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.?ÿ
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.?ÿ
The surveyor must have grown up in New England where fences are made from stone and are held to be wherever the fence wanders along its course.
Doing that in ranch country is asinine, in the general case.
The surveyor must have grown up in New England where fences are made from stone and are held to be wherever the fence wanders along its course.
Doing that in ranch country is asinine, in the general case.
And it's the west line of a Section. At least the developer owned both sides of the section, so that's not an issue, but the preamble of the legal only called the 40 in the east section.
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@holy-cow I thought the same thing as I just finished up a survey that had several 6-700 foot lengths of stone wall that had been broken up into 5-10 different legs. If you went from the beginning to the end none of the angle points fell off the wall which was 3' wide. To make it worse there was a survey of an abutting property that called all of the drillholes in the wall off by a tenth in the same direction. Ughh.
Amazing!?ÿ One-tenth and all in the same direction. ??? ??? ????ÿ
Is the plural of doofus supposed to be doofi??ÿ We have too many of them in the land surveying world.
