That I don't use very often (if ever) anymore.
Light Table (okay, that's in the storage shed)
Digitizing Tablet/Table (okay, that is there too)
Leroy Set (closet somewhere)
Rapidograph Pens (closet)
Polar Planimeter (book shelf)
10 Point Divider (book shelf)
Slide Rule (book shelf)
1911 Traverse Tables (book shelf)
Trig Tables (book shelf)
All sorts of drafting stuff (T-Squares, triangles, etc.) in closet.
There is probably more, but that's all that comes to mind (and let's not even get into all of the FIELD Equipment).
Loyal?ÿ
An old Surveyor (not licensed) bent our ears for a while, going on like a stream of consciousness Survey talk. Surveying a state facility across the street from a Library, lots of homeless. I think the old Surveyor was a Surveyor once upon a time, suspect he is homeless.
Anyhow, he claims he has a T4 and a chronometer that's worth $10,000.
the other homeless surveyor there was more of a one trick pony, kept asking us about our RMS.
The T4 guy claims he wrote all sorts of software for various things including GIS. He knows about the two feet and the controversy about the switch to international feet with the 2022 datum.
I have most of those same items, except my oldest traverse tables are 1941. Got rid of my light table when I closed my firm. Never had the digitizer setuo though. Still have a lot of my survey instruments yet, 1974 special built Gurley Solar Transit and an old Ainsworth Solar Transit with Young & Sons solar attchment, T2, and some other theodolites, Ziess Ni2 level, HP 3810A Edm's, and a lot of field equipment. Did manage to sell my Tellurometer MR 3's and HP 3800 a couple of years ago and about 5 years ago did get my K&E Alidade, boards, and stadia rod sold.?ÿ
Dang, Dave, you got me thinking about our ol' buddy, Big E. ?ÿHe was one of those guys who had "been there, done that" in the computer industry but chose to live the life of a penniless recluse. ?ÿI'm sure he encountered plenty of people who thought he was pumping hot air.
Back in the stone age, one of my first field gigs out of university was surveying inside of the Oregon State Maximum Security Prison. We joked around to our boss that we found the old surveyor's home. I would guess that 10 to 20% of the inmates had worked on a crew at one time or another.
I think this guy was real, it was like he didn't have anyone to talk surveying to for a while so he just unleashed a stream of stuff. He said he worked for State Lands (they do State sovereign lands like the ocean) in the 1960s and 70s, he said they were nomads. He knew Roy Minnick and Bud Uszes. A lot of what he said is obscure surveying knowledge so it seems credible.
He said he was the indispensable rodman, they sent him out to a rock in a wetsuit in January to see if it was above lower low water, if yes then the 3 mile limit is measured from there. They also did a lot of work at clear lake in Lake County.
they sent him out to a rock in a wetsuit in January to see if it was above lower low water
I heard Roy Minnick tell that story.?ÿ As I recall State Lands claimed success, that they weren't just rocks awash but a part of the coastline.
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Was his name Fred? He sounds like a guy who would randomly stop by my office years ago hoping to get back on with the State. His hobby was "astronomical geometry" and I think he had a T4, or claimed to. Quite a quirky old surveyor, for sure.
Apparently we know the same guy LOL.