Clearing Land in Nanawale

[Hotzcatz]

Earlier you'd mentioned something about the time you have left on island. Whatever you clear now will not be clear when you get back if you leave it alone. Invasive species will pop up all over your lovely cleared areas. Usually, it is more useful to clear before moving there so it won't over grow after you've gone through the effort to clear it.

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"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson

[pam jones]

Excellent advice everyone! If I had it to do over again, I'd hire a dozer with a hammer to put in all of the fence post holes as well as the driveway fence posts. Here in Puna you want a really good gate that is solid and strong and a fence around your property. That is unless you like the idea of wild pigs eating your almost ripe pineapple and making an ugly mess of your yard in the middle of the night! [!]

[Aki]

Pam, It's interesting how topics come to the forefront and then wane over time...five or six years ago, it was all about Coqui containment, with organized neighborhood groups going out at night with head lamps and citrus-based sprays. Now, there seems to be an emphasis on the pig invasion that is affecting many neighborhoods. We had a pig that frequented our yard and was starting to take down my prized heliconias. Our neighbor had a friend who hunts with a bow and was successful the second night out.

[1voyager1]

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... Also, does anyone know if the lots line up with the electricity poles? ...

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Yes, the power poles sit "near" every other lot corner.
They do not define the lot's corner's actual location.
Lots on opposite sides of the road can be offset from each other.
There "should" be steel rebar pins driven into the ground that were placed when the lots were originally surveyed.
They "should" be locate at all 4 corners, each one shared with the adjacent lot[s]
One of those 4 should actually be a survey spike not just rebar.
That is assuming that no one has removed or relocated them to satisfy their personal agenda.

I have recently physically located 3 of my 4 corner posts and am presently in the act of brushing my way towards the 4th, the spike's location.
Luckily, the previous owner had a surveyor locate and verify the corner locations several years ago.
I have a copy of it giving bearings and distances and type of marker for each of the corners.
Using a compass, a GPS and a metal detector I am verifying them for myself.
3 down and 1 to go!