We recently purchased 101 acres of land to homestead for our forever/generational property. At our last property in the city limits, we could stand on the road and see the entire property. With this much land, not so much. Seeing is knowing, and in this video, I share one thing we are doing so that we never lose sight of our survey line.
When getting the land surveyed, we had some choices. Do you want the survey to mark just the corners? Do you want the survey to mark the corners plus any waypoints between the corners? How many waypoints? Do you want the line of sight marked as well? What distance interval is appropriate for marking? Any vegetation in the way? If so, you probably want a shorter interval. No vegetation and wide open spaces? You may not need any line of sight marked at all.
We chose to have all perimeter waypoints marked with survey pins and the line of sight between the waypoints marked every 200′ with a flag in the ground and an eye-level ribbon as close to each flag. The result was over 100 flags in the ground.
The flags are great, but they are far from long-lasting. Our surveyor suggested we drive a T Post into the ground at each flag location for a longer-lasting boundary. Brilliant! We eventually want to permanently mark the perimeter with a 5-wire barbed wire fence, but understand that our plate is pretty full, and Rome wasn’t built in a day. Driving posts at every flag will be a great way to protect our survey investment while getting a head start on the fence.
We are also in the process of cutting a perimeter trail around the property so we can not only monitor the boundary, but also because it’s a lot of fun to have many trail choices for recreation. Painting the posts with high-visibility orange marking paint will make these posts easy to spot through 20-30′ of vegetation. And if we can easily see them, we can better monitor the entirety of our investment.
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I was hospitalized for poison ivy. Many years ago. I had to put towels down to walk or I would leave a bloody trail beg and me. They say you have 12 hrs to wash the oil off your skin before it will cause a reaction. All clothing must be taken off and washed separately immediately so as not to spread the oil to other things. Gloves can spread it next week. And for goodness sakes hope you didn’t use the RR. I did all these things. There is a shot you can get annually to help prevent another such disaster. The oil gets into your bloodstream and can spread internally. I was hyper sensitive for several years. Now not so much but I’m 68 and don’t get into it as much. I feel your pain. Keep the faith.
You may already know if you disturb it the oil will fly and get on your skin, clothing etc. Wear long sleeve shirts and tie your pants legs and cuffs to avoid it. I did not know the 12 hr rule mentioned by Joseph. I am very susceptible to it. It is not transferable skin to skin. Had a small bout with it recently and have no clue where it came from. Used good ole calamine lotion. We had an 8 acre property it had 2.5 acres cleared for the house and outbuildings. There was plenty of poision Ivy. I sprayed it with a product with a bad rep (Round Up)but it worked. I sprayed the areas with it and it killed it for a good long time. Not transferable by dogs or cats, I don’t think as we had both and they were house animals too. Don’t have any notion I ever got it from them, esp the dog. We had trouble with boundry lines with a new land owner not having clear markings. Good luck with your journey.
The first time I got poison oak I was ten years old. My dad and I went catfishing. He told me to get some firewood for our camp on the river. I did, but also got some poison oak leaves and branches. In a couple of days I looked like I had been boiled in oil…burning poison oak puts out a smoke that penetrates your clothes. I got it from smoke again when I was 22 years old from driving around the forest looking for deer during season. It is horrible. Now the docs can give a person an injection of cortison, or prednesone and dry it up in three days or so which saves several days of misery. I have got it from grooming my horses, petting my hounds, etc. Take care. Round up works to kill it. Larry Brazil
I take Quercetin year round but I take 3-4/day during summer. I believe it helps with poison ivy.