This video shows how a land surveyor might go about locating a property corner. Also, some of the site challenges a land surveyor faces in recovering monumentation and some advice to property owners.
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@christophermintz82897 ай бұрын
I've never known any surveyors who use blue for prop corners. We use orange. Pink for traverse nails. Blue when staking water and stm. Green for sewer.
@clems69892 жыл бұрын
You can do this yourself, I have. Your county records will show where the corners are with measurments from various landmarks. Or from other property boundaries etc. Once you find 1 corner, the others are easier to find..
@ShyRage12 жыл бұрын
Mine has the the property along with my neighbors but there arent any measuements.
@mts7274 Жыл бұрын
@@ShyRage1 Thank you.
@tellinit4real872 жыл бұрын
I live on a corner and need 1 boundary marker found to put up a fence . I called around and hv been told $ 500- $800 to get a professional out to do it . Seems so expensive. I'll give this a try .
@mts7274 Жыл бұрын
The only problem is that the spikes could have been moved/relocated at some point.
@PuckADV Жыл бұрын
You should hire a surveyor, and why it costs so much is because to survey a lot you have to survey the entire lot we can’t just pop out and do one corner. It’ll save you thousands in the long run when you put the fence in the wrong spot
@Why_Contain_lt Жыл бұрын
@@PuckADV nice try, surveyor
@EM-yu5ry2 жыл бұрын
Nice thanks. Always wondered what type ofmagnetic detectors surveyors use. I need me one to find my peoperty spike's in the woods.
@rgreen002 жыл бұрын
Will set you back around 900 bucks. Hire a surveyors
@davidruiz53837 ай бұрын
Great video, I want to fence; do I just stretch a line from one end to the other. The engineer found the pins and determined the boundary. Any suggestions. Thanks
@mts7274 Жыл бұрын
How do you confirm that plot measurements/distances are correct in a heavily wooded area like that?
@christophermintz82897 ай бұрын
We start with front corners that are in the open. Set up on one and locate the other. That gives us our barring . From there we will either cut to the next by means of the angel given on the plot plans from previous surveyors. Or we will set a traverse point. Set up on that and back sight out original point. And inverse between the prop corners which gives us our new angel to look for that corner. If we haven't already found it during our recon on the property.
@ujayetАй бұрын
But who plant those pin there?
@tmcorey110 күн бұрын
What is that unit you’re using? It’s not a normal metal detector. It sounded like you called it a “machete”?
@lordvader35386 күн бұрын
shonstedt
@tmcorey16 күн бұрын
@@lordvader3538 thank you.
@jimnoeth3040 Жыл бұрын
So, how does one really find a property corner? My lot as platted in the late 1800's, even if they did mark the corners (which they didn't), that steel is long rusted away.
@ryantrone414010 ай бұрын
depends a little on where you are....but in the 19th century stones were most often used as monumentation.
@globalsurveyor Жыл бұрын
Nice videos. I too make videos like this in Australia!
@c.blakerockhart112820 күн бұрын
We have a property line that is shared with a vacant lot owned by a church. For some reason the care taker for the church has decided to make his garden against what he "THINKS" is the line. He also mows about 5-10 feet of our lot. Someone (probably him) has removed our corner marker. According to the county GIS our line is at least 10-15 feet into his garden. How accurate is the information on the County GIS website ? Is it concidered "Reliable" enough to use as a basis for a dispute over the boundaries ? I dont want to spend $500-$600 if it can be settled with the records of the County land office.
@lordvader35386 күн бұрын
The GIS maps aren't accurate. You will need to get a boundary survey.
@c.blakerockhart11286 күн бұрын
@@lordvader3538 The GIS map is exactly accurate on the 3 corners that still have the marker pins. I understand what you are saying about it not being accurate but since I made my comment above, I have located 3 pins by using the GIS map. My wife and I have already been discussing having a legal survey done to prevent any confusion. The area that the guy mows is actually inside of our front fence. Our property has a wooden rail fence along the front and if you are looking out of our front door he is mowing the left front corner. He actually has to come around our fence with his mower. It wouldn't really be a big deal but he seems to be thinking that this area belongs to them. It is approximately 15-25 feet × 295 feet. That is not a small area . we will probably be getting a survey done but I have other things that need that money.
@lordvader35386 күн бұрын
@@c.blakerockhart1128 noted. You will still probably need to get a survey. The signed and sealed documents are what covers the red tape within the city/county. You probably are on the correct corners. But without a licensed survey you are just on random corners if that makes sense. There’s a bit of bureaucratic nonsense involved.
@c.blakerockhart11286 күн бұрын
@@lordvader3538 Understood.
