What if you need to shoot something above?
Above what??ÿ The handle only obscures maybe 20 degrees of the zenith, and I've never had to shoot anything close to that.?ÿ Nevertheless, if the situation ever arose (though I'm at a loss as to what it might be), a Torx driver will have those caps of in a minute or two.?ÿ I'm far more concerned with the handle walking away when I'm 1000 feet from the gun.
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I hadn't really thought about theft, but that makes sense to make it harder to steal. We haven't even had a robot or GPS or anything stolen that I have heard of here in Canada.?ÿ
I've never had to remove the handle for anything but always knew I could if I needed to. The steepest shot I've needed was for the field collimation adjustments.?ÿ
You think someone would bother to take just the handle? Would think only surveyors would know it comes off, your average thief would just take the whole thing!
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Which means the lock system you use I've seen pictures of in another thread makes sense. I generally just don't get more than 150m away so I'm in shouting/running distance.
I'm just paranoid enough to imagine the worst, so I like to take reasonable mitigation steps.?ÿ The?ÿ likelihood of someone stealing the handle is low, but the cost if it happens is high, so the small amount of time required to lock stuff up allows me to relax (some) when I walk away from the instrument.?ÿ I know it's unusual, I see unattended and unprotected robots all the time.?ÿ (I suspect that most of those are operated by people who don't own them.)
Most people around here don't know what these things are worth and if they do they don't know if they can be tracked (if anyone ask me - I tell them they can). I don't think our boss pays for the locate service thing, but he does have insurance.?ÿ?ÿ
I'm not usually far from the robot but I would never leave it anywhere I thought was risky, that I couldn't see it.?ÿ
