survey stakes and neighbors

[Ifixcars]

I just got the property line between me and my neighbor surveyed and staked out. The surveyer put standard wooden stakes with ribbon flags every fifty feet or so along a 700 foot line. My neighbor, who didn't chip in for the survey, does not like the stakes because they are "unsightly", and wants something else less visible. I was thinking of maybe replacing them with steel pins driven down to ground level, so that lawn mowers can cruise over them. Is there something available maybe with a head like a big roofing nail so that they don't dissapear into the ground forever? By the way, since the survey was done, my yard has grown a few feet over the length of the line. Seems my neighbor, who was here before me, was wrong about how much yard he had. He was kind enough to show me where the line was when we moved in, and helped himself to a 5 or 10 foot strip 700 feet long. That's over now though.

 

[BTDT]

Something like this might work to keep him on his side
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...an-doing-what-fencemen-do-837250-dsc02450.jpg

I'm sure wroughtn_harv could fix you right up


To answer your question, yes. I bought 12" spikes (BIG nails) to hold some railroad ties together that were stacked to make a porch. I'm sure one of the box stores will have them. Good luck.

 

[Harvster]

You can use pieces of rebar. Drive them flush with the ground and a metal detector or big magnet on a string will find them later. Or use something more aesthetically pleasing like a nice line of pink flamingos.

 

[tallyho8]

I use 8' long rebar on the corners, to make sure they stay there.

 

[jinman]

Are you sure your surveyor didn't put down metal stakes? I had a property line survey done several years ago and at every wooden stake, there was an 18" stake driven into the ground (about every 100'). I'd check with the surveyor to see if he didn't already drive in a pin.

 

[thcri]

Are you sure your surveyor didn't put down metal stakes? I had a property line survey done several years ago and at every wooden stake, there was an 18" stake driven into the ground (about every 100'). I'd check with the surveyor to see if he didn't already drive in a pin.

Jinman,

We bought some lake property about 13 years ago and it was surveyed like a year before that and the surveyer did put metal ones down also right next to the wooden ones about 3" under ground.

murph

 

[dirtworksequip]

ifixcars, here are some products that are used to mark survey pins. The yellow caps fit 5/8ths rebar. You can get them in varying sizes to fit different diameter rebar. The only drawback is usually you have to buy them by the 100. The orange plactic marker slips onto a 10 penney nail which is shoved into the ground leaving the marker above the ground for easy visablility. They will last about 1 or 2 years if you mow over them with a lawn mower- will last for years if you don't mow them. You can concrete around your pins using a small coffee can for a form and they will out last your or me! I do have some extra caps and markers.Let me know how many you need and we can work out a price. My bar caps are imprinted with "country aire estates" but that could be sanded off.

Sincerely,
Dirt

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q259/dirtworksequip/surveymarker.jpg

 

[zeuspaul]

Ask the surveyor for some *feathers* or stop a surveyor on the street or try a survey supply. Feathers are about six inches long and made of plastic. You can hammer them into a survey stake or drive a 60 penny nail through them. All you will see is the *feather* sticking up marking the location of the nail or stake.

Edit...Dirtwork got there first. You can see a picture of a *feather* in his post.

Zeuspaul

 

[TractorLegend]

I sounds as if a fence is in your future...
according to my "reading between the lines" skills :~}

 

[Timber]

I would lay fence myself but thats me