Found Equipment

Looks like a Trimble SPS 881 which is the construction version of the R8 so it may have come from a construction company. The radio looks like a TDL 450H.

Being in the Houston area, you might contact Tim Jochec, Sales Rep with SiTech in Houston. He keeps his finger on the pulse of the construction industry in the Houston area.

James

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Anyone with Trimble should be able to tell you who the original purchaser is (probably still the owner, that's a newer radio) just with the receiver S/N.

I stayed in a hotel on a project over a year one time. There was a grading contractor in the same hotel on a different project. One of their trucks had three sets of R10s (contractor version), radios, collectors, tripods you name it, all in the bed of the truck open to the elements every night. :-X

I think we all had days in the field where we wanted to throw the equipment away.

I haven't used much GPS. I was total stations and Robots before I made my move to the office and haven't really kept up with the technology.

Is it common knowledge on how to retrive this information? Is it possible to post some procedure so I can relay this to the people that are holding it?

Thanks for all the responses.

What actually happened

Is the super got a nice new Javad unit. And, that was what he did with the Trimble!
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I have no idea how to retrieve the information. I would just contact a dealer.
SiTech Southeast Tx phone number is 281.351.2258

I can email you Tim Jochec's cell phone number. You will have to activate "email address contactable" in your profile. Nobody can see you email address, it's done thru Surveyor Connect. You may notice that some posters have an envelope beside their name and others do not.

James

I sure hope they are able to get this back to the rightful owner.

I really pi$$es me off when one of our fellow surveyors, or even contractors have their equipment stolen. This is what we put food on our tables with, and roofs over our families heads.

Any chance any data exists where the positions can be plotted to see where it was used?

One of our linemen found a Leica controller on the side of the road that had taken a good bounce or two and turned it over to us. Apparently somebody left it on the hood of their truck and drove off. We contacted the dealer with the S/N and they were able to track down the original purchaser and we got it back to the rightful owners. Rather than being grateful, they gave us an earful as they had been searching all up and down the road for it for hours. No good deed goes unpunished as they say. Sigh. Hope the gear makes it's way home. Mine is my bread and butter and I'd seriously be up the creek without it.

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Most of the construction grade receivers do not have memory and will not log data. You have to request memory as an option or add the memory later. I had it added to mine at the time of purchase.

James

I emailed the person holding the instrument and his next step is to contact Trimble to run a background.

Thanks again for all the responses.

Definitely tell its a contractors

When I was on the survey side our equipment was imaculate. When I crossed over I was blown away at how the gear was crammed in the box, thrown in the back of the truck with shovels and fuel tanks and treated like crap. The company has since started charging employees for abuse and we have it under control. There is nothing worse than showing up on site and grabbing a site rover and getting a handful of grease....:-@

Definitely tell its a contractors

I think that 'poopin' in your hood is worse 🙂 (see paden post about business in the woods)

Definitely tell its a contractors

Lol!! I guess the grease is better