I wanted to get a few shots for rough prelim of a 4-acre survey. I had to set up on the lee side of a small building as close as possible to the wall in order to keep the TS steady. The poor rodman nearly blew away a few times. It was a 25-30 steady breeze with the 40 gusts. Miserable timing.
Come to think of it, the wind direction would suggest it might have been emanating from somewhere near Colorado Springs. 😉
Holy cow!
> Holy cow!
I second that! Holy Cow, Cow!!! :-O 😀
Thursday at dusk I arrived at my control point and the mast of my antenna atop the tribrac was about 30° out of plumb and the tripod setup was ajar slightly.
I think it was more than the wind and suspect a horse may have been the culprit even though I did not see the animal. Hopefully it was not a curious neighbor with pesky hands.
Thankful that I was using two control points for double redundancy and could drop that setup.
On a desert project I had a hill top RTK base setup. That hill top had some pretty stiff breezez, particularly in the afternoon. I had a blow over of both the antenna mast and the base receiver. I went to Home Depot and got CMU blocks. I put two on each tripod leg and after that never had a blow over. I had two base station locations so I purchased 24 blocks (they were cheap, roughly a buck each) and left them out there. They are still out there as far as I know. I also got sand bags for another location where I left a static receiver a couple of times because there was lots of sand. That was down on the flat so the sand bags worked fine for that.