Blast from the past...
Out traversing in the Great Basin (early 1990s).
When it got dark, I just spent the night and started again @ daybreak.
Beer & Beanie Weenies!
Loyal?ÿ
"Loyal don't need no stinking road"
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I had one for a few years, but never got it running.?ÿ I ran out of enthusiasm once I realized how much of a time and money sink it was going to be.?ÿ I sold it to a guy who wanted to turn it into a demolition derby machine.
"Loyal don't need no stinking road"
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I don't remember exactly which project that was (there were quite a few in those days).
My ??rodman? was actually the Project Geologist (and former surveyor). We were running ??forced center? traverses, and he would leap-frog the other two tripods (tribrachs/prisms) ahead on his dirt bike. He was THE Company Man (an international mining company), and would bike back to his truck at night, and drive 50-100 miles into town (various) to eat and spend the night. Then get up at 3-4am and haul butt back out to meet me @ sun up. On some projects I would not even see a road/trail for days at a time, and ??Bob? would bring supplies (Beer & Petrol) in on his Dirt Bike (Beer one day, Gas the next, depending on what I was running low on). Inasmuch as the were ZERO roads (or even ??jeep trails?) in these areas, the dirt bike/M37 setup was the ??fastest? way to go. I remember one project in the winter, when I was chained on all 4, and didn't work my way back to a "road" for 5 or 6 days (Bob was on a 4x4 ATV that trip)!
Ran all of the calculations at night on my HP-41, and charged the GTS 3b from the M37 batteries (also ran an AGA Model 78 for the long shots directly off the M37 Batteries).
Great Times.
I had one for a few years, but never got it running.?ÿ I ran out of enthusiasm once I realized how much of a time and money sink it was going to be.?ÿ I sold it to a guy who wanted to turn it into a demolition derby machine.
It's a 1953 that was pretty much all original except for the 12 volt conversion. I put 70-80 thousand miles on it during the ten years or so that I used it as my field vehicle. I gave it to one of my grandsons (Spud) a couple of years ago, and he is currently using it as his "daily driver."
Ran low on fuel one night out in the Black Rock Desert, so we put a couple of gallons of 2 cycle motorcycle gas, a gallon of Coleman Fluid, and a fifth of 100 proof vodka in it, and drove 75 miles to Winnemucca. Never missed a beat, and the blue smoke stopped after a few miles on the "fresh tank" of regular.
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It looks like you were trying to set up a modern day sheep wagon. ??ÿ
That picture looks awful familiar,,,,,,,,,there is a lot of country out there that is basically untouched.
I spent many months surveying the high Nev?ÿvalleys and across the mountains, but I had a late 70's bronco.
My instrument man tried a dirt bike but finally gave up, that country with the 6' tall greasewood and sage basically overpowered the?ÿthing.
One of the bosses decided to show up to help tie in corners, he kept asking me if his horses would work and I kept saying whatever you do don't bring your horses. Of course he showed up with a horse trailer and two horses, he found out quick how well that would work. The best thing he did was hire a helicopter, sitting in a local bar talking to the pilot late one night. Now that worked great!!! Probably should have done the entire job that way, would have been cheaper.
Been the horse route, in some areas it works very well (with the right horses).
Been the helicopter route too, on some projects that is the ONLY way to get to some USC&GS Stations.
Sometimes a boat (or canoe) is the hot setup!
It's been ~45 years since I "setup" on pavement, although I have done a few Control Projects through Urban Areas over the years. Most of my work over those 45 years were in areas where the weren't any fences either (boondocks).
Loyal
It's a 1953 that was pretty much all original except for the 12 volt conversion.
I think the one I had was the same model year.?ÿ What I remember most about it was towing it home the day I bought it.?ÿ It was about a 20-mile trip consisting mostly of urban I-80 and about 5 miles of city streets.?ÿ I rented a tow bar and lights, but the weapons carrier must have outweighed my '51 Dodge pickup by at least a ton.?ÿ It's a good thing I didn't need to stop suddenly, because the pickup's brakes were never great even when in top condition.
It was one of those stupid things you do when you're in your 20s and live to tell about it.
It's a 1953 that was pretty much all original except for the 12 volt conversion.
I think the one I had was the same model year.?ÿ What I remember most about it was towing it home the day I bought it.?ÿ It was about a 20-mile trip consisting mostly of urban I-80 and about 5 miles of city streets.?ÿ I rented a tow bar and lights, but the weapons carrier must have outweighed my '51 Dodge pickup by at least a ton.?ÿ It's a good thing I didn't need to stop suddenly, because the pickup's brakes were never great even when in top condition.
It was one of those stupid things you do when you're in your 20s and live to tell about it.
Yeah, they ARE heavy, probably more steel in an M37 than a fleet of new F-150s!
New F150s are aluminum?ÿ
New F150s are aluminum?ÿ
I know!