It's hard to figure out exactly what caused this lovely Kern tripod to arrive at such a state, but in a perverse way I admire the bull-in-a-china-shop ingenuity of whoever made it a tripod again. Its suitability for any serious purpose is in grave doubt, but at least it has 3 legs.
war veteran, no doubt...
Jim Frame, post: 375433, member: 10 wrote:
That is obviously a pirate version of the Kern tripod. Arrrh.
I knew a tripod with an aluminum leg named Kern. What was the name of his other two legs?
Did it come from a guy called MacGyver?
Any port in a storm.
Dave Karoly, post: 375511, member: 94 wrote: I knew a tripod with an aluminum leg named Kern. What was the name of his other two legs?
Woody?
That's a vintage, very rare kern bipod
Dave Karoly, post: 375511, member: 94 wrote: I knew a tripod with an aluminum leg named Kern. What was the name of his other two legs?
I once knew a surveyor named Kern
From whom I would unexpectedly learn,
That a tripod required,
One more leg than desired,
And that it would necessarily turn.
A Texas surveyor named Kent
Had a tripod with one leg that bent.
He ran out of wood,
But soon understood
The spot where aluminum went.
Some view a tripod with dismay,
If there are but three legs on display,
But you and I know,
That wherever we go,
There will always be those who say "nay".
We need a tripod, not a plow,
So let's do as they do in Aarau --
We'll use wood for the legs,
Not aluminum dregs --
And then see if it serves better now.
And to think, all these years the big boys have said that it's the middle leg that may go by the name, "Woody".
The Swiss use the oddest conventions,
Of course with the best of intentions,
More's just enough,
for the Kern tripod stuff,
and the software that nobody mentions.
The software produced by the Swiss
Is sometimes a bit hit-or-miss.
But the hardware is great
Even though as of late
The tripods are more Leica this.
That picture screams "field repair"
Beerleg Haiku
Aluminum leg
Is made from beer cans no doubt
Sitting on the line
