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GordoSD

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I just picked up a great little item for measuring exact acreage of irregular shaped plots. It's a garmin GPS Model 72.Bought it on ebay new for 90 dollars.
Went down to a corner of one on my plots, on the 4 wheeler. reset the track. Drove south boundary, then turned east, then north, then east agin then north again, then west , then south, then west to start point. Enter Save track, and it spit out the distance, and ac=5.385644.
What a great investment. I was figuring fert, and yields on estimated 3.5 acres.
I have 8 different fields and i/m going to get them all mapped! Can probably get some custom work also.
 
The scs/ascs plots the acres off the map and I think they scan them in now and do it by computer. They can probably tell you if you call them.
 
Are you saying I can go out in a 160 ac quarter, disc up and plant an irregular shape, food plot in it, and then go to google earth to map it?
How do I do that?

Gordo
 
(quoted from post at 05:31:26 05/26/08) Are you saying I can go out in a 160 ac quarter, disc up and plant an irregular shape, food plot in it, and then go to google earth to map it?
How do I do that?

Gordo
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I don't think the free google earth is that up to date (at least not here in Germany). I've yet to see any sign of horses or the building I built. The pictures must be a few years old. I did notice things show up a little better when I look at some of the places I grew up. Think I'll check out your toy.


Dave
 
Our FSA office can do the same thing. We have maps they print out of our whole ranch, showing all fences, windmills, gates, etc and the number of acres in each pasture.

But, since we're almost 40 miles outta town, we couldn't really call 'em every time we wanted specs on a certian peice of land, which is where one of these gizmos would come in handy. We do custom haying for several neighbors, and don't always mow fenceline to fenceline....one of these would make it real easy tell how much ground we've covered. We normally charge by the bale....but in recent years where the grass is thin, we cover the same amount of ground for alot less bales and we kinda take it in the shorts sometimes especially when the landowner wants stuff hayed thats so short ya can barely tell if you've cut it or not, so I'm thinking chargin' by the acre is a better plan...just gotta talk dad into it...which might not be easy.
 
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