GPS Set-up Pics wanted

@ric-moore?ÿ

They were clueless, and too far away to rush back.

It all worked out though.

@bill93?ÿ

The multipath rejection with full GNSS on newer receivers is pretty incredible. Doesn't always work under those conditions, but 99% of the time when it tells you you are getting a good solution, it's telling the truth...

Travelling light - one tripod, no clothesline.

You are welcome to use this one. It was left overnight and we wanted to make sure we didn't find that it had toppled over the edge of the 200 ft high cliff approx. 15 feet away.?ÿ Sandbags work well to stabilize your setup.

Posted by: @fairbanksls

Sandbags work well to stabilize your setup.

For sure. I don't think this setup would have worked without them...

@rover83?ÿ

its a surveying fact, all the people that never use sandbags for a tripod set up, will eventually one day wonder why they didnt the day the base gets toppled.?ÿ I read that somewhere, not experienced it ever, yeah, that....?ÿ?ÿ ;)?ÿ

@jitterboogie?ÿ

Been using fixed height tripods for our GPS base(s) since 2006. In all that time, I've seen the base blown over ONE time, and that's because the greenhorn forgot to lock down 1 of the legs. He got a pretty severe a$$ chewing over that one.

@hi-staker?ÿ

See.?ÿ Sandbags would have sorta helped....the stupid easily stripped brass screw was his demise!

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what da ya think?

@nate-the-surveyor?ÿ

I'm calling OSHA.

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@jitterboogie?ÿ

Oh yeah, those plugs were the bane of my existence when running static sessions...I once made the mistake of not taking that 5/8" mounting plug out of the center pole and stowing it in my pack before strapping the fixed-height to a 4wheeler and riding another mile of overgrown dirt road to the next occupy point. Took forever to find that stupid plug when I realized it had bounced out along the way.

Never made that mistake again. Still love fixed heights, even if they can be a PITA.

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oh, I assure you itƒ??s all safe.?ÿ
nate

Nothing like setting up in a black berry patch.

Temporary CORS.?ÿ It actually worked pretty well for the task at hand.

?ÿReady rod to the rescue.?ÿ I really needed some duct tape to bring this up to par.

@john-putnam?ÿ

Has kept me from seriously applying to jobs in the PNW.

Unless it's mostly office.....lololol ???œ

Great setup, just bad weather.?ÿ This was 8 days after a major land slide that took out the UP's mainline over the Cascades for several months.?ÿ Millions of yards of much were moved off site.?ÿ We used the point for 6 months.?ÿ During the winter we had to dig it out a couple of times a day.

Here is the rover.

@john-putnam?ÿ

JB weld and gorilla tape.