> Thats actually some real talent...how could you pound the rebar and set the cap without hitting the previously set rebar!!
um.....who said they didn't hit the previously-set rebar?
I was a rodman years ago, and went to set a corner when I hit another surveyor's rebar. The party chief told me to pound my bar in next to the other one. I discovered it was in concrete, and he told me to pull it. I refused and he pulled it out of the ground himself, concrete and all. (circa 1982 or so) Setting corner monuments in right next to other monuments has had a bad taste in my mouth forever. Having better precision than the next guy, means that you can report more accurate bearings and distances between the corner monuments, not that you need to set monuments 0.05' away from the other one.
> my suspicion is the low marker was set first by "252" (a common marker designation on this ROW). "254" retraced and set their own marker later, possibly without first checking that a marker was there, and at a higher elevation.
Maybe 253 will come split the difference and clear it all up?