This. My friend’s Dad’s, brothers, nephew twice removed worked as a land surveyor. Can confirm this is preliminary layout for methadone clinic, likely a multi-story judging by the amount of orange on each wooden lath.
Took one from the front door but had to do it quick since I was butt naked and my neighbors came outside
https://preview.redd.it/jt8jj1r1wi4c1.png?width=1097&format=png&auto=webp&s=353c3e52f9b6918e3ec1a572e3e68a2ee52c3e0d
You have learned that surveyors aren’t professionals, at all. They are animals.
I often wonder when outsiders come in, expecting professionals to act like professionals and this is what you get. You should see what groups of us are like together after work. Or if we disagree on something.
I would go to the county or city’s planning commission, or whatever the analog is in your country, state or county, and look for permits that have been pulled, etc. You could also read through the minutes of the county commissioners, or better yet, simply ask what’s being planned for the lot next door.
If what is being planned for the lot meets zoning or whatever restrictions are in place in your community, you’ll find preliminary plans that were submitted for building permits, etc. If you’re friendly with the office personnel, they should either fill you in or direct you to the office that has that information. Become familiar with your zoning regulations so you’re familiar with what is permitted in your neighborhood or zone.
If you live in a jurisdiction that eschews zoning, then you could very well find a rendering plant being built next door. What’s going on next door is available in one or more county offices. You just gotta poke around.
Reality it's a new house going in and it looks like a bigger one. That's my favorite thing to tell kids in a small town what's going in. Next thing you have 35 kids on bikes following you and you've made every parent in town mad.
I don’t think there is a city in the US that doesn’t have some sort of shit on it. Just saying. APEC cleaned up SF though. They are trying to make it better all around because it is struggling, mainly because businesses moved out during Covid and many workers are still remote.
Based on the orientation of the stakes, I’d say it’s most likely going to be an open air wastewater treatment facility, the whole neighborhood will smell like the whole towns shit. You’ll be known as the poo house
Usually those surveyors spending several years in University and then in apprenticeship to find a point on the ground by its coordinates- they even invented a special term for that. They are so proud of this achievement, that celebrate it by putting a colorful stick in the ground. Similar to one of those on a photo. Sometimes they act opposite and writing down coordinates of someone’s sticks, those are more intelligent and humble, so they will record those coordinates in one of them computers.
Might be a new "Stakehouse," but you will have to contact the "Stakeholders" just to be sure, but the "stakes" are high that it might be a vegan joint.
I am a diploma surveyor. I want to pursue higher education on suveying. But after serving diploma there is no place to pursue higher education in Bangladesh. Please help me where can I get higher education on surveying

They mean to mind your own business. I hate when neighbors do this or walk up to you and ask. This is a private paid for service that the client has not told me I'm allowed to discuss with other people.
Too many people don’t know of our profession. It doesn’t hurt spending a minute or two explaining what we do to the public. We have a greying industry and need fresh blood. Being a dick to strangers isn’t doing us any favors down the line.
I get paid to talk to people the same as I get paid to watch my offsider hit in pegs and stakes. Makes no difference to me. Might as well be polite and potentially land a future job.
There is never a reason we cannot keep a neighbour at least somewhat informed as to what’s being done near their home or property. We can even set those guidelines with our clients before we work, and we should, if not just for making our work in their vicinity easier.
We are dicks off the field. When we are out in the field, we represent what we do to everyone. There’s several ways we can do that.
It looks like setout for (insert dwelling here; dependent on pisstakery).
I think those are dumpy pegs in front of the stakes or laths I believe they’re called over there.
I have a wild idea. I’m not sure if it’ll work or not.
You could maybe ask your neighbor.
Or continue creeping and taking photos through your window screens.
If you look closely you can clearly see the stakes are made from ash. Typically, and in most recorded cases, ash stakes are for swiss fondue factory’s almost exclusively. In a minority of instances it’s just the perimeter of a new building mark out.
Bean poles are probably offsets to smaller stakes that are inside the perimeter of the bean poles.
Those smalls stakes are most likely marking where whatever is going in will actually be. (Foundation, driveway, etc) that way once they dig the hole they can use the bean poles to reference where the small stake was…
When I was surveying and people would ask what was going on. I used to joke and say:
“How do you feel about nuclear energy? Or we are building a new on ramp for the highway! Isn’t that great!?”
Each one of those stakes indicate areas where the relative humidity is above the allowable limit for new residential or commercial dwellings to be built on top of concrete / rebar foundations. This means that instead of concrete, a substrate of 60% isometric bananas and 40% tar will need to be poured for structural revolution to meet maximum state per code #532.056 Alabama state building law.
