1896 Buff and Berger wye level, in 1898 Buff and Berger split into Buff&Buff and CL Berger and Sons.
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Found one in my coat pocket over the weekend. Would have been happy to send it to you. 🙂
Bruce
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hand tools: hammer and plumb bob
gps: ashtech locus
theodolite: wild t1a and t2
transit: dietzgen and buff and buff
edm:pentax px6d and cubitape dm60 (mint condition and still works very well)
Many a time, for lack of a hammer, I have driven a corner with a rock....beat that for the oldest tool you have performed surveying with. Primarily limestone and sandstone.
Set out a house foundation for a friend a while back. He wanted it to be aligned to face due south, we set up a stick and marked the end of the shadow on the ground to find where the sun passed through the meridian at local noon. The remains of an old house nearby was on the same alignment, so the builders might have used that old sun and stick method as well. When you're at 59 north you want to catch as much sun as possible!
Plane Table and Alidade for woods topo circa 1988
Wild T16 with top mount EDM. We thought we knew everything!
Worked with K&E Paragon, Berger with a Beaman Arc, Gurley. But by far the oldest transit I ever used was a Buff & Buff, don't know how old it was but it was a one minute gun with external focus and real spider web cross hairs. And the Surveyor I was working with at the time repaired the hairs himself. When you were looking through the scope the repair knot was visible on one of the stadia hairs.
Bob
Don't know the age on it, but I did use a similar level, a four screw and also an old K&E with the magnifying glass. "Turn right, read left".
"Turn right, read left", makes me wonder how many people know what I am talking about?
"Turn Right read Left" How about Tape Long Observe Short!
The second firm I worked for didn't have enough "modern" equipment for all the crews so monumentation, line marking and smaller jobs were run with a Gurley transit with a full vertical circle and inverted image. Maybe the Engineers Transit? Must have dated from the '20 I'm guessing.
Reading lines of coincidence and learning how to tape, two of the old school techniques I'm glad to have learned.
Rick