Looks like someone could adapt this for surveying.
http://news.yahoo.com/amphibious-vehicle-sale-soon-us-174807246--finance.html
I wonder how stable it is in the water loaded with gear. I sure would hate to capsize it...
Lamon-
My Colleague Des Rasch OLS has an Argo and seems to like it for his 'moist' manoeuvres.
He even let me ride in it !
If you would like his take on the particular Argo vehicle let me know.
Cheers,
Derek
I am familiar with the Argo. A good friend has one and I have been in it at least a dozen times. It doesn't go very fast in the water.
Lamon-
Maybe if 'fast' is the need then a boat is the answer.
or,
Maybe a small electric outboard motor mounted somehow ?
If one goes too fast though, the trailing wake will catch up and it's swim city ?
Then, if you have your beaver castor impregnated emu fur kilt on (as it is apparently made in Scotland)you might try one of these Humdingas:
http://www.army-technology.com/features/feature2020/feature2020-2.html
YOS
DGG
I thought that would be the perfect tool for Darryl Moistner.
This new one is quite fast in the water.
"The Quadski can go a brisk 45 miles per hour in the water before a press of the button brings the wheels out again."
One would hope they don't have the option of deploying the wheels while doing 45mph on the water. That would be an expensive kersplut.
> Looks like someone could adapt this for surveying.
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I'd love to test drive this...45 mph in water? It does look like a nice machine for West Alaska though.
....thanks Lamon, I'll be keeping an eye on this hoping the price comes down. It would actually be perfect on my present project in the creeks and sloughs of turn again arm.
that fiberglass bottom would concern me a bit. probably not terribly resilient against rocks and stumps. looks like a great toy though.
I have a MaxIV. Its VERY slow on water (it does float). On white "frozen water" it excels! Its on top of 30+ inches of snow in this picture.
Dave, I have a few questions about that thing.
1.) Do you loose equipment, set up like that, or is that just a photo, in a semi un-packed state?
2.) Do you use that regularly?
3.) IF you wanted, could you not put a BIG marine battery on it, and a high thrust trolling motor, if you wanted or needed speed, on the water?
4.) And, is monument stability an issue in the snow? Do you use LONG monuments?
Thanks for sharing. It just made me think up questions!
Nate
> 1.) Do you loose equipment, set up like that, or is that just a photo, in a semi un-packed state?
Its all packed in pretty tight... I get to a spot (corner) and then start unpacking, either RTK if in radio range or static (which is the reason for the tripods and small sokkia receivers). Never lost anything out of it...yet.
> 2.) Do you use that regularly?
I'm using it less now than a couple years ago. Seems like there are pretty good logging roads in the areas I've been working. This particular corner was on the County line.. the other County surveyor didn't want to walk to it. It was about a mile drive on this machine for me. I bought this machine with 4 hours and now it has just over 100 hours. But ALL of those hours are surveying... this thing will get you to a lot of places with very little run time, especially in snow like this... just point and go. It will go over the top of most brush including all but the largest alders we have around here. Actually I think it will get very little use this winter which is why it is now for sale.
> 3.) IF you wanted, could you not put a BIG marine battery on it, and a high thrust trolling motor, if you wanted or needed speed, on the water?
Yes. I believe there is an electric motor mount available for this which indeed would require a large batter.
> 4.) And, is monument stability an issue in the snow? Do you use LONG monuments?
Not really unless the monument is in unstable ground. In this picture, the corner monument was set in the late 1930's and was still in great shape, although about 1 foot under the moss in this area. This monument is a 4" x 42" iron pipe with brass cap, its filled with concrete. Probably a bitch to get there and set, but set correctly as it was, it will stay a long time. A monument set which has a foot or more exposed in this area will most likely become a victim of frost heave. The ones set flush or below seem to say put.
> Thanks for sharing. It just made me think up questions!
Not a problem.
Nate, heres another picture at the same site. Thats a 4' section of range pole stuck in the snow on the left. And that brush in the background... no problem at all for this machine to go through that stuff.
Thanks Dave
We don't get but a little snow every year, usually.
I just noticed the snow shoes in the 1st pic.
I guess it is hard to drive with them on! 🙂
Thanks for sharing.
Nate
