle and horses couldn’t get to it because of the thorns from the trees. I must have had a dozen or more painful scratches and stab wounds at the end of that survey.
I planted a long stretch of those Hedge Apple(osage) trees on my place in a coal field. I used a sub soiler behind a tractor to make a ditch and poured a slurry of last years hedge apples all down the line. I got a nice straight line of them which will one day make a fine fence. A surveyor 100 years from now may appreciate the permanent line marking but will certainly be cussing me for making it so hateful.
I’ve recovered black oak witness corners on top of shaly ridges near the WV-VA line than had grown less than an inch in the 50 years since the deed was written if you could believe the diameter in the description. If it was correct, those 12″ +/- trees might’ve been easily 150+ years old. Have also seen some really big white oaks. They last a long time around SW VA, and get really, really big. Learned most of my dendrology from my grand daddy and my dad, walking through the woods.
Those trees are probably courtesy of my ancestors who never moved three miles from where they were born. They were born in Virginia and died in West Virginia and buried in the family cemetery on the farm where they were born. I qualify to submit an application to join the Sons of the American Revolution on multiple branches of that side of my family tree. The battles fought from 1861 to 1865 had representatives on both sides shooting at one another.
It is a rare fence line in these parts that DOESN’T have hedge trees along most of its length. The intent was to bend the multiple spouts such that they would form a truly impenetrable width of thorns. That practice, borrowed from Europe, did not last long. So now we have 150 year-old trees mixed in with younger ones along the fence lines. The problem comes from the rabbits and squirrels munching away on the hedge balls (apples), letting their digestive systems perform the fermentation process required, then pooping out highly fertilized droppings full of seeds…………anywhere and everywhere.
@jim-in-az I did correct it. I am addressing that it took over 30 years for somebody to correct it even though the corner has been located and mislabeled several times.
@holy-cow We have Catalpa’s here. A lot of people call them cigar trees.
As a youngster, I remember my mother warning be to not attempt to jump up, grab a catalpa bean and jerk it from the limb. She told me of some playmate of hers from her youth had done that. The result was he slammed the tip of a hard bean into his eye, blinding him permanently in that eye. Thus, I have never tried that. Probably the most effective childhood warning put forth.
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