Finding your pins and keeping them found!!!

[adias]

Finding your pins and keeping them found!!!

Aloha All,

A piece of advise that I’ve read is that It’s really important to survey your property before building, since there is always a chance that you might build on the wrong place ;-(

However, having found your pins, you can easily loose them sometimes in the future since the vegetation grows very fast.

A possible solution to this problem is to be there when the property is surveyed and mark down the GPS location of the pins. Anytime in the future, using the GPS coordinates it should be possible to relocate the pins. (GPS receivers are relatively inexpensive and accurate to within few meters.)

Based on the pin finding war stories that individuals on this forum has contributed, this is my plan to find my pins and keeping them found.

Alternate feedback or problems that you see with solution is appreciated.

Incidentally for my two acre property in Orchidland, I was quoted a price of $600+ to survey the property; Does this seem to be a fair rate?


Ajit

Edited by - adias on 11/19/2005 09:03:08

[leilaniguy]

Aloha adias,Yes, VERY important to find those pins! A friend of mine has been working on her home in Blacksands since 1997, and last year discovered (by GPS) that her house is 4 feet over on somebody elses lot. She contacted the owners, who refuse to sell, now she's in a real pickle. I had the pins found on a 1.5 acre lot in The Nanawale farm lots in April, paid $450, so about $300 an acre is about right. A good way to KEEP your pins found is to buy 4 "t" fenceposts and cement them just inside the pins, A few years ago we were building a house in HPP and did this, good thing, because by the time the project was done, the lot was getting overgrown again, and without the posts I would have had to have the pinfinder in again.

[adias]

Hi leilaniguy,

Can you elaborate on how one would cement the posts? What type of cement is used? Where would one get the posts and cement?

Mahalo
Ajit


Edited by - adias on 11/19/2005 12:56:41

[leilaniguy]

Sure, I used a long prybar, called an O'o bar here, to loosen a rock or two just inside the pins -never disturb the actual pin or cover it up- plant the post as deep as you can & cement in with readymix. Pahoa Hardware has the posts and mix, also Pahoa Feed & Supply, Ace in Keaau, Del's in Hilo. Leilaniguy