I have just ordered one from DUTCH HILL. It came in the mail. Looks ok. There are Chinese ones on ebay. Seco is pretty standard. This Dutch hill one, might be a chinese one, with sticker. Don't know.
I must have parts for 10 bipods laying around.
But, I like a new bipod.
What's your favorite?
I have not yet tried the carbon fiber ones.
Thanks
N
I'm kind of new to full-size bipod use. (I've been using a shorty for years, but just for a prop, not for plumbing.) But lately I've been using a Seco bipod with my RTK rover, and I find that the push-button clamps have an annoying amount of backlash, such that it takes a lot of fiddling to get the pole plumb. Are there any tricks for making the process faster without sacrificing accuracy?
There's a tecnique. I'll hafta make a you tube vid to explain.
Sent from my VS880PP using Tapatalk
Nate The Surveyor, post: 377459, member: 291 wrote: There's a tecnique. I'll hafta make a you tube vid to explain.
Yes! Please do, Nate.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 377459, member: 291 wrote: I'll hafta make a you tube vid to explain
Nate,
While you are making videos...have Mr. Fred show us how to tie the slipknot in the plumb Bob string for hanging from a transit...and setting up said stiff legged, four screw, transit over a tall stake.
We need to record our older mentors...
DDSM
P.S. I wish my bipod legs had fine-threaded adjusters on them to make the final adjustment.
Jim Frame, post: 377424, member: 10 wrote: I'm kind of new to full-size bipod use. (I've been using a shorty for years, but just for a prop, not for plumbing.) But lately I've been using a Seco bipod with my RTK rover, and I find that the push-button clamps have an annoying amount of backlash, such that it takes a lot of fiddling to get the pole plumb. Are there any tricks for making the process faster without sacrificing accuracy?
Bipods are inherently unstable and hard to work with. My routine: 2 hands per adjustment, per leg. 1 hand on the button and 1 hand overlapping the junction of inner and outer part to act as a friction device, and at the same time adjust the length. At the same time, you need 1 toe on each bipod foot to keep them from moving around (unless you have sandbags near). They do make good javelins though.
I've recently been looking for a bi-pod with something other than the push buttons. If I work all day the joints in my thumb ache.
On many occasions I must stand on the footpegs for them to stay in the ground as the legs begin to seize and stick during adjustment.
I have 6 seco 3 legged pods that have been doing the job yet each of them has their own part that is causing a problem.
From plastic threads that appear stripped to extenders that stick at he wrong time and don't hold at other times.
I would be just as satisfied if all the legs had simple set screw to tighten and hold in place, less moving parts works better for me.
It would also be great if the adjusting knob would not vibrate out of socket and disappear in the middle of the day.