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On your property.
Do you have your property lines laid out, cleared marked and legal?
Don't assume anything.
If your unaware of where to start- start at the county courthouse. See what surveys have been done for adjoining parcels. If you have no current survey of your place, this is a good place to start. Locate the neighbors markers where they meet up with yours.
A roller measuring wheel and a compass will help. Bring some tree tape. Often times a metal detector is handy if iron pins are used.
Just because old man Jones says the property line is a certain spot, doesn't mean it is or it's legal.
Fences are often put in the wrong spot. People take the path of least resistance and a fence line can vary from the actual property line dramatically.
Don't be like those jerks from NY and NJ that move to FL and want to squabble over a six inch difference in property lines. But you do need to be smart and have your fences as close to the legal boundaries as possible.
If you have a surveyor out, get him a quantity of 2 feet thin rebar pieces and spray paint them pink or orange. Ask him to drop them every couple hundred yards or less on the lines. This saves them markers. It also gives you something to come along and drop a corner post next to. Done every hundred yards or so, you can run a string line between these and lay out your fence posts from that.
When in doubt, stay back from the line, but not much.
It's not about capping people that cross your property line in the PAW, but a LEGAL, POSTED, PHYSICAL BARRIER may go a long way if you have to go to court over some crap after something happens.
(Mr. Trespasser/Looter)- "No I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be there."
(You)- "Your honor, he climbed over this four foot fence with barbed wire on top after ignoring a no trespassing sign. He walked past another no trespassing sign and came another 300 yards up to another gate and fence, also with another no trespassing sign. He then cut the lock on the gate and proceeded towards the house wherein he was caught breaking in."
A little harder to explain than-
(Looter)- "There wasn't no fence there or nuttin, just an open road right up to the house and it look abandoned so I just went in..."
We have to realize that not every disaster is going to bring about full on Mad Max "kill them all let God sort them out" type of scenarios. You MAY end up having to justify your actions in court after the fact.
Do you have your property lines laid out, cleared marked and legal?
Don't assume anything.
If your unaware of where to start- start at the county courthouse. See what surveys have been done for adjoining parcels. If you have no current survey of your place, this is a good place to start. Locate the neighbors markers where they meet up with yours.
A roller measuring wheel and a compass will help. Bring some tree tape. Often times a metal detector is handy if iron pins are used.
Just because old man Jones says the property line is a certain spot, doesn't mean it is or it's legal.
Fences are often put in the wrong spot. People take the path of least resistance and a fence line can vary from the actual property line dramatically.
Don't be like those jerks from NY and NJ that move to FL and want to squabble over a six inch difference in property lines. But you do need to be smart and have your fences as close to the legal boundaries as possible.
If you have a surveyor out, get him a quantity of 2 feet thin rebar pieces and spray paint them pink or orange. Ask him to drop them every couple hundred yards or less on the lines. This saves them markers. It also gives you something to come along and drop a corner post next to. Done every hundred yards or so, you can run a string line between these and lay out your fence posts from that.
When in doubt, stay back from the line, but not much.
It's not about capping people that cross your property line in the PAW, but a LEGAL, POSTED, PHYSICAL BARRIER may go a long way if you have to go to court over some crap after something happens.
(Mr. Trespasser/Looter)- "No I didn't know I wasn't supposed to be there."
(You)- "Your honor, he climbed over this four foot fence with barbed wire on top after ignoring a no trespassing sign. He walked past another no trespassing sign and came another 300 yards up to another gate and fence, also with another no trespassing sign. He then cut the lock on the gate and proceeded towards the house wherein he was caught breaking in."
A little harder to explain than-
(Looter)- "There wasn't no fence there or nuttin, just an open road right up to the house and it look abandoned so I just went in..."
We have to realize that not every disaster is going to bring about full on Mad Max "kill them all let God sort them out" type of scenarios. You MAY end up having to justify your actions in court after the fact.
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