Whose Trees?

Hate 'em.?ÿ Takes me a half hour to do a Houdini-style entry into the thick of the tree with a pin-finder.?ÿ The whole time little bits of gritty junk are creeping down the back side of my britches.?ÿ

And carrying a shovel or a lath in there with you is a whole 'nuther operation.?ÿ If C-4 was legal I'd use it.

Haters....

Few juniper berries in the pickled beets are really a nice touch.... ???? ?????ÿ

Juniper bushes

@peter-lothian Iƒ??m not clicking that link for love nor moneyƒ??.. Robert Barton learnt meƒ??..

@rankin_file it's just a clip of the "Miracle of the Juniper Berries" scene from The Life of Brian.

@rankin_file?ÿ

Haven't heard that name in a long time.?ÿ What is our old Texas buddy up to besides going to hockey games and laying out seven level highway intersections?

I don't know what they are good for, but juniper in the middle of rattlesnake country is lots of fun. I'm not familiar with the tree version, I only know the awful bush version.?ÿ

@mightymoe?ÿ

Well, if you like to drink gin the juniper berry is an integral ingredient.

Posted by: @half-bubble

I am thinking of adding a "Juniper Clause" to The Contract, because it is always about the trees. Those $*#&% juniper trees that people plant on the line, near the line, where the line is, where the line was, where they thought the line was, where their friend said the line was, etc.

He wants to cut said junipers all around. Are they his, or theirs, or are they on the line and jointly owned?

Do any of these people ever talk to each other? As a surveyor I am basically a professional introvert, so it seems ironic that people hire me essentially to talk to their neighbors.

Yet another fraction of a 1/4 1/4 1/4 less the road(s) description, and after some heroic solo robotics in traffic and sun where I was sweating the 0.06' in 2640, the fronts, 30' offset from the section line, are set, however the rears, it appears, are shifted 1'-2' north by occupation. Old, weathered wire and board fence occupation, underneath the swinging end of the locked gate type occupation, railroad ties and existing garage type occupation.

Sometimes the math succumbs to "local report". Now to sleep on it and hopefully understand how they turned a 90 from the section line to lay out the local universe.

The juniper clause will insist that clients knock on the neighbors' doors and ask who planted the junipers.

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I hear your pain. I think the clause is great. To the best of my knowledge I'm capable of informing someone of where something is, ownership is a whole other can of worms which I'm happy to cross IF it is apparent, otherwise its up to the legal team. In any event, the clause provides disclosure on the limitation of your professional opinion, and the clients expectation of deliverable.?ÿ?ÿ

It's working. Client talked to adjoiner (please clap!) and they are in agreement that said junipers are on client's property and nobody will miss them when they are gone later this week. Client will also ask for permission to mark the corner that falls slightly behind a gate. I was ready to go with "found pressure treated 4x4 post at end of fence, 1.0 N of corner, accepted as offset monument."