On a vacation in Germany with my wife, recovered a benchmark I used in a project in the Army in 1970. Located at the rear of the cathedral in Speyer. Hard to believe it's been that long, but something in my pea brain remembered exactly where to go. It's a surveyor thing.
I hear ya, Dave. I remember stations I used 40+ years ago. But I can't remember what I did last week...
A dementia test for surveyors
This happened yesterday with my supervisor. He and I went to visit with a perspective client about a possible job opportunity. On our way back to the office we passed a job he worked on 35+ years ago. We pulled into the subdivision and his first words were, "There's a control point there!".
We then talked about how one of his stations was positioned at the PT in just the right spot to see through the "V" of a 24" tree. That tree has since been removed but he knew exactly where his control point would have been.
Crazy how this goes for us! I live in one of the first subdivisions I ever surveyed in after moving to Texas. Every day entering and leaving for work I think to myself, "I have a control point there". Lol
We're an odd group for sure....but in a good way.
I never forget a good survey mark.
Similar to Mr. Squirls remembrance, when I bought my first house in NY in a private community that I had worked on when it was just going to be townhouses (the project went South during the economic turmoil of the early 1990's and resurrected as a different project later). Since there was an HOA involved, I was given a nice thick agreement to read through, in the course of reading it there was a legal description, so I read on thinking the whole time "this sounds awfully familiar, by the time I got to the end I realized the reason it sounded familiar was because I wrote it about 7 years earlier.