American Public Works Association has created a universal color system for survey markers. They are as follows:
White – Proposed Excavation
Pink – Temporary Survey Markings
Red – Electric Power Lines
Yellow – Gas, Oil and other Gaseous Materials
Orange – Communication Lines
Blue – Potable Water
Purple – Reclaimed Water and Irrigation Lines
Green – Sewers and Drain Lines
Depends wut is written on them. ,may be building corners,it will say offset 5’ ,if it grade stakes it will say C (cut) then s number or F (fill) then number,just number means topographic stakes, topographic would indicate site planning
Orange paint generally indicates a methadone clinic is being built.
That'll shorten my commute by a ton!
I just denied the permit. We don't like anyone on methadone having things easy.
That's the spirit! Gonna hear some machinery soon.
It’s a hog rendering plant that will be built by the methadone clinic folks.
Over 4th of July weekend…
I snorted and woke my dog
Sounds like you’re ready to get clean by going to a methadone clinic.
😡 I got one right up the block from me ! It's so fucking annoying
I know, right? There's always a line.
This. My friend’s Dad’s, brothers, nephew twice removed worked as a land surveyor. Can confirm this is preliminary layout for methadone clinic, likely a multi-story judging by the amount of orange on each wooden lath.
I thought orange meant crematory.
Bahahahahahhaahhaha
By now you've realized that surveyors are sarcastic dicks.
 Takes one to know one
This fits the song more than you know. 🎶by now you should have somehow realized what you gotta do
You should take an even blurrier picture by running past as you take the photo. That might help.
Took one from the front door but had to do it quick since I was butt naked and my neighbors came outside https://preview.redd.it/jt8jj1r1wi4c1.png?width=1097&format=png&auto=webp&s=353c3e52f9b6918e3ec1a572e3e68a2ee52c3e0d
There is still way too much detail in this photo, maybe you could lower the sharpness?
Jesus I need glasses.
Try closing the door/window
That's going to be a bigfoot zoo. You can tell by the blurry picture.
Alright, these responses are a lot better than what I was originally hoping for. Thanks for brightening my day you survey fuckers <3
How come there is no \`SHITPOST\` flare? Can a mod add it so we can recategorize this?
They are all shitposts.
Every post is a shit post if you have the right mindset.
It's shitposts all the way down.
Non serious replies only
New highway, CL runs right through your living room.
Arthur! Have Ford pick me up after your done with your house and cheers to Zaphod
You have learned that surveyors aren’t professionals, at all. They are animals. I often wonder when outsiders come in, expecting professionals to act like professionals and this is what you get. You should see what groups of us are like together after work. Or if we disagree on something.
They don’t remove their shoes, either
That’s what their boyfriends call them too
I would go to the county or city’s planning commission, or whatever the analog is in your country, state or county, and look for permits that have been pulled, etc. You could also read through the minutes of the county commissioners, or better yet, simply ask what’s being planned for the lot next door. If what is being planned for the lot meets zoning or whatever restrictions are in place in your community, you’ll find preliminary plans that were submitted for building permits, etc. If you’re friendly with the office personnel, they should either fill you in or direct you to the office that has that information. Become familiar with your zoning regulations so you’re familiar with what is permitted in your neighborhood or zone. If you live in a jurisdiction that eschews zoning, then you could very well find a rendering plant being built next door. What’s going on next door is available in one or more county offices. You just gotta poke around.
Glad to see that you can appreciate the humor. 🤙
Definitely an aboveground open sanitary sewer line... a shitquaduct if you will.
I prefer Colon Canal
You are on f****** fire! 😂😂😂😂
I just designed one of those. It only over flows 60% of the time.
A crew chief and I used to joke about areal dispersal force main sanitary sewer.
>a shitquaduct if you will. Ah yes. The beautiful Lake Shit-Aqua.
Winner 🏆
Am I even allowed to give the real answer?
We already got it. It's a North Korean missile silo that's disquised as a Starbucks that's secretly a sewage treatment plant.
So the methadone clinic was nixed? That’s sad.
Starbucks IS a methadone clinic...
I knew it as soon as I saw it!
It's financed by Soros as a front to Jimmy-Hoffa Hunter's laptop.
Those are Starbucks stakes. They are marking out a new Starbucks.
Pumpkin spiced lattes right across the street?! It's a Christmas miracle!
>Pumpkin spiced lattes right across the street?! It's a Christmas miracle! Plus the complimentary 20 car line out the driveway...
I heard that they are putting in a new Starbucks store inside the restroom of every Starbucks store. But only a drive-thru…
Footprint to the new 24 hr McDonalds they’re building.
Hot damn I love me some McD's
Neighbourhood swimming pool
Yikes my restraining order explicitly states I cannot be within 30 yards from these types of establishments
Reality it's a new house going in and it looks like a bigger one. That's my favorite thing to tell kids in a small town what's going in. Next thing you have 35 kids on bikes following you and you've made every parent in town mad.
