Dan Patterson, post: 448600, member: 1179 wrote: Isn't the TS12 a robot?
No, as I said, I am not a fan of robots and a 1 man crew for safety and security reasons. It's easy enough for one person to get hurt in a two man crew but at least there is another person there to render assistance. I may be in the minority opinion of that but when I was a PC my IM and I were working along a power line while I was collecting shots in heavy brush and fell into a 10' deep storm man hole that was covered with a thin sheet of rotted plywood and grown over by brush. Had nobody been with me it could have ended up being a fatal event as I was injured from the fall and the MH had no ladder rungs to climb out. My IM had to call 911 to get somebody on scene and hoist me out. I put crew safety over profit as a priority. Sorry for the long answer but wanted to explain why I don't employ robots.
Chris Bouffard, post: 448913, member: 12313 wrote: easy enough for one person to get hurt in a two man crew
The chances are doubled.
Brad Ott, post: 449002, member: 197 wrote: The chances are doubled.
I hadn't thought of that, it's a no win world out there. However, if 2 persons are able to share the work then the field time and hence the risk is halved (i.e. the same as one person), in the case of incidents that wont affect both persons. Also, I'm sure I read somewhere that when a shark attacks a person, it wont attack another person at the same time.
Chris Bouffard, post: 448913, member: 12313 wrote: No, as I said, I am not a fan of robots and a 1 man crew for safety and security reasons. It's easy enough for one person to get hurt in a two man crew but at least there is another person there to render assistance. I may be in the minority opinion of that but when I was a PC my IM and I were working along a power line while I was collecting shots in heavy brush and fell into a 10' deep storm man hole that was covered with a thin sheet of rotted plywood and grown over by brush. Had nobody been with me it could have ended up being a fatal event as I was injured from the fall and the MH had no ladder rungs to climb out. My IM had to call 911 to get somebody on scene and hoist me out. I put crew safety over profit as a priority. Sorry for the long answer but wanted to explain why I don't employ robots.
I don't disagree except I find robots have situations where they are useful (topo'ing a convenience store parking lot for example). I was just saying I believe the Leica TS12 is a robotic total station.
http://leica-geosystems.com/en-us/products/total-stations/robotic-total-stations/leica-ts12p
Chris Bouffard, post: 448913, member: 12313 wrote: I am not a fan of robots and a 1 man crew for safety and security reasons.
Robotics don't have to equal a one man crew; I've used robots on all my two man crews for over a decade now. A lot of the time one guy was shooting topo while the other was looking for corners, making sketches, taking pictures, running the RTK rover, etc..
A couple of big topo jobs we'd send out a two man crew with two robots; nothing like two guys averaging 1,500 shots a day to help bring a job in under budget
Richard Imrie, post: 449021, member: 11256 wrote: I hadn't thought of that, it's a no win world out there. However, if 2 persons are able to share the work then the field time and hence the risk is halved (i.e. the same as one person), in the case of incidents that wont affect both persons. Also, I'm sure I read somewhere that when a shark attacks a person, it wont attack another person at the same time.
Many a robot has suffered the fate of nit whit careless drivers.