@c.blakerockhart11286 күн бұрын
@@lordvader3538 This conversation caused me to go out and look at where the survey spike/marker is supposed to be. There IS a 5-6 inch dip and when I poked my septic probe into it I was not surprised when it basically fell through the first 16-20 inches before becoming solid ground. But it is exactly where the GIS shows it too be. I guess we are getting a survey done and then I am going to be selling produce from my side of his garden. The thing that bothers me the most about it is that they have at least 0.5 (half) an acre. There is a burn pile area in the center of it and yet he constantly tosses his debris onto what he KNOWS is my property. The occasional weed wouldn't really matter but this dude used wooden stakes and strings to make his rows straight and when he was done with them I had to get it out of my yard so as not to damage my mower. I honestly believe that he is trying to pick an argument. If that property didn't belong to a church, I would buy it just to keep him away.
@William140942 жыл бұрын
But you never found the corner?
@PuckADV Жыл бұрын
Happens often, that’s why we get hired, corners don’t always exist
@grizzlycountry1030 Жыл бұрын
I just found my grass behind my garage in alley dug up to reveal my property marker and I have no clue who dug it up or why.
@mts7274 Жыл бұрын
I did it. I was looking for my car keys. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@PuckADV Жыл бұрын
Surveyors need to tie into monuments within the entire plat to triangulate the lot they are working on, in a survey sometimes you have to find monuments thousands of feet away from the lot you are working on
@mts7274 Жыл бұрын
Please let us know when you find your neighbor's bush.
@PuckADV Жыл бұрын
@@mts7274 that would be awesome been trying for years
@JTRUTH20252 жыл бұрын
Where is the Corner of two intersecting Roads?? My Deed says "BEGINNING at Northeast Corner of " " and " " Roads....Where is the CORNER???
@dave67npr2 жыл бұрын
Often times, section "corners" lie right in the middle of two roads, aka an intersection. There can also be NE SE SW and NW corners of the right-of-way at intersections.
@TerryMcQ79 Жыл бұрын
@@dave67npr that's also assuming the road was paved in the center of the R/W.
@cellopaddyАй бұрын
Blue?!?!
@kellymiller31362 жыл бұрын
It’s best to leave the corner search and determination to the license professionals. There is a reason they have a license.
@jackrasmussen4467 Жыл бұрын
As a 23 year long surveyor I sort of agree. You can do the basics yourself. A metal detector like he is using runs about $900. You can use a coin finder type of detector but that will get you within the area. Not real accurate.
@aloneinfiction41012 жыл бұрын
WHY DO THEY HAVE TO HIDE THEM
@pilotdane12 жыл бұрын
We don't hide them. Generally speaking - when Property Corners are set (depending on where you live & State Statutes / Rules & Reg.'s) at least an 18" rebar is placed in the ground with a "cap - or - tag" bearing the License Number of the REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR - and we put "flagging" around it (usually fluorescent pink or orange) as well a a 4ft tall "lathe" (or stake - if you will) all "flagged up" as well marked "PROP. COR." (Property Corner) - But over time, the stakes get pulled out of the ground by "whoever" - usually kids - and before you know it - you don't even know it's there. When the Surveyor leaves the "Site" - everything is very clearly marked for the Property Owner.....
@greenbeans5752 жыл бұрын
I bet you get chiggers, ticks and poison ivy. That's rough.
@dave67npr2 жыл бұрын
They are set below ground to protect them from being disturbed. We have to do that because if you leave them sticking up, they will get hit and moved, usually by a lawn mower. When people ask me how to mark it so they can find it again, I recommend a piece of heavy pvc pipe left sticking up a few inches away from the actual marker.
@dave67npr2 жыл бұрын
@@greenbeans575 And if you work in Florida... snakes, alligators and the dreaded no-see-ums!😮
@greenbeans5752 жыл бұрын
@@dave67npr What does the average land owner need to find the original markers? A metal detector? What are the options?
@ShyRage12 жыл бұрын
So all properties would have a steak in the ground?
@jpmacoo2 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily. Some states don't require all corners to be marked, others do. And some get destroyed by construction or vandalism.
@ShyRage12 жыл бұрын
@@jpmacoo SO let me ask you. If one couldn't find records of markings anywhere, how does a surveyer company have this?
@jpmacoo2 жыл бұрын
@@ShyRage1 Not really sure what you're asking here. But deeds and plans/maps/plats are recorded at either your county or municipality, depending on how it's done in your state. Also, not all states require plans to be recorded. Subdivision plans are usually recorded. But if I survey someone's lot and prepare a plan, they may choose not to record it. I will have a copy, of course, and whoever the landowner chooses to give a copy to, will also have the plan, then. If you're asking how surveyors determine where to put a survey monument when one doesn't exist, then that's a combination of research, fieldwork/measurement, calculations, evaluation, etc.
@DMAneoth2 жыл бұрын
No surveyors will bury or put any meat into the ground. We normally set iron pins (iron rods) with wooden STAKES (not steak 🥩) near the pins so everyone can find the iron pins that are in the ground easier.
@ShyRage12 жыл бұрын
@@DMAneoth ah ok. My dumb butt was out there with my dog trying to sniff out the steaks. Instead of the metal detector, I used my dog because he loves steaks. SIlly me, now I know. Thank you for letting me know this. Phew.