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just-a-surveyor

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Years ago I had several books on surveying and in one of those books was a good detail on blazes and hacks and other line marking methods for trees and rocks, etc.?ÿ

Well years ago we had a dog and that dog liked to consume various items when it got anxious, bored or otherwise pissed at me. It consumed several of my books, along with a significant portion of a rocking chair and corner of a couch and you get the point. The dog would eat a bowling ball if it could get a good bite on it and because of this dogs affinity for chewing up things it shouldn't the dog went away to another place.

However inside one of those books was a very good example of various line markings and I have been unable to find anything close. I have looked but found nothing worth considering online so I figured I would ask you fellas.

Does anyone here have a good reproducible example of what I describe without dog bites??ÿ

Posted : December 19, 2018 10:08 am

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The obvious question - what was the title of this book? Could it have been the Tiny Tillotson book, Legal Principles of Property Boundary Location on the Ground in the Public Land Survey?ÿStates?ÿby any chance?

Posted : December 19, 2018 10:14 am

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It could have been one of 4 books and several "pamphlets". It could have been Legal Principals or it could have been the 1973 Manual or it could have been one of the others. I just recall it having a very good illustration of blazing techniques and I had made frequent copies of it until it got eaten by a chocolate lab.

I am having a senior moment and can't remember the finer points.

Posted : December 19, 2018 10:21 am

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Posted : December 19, 2018 10:32 am

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Someone posted here, once; a fine example of how to blaze a line.

You might try the search function...

Posted : December 19, 2018 10:46 am

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Get a good axe, we use Fiskars axes which work great on Redwood trees (can be like trying to chop a blaze into a mattress but the Fiskars just cut right through) and tree paint. Red is per the Forest manager requirement but yellow is better, more visible:

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Posted : December 19, 2018 11:01 am

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Radar

I've looked but there as So many postings that it would take a month to search them all.

Posted : December 19, 2018 11:38 am

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Is this what you are looking for?

Posted : December 19, 2018 2:01 pm

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I'm not sure this is in any book I own, but it's what my father taught me, and what we've been doing in Maine for 45 years.

If line hits tree place an "on line spot" which is a blaze on each side of the tree 180 degrees apart. (Blazes facing end points of line)

If line misses edge of tree by up to 6 inches place a "quarter spot" which is two blazes 90 degrees apart, each 45 degrees from line.

If line misses edge of tree by up to 18 inches place a "side spot" which is a single blaze facing the line.?ÿ I use a little discretion with the 18 inches depending on the lot.?ÿ ?ÿIf I'm marking a wood lot out in the middle nowhere I might push that out to 36 inches, especially if there is not enough trees to mark.?ÿ If I'm working on residential lot I might tighten that up to 12 inches, or no side spots at all.

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Posted : December 19, 2018 3:05 pm