Nice tripod…are you short?

[david-baalman]

We did the construction staking for the LIGO observatory here in SE Washington many years ago. We had to set up on an offset line and then turn a 90 & look under the beam tube to lay something out on the other side, about every 100′ for 2.5 miles. The beam tube was only about 1.5′ above the floor, so there wasn’t much room to make it work, so we built a tripod that was about 0.5′ tall, we called it Dorf. I think we still have it somewhere out in the shop, but haven’t needed it since.

[a-harris]

I have leveled houses by putting the instrument on a solid cinder block setting on its side and laying down to see underneath the house.

[larry-scott]

I had a 1.5 ft tripod. I found it very useful for gps on boulders, almost like a big trivet. Also theyƒ??re good for windy conditions. The tough part is focusing the optical plumb. 

[flyin-solo]

robots set up low can really make a difference on a tree survey.  

[dave-karoly]

I set the S7 low to get under grape vines that were too high to conveniently get over. RTK wouldn’t work because there was a high powered wifi router on the hilltop above us but it didn’t affect the robot radio. TBC wouldn’t process the static but OPUS worked fine. Very strange, never encountered that before. 

[james-fleming]

Borrowed an 18ƒ? tripod once to set a scanner up low enough to see under a subway platform.