Fence Line App for my phone?

[airbiscuit]

How do you wind up barbed wire if you unroll an entire roll, plus another 300 feet or so?

20,000 feet enough?

 

[EddieWalker]

How strong is that stuff? I've tried using string over long distances, but it just broke on me.

 

[airbiscuit]

Baler twine is considerably stronger than string, but I, don't know how it woud fare over 1,600 feet. You must have some laying around you could experiment with.

 

[EddieWalker]

I've never bought baler twine before. I bought hay wrapped in it once and I hated removing it. Now all I buy is net wrapped bales.

 

[EddieWalker]

If you need to be more accurate using this idea, pull a 3,4,5 triangle at each of the 2 blue points and another at the purple point.
to do this, you would have to have at least one known straight line to work from.
If you don’t have any known straight lines to work from, the 3,4,5 triangle should still get you to within a foot or so.

I was trying to figure out what it would be if I want 25 feet out, but then I realized that I could go 30 feet out and figure out where square is by measuring 30, 40, 50

 

[airbiscuit]

The large square bale twine looks to be even stronger.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

If you have access to a laser, you might be able to find the straight line with it, but at 1600' it might not work.

My laser is a GL 422, and I have used it to find straight lines many times, but only up to about 400' as in a baseball center field. https://www.spectralasers.com/product/gl422-grade-laser/

You could put the transmitter on one end and a receiver on the other end, then point the transmitter to the receiver and then come back to your middle point and locate the laser beam with the receiver. The problem doing this is finding the laser beam at 1600'. If you rotate the laser transmitter, let's say 1/10th of one degree, how far will that be at 1600'? I haven't done the math to figure that out. An, my receiver is only about 10", so it would be difficult at best. What I have done on a baseball field is point the laser where I thought it should be, then walk with the receiver until I pick up the laser beam.

Anyway, I think you are getting a lot closer to solving your issue. Good Luck.

Edit: A quick google search reveals that 1 degree at 100' is 1.75 feet, so at 1600', 1 degree change is 28'

 

[npalen]

I've not read all the posts so someone may have already suggested GPS with RTK used by farmers as well as others.
They talk about accuracy within a couple inches but not something that the average homeowner would have access to.

 

[dodge man]

So how much is the drop l off Eddie? Like I say I think you could get creative on putting something tall up if needed. PVC pipe for example and plumb it up as best as you can. If the back drops off 100 feet probably not doable. If there are to many trees, also probably not doable.

 

[EddieWalker]

There are too many trees for any chance of seeing from pin to pin along the property line. If I go into my neighbors land, then it's mowed regularly, but not all the way to the edge of the easement where the cliff is.