I could buy about 4-5 torches. My neighbors and I do need a licensed Surveyor for another project that touches four of our properties. The County is Quit Claiming an abandoned road to us for free, but we need to pay for the survey. As part of that I called 8 surveying companies in East TN. 2 never called back. 1 called and said sorry to busy. 5 that called back price range for the road project for the 4 of us was $19,420 to $15,536. I asked for getting extra pins or even flags (not licensed capped) placed on my property unrelated to the road project because they’d be out there anyways… $8,500 was my lowest bid, and that was only for “primary corners”, and 4 flags on the ridge which is 3,700ft long and has about 33 calls. I know its a complicated property, with a total of 130+ calls, but I just can’t afford that since I don’t need “legal” accuracy for the farming part of the survey.
For the Quit Claim on the road, eventually the licensed work will need to happen, but we need the housing boom here to slow down a bit. We currently live in a 8,000 parcel community being built out (Tellico Village TN) and the surveyors here are making good money. They are all driving brand new F350’s or Escalade level SUV’s. I’m a capitalist so I totally support that, but since I don’t need legal survey immediately, I can wait for the economics to improve or for the County to change their mind and help with survey costs. In the meantime to do fire breaks, the Prosumer still seems like it can work, and I will own a device that I can help my neighbors with their fire break marking etc staying safely within the borders of their properties.
I understand professional survey gear is expensive, that filing and researching all the legal paperwork is expensive, insurance covering any possible measuring mistakes isn’t cheap, so the bids for the road are probably reasonable. I just can’t afford that at the moment and my neighbors definitely can’t.
I think to flag the property the way I would like, probably 6-8 capped pins, verify current pins, flag all the calls, probably about $30,000 based on the road survey estimates.
The Blue line is the Closed Road that needs the legal Survey. The teal/light blue is what I want to “self Flag” the pins.
The bottom parcel that is Idaho shaped only has about 9 calls not counting down the road.
@AORPLS Ryan, could you wire frame these for me please?
The second line South 4 degrees 40 minutes West[779ft] is a pin I found. The south end of that 779ft there is supposed to be a pin, but I did find a pulled up piece of T-bar post under leaves laying flat on the ground that was +/- 10ft of where iPhone GPS and Columbus GNSS said the iron pin should be.
I used a Columbus GNSS Data logger and got approximately 35.67422747 -84.57019874 at the start of that call (North End)
Compass Heading Mag +5.4 West
22 63 50
As Written means subtract about 5.4 from each heading 32N 20m would be ~26.9N
Reverse Mag +5.4W +/- 22
Feet
Note
311NW 58m
309NW 11m
50
Beginning at an iron pin corner on the Southwest margin of Johnson School house Rd, said iron pin being located North 48d 02m West 158.93 ft North 50d 49m West 169.70 ft from property of Johnson Valley Church
131SE 58m
129SE 11m
158.93
169.70 ~~~~~~~~ 328.63
Found Pin
found pin
184S 40m
50
South 4d 40m West 779.39 ft to iron pin corner
04N 40m
779.39
pin removed?
272W 34m
50
North 87d 26m West 1,512.98 ft to iron pin corner
92E 34m
1,512.98
02N 11m
50
North 2d 11m East 382.00 ft to an iron pin corner
182S 11m
382.00
00N 48m
50
North 0d 48m East 221.66 ft to an iron pin corner
180S 48m
221.66
01N 04m
50
North 1d 04m East 402.82 ft to a Point ?
181S 04m
402.82
Odd there is no pin???
03N 59m
50
North 3d 59m East 1,064.07 ft to an iron pin corner
183S 59m
1,064.07
71E 30m
50
North 71d 30m East 306.51 ft to an iron pin corner
251W 30m
306.51
32NE 15m
50
North 32d 15m East 156.13 ft to an iron pin corner at Westerly margin of road
212SW 15m
156.13
144SE 38m
50
South 35d 22m East 20.41 ft to iron pin at center of road
324NW 38m
20.41
213SW 13m 179S 51m
50
following center of the road two calls South 33d 13m West 67.66 ft South 00d 09m East 41.13 ft to iron pin center of road
33NE 13m 359N 51m
67.66
41.13
257W 49m
50
South 77d 49m West 20.45 ft to iron pin on Southwest margin of road
Ok, I will need to type up the other 27 calls of the 50 acre parcel. I had not typed those up since they are the internal border that joins the two parcels. Headed out for work now, but should be able to type it up tonight. Really appreciate your coaching and assistance on this!!