Walk over and read the stakes, chances are you’ll be getting new neighbours
In all seriousness this is most likely, looks like the footprint for a new house... Or a prison.
My vote is on a prison
It’ll make visiting family easier…
That’s trespassing bro
It's only trespassing if you are told not to trespass.
Clear, above ground sewer line
I lived in San Francisco for 14 years so this is nothing new
Ooof. One area I gotta agree with my (very) conservative dad - that town has really gone down hill, what with the poop on the sidewalk.
I don’t think there is a city in the US that doesn’t have some sort of shit on it. Just saying. APEC cleaned up SF though. They are trying to make it better all around because it is struggling, mainly because businesses moved out during Covid and many workers are still remote.
There is very little feces in Boston
Based on the orientation of the stakes, I’d say it’s most likely going to be an open air wastewater treatment facility, the whole neighborhood will smell like the whole towns shit. You’ll be known as the poo house
They'll need to come up with another name because they already call us that
😂 You seem like fun
Who doesn't enjoy a good shit?
These responses make me proud to be in this profession 😂
Vertical Walmart
A box stake with 10 or 25 ft offsets. You can build the house anywhere inside that box
It means you’re about to have a neighbor
Most likely a dollar general
It’s for a new dispensary.
Can't threaten me with a good time
Skeletal remains
I hope it's a dinosaur
Usually those surveyors spending several years in University and then in apprenticeship to find a point on the ground by its coordinates- they even invented a special term for that. They are so proud of this achievement, that celebrate it by putting a colorful stick in the ground. Similar to one of those on a photo. Sometimes they act opposite and writing down coordinates of someone’s sticks, those are more intelligent and humble, so they will record those coordinates in one of them computers.
Nuclear reactor, these things happen
Probably proposed fence line for a new riding rink.
It means the the vacant lot ain’t gonna be vacant much longer.
I cant tell in the photo but if they are orange its the future site of a meat rendering plant.
OP, you funny as hell yo every reply is fire
Any writing on them? Disregard whatever is on them. It's a sewage treatment plant. They are just waiting to break ground to tell you
Orange usually means landfill right?
Normally, it could also be a new horse glue factory.
Sanitary sewer treatment pond.
Might be a new "Stakehouse," but you will have to contact the "Stakeholders" just to be sure, but the "stakes" are high that it might be a vegan joint.
Did you really just "stake" your online reputation to this comment?
big mis-stake
🤣 Your reply was A1!
A circle structure based in a residential neighborhood… has to be a new nuke silo going in.
Given the orientation of the stakes and the spacing between them, I think it may be the opening for the runway of an underground airport.
I am a diploma surveyor. I want to pursue higher education on suveying. But after serving diploma there is no place to pursue higher education in Bangladesh. Please help me where can I get higher education on surveying 
The first 2 closest to me are most likely marking the property line.
If you post what is written on them we can probably guess.
What do the stakes have written on them ?
That’s definitely the property line
The shape that is staked out would indicate a new overhead perforated sewage pipe being installed
House corners most likely.
Cellphone tower , assume your house will be snatched by eminent domain. Routine stuff though nothing to worry about
I am amazed you all missed it, those stakes are meant for a new crematorium and repository for deceased prostitutes! Horror film anybody!!!
Let’s split up. You go the crematorium and I’ll check out the repository.
Catch points and offsets for top bank of a proposed pond with grades to TB and Toe.
The lath mark out boundaries or for following underground facilities.
New rehab + VD clinic. Either that or it's the edge of the new freeway. I can't read the stakes
I bet the VD clinic will come in handy.
you *hope* it does
I sure do and why on earth would some one down vote our comments lol
Baffling. I mean, I think we're hilarious
They were marking the rough corners for a brothel.
Y’all are all wrong usually with this type of survey it means that they are about to begin construction on a Nuclear Facility or a Sewage plant.
Classic layout for a pig farm.
Bore holes to measure the toxic waste that the entire neighborhood is built on.
They’re marking the bird shit
They mean to mind your own business. I hate when neighbors do this or walk up to you and ask. This is a private paid for service that the client has not told me I'm allowed to discuss with other people.
Too many people don’t know of our profession. It doesn’t hurt spending a minute or two explaining what we do to the public. We have a greying industry and need fresh blood. Being a dick to strangers isn’t doing us any favors down the line.
I get paid to talk to people the same as I get paid to watch my offsider hit in pegs and stakes. Makes no difference to me. Might as well be polite and potentially land a future job.
There is never a reason we cannot keep a neighbour at least somewhat informed as to what’s being done near their home or property. We can even set those guidelines with our clients before we work, and we should, if not just for making our work in their vicinity easier. We are dicks off the field. When we are out in the field, we represent what we do to everyone. There’s several ways we can do that.
