Great idea to get over the hill, in my book. I own my own transit and grade pole. Fortunately, I'm a flatlander but grades are still important to assure drainage. When I had the 17 acres there is a ridge that runs NE-SW across the middle. Water runs either SE or NW. My house is to the NW. When I did some fencing, I had my survey monuments readily visible. I set my transit 2" on my side of the boundry. My son would hold a T-post with a level to hold verticle and I would have him move left or right as necessary. We built a 535'fence and one 600'fence that way. No one argued except me. A neighbor was letting his manure pile accumulate against MY fence. Resolved. Also, he cannot legally attach to my fence without written permission. When I built a 700 foot 22' wide paved private road, the county required proper grade and drainage ditches along both sides of the road. This was engineered by a professional and built by a qualified contractor. Yahoo! Cost! But, I sold lots that paid for it. However, I had to get a variance on the grade requirements because the county road commission had a culvert passing under our north-south public country road that was too shallow to drain properly. My engineer had not caught that. In another situation, property to my north was being converted to a county park. The seller was required to regrade the property from his illegal "sand mine". When it was "supposedly" done, we shot the grades. His grading would dam up water and back up on my property. NOPE! He and the county wanted to argue with me. HA! I have a transit! I shot the grades! OK. It was regraded. That used transit was one of my best investments. I still have it and I will not part with it.
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