Why would anyone leave a pile of gold bars in plain view without some sort of security guarding it?
I??m certainly not gonna smack a total stranger upside the head, that??s what guns are for. Besides you might hurt your hand. ?????ÿ
Assuming he pays his "guard" $10 an hour, and if he got away with this for 100 business days, using a 1.3 multiplier to estimate the cost of an employee he saved ($10)(1.3)(8hours)(100days) = $10,400.?ÿ I don't know the details, but in many areas in the US, you could get away with leaving your base without it getting stolen.?ÿ It depends where you are working, and how obvious its placement is.?ÿ I can't say I would want to take the risk, but I understand why it was done.?ÿ I may leave an Emlid RS2 somewhere over hiring someone to watch it.?ÿ?ÿ
Also, the aggravation of hiring someone to sit there for $10/hour... priceless.
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I don't want to jinx it but around here I've never heard of surveying equipment getting stolen on the job. The trucks have been broken into and had a hammer drill stolen (shouldn't have been in the truck anyway).?ÿ
But yeah paying someone to just stand and guard the base isn't really feasible.?ÿ
Hire a college student intern.
Min wage in the beginning, school them up and create new Surveyors, hell yeah!!
When selling land and house, and the seller takes the shed with him, that is NOT connected to the ground, it is usually ok. When the shed is attached, then it is usually NOT ok.
I suggest ATTACH the GPS base to the ground.
It changes the legal status.
To tell your ins agent, that it was just sitting there, and he may think you gave it away.
Nate
I talked with an insurance agent about inland marine a little over a month ago and he said big ticket items like receivers or a robot would have to be itemized.?ÿ From what I remember the inland marine was really only good for someone breaking into your toolbox and stealing tripods and stuff, plus it caps at like $1500.
We used to have a home-made sign that we stuck on the base tripod that said (in 3 languages):
"Radio Hazard"
"Equipment is Remotely Monitored"
You could try a bike lock...
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Why is it Javad does not add a tracking system to their equipment?
Topcon has "TS Shield" which will send the owner and dealer the coordinate of the device every time it is turned on. Also, the device can be disabled. Unfortunate Topcon adds this only to their robotic Total Stations and not on their GNSS receivers.
My experience with TS Shield was that it was absolutely useless in regaining stolen equipment.?ÿ
I mean, it has the sticker right there. I think the lone crack head thief concept leads to a fallacy. The meth addict is a vulture of opportunity, but they are the lower rungs of a vacuum of organized crime.?ÿ
We had a GPS and TS stolen. The GPS never showed up again. It is assumed the system whisked it away to a foreign country. The TS was never turned out outside. Eventually, it was recovered when someone bought an abandoned storage unit.
I have known a few recovering meth addicts. None of them were stupid. My point is they are smart enough to know what to look for that has value, and are smart enough to know about tracking devices.
Bad thing is whoever has it probably is figuring out they can't sell it and will probably throw it in the trash. That is a terrible sickening feeling.
Reminds me of a Ebay item a few weeks ago.?ÿ My goodness, a great condition (had cracked digitizer glass only, not cracked display) Leica MS50 MultiStation sold for about $7000.?ÿ I told the dude selling it that these go for the low to mid 5 digits and to relist it much higher.?ÿ He didn't care, he said it was a "blessing" as he found it in a Goodwill bin!!!!!!?ÿ Idiot.
The cracked display probably occurred from being in the pile of Goodwill junk.
Guessing some rich fellow donated this $30-$40,000 item.
You could try a bike lock...
Good one.?ÿ
Reminds me of the time I was with a friend who visited another of his friends.?ÿ I was playing with the desk ornament when he said "That grenade is live."?ÿ I put it down immediately.?ÿ I never knew if he was speaking truth, but his family included military and later rumor was he worked undercover in the Mideast for one of the military agencies.
