GPS - Property Line Questions

[Fins101]

Hello all, any information would be appreciated as I know little about the workings of a GPS. What I would like to do is buy an inexpensive handheld which I could use for finding property boundries on my 8 wooded acres(I have the corner pins, but the lines were never marked). Is this possible to do? It doesn't have to be super acurate, just somewhat. If this is possible any ideas on a easy to use, inexpensive model which would also be useful for hiking. Thanks

[tedshunter]

With a G.P.S you are only going to be acurrate + or- 3 ft. If I were your neighbor I would not want you thinking that my property is yours.Look around and see if you can find someone on the site here that does surveying and maybe you could work out a deal.Also take some time and fill out your profile so we have a better idea of where your at and what your interests are.And welcome to the site,there is alot of great people on this site I am sure you will enjoy it.

[Fins101]

Thanks Tedshunter, I was actually planning on having my neighbor along when I did this. I won't be doing any building near the line, but would just like an approximate idea.

[hitechman]

With a G.P.S you are only going to be acurrate + or- 3 ft. If I were your neighbor I would not want you thinking that my property is yours.Look around and see if you can find someone on the site here that does surveying and maybe you could work out a deal.Also take some time and fill out your profile so we have a better idea of where your at and what your interests are.And welcome to the site,there is alot of great people on this site I am sure you will enjoy it.


+-3 feet on the greatest of days over open water--maybe!!! With tree cover and an inexpensive GPSr you''l be lucky to even get a steady signal. I'd have to guess 20-50 feet accuracy.

You'd also have to have the coordinates for a spot along that line. I'd suggest running a long nylon cord from one corner mark to another and stretch it tight (if you can get a straight line with out too many trees in the way). Even if you jave to run around a few trees, that cord will give you a pretty close line. I'm guessing since the corners are in that the lines may have been brushed out to do that survey.

You could also mark one corner as a waypoint, walk to the other corner, and set a "go to" the corner that you marked--should keep you walking a fairly straight line as long as you can get a signal.

Steve

[huntingfool43]

If nothing else you know where the corners are. Your land discription should tell the degrees, min. and seconds to follow from one point to another. Find your starting point and use a decent compass and follow the reading that is on your discription, you should end up at the next corner,just drop something along the way to tell where the line is, should get you closer than a cheap gps under tree cover.