Re shot the north 40 and finally got it right. Was even able to make out my orange markers in the high resolution image and they were right where they were supposed to be. You can't make them out in the top photo because it has been downsized for the web and cannot be zoomed in far enough. Had another miss with the south 40 reshoot so I will try again tomorrow morning. Seems I have yet to figure out the focus secret. 87,94,66,0,B
Am i missing something, shouldn't number 3 be at the top left corner if these are boundary markers?
ReplyDeleteIs the focus problem with the drone camera or the mapping app?
ReplyDeleteBilly ray... I didn't mark the top left corner because it is already marked by a road intersection. 3 is the midpoint where my two (south) twenty acre tracts meet the north 40 - point D in last Tuesday's post. LeoinSA...it is a problem with the mapping app and the drone camera working together.
ReplyDeleteAre you considering damming up the gully to have a lake at TFL?
ReplyDeleteTodd...No more "damming up the gully". I tried that once and it blew out after a heavy rain. It would cost too much money to do it correctly to handle really heavy rain events. http://thefieldlab.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-thought-this-might-happen.html
ReplyDeleteI LOL'd when you said you used orange markers. I had asked my surveyor if he could throw some orange tape on my property corners recently when he did my survey. He said how about pink. I should have remembered that surveyors use pink tape. Orange is communications color. Anyway, I had thought orange as did you. Just funny coincidence in my silly mind.
ReplyDeleteI was out in Silver City Texas a couple years ago by all those wind farms and some cowboys were feuding over property lines and there were markers using purple. Purple means something in survey in Texas but I can't remember what it was. Right of way maybe.
One of the cowboys had a law degree and he claimed that he thought he was supposed to be honest and upright but did not know that there was a hierarchy out in those far out places in Texas that must be respected over and above any notions of fairness and honesty. He claimed that he was framed and disbarred by going against the grain when a corrupt judge found he was unwilling to play ball. It is really old west in some of those places.
Anyhow. Not really important but thought I would share it.
I used florescent orange to make it easier to spot from my drone mapping. Purple is the traditional no trespassing marker color in a number of states - including Texas.
ReplyDeleteAhh, yes, that makes sense. The cowboy I was talking to claimed the preacher had put up all those purple tipped stakes and that he was in cahoots with the judge and sheriff and all. For the record I have no idea if the cowboy I was with was honest and forthright. And no dog in the fight on their property boundary.
ReplyDeleteBut he was a cowboy. (And probably a mason but I digress).
Everywhere I travel to out in the country the connected types call me a Turkey. They did the same of my mentor Thomas Jefferson.
Funny story, this cowboy told me about how turkeys eat rocks to help digest their food, of this I was aware. I was visiting my grandmother out that way, and we met this fella after church on Sunday at a good Mexican restaurant there in town. While eating with this cowboy, his disabled mother and my grandmother, I was eating my refried beans and low and behold I bit down on a small rock.
Sterling City not Silver City, sorry
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