Leica makes a GSR2 Dual-Strut Survey Bipod Support for Plumbing Poles that will last decades with little more than drying after getting wet. The legs use the same mechanism as their plumbing poles and they used to make a GST6 pole tripod with same locking design. After I bought the Leica pole bipod and pole tripod I haven't used my SECO bipod one day (you want it, free, you pay shipping). I do have a newer Dutch Hill carbon fiber bipod for using with a carbon fiber pole, ONLY because Leica doesn't produce anything to work with the larger carbon fiber poles. I have never had one of the Leica pole bipods/tripods apart and they have worked for years. I guess you truly do get what you pay for as their bipod version is around $450 currently.
SHG
Climate Alarmist would hate me using it.
Jet fuel is alot like kerosene. It even smells like it. They dump tons of it into the ocean, and other places, when an overloaded airplane needs to get down fast.
There is also an volcano in South America, dumping millions of tons of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. Like a billion tv preacher's wives, spraying hair spray, all at once.
Climate alarmists are mostly out of touch with reality.
Nate
Those disks make it almost impossible to get a solid footing in vegetation. LoInk makes a nice step replacement similar to a tripod's foot that I have threatened to get for years now.
Climate change can be a scary concept, which can lead to productive conversations on the topic being shut down before they even begin. There is a huge difference between alarm and alarmism.
SECO bipod legs seem to be adjustable in 13' increments
I got fed up enough with the thumb adjusters a few years ago and made prototype fine adjustment attachments for the bipod legs. They're large and clunky, but they work well enough that I never got beyond the prototype, I'm still using them in the field.
Climate change can be a scary concept, which can lead to productive conversations on the topic being shut down before they even begin. There is a huge difference between alarm and alarmism.
No, climate change should not be scary. It has been happening for millions of years, will continue for millions more and is moderately understood by the actual scientific community. No, productive conversation is shut down by the blame not the change. If you set your alarm for 6:30 every day, but it goes off at 3:00 each morning, how long will you continue to use that alarm?
Most of the people who post here are deeply attune to the practicality of nature, fairly intelligent, have a sarcastic sense of humor and do a good job of keeping politics out of their post. Keeping politics and faith out of our post while expounding our thoughts and beliefs about science, relationships, economy, business, life and self; is extremely difficult.
I despise climate alarmist. I don’t know where your nameless lives, but according to them, you could be dead or at least starving by now. THAT is what leads to shutting down productive conversations.
I started my life as an environmentalist, until I went off to school and met one. Then I must be a conservationist (land not party), but I am willing to compromise if it benefits the planet. Then I must be a conservative (party not land), but others tell me I don’t believe what I believe.
Poking fun at those who alarm is not to diminish nor disbelieve activities that denigrate our plant, but to expose them as phony hijackers. They are blind to the cause and accuse the result. They address the problem as ours, but is often their own. Their remedy will reward our enemy, ruin us and not change the ratio of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere.
In today’s environment, no one confuses the phase ‘Climate Alarmist’ with the definition of ‘one who warns’. A ‘Climate Alarmist’ is one who believes in using alarmism to persuade others; to do what they would otherwise not do or to do what the alarmist wants them to do; often to the direct deference of what the alarmer warns about.
If you meant to indicate that there are good climate alarmists? I would love to discuss climate change with them, even though you might have meant to say that that is a conversation I could have shut down.
There are no politics in this post.
Leica makes a GSR2 Dual-Strut Survey Bipod Support for Plumbing Poles
I do have a newer Dutch Hill carbon fiber bipod for using with a carbon fiber pole,
Now that I use GNSS about half of the time, I need to revise my ‘pole’ situation. I am down to adding the Leica bipod to my total station setup, or have a separate Dutch Hill rtk pole setup. How quick and easy does the Leica bipod separate from the pole? How quick and easy does the Dutch Hill bipod separate from the pole? What is the weight difference? Do you like having two separate, or do you wish one setup worked for all? Any expounding would be appreciated. Do you ever have to look up to remind yourself which system you are currently running, or is that just an ‘old’ thing? Are you using the Dutch Hill fixed, slide, pin or snap-lock pole? I hope I have not asked for too much, it’s just that you use the two setups that I have come down to deciding on.
Scientists believe that human activity increased concern over climate change in the 1830s. Not millions of years ago. In 1988, global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer became increasingly prominent in the international public debate and political agenda.
I don't believe my 2 tsp of kerosene is going to kill an African penguin in California. But, I am concerned about labels that cause cancer in California, but not Arizona. It makes surveying the line between California, and adjoining states very critical.
So, let's fix those Bipods!
Nate
@jon-payne I think Nate is talking about putting glue on the threads of the machine screws that hold the legs onto the bracket. Mine have lock washers but they do back out over time. Next time I have to take an Allen wrench to mine I think I'll add a bit of blue Loctite to the threads and then adjust them so they move freely but not so loose that they have enough freeplay to make the rod unstable.
@john-putnam Trimble's bipods come with the tripod style foot you're talking about. I find that it snags worse than the washers so I take them off and switch to the washers. I probably have a couple of sets around here somewhere.
@stephen-ward another problem I had with the Trimble bipods with the “foot” was it seemed it was always turned the wrong way to step in.
Personally for GNSS unless I'm doing static the spade plus a brace stick/stake same length as the spade (what I thing you guys call lath?) held at 90° are good enough to hold pole as stable as bipod for a minute or so and for total station work is also fine. Much easier to fine adjust and doesn't bang on the pole when walking between marks.
