We have hilly, treed property that’s a funny shape. I’d like to keep it marked for our own benefit on where stuff is. The no trespassing signs on every tree that a neighbor uses seem…kind of in your face. (I get why they’re there, but that’s just not the tone I’d like to convey…)
What are some less forward ways of marking property? We just had the survey and I’d like to not “lose” the lines.
We have flagging tape on key points, and cleared a trail along the perimeter. Fun to ride on and helps us do a quick check of our property. Ours is pretty hilly too, but is a rectangular 15 acres, so that made it pretty easy to determine.
The previous owners also put in a Tpost at each corner and midpoint on the long sides with about 15’ of PVC pipe extending over top of it. It makes the corners really easy to see, even through the trees and over the hills. That is what helped us create straightish lines for our trails.
Our land is a rectangle, but a long narrow rectangle. We put one of those reflective fiberglass driveway markers in a few places along the long side so we could easily tell where the line is. (The other side has the no trespassing signs that the neighbor put out.)
Here, we would drive a 16 inch piece of rebar straight down into the soil, and counter-sink it slightly below grade, every 20 ft.
When you need to find the property lines just break out the metal detector and connect the dots…
Perhaps that could be modified to work with frost heave or rocky soil?
Riding Trails are often marked by painting a large swatch of a vibrant color on the trunks of trees (e.g. the blue trail, the orange trail).
Perhaps saving a Google Earth shot of the property outline?
To clarify my post above. We have metal stakes along this long line that we had the surveyor add. The problem comes in that those are not visible. Adding the driveway markers makes it obvious.
how about stone walls? can you do that? CT should have plenty of stone/rocks lying around… when we made a bridle path that looped around the outer edges of the property, I just chucked the unwanted stone/rocks to the side and used it to make a stone wall in the paddock. It wasn’t that hard, didn’t take long - I imagine a small (1ft or less) rock wall would be perfectly manageable, cheap and easy to do and you shouldn’t need a permit for that.
I planted a row of forsythia along one end of my property - about 10’ in from the actual line.
It marks the division between my place & neighbor directly to the North.
We each bought 5ac of a 10ac parcel that was flat fields, no natural borders.
Bushes were supposed to spread horizontally as well as grow up, but so far (10yrs+) that has not happened.
I need to fill in the spaces with more forsythia, or try adding something else that will bloom & go sideways.
Also tried putting in a windscreen row of evergreens at another location, but they did not make it past the first Winter.
My thumb is on the blackish side :uhoh:
Put the metal poles, the short ones, with some electric tape, does not have to be electrified, along the property line for now till you figure out what permanent fence you want to put up. Bushes and shrubs won’t make a legal barrier so you want to put in a fence. The electric fence tape is a good temporary fix.
we have survey steel pins at all corners, these are in-the-ground and can be found with a metal detector
Above grade, use a concrete monument marker similar to these
http://www.surveysupplyinc.com/Monuments-Concrete/
Thanks, guys. Yeah, we have the corner pins. (Eight of them…:lol:) But this is what the property line looks like.
I’m standing at one survey marker and looking at the next one. Can you see it? 
So, even if I mark at the corner pins, it’s just not possible to see from one to the other.
We’ll definitely be clearing a bit along the line and I think marking with rocks or downed trees is going to be the way to go, along with some paint on trees. Survey guy also talked about “blaze” marks…might also toss that in. It’s just really hard to know where you are are out there!
Can you afford to put up something like 2" electric tape, even if it’s not hot?
No, we don’t want to fence it for a variety of reasons…
Since you don’t want a permanent fence, my suggestion is somewhat in line with others. Put in “permanent” stakes that are paint marked along the line. It may be helpful to rent a transit to help you sight down the line as you place something like Tee-Posts for the purpose. Put the posts on intervals that are close enough that they can be visually seen from each other.
Property lines are Big Deals. I don’t recommend “creative” approaches with them.
Talk to your surveyor. Ask what would be appropriate, and legally recognized, in your jurisdiction. Then do that.
G.
Surveyor said to use blaze marks, G. I’ll do that, but I need more of a visual “snap.”
Jim, I can RENT the equipment?! Damn, I may do that just for a fun weekend. What the surveyors do seems AWESOME. :yes:
We have a wooded property too and we used dark green spray paint on the trees. You can see it but it doesn’t stand out too bad. We tried brown spray paint but it wasn’t noticeable enough from a distance.
Oh! that looks about perfect for a weed whacker to make a perimeter trail!
Maybe a machete! :lol: A weed whacker would cry and run away 
WE have a weed whacker with a circular saw blade on the end - get one of those! Its actually how we cut a lot of our trails :lol:
Whaaaaaa…? What is this magical implement???
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