I agree. That's why 95% of my work is in construction, 3d surfaces, drone mapping, and training. Too many surveyors cutting their throat on the boundary.
In our area a 170 acre boundary would be approximately 13,000 feet around it.
Ed
In our area a 170 acre boundary would be approximately 13,000 feet around it.
Ed
That boundary distance stuff is meaningless to the level of difficulty for doing a job. I mean 13000 feet through a swamp is harder that 13000 feet through nice pasture. And then he mentioned that he was gonna subdivide it into I think 70 lots, so that is gonna require the setting of a whole bunch of pins and even a 12 hour per pin may not be enough depending on the area. And the platting and approval process, ya can't forget that.
I'm just saying that I would never touch that kind of a job for the money he quoted.
In our area a 170 acre boundary would be approximately 13,000 feet around it.
Ed
That boundary distance stuff is meaningless to the level of difficulty for doing a job. I mean 13000 feet through a swamp is harder that 13000 feet through nice pasture. And then he mentioned that he was gonna subdivide it into I think 70 lots, so that is gonna require the setting of a whole bunch of pins and even a 12 hour per pin may not be enough depending on the area. And the platting and approval process, ya can't forget that.
I'm just saying that I would never touch that kind of a job for the money he quoted.
I'm with Just.
In the area that I have been working the last 5 years, a 170 acre boundary survey could?ÿrun?ÿover $100,000 (w/o staking lots), and it's unlikely that even an EASY (REALLY REALLY EASY [relatively speaking]) 170 acres?ÿcould be done for less $20,000?ÿ?ÿ(w/o staking lots).
One thing I like about this forum, is getting to hear about how much DIFFERENT things are in other parts of the country, and in different cadastral fabrics.
One size NEVER fits all!
Loyal
This farm pasture with hardwood lot in the back. Fenced hedgerows along each side. Only 6 property corners. Can do the fieldwork in less than a day. Except for the county line. Uncertain how far need to go to define that.
This farm pasture with hardwood lot in the back. Fenced hedgerows along each side. Only 6 property corners. Can do the fieldwork in less than a day. Except for the county line. Uncertain how far need to go to define that.
Thanks Lee,
I get it!
I fully realize that there are MANY scenarios where a guy can make a good profit, and produce an excellent product, without breaking a sweat (so to speak).
Loyal
This farm pasture with hardwood lot in the back. Fenced hedgerows along each side. Only 6 property corners. Can do the fieldwork in less than a day. Except for the county line. Uncertain how far need to go to define that.
So it appears I misunderstood your original post. I thought you were splitting it into a 70 lots but your doing a 100 acre lot and a 70 acre lot.
I still would not touch it for the price you mentioned.
Back in the 70's, in Nebraska, we cut the NW 1/4 out of a section in less than a day (I was rear chainman)
We found the 4 quarter corners and the NW corner; sat on the north-south line and set straddles; sat on the east west line, completed the straddles and adjusted for the curvature 😉
Hand chained around the whole thing and to the east and south quarter corners. 3 miles, in less than a day. It would take at least a week to do the same thing here in Western Washington. Even today, I'm sure it wouldn't be that easy.
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One size NEVER fits all!
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Locals would sign the necessary and appropriate title form to not have a survey made and pay a fee to the title company before they would pay any surveyor $6,500 to survey 170 acres and divide into a 70 acre parcel and a 100 acre parcel and wanting the boundaries marked for fencing no matter the density of forest.
The specific locale and accessibility make a huge difference. ?ÿThere are places around here where the field work could be knocked out in two hours.