Stumbled on this today. Looks pretty neat and sure would beat lugging three cases up the stairs at the motel every night.
Anyone use one? Looks like everything fits in there pretty nicely but then again it may be like trying to stuff 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag getting all the cables in there.
Drilldo, post: 454303, member: 8604 wrote: Stumbled on this today. Looks pretty neat and sure would beat lugging three cases up the stairs at the motel every night.
Anyone use one? Looks like everything fits in there pretty nicely but then again it may be like trying to stuff 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag getting all the cables in there.
That thing must weight a ton fully loaded. I would not be interested in that.
Maybe? Maybe not. The radio case isn't heavy and I normally carry both R10 cases at the same time one in each hand. They say overall it is 13 lbs lighter with everything in it than the three cases added together.
Drilldo, post: 454303, member: 8604 wrote: Stumbled on this today. Looks pretty neat and sure would beat lugging three cases up the stairs at the motel every night.
That is why I prefer staying at a cheap motel. The kind where you park 4 feet from the front door of your room.
If it was me, I would look at pelican trekpac series. The same size case works out to be $200 less with less wasted space..... it is likely you could fit it all in a smaller size.
JaRo, post: 454323, member: 292 wrote: That is why I prefer staying at a cheap motel. The kind where you park 4 feet from the front door of your room.
Believe me that is my preference. Try staying in Pecos Texas. There is one decent place where you can park by your door and it is almost always booked. Everything else is the high rise enter through the lobby crap. There are a couple others there you can park by the door but I think the roaches might carry your cases for you.
On another thread I posted this image:
That blue Makita drill box now houses our full RTK kit - base, rover, blue brick, DC, base tribrach, base&rover short antennas, rover batteries, tape measure, 12V&radio cables, tribrach extension - to replace the original two-pack containers similar to the OP. It's a beaut, and can be carried as carry on luggage. The motel issue is an international thing. I've been in an empty joint and assigned the room in the furthermost corner only visible from space, lugged all the gear there only to realise the door key doesn't work, can't leave the gear there, lugged it all back to reception, greeted with a look of "you a'hole" lugged it all back, woken at 5am with lookey-loo sweeping (before the sun comes up and it gets hot, and it's too hot to work) outside the room. Also I'd like to say that the R10 is the best looking receiver.
Drilldo, post: 454331, member: 8604 wrote: Believe me that is my preference. Try staying in Pecos Texas. There is one decent place where you can park by your door and it is almost always booked. Everything else is the high rise enter through the lobby crap. There are a couple others there you can park by the door but I think the roaches might carry your cases for you.
I spent a decade in Pecos one year.
Andy Nold, post: 454373, member: 7 wrote: I spent a decade in Pecos one year.
A day there feels like a decade. We go there 10-15 days a month. But hey look on the bright side you get drive out to beautiful Orla everyday. The infrastructure in Reeves and Loving is getting pretty good actually with all the roads they have built in the last couple years. We have been in Culberson lately and it is a new area where we are up by rustler hills with very few roads.
We just received that exact case with a rental base/rover set up a few days ago. Its heavy but not too heavy to tote from your truck to hotel room. Its bulky which makes it hard to maneuver in and out of the truck. major plus is its all in one box.
When we first bought our R10's we left everything in the radio box but condensed the other two boxes into one. The only thing that doesn't go in any of the boxes is the DC. We are usually dumping points on the DC while some is loading the rest of the equipment. The party chief totes the DC and field book to truck when he walks out of the office.
Is that a Trimble case or third party? I've never seen it.
Lee D, post: 454438, member: 7971 wrote: Is that a Trimble case or third party? I've never seen it.
It is a pelican brand just like the trimble ones are but it is not made by trimble. Martin instrument makes them. I ordered one it will be here tomorrow.
Case Club will custom cut the foam to your specifications. They have an online tool that you can use to design the layout. I just had one done for a storm case iM2720. They use a high density foam.
We rented a Topcon Hiper HR this summer and it had an awesome small case. These huge 8 cubic foot cases from 10 years ago are for the birds.
