Recommended laser for fencing property lines?

[TractorGuy]

If there is a fence, set well back from the line, it will eventually become the de-facto property line, per adverse possession.

The fence will define who has physical access to/use of the property.
No number of corner markers, line posts, or signs will change that.

So what if there is no fence separating a property line? Does my neighbor then own all my property to the other side where there is a fence or do I own all his property to the other side where there is a fence?

ALL of my property has concrete survey markers and I have driven T-post at all of them to keep them from getting lost in the brush. On the back side either the property owner or surveyor also marked the concrete markers with a white PVC post. I can't imagine a fence being 15 feet inside the line would render my survey markers useless.

 

[TractorGuy]

But back on topic: If you really want to use a laser Lowes lists a setup for $600 that should probably work. At least with Lowes if it doesn't perform to your needs you can return it.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Bosch-1000-ft-Red-Beam-Self-Leveling-Rotary-360-Laser-Level/1000692774

 

[MNBobcat]

It is a bad idea to have the fence that far back. If your neighbors openly use the land on their side of the fence they can end up owning the land through adverse possession. I highly recommend you move the fence on to the line.

So what if there is no fence separating a property line? Does my neighbor then own all my property to the other side where there is a fence or do I own all his property to the other side where there is a fence?

ALL of my property has concrete survey markers and I have driven T-post at all of them to keep them from getting lost in the brush. On the back side either the property owner or surveyor also marked the concrete markers with a white PVC post. I can't imagine a fence being 15 feet inside the line would render my survey markers useless.

 

[MNBobcat]

I ended up buying this laser The reviews claim that its bright enough to see well during the day. Whether they are fake reviews I don't know but for the price if it doesn't work I'm not out much

 

[EddieWalker]

With most technology, you pay for what you get. Lazers can be extremely accurate, but the cost is prohibitive for most of us. Save your money on a low end laser and pull wire from corner post to corner post. String will stretch and give you a bow, which makes it a poor choice. High tensile wire is probably your very best choice, but barb wire works if you are going to use it for the fence anyway, and I use electric fence wire since I have a lot of it and I use it on all my fences.

 

[fried1765]

So what if there is no fence separating a property line? Does my neighbor then own all my property to the other side where there is a fence or do I own all his property to the other side where there is a fence?

ALL of my property has concrete survey markers and I have driven T-post at all of them to keep them from getting lost in the brush. On the back side either the property owner or surveyor also marked the concrete markers with a white PVC post. I can't imagine a fence being 15 feet inside the line would render my survey markers useless.

"I can't imagine a fence being inside the line would render my survey markers useless".

Question: Can you "imagine" your survey markers missing?

You are thinking about today....because YOU KNOW where they are.
Fast forward to 30 years from now, when someone has been along that line with a dozer/grader/plow.
No markers of any type are found!

In your specific case, maybe not a problem, but in general, it happens way more frequently than you would ever suppose.

 

[fishheadbob]

Adverse possession isn't quite an urban legend but it comes close. Has anyone ever firsthand been a party to an adverse possession claim? Not "I heard of a guy..."or "my brother-in-law's ex-wife's third husband..." or similar crock, but a real, honest to goodness loss or gain of real estate in one of these. It must have happened somewhere, sometime. Or did it last happen to Henry IV.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Adverse possession isn't quite an urban legend but it comes close. Has anyone ever firsthand been a party to an adverse possession claim? Not "I heard of a guy..."or "my brother-in-law's ex-wife's third husband..." or similar crock, but a real, honest to goodness loss or gain of real estate in one of these. It must have happened somewhere, sometime. Or did it last happen to Henry IV.

This case was near me about 18 months ago:
Little Compton: Woman wins 'hostile' takeover of land - News - providencejournal.com - Providence, RI

 

[TractorGuy]

This case was near me about 18 months ago:
Little Compton: Woman wins 'hostile' takeover of land - News - providencejournal.com - Providence, RI

That's a different deal. Fence lines had nothing to do with it.

The taxes had become delinquent and the couple that took possession had been paying the taxes. Counties don't care who pays the taxes as long as they are paid. If the taxes had remained delinquent for long the property would have been seized and sold for the past due taxes by the county. Since the land jumper found it delinquent and started paying them and the former owners didn't it became theirs to take. If the former owners would have caught it in time they could have paid the back taxes to the land jumpers and got the property back.

 

[fried1765]

Adverse possession isn't quite an urban legend but it comes close. Has anyone ever firsthand been a party to an adverse possession claim? Not "I heard of a guy..."or "my brother-in-law's ex-wife's third husband..." or similar crock, but a real, honest to goodness loss or gain of real estate in one of these. It must have happened somewhere, sometime. Or did it last happen to Henry IV.

So you believe...... that "adverse possession" may be just more...... fake news??

 

[MNBobcat]

The laser I bought was junk and I'm returning it. Back to the drawing board to look for a good laser!

 

[BHD]

when I was a building a few fences, I took a pair of binoculars, and sat them on top of one post, and sighted through to the far post, and I had a helper, (we took a piece of twine 100 feet long, or so, and and when the water filled bottle came up to the post, he stopped and via the binoculars, he help up a taller post, and when it was in line drove a 3/8 steel rod, (electric fence post), and we did the 1/2 mile that way, after a few posts were in my helper could nealy line up on the driven posts, and was with in a inch or two normally, tried to keep the fence with in and 1/2" of straight, we used the small two way radios and hand signals, the hand signals were actually easier to use, then I went back and drove wood posts, at the steel posts, stretched out my barbed wire and when back in a drove steel Tee post, in between the wood posts, I think that fence was with in an inch of straight,

ended up building about two and a half, more miles of fence later that year using the same method,

 

[Sally01]

My father and I decided to make a new fence, he taught me how to make it properly and sometimes my friend came to us to learn too. When we started putting up the fence, we identified our working and universal scheme for installing them, but something went wrong and a friend suggested that we contact the company about this. We found a suitable option on https://www.walshlandscaping.co.uk/services/fencing-contractors-maidenhead-ascot/ and we were installed as needed. We also told them about our scheme and said that it was incomplete. The company also provides services for the installation of the lawn and we think to change it immediately in this company, so as not to look for a new one, because we are really happy with the result.

 

[oosik]

I had to rebuild the barbed wire fence around my property. 1320' x 2640'. I used 300 feet of 1/4" nylon rope and a 6X rifle scope mounted on a camera tripod. Took six months of working evenings to get a good tight 4-strand barbed wire fence reinstalled.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

My father and I decided to make a new fence, he taught me how to make it properly and sometimes my friend came to us to learn too. When we started putting up the fence, we identified our working and universal scheme for installing them, but something went wrong and a friend suggested that we contact the company about this. We found a suitable option on https://www.walshlandscaping.co.uk/services/fencing-contractors-maidenhead-ascot/ and we were installed as needed. We also told them about our scheme and said that it was incomplete. The company also provides services for the installation of the lawn and we think to change it immediately in this company, so as not to look for a new one, because we are really happy with the result.

????

 

[3Ts]

^ The thread is over a year old.

 

[oosik]

As a side note - my method of installation/rebuilding ( post #34 ) worked well. This is because most all my 80 acres is open range land. I think the human eye and some type of scope mounted on a tripod and a string/rope will be just as good as most any normal consumer laser.

You want higher accuracy. Then move up to Trimble, Nikon or Spectra equipment. You will soon see that the price of this equipment plus the cost of learning how to use it just might exceed the land value.