09-17-2005, 10:52 AM
Hi,
It's not as easy as it looks even when all 4 pins are known. We have one spaghetti lot 3 aces which comes out to 125' wide by 1140 feet long i had my front & back pins staked but I wanted to know where my sides were. I started in the front of the property and walked in a straight line about 100 feet until I hit the dense Jungle and I am talking about 100 foot ohia trees, 20 foot tall Hapu'u ferns and the thickest brush I ever seen in my life, I proceeded to hack away with my trusty machete but once in the bush you now have lost line of sight with the front stakes so you try to landmark with trees and such and I had orange marker tape and roll of string and would tie markers every 50 feet or so. This is no one day job it took me several days to hack my way to the back pins but to my surprize I was over on the next lot which had no markings on it. I swore I was walking in a straight line and retraced my path at least a dozen times it became a obsession with me and I was starting to have thoughts that our house was built on the wrong lot or half on the other lot. I finally called in a surveyor and he shot the property with a transit and hacked his way with a machete with the help of an assistant and he came up with my back pins were correct and I had nothing to woory about. Strange thing is that the true property line looks like it goes at a 30 degree angle but in all actuality it is straight line to the street, so it can be very misleading just walking it in. I used a compass but still not that accurate if you drift off 3 degrees in a thousand feet you will be way off at the end. My advise is to hire a surveyor and walk it with him and mark your sides as he shoots it. Just my experience.
Lee
It's not as easy as it looks even when all 4 pins are known. We have one spaghetti lot 3 aces which comes out to 125' wide by 1140 feet long i had my front & back pins staked but I wanted to know where my sides were. I started in the front of the property and walked in a straight line about 100 feet until I hit the dense Jungle and I am talking about 100 foot ohia trees, 20 foot tall Hapu'u ferns and the thickest brush I ever seen in my life, I proceeded to hack away with my trusty machete but once in the bush you now have lost line of sight with the front stakes so you try to landmark with trees and such and I had orange marker tape and roll of string and would tie markers every 50 feet or so. This is no one day job it took me several days to hack my way to the back pins but to my surprize I was over on the next lot which had no markings on it. I swore I was walking in a straight line and retraced my path at least a dozen times it became a obsession with me and I was starting to have thoughts that our house was built on the wrong lot or half on the other lot. I finally called in a surveyor and he shot the property with a transit and hacked his way with a machete with the help of an assistant and he came up with my back pins were correct and I had nothing to woory about. Strange thing is that the true property line looks like it goes at a 30 degree angle but in all actuality it is straight line to the street, so it can be very misleading just walking it in. I used a compass but still not that accurate if you drift off 3 degrees in a thousand feet you will be way off at the end. My advise is to hire a surveyor and walk it with him and mark your sides as he shoots it. Just my experience.
Lee