....has this wise ol guy seemingly doing good work.....until you see it.....
get your F#$%&* hand off the tripod rookie! And if you stand up the antenna you might actually get farther than the truck for reception.....
seen in a national campaugn for 'big' survey company.....
I look through the robot once a set-up, without a cap/hardhat; or the cap turned backwards-sideways. I was the first backwards wearing cap guy back in the day. There often weren't hardhats on most construction sites then, later backwards-sidewise became trendy.
Imagine that!!
Not much looking through the instrument anymore. A few seconds and it's over till the next set-up.
I was skeptical too at first, and spent a few thousand hours on the SX10 and 12 and really enjoyed it.
Reading an article about minimum wages.
The minimum wage is always 0.
Here's an example:
Robbie the robot lawnmower now mows my lawn, I'm hardly even trimming. Neighbors saw it and now they have one. They used to use a lawn service at $50 per week. Doesn't take long to pay Robbie off.
For the first time since the pandemic I went inside a McDonalds. No one at the counter, you order from a big touchscreen.
No data collector/controller in sight. It may be at the rover rod, but if so, what is this guy doing there?
That vest has to be loaner because any real surveyor's vest would be busting with pencils, templates, tapes, nails, flagging, bug dope, hammer, yada yada. Doesn't look like he has as much as a kleenex in there.
Poser.
@mightymoe THRAC alert - What kind of robo-mower is that? How do you like it?
@mightymoe saw one of those once mowing a lawn in another subdivision. The dogs and I had to stop and watch it. It got stolen a couple weeks later. Can't have nothing nice!
Many years ago my ex-wife worked for an advertising/professional art/PR/marketing firm. Technical knowledge of any kind is generally absent from all such employees unless it was due to some previous employment.
They were working on a project that had some connection to agricultural tractors. Her boss caught me one afternoon as I stopped by to pick her up from work. He says to me, "You know about farms and tractors and stuff. What do you call that thing that sticks out of the back of the tractor?" With a bit more explanation, I finally realized he was talking about the drawbar that is the connection point for pulled implements. They were attempting to write some drivel about some major advancement that would knock other tractors on their ass (drawbar). Attempting to explain that the drawbar does not extend far enough to reach past the rear tires was wasted on them. Their client would know that fact.
Wonder how well it works with raised bars/caps and wire flags. So much for the wife's fancy underdrawers that got left out by the hammock the last time sparks flew in the dark of night.
We are now in full-THRAC mode.
@mightymoe saw one of those once mowing a lawn in another subdivision. The dogs and I had to stop and watch it. It got stolen a couple weeks later. Can't have nothing nice!
I've seen a bunch of ads for them online. I guess I'd watch it the first few times to make sure it works right, then I'd run the dang thing in the dark so nobody would try to steal it.
how well it works with raised bars/caps and wire flags. So much for the wife's fancy underdrawers
mows right past.
usually they have a spindle with cord like a weed whacker until you spend like 5k
I guess you already know what would happen in a FL subdivision if you fired up a lawn mower at night.
@andy-j did those videos say how they set up the limits of your yard so the thing knows where to stop? It doesn't work like a Roomba since there aren't walls normally or like our Dusty layout robot that's controlled by a total station.
