Not sure who set that brass cap, but I'm calling it 0.5' off

So what did he say when you talked to him on the phone?

"Fast Eddie"?

1978 sounds like it was a very strange year for that guy.
Hey, I've been there.
"Who's been stamping my number on all these brass caps?
Hey, what happened to all the brass caps I used to have in the shed?"

Don

Looks to me like he held the 5/8" IR on both surveys. Not sure why he set his Brass Cap 0.5' off in the first place (I guess some kind of witness), nor why he didn't recognize it as his own, but at least he consistently held the 5/8" rod and noted the Brass Cap reference.

Or did he? No mention of the stone in the second case. Was the center of the stone 0.5 west of the 5/8" bar that someone has placed next to the stone to make it more findable (is that a word?)? Perhaps he lowered the stone and placed the brass cap directly where the center of stone had been. The found 5/8" bar could be lower than the level of the brass cap.

But, he is one dumb bunny to not recognize his own work from only four years earlier. Surely he wasn't one of those desk jockeys who signed off on everything but was never ever in the field!

What happened to the stone?

Kevin -
Nudge, nudge. Wink wink. Say no more.

Devine Kine,

This guy isn't one to spend time overthinking what his intentions were. What you see is what you get. He'd never lower a stone - the only effort he expended with original stones was to make his own, or so the stories go (his nickname was "the engraver" to the old silver back surveyors). I guess his trail of incompetence finally caught up with him in the mid 80s and he lit out for the territories.

I've never had to work with this corner, but I was told there is a mound of stones around the rebar and the original is one of them. The brass cap, like the errant surveyor, is no longer on the scene. Maybe it was in his hip pocket all the time. Along with a chisel.

Maybe that brass cap was always a fugazi? As in, it only existed on paper. I have heard of similar notations being added to subsivision plats in the days of old to meet statutory requirements for the initial point of a subdivision, but the brass cap was never set.

Candid photography!

Best one I've seen was starting at a penny found at the centerline intersection of ...

Must have carried an old chisel so the marks would look old. 🙂

I blame it on the "LeRoy" draftsman.

Those nice block letters always filled their heads wit grandeur.

Good point Rick. Noticeable difference in drafting styles 4 years later. 1978 is much better. The survey is still junk, but it's prettier junk.