Having spent some time today cutting line through a dense hillside thicket of bamboo along the rear of some lots adjacent to parkland, I think I have to say that I'd rather cut line through either a cedar or mesquite thicket any day. Add to that the yard waste disposal easement that common law apparently conveys by implication to owners of private lands bordering on urban park land and for decoration, add the pointed, knee-high stubs of old attempts to cut bamboo. The result makes the densest cedar brake or mesquital something to long for.
Take your survey panda with you to eat a path for you to follow.
Oh Yea! Bamboo can be a problem! One of the few times I would use a gas brush cutter with a saw type blade. Cut them low, lay em down, and walk on on them.
> Take your survey panda with you to eat a path for you to follow.
I've seen survey crews like that before, but they are invariably on State or City jobs. Per Wikipedia:
Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivoran, the giant panda's diet is primarily herbivorous, consisting almost exclusively of bamboo.[21] However, the giant panda still has the digestive system of a carnivore, as well as carnivore-specific genes,[27] and thus derives little energy and little protein from consumption of bamboo. Its ability to digest cellulose is ascribed to the microbes in its gut.[28] The average giant panda eats as much as 9 to 14 kg (20 to 30 pounds) of bamboo shoots a day. Because the giant panda consumes a diet low in nutrition, it is important for it to keep its digestive tract full.[21] The limited energy input imposed on it by its diet has affected the panda's behavior. The giant panda tends to limit its social interactions and avoids steeply sloping terrain in order to limit its energy expenditures.[29]
Two of the panda's most distinctive features, its large size and its round face, are adaptations to its bamboo diet. Panda researcher Russell Ciochon observed that: “[much] like the vegetarian gorilla, the low body surface area to body volume [of the giant panda] is indicative of a lower metabolic rate. This lower metabolic rate and a more sedentary lifestyle allow the giant panda to subsist on nutrient poor resources such as bamboo.”[29] Similarly, the giant panda's round face is the result of powerful jaw muscles, which attach from the top of the head to the jaw.[29] Large molars crush and grind fibrous plant material.
Now that is funny!
> Add to that the yard waste disposal easement that common law apparently conveys by implication to owners of private lands bordering on urban park land
Urban park land or any apparently undeveloped land. I love how people will be embarrassed about dog droppings spread all over their yard . I always tell them I am only concerned about the mess in the corners!
One time I literally saw a rebar and cap with a dog bomb deposited squarely on top. I wish I had a camera with me on that day!
Don't forget about the implied backyard enhancement easement; AKA the extra 10' such owners are allowed to move their back fence out onto the Park.
Then there is the informal road of convenience easement which I have seen a few times.
And that TV show "Parks and Recreation" hit the nail on the head. Damn their writers must have worked in a State or Local P&R department somewhere. I watched it a few times when I worked for our DPR and it killed me. The political hack leadership was exactly how it is.
Many people fail to understand how much faster tree limbs, brush cuttings, and lawn clippings deteriorate on public land than anywhere else. It is practically a duty to deposit them there rather than dispose of them in any other way. Ideally, there should be a fence to throw them over, but in a pinch growing bamboo will work as well, apparently.
Dog poop on Monument
Maybe that's just the dog's way of telling you he doesn't accept the monument?
Dog poop on Monument
Since dogs are not issued brass tags or plastic caps with their license numbers on them, how else are they supposed to mark the monuments that they accept?
Surveyors leave their mark on things that they find in similar ways, but for the most part, less stinky.
> Add to that the yard waste disposal easement that common law apparently conveys by implication to owners of private lands bordering on urban park land and for decoration, add the pointed, knee-high stubs of old attempts to cut bamboo. The result makes the densest cedar brake or mesquital something to long for.
Don't forget the 4" raw sewage pipe easement that goes along with that as well. Nothing beats the aroma of brown water effluent tempered by 95 degree weather.
I only got into a bamboo thicket once. It tweren't no fun for sure.
The only thing worse for me was in a rhododendron & mountain laurel mass that was so thick there was barely room to swing a blade. Once you did get something cut there no was place to get the trimmings out of the way.
Almost 2 hours later the rest of crew had gotten the traverse caught up to me and were VERY happy to see that I had a been VERY busy point man.
I had gotten out of radio range so they had no idea what I had been up to the whole time. I was happy to see I had my path pretty damm close to the line so all the effort was worth it - to them. 😉
Bamboo wasn't a problem when I worked in Thailand, but then I did have a bunch of Thai labor to cut it for me!
I avoid using a machete because it tears up my elbow. Compound loppers are great for stuff that is close together. Getting rid of the trimmings is always a problem.
The other thing is I carry a small folding garden saw. It is lightweight and small and doesn't require swing room like an axe.
I agree with the loppers. For me, it's less effort and more control.
Yeah those are all nice and I forgot about the folding saw.
Something else someone told me about is when in a city or urban environment is to carry a small pair hand pruners in your pocket like a rose gardener would carry in their pocket. People probably don't much care to see us carrying that 2' blade around their well manicured lawns especially when I just need to snip a twig or 2 out of the line of sight from the gun.
Gee... yeah think? 😀
Never had to cut my way through Bamboo...I have had to cut my why through tons of phragmites.
Dog poop on Monument
> Maybe that's just the dog's way of telling you he doesn't accept the monument?
Are you sure it wasn't left there by another surveyor telling you he doesn't accept the monument?
;o)
JBS
Dog poop on Monument
> > Maybe that's just the dog's way of telling you he doesn't accept the monument?
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> Are you sure it wasn't left there by another surveyor telling you he doesn't accept the monument?
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> ;o)
> JBS
Thats a funneh visual. How would you explain that if you got caught doin it?:-D
hand nippers are even useful in the Forest from time to time.
