Okay, here's a practice tip. Don't use a photo of a David White Level-Transit on your website if you're trying to make sure everyone knows that you can deliver the goods with quick turnaround and cheap prices.
Just saying.
Um, that's my gun, Kent
The important thing is : I know how to use it.
Know what I'm sayin'
Doesn't matter, does it?
🙂
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Um, that's my gun, Kent
> The important thing is : I know how to use it.
> Know what I'm sayin'
> Doesn't matter, does it?
Hey, if you want to use a David White Level-Transit to survey boundaries, knock yourself out, but post photos, will you? :>
I did some work for an individual hardly a year ago on his family's land. Through a couple of conversations I was trying to determine if they had any records, like an abstract or copies of old deeds. You would be surprised how many people will stuff a copy of a survey in a manila envelope and then forget about it, or die. It never hurts to ask.
They didn't have any records, but the gent I was dealing with told me his aunt had an old surveying instrument that had belonged to his deceased uncle. My ears perked up. The uncle had apparently worked years for a lumber company in the western US. I was definitely interested in this old surveying instrument.
I made a special trip one afternoon to check it out. I had mentioned to the fella I was open to some good-old-Okie-finagling with the cost of the survey if I thought the instrument was worth something.
It was a White, similar to your photo, from the early '80s probably. It even came with the factory orange HDPE case....and it looked like it had spent its life in the back of a logging truck. :pinch:
The most interesting thing about it was the plumb bob in the case. It was complete with 6' of cotton twine wrapped around a 6" piece of a small tree branch...special..
I was polite as I told him I was really interested in instruments a little older than his.
> It was a White, similar to your photo, from the early '80s probably. It even came with the factory orange HDPE case....and it looked like it had spent its life in the back of a logging truck.
Yeah, at some point, all of the truly old solar compasses and transits will have been collected and all that will be left will be Sears Craftsman whatevers.
Advertisements are for the general public, they couldn't care less about the instrument nor are they qualified to evaluate equipment.
Bottom line, it does not matter...
> Advertisements are for the general public, they couldn't care less about the instrument nor are they qualified to evaluate equipment.
So, does this mean you have a David White level-transit on your business card? :>
> > Advertisements are for the general public, they couldn't care less about the instrument nor are they qualified to evaluate equipment.
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> So, does this mean you have a David White level-transit on your business card? :>
Kent I'm retired from surveying and don't even have a card but if I did David White picture would be a fine advertisement, only those within the construct of surveying community would even notice and their opinion don't really matter with regards to marketing to clients.
I don't know. Is this a David White? Someone here might identify it.
> Kent I'm retired from surveying and don't even have a card but if I did David White picture would be a fine advertisement, only those within the construct of surveying community would even notice and their opinion don't really matter with regards to marketing to clients.
It would provide endless hours of fun for your colleagues, though, and probably would be considered deceptive advertising if it led your clients to expect you to actually make their survey with the David White level-transit.
> I don't know. Is this a David White? Someone here might identify it.
Shouldn't you substitue a dumpy level for the total station? :>
Random and off topic thought, but 100 plus years from now will surveyors be collecting our current Surveying equipment? Commenting on the primitive nature of the equipment and wondering how could they ever get anything done using it!
> Random and off topic thought, but 100 plus years from now will surveyors be collecting our current Surveying equipment?
I tend to doubt it. None of the electronic stuff will work and without that the thing itself is basically nothing. How many Model 6 Geodimeters and K&E Autorangers are in collections right now?
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In my opinion, the best winters are springs.
Agreed. A networked RTK setup would be much more up to date.
Best Winters
I was thinking that the "Best Winters" are in the Virgin Islands.