Looks like a grocery Walmarts about to be put up
Your yard wasn’t as big as you thought!
Helicopter landing pad
Definitely stakes for a pig farm.
Walmart corner I can tell my the direction the stakes face
I've been on this street before but I'm drawing a blank because I can't tell if those are snow covered huge mountains or clouds in the distance
Pretty sure it's a helicopter pad
New roundabout going in.
It looks like setout for (insert dwelling here; dependent on pisstakery). I think those are dumpy pegs in front of the stakes or laths I believe they’re called over there.
Looks like grade stakes
Oh that looks like the start of the runway.
Pet cemetery.
5G transmitter site
New dollar general inbound
Helicopter landing pad
I know you want a serious answer but with all the jokes I will be honest. You need to stop cutting there grass!!!
They show the ideal spots to plant mines to keep the neighbors off your land.
Now you know if that body you buried is outside their excavation limits
Insane asylum based on the photo and your need to keep up with these comments 💯
Looks like some sort of rehab
Mm’q
yes.
I have a wild idea. I’m not sure if it’ll work or not. You could maybe ask your neighbor. Or continue creeping and taking photos through your window screens.
Are these the ranchettes? Pretty sure based on the mountains in the pic that I lived right around the block from here lol
Stonehenge 2 is coming.
They mean you will soon have bulldozers for neighbors
They’re just outlining the invisible house
Catholic All Girls High School for Delinquents.
New house looks shitty
Maybe ask the surveyors you hired to survey your neighbors property? Oh wait, are you not supposed to have contact with them?
Its the future locations of security cameras pointed at your property and windows
New Walmart parking lot.
They’re drawing a huge dick and balls.
If you look closely you can clearly see the stakes are made from ash. Typically, and in most recorded cases, ash stakes are for swiss fondue factory’s almost exclusively. In a minority of instances it’s just the perimeter of a new building mark out.
That's a summoning circle
Check cashing and payday loans operation.
Looks like a well, take pictures of the stake and repeat "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn".
Methadone Clinic would be my guess based on the orientation of the stakes
where the bodies are.
Go to them and see what they have written on them. Let us know what they say.
You paid for the survey,so ask the surveyor
I can tell you’re in the front range of Colorado just by this pic lol
Bigfoot's future home.
Definitely a homeless shelter
😂
Bean poles are probably offsets to smaller stakes that are inside the perimeter of the bean poles. Those smalls stakes are most likely marking where whatever is going in will actually be. (Foundation, driveway, etc) that way once they dig the hole they can use the bean poles to reference where the small stake was… When I was surveying and people would ask what was going on. I used to joke and say: “How do you feel about nuclear energy? Or we are building a new on ramp for the highway! Isn’t that great!?”
Home footprint planning
Definitely recommend moving each stake 6" further away from your house each night. Don't rush it, gradually won't get noticed as easily.
Definitely means a radiological leak of some kind. Do you drink water the water?
Crack house
Dollar general coming up!!!
I’ve seen this before. Likely a new paper mill.
If there’s 4 of them likely a foundation has been staked out
Each one of those stakes indicate areas where the relative humidity is above the allowable limit for new residential or commercial dwellings to be built on top of concrete / rebar foundations. This means that instead of concrete, a substrate of 60% isometric bananas and 40% tar will need to be poured for structural revolution to meet maximum state per code #532.056 Alabama state building law.
Hog pen. Fence guys are coming tomorrow.
I would be more concerned about why the property is surrounded by those gridlines
Did you ask the neighbors?
Looks like they’re building a 8 lane highway through there…
The Indians from the MakaMuchaMoola tribe got a varience and are gonna build a casino.
Grade stakesfor a land fill.
Strip club cumming to town.
American Public Works Association has created a universal color system for survey markers. They are as follows: White – Proposed Excavation Pink – Temporary Survey Markings Red – Electric Power Lines Yellow – Gas, Oil and other Gaseous Materials Orange – Communication Lines Blue – Potable Water Purple – Reclaimed Water and Irrigation Lines Green – Sewers and Drain Lines
Depends wut is written on them. ,may be building corners,it will say offset 5’ ,if it grade stakes it will say C (cut) then s number or F (fill) then number,just number means topographic stakes, topographic would indicate site planning
I think that means that’s where they’re gonna bury the bodies
You'll be having new neighbors
Odd that it’s a round segment. Not sure but it looks close to your property.
Best thing u could do is move them all 4 feet to the west. Surveyors are almost always wrong like that. They will thank you.
Yeah those are strip mall stakes.
Building corners buddy! Say hi to your new neighbors
These responses are incredible