Let the jokes begin.?ÿ I can take it, but would like some sage surveying advice.
I lent out our SX10 to a remote field location, and get the sat phone call.... "Where's the prism?".?ÿ Ooops.?ÿ Bad move on my part.
Q.?ÿWhats the best approach in the field without a prism??ÿ Using the SX10, 1"gun for scanning and tieing in cloud to cloud registration in the field for topo.?ÿ Got rods and R8 receivers, but no Trimble R10 360 prism.?ÿ No chance to go home and get it. How to make the most of this rookie mistake?
Joel
Forget the sx10 and use the R8??s to RTK as much as possible.
if needed RTK some station points, set up the Sx10 on one point, take a backsite on the gps rod on another know point with hor angle only an scan from there.
repeat as needed
succes!
My S6 loves to track the reflective tape on my vest. Maybe?ÿpull a MacGyver and cut some off a vest and mount to the range pole for a passive prism? Won't track like an active 360, but should give a return once in the cross hairs. You'd likely need someone at the gun to help it get and stay on the target so hope you didn't forget the radios as well.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
The remote field office doesn't own a standard -30mm prism they could use for everything they can't scan.
Access should let you specify a prism. It's not as easy as using a 360?ø prism, it should still work.
Chris,
Excellent.?ÿ The R8's were used to set coordinates, but suggestion for angle only is the trick we needed.?ÿ
Williwaw - No we remembered the radio's (HA) but the surveyor vests are tough to suggest to our guys and gals who wear only green!?ÿ I do like the suggestion of the tape and will wrap our rods before the next trip as a backup.?ÿ The DR on the SX10 is amazing and the wireless comms on the TSC7's allow us to control the gun from the points.
R.J. - Our only prisms are the R10 360's.
Thanks guys.
Joel
I got a prism target on my gammon reel.
Reflectorless.
There should always be room in the instrument case for a mini prism and a plumb bob. Every vehicle should always have a rod, prism, plumb bob, tape, 6' rule and bipod.
Paul in PA
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There should always be room in the instrument case for a mini prism and a plumb bob. Every vehicle should always have a rod, prism, plumb bob, tape, 6' rule and bipod.
Paul in PA
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There's barely room for the two extra batteries in the SX10 case. LOL?ÿ Equipment manufactures must assume that I like carrying two and three addition cases of stuff.?ÿ Don't get me started on the Ranger/TSC 7.?ÿ That comes with it's own briefcase to store the beast in.?ÿ It is has a very un-ergonomical and poorly thought out design. I can't imagine taking it places that real surveyors go.?ÿ You know...places off the pavement and more than 100' from the truck.
There's barely room for the two extra batteries in the SX10 case. LOL?ÿ Equipment manufactures must assume that I like carrying two and three addition cases of stuff.?ÿ Don't get me started on the Ranger/TSC 7.?ÿ That comes with it's own briefcase to store the beast in.?ÿ It is has a very un-ergonomical and poorly thought out design. I can't imagine taking it places that real surveyors go.?ÿ You know...places off the pavement and more than 100' from the truck.
The money is in heavy construction and architecture/engineering, not surveying rural acreages. That is why the new products are geared toward heavy construction and AEC. If you want to be where the money and the new technologies are, get into those fields and out of surveying rural acreages.?ÿ If rural acreages is what you want to do you are probably money ahead using a #2 pencil and a field book as your data collector.
All that said, the one thing I love about Leica is the packaging. The way the accessories coordinate, the way the parts fit in the carry case. Why the H___ the other manufacturers haven't caught on to that is beyond me.?ÿ At least with my Topcon PS (which I intensely dislike for other reasons) the 360 prism and the "dog whistle" have a place in the instrument case.
There's barely room for the two extra batteries in the SX10 case. LOL?ÿ Equipment manufactures must assume that I like carrying two and three addition cases of stuff.?ÿ Don't get me started on the Ranger/TSC 7.?ÿ That comes with it's own briefcase to store the beast in.?ÿ It is has a very un-ergonomical and poorly thought out design. I can't imagine taking it places that real surveyors go.?ÿ You know...places off the pavement and more than 100' from the truck.
The money is in heavy construction and architecture/engineering, not surveying rural acreages. That is why the new products are geared toward heavy construction and AEC. If you want to be where the money and the new technologies are, get into those fields and out of surveying rural acreages.?ÿ If rural acreages is what you want to do you are probably money ahead using a #2 pencil and a field book as your data collector.
All that said, the one thing I love about Leica is the packaging. The way the accessories coordinate, the way the parts fit in the carry case. Why the H___ the other manufacturers haven't caught on to that is beyond me.?ÿ At least with my Topcon PS (which I intensely dislike for other reasons) the 360 prism and the "dog whistle" have a place in the instrument case.
Hey could you show your instrument case? I too have a Topcon PS but my dog whistle and 360 have to fit into another carrying case. I would like to see how they have manged to fit it into one instrument case