Enough stuff to start a survey business, with several crews

It's local pick up only, or I'd be looking a lot harder!

Nate The Surveyor, post: 387036, member: 291 wrote: It about makes me cry to see all this stuff, sold for so cheap.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huge-Lot-of-Vintage-Survey-Equipment-Ulmer-Wild-Bullets-3-2-Chains-ETC-/152208367993?hash=item2370536179:g:zEIAAOSwZVlXs2ri

Of course, I have an autoranger S. Paid 1500 for it. It might be worth $ 75.00 on the market now.

Crockett, VA is less than an hour from me, but I can't say that anything in that batch is worth me heading down there to look at.

Carl, I totally understand... It's main worth is in sitting around an office, looking at it.

Nate

Nate The Surveyor, post: 387062, member: 291 wrote: Carl, I totally understand... It's main worth is in sitting around an office, looking at it.

Nate

Being pretty doesn't pay the bills.

Tommy Young, post: 387082, member: 703 wrote: Being pretty doesn't pay the bills.

Damn, so that's been my problem!;)

Is there some sort of online museum of survey equipment?
N

Nate, I think you were a tad optimistic with your thread title. My take, from the photos, is that the Wild guns and maybe the transit have some value, but the rest is pretty much junk. Interesting junk, but not worth the cost of shipping.

Jim, it was true.... 25 or 40 yrs ago. There was enough gear there... to outfit the older generation. That stuff was PRECIOUS back in the day.
I know it is not worth much anything now a days. The wild stuff is, but the rest of it... gathers dust.
It is just the emotion that hits me. When I see the gear, that we so valued, become worth 50-100 bucks. each.

N

But if a solar flare were to hit our GPS constellation, We would be scrambling to find some of these old instruments if there was work to be had.

On-line museum is called Ebay. You are already looking at it.

Daniel Ralph, post: 387255, member: 8817 wrote: On-line museum is called Ebay. You are already looking at it

I been trying to limit my time in that museum, I buy to much in the gift shop!

I would really like to buy those equipment if I had a larger office/house to display them. I am from that generation that used those equipment before the EDM & GPS came into play. The Wild theodolites bring back memories of callous hands & aching backs.

I second the sentiment!

Last year a new employee did not want to start out with a Sokkia Set 4 to learn on.
He insisted he use the best or none at all.
He got none and went home and never came back.
In 1987 when I started my way to solo, I had a Nikon-Gurley 20sec gun, Lufkin 100ft chrome clad, tripods and a two section range pole and a couple of plumb bobs.
In a year was able to upgrade the truck and found a Sokkia SDM3E and ordered a prism & pole.
OMG, lookie here what this thing will do, we were surveying at the speed of light......
Those were more simple days.
:gammon:

Jim Frame, post: 387195, member: 10 wrote: Nate, I think you were a tad optimistic with your thread title. My take, from the photos, is that the Wild guns and maybe the transit have some value, but the rest is pretty much junk. Interesting junk, but not worth the cost of shipping.

Hey, Hey! That HP 41-CX is worth more than it was new...

Uht ohh. I still use those calculators. And yes I still have a T-16 and steel tape in the back of the equipment closet. But today, if I could not use a robot and GPS, I would find something else to do for a living.