Last week we got an e-mail from our Boundary Maintenance supervisor informing us that a parcel of land immediately north of some of our AT land had been sold.
He asked us to check out the situation and see if there was anything going on.
Sure enough there was heavy machinery doing some excavating.
By walking the boundary line we saw that they had had their new property surveyed as there were 2 markers, corners of their property.
Since the closest AT survey marker has been missing since before Kathy and I started doing this, and the next one is out of sight, it's impossible for us to know if their markings are exactly right or not.
But working from some line trees, with painted marks, and my compass, we were able to figure that these new marks are darn close if not exactly in the right place and reported that back to our supervisor.
While we were there we made a day of it by refreshing paint ( yellow ) on line trees and witness marks. The repainting is a slow process but we now have a little less than a half of our parcels done. We'll be going back in the coming weeks to do more painting and to keep an eye on the recently sold land
He asked us to check out the situation and see if there was anything going on.
Sure enough there was heavy machinery doing some excavating.
By walking the boundary line we saw that they had had their new property surveyed as there were 2 markers, corners of their property.
Since the closest AT survey marker has been missing since before Kathy and I started doing this, and the next one is out of sight, it's impossible for us to know if their markings are exactly right or not.
But working from some line trees, with painted marks, and my compass, we were able to figure that these new marks are darn close if not exactly in the right place and reported that back to our supervisor.
While we were there we made a day of it by refreshing paint ( yellow ) on line trees and witness marks. The repainting is a slow process but we now have a little less than a half of our parcels done. We'll be going back in the coming weeks to do more painting and to keep an eye on the recently sold land