Phase one of my fire surveys got finished yesterday. Seven sections, 17 miles of property line staked, 49 sectional corners set or recovered. I was wondering how it could have been done in the old days of total stations or transits and chains. I hate to even think of it, although we did it before. I've now spent more years surveying with GPS than with crews and instruments.
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fire surveys? Tell me more.
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Did you offer to do it for 6 percent of the appraised value of the houses combined? ???? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????ÿ
That would have been a donation since there aren't any houses.
One of my clients had a fire on their ranch and it destroyed/damaged about 70 miles of fence. My first task is to stake a boundary around a ranch that is all inside their?ÿ boundary. That I just finished. Next task is to survey 15 miles of boundary that wasn't surveyed when we first surveyed 30 years ago for the ranch. The rest of the burned fencing they don't need surveyed since it was surveyed before or it's interior pasture fencing.
O I C?ÿ This was a very rural fire.?ÿ I was picturing one of those settings where people have encroached into the forest and the forest rejected them as everything burned to the ground.?ÿ Six percent of a pre-fire total value versus post-fire total value was my joke.?ÿ Well, the joke's on me.?ÿ Seventy miles of fence construction makes my back ache just thinking about it.?ÿ The cost of steel posts and barbed wire has sky rocketed around here over the past eight or nine months.?ÿ Ever since people thought the pandemic was going away.
This is how rural it is; I'm in two townships lying east-west of each other. In the east township there is a place in Section 1, and a house in the SE corner of Section 35. In the west township there is what used to be a hunting lodge in Section 18. That's it. When you go there to work you are on your own. And its rough country. Just how I like it.?ÿ
