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I was just kidding when I said you should use a bigger hammer to fix it....:excruciating:
Are you including a free roll of duct tape?
It looks like the salvage value is limited to the clamp and possibly the data card.
My condolences on your loss. What ran over it?
For what it is worth, you can possibly get your data off the card, with a card reader.
What happened to it?
What kind of software do you use in it?
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It was the box-stock Topcon software...I wasn't real fond of it, but I didn't want THAT to happen to it.
Apparently got left on the bumper. Made it a few miles to the Interstate. Whatever got it was bigger than the DC. There's a couple of employees that probably won't sleep real good tonight.....
I'd leave it in a prominent place in the office so the employees get a daily reminder of what could happen when they don't have their thinking caps on.
I'd like to leave it in a prominent place alright....but it might not be readily visible......:excruciating:
> I'd like to leave it in a prominent place alright....but it might not be readily visible......:excruciating:
HAHA! 😉 I agree.
That is one thing stressed, enforced, en-grained here. Do not lay anything just temporarily on the bumper or on the truck. Either put it away or inside the truck or use it. Accidents happen, but man! That is a costly mistake.
I left my ranger on the hood, when a big storm hit, and drenched everything. It fell off in about 2 miles. Broke a hole in it. knocked the keypad off. I patched it up with epoxy, and she is still running.
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Bumper stuff
I'm guilty myself of leaving stuff on the bumper.
A few years ago I purchased a brand-spankin'-new Schonstedt "GA-seven hundred bucks" pin finder. This would allow me to "recon" jobs by myself ahead of the crew without using one of the old crappy duct taped pin finders in the closet (they were there for a reason).
I was hoppin' from corner to corner around a section and digging holes like a Labrador Retriever looking for gophers. Found 'em all. Time for some truck stop chicken! mmmmmm!
As I parked the truck at the local "chit and git" I looked in the back of the truck and saw the Schonstedt case....open and empty. I ran around to the back and there that thing sat on the bumper, covered with dust. I was lucky. I had made 5 miles of bad road and three or four on the blacktop without the pin finder falling off...
Live and learn.
BTW - Hayes Instruments has provided us with a replacement for the fubar'd DC. It is in transit as we speak. They're good folks there and this ain't an advertisement for them..just fact. I've always had good business with them.
Now if they'd just give "free samples"....:snarky:
Bumper stuff
You just gotta let them think that total station ended up in the creek to keep em sharp.:-D
Total Station in the creek
I had completely forgotten about that Blake. That was too funny! I'm gonna share that, but I may not get the details just right.
If I remember, you stopped by a job where another one of our crews was at. They were nowhere to be found, but the TS was set up on a point on the slope of a creek (I think we were topoing that nasty ass creek).
You took the instrument off the tripod and then leaned the tripod over and it looked like the TS was in the water (I'm thinking that sounds right). Then you sat back and watch Brian and his help get down in the nasty creek and look for the gun. I don't remember who called me first, but it was hilarious...trying to tell me why the gun was in the water!
Hiring Brian was like having two good hands quit. His daddy worked with my wife and that's how he wound up on my payroll...
I remember he lost so many walkie-talkies the last pair I bought him were a $9.99 Radio Shack set that were "Sponge Bob Square Pants" kids toys. I think he took that personal.:-P
Total Station in the creek
Hey, look on the bright side, now you have every reason to replace that crappy software with something better..
I left a HP48 DC in it's soft case on the back of my truck bumper once about 22 years ago. Got back to the office and couldn't find it. I remember thinking "Now where did I leave that.... OH CRAP!" Went back and retraced my tracks. Found it intact about a mile from the office. The cards were dislodged so I put them back into the slots and turned it on. It worked and worked for years. I think it still works.
I once drove about 20 miles down curvy country roads and about 10 miles down the interstate in my wife's Prius with an IPad on the hatchback. I was probably going 70 or 80 when a guy pulled up next to me on the interstate and honked and yelled "there is an iPad on the back of your car". I have absolutely no idea how it stayed in place all that time ...
