When the luck runs out...

Offer it up on Ebay. See if you get any good offers.

Crikey dude! How the hell did that happen? Had the Sokkia Set5a knocked over by an excavator, but not that bad

-JD-

Send it to Hayes with a note requesting cleaning and adjustment.

What the heck were you doing 100' up in a tree? 😛 You should have lay it out like a body and drawn a chalk line around it. Good cartoon material for the local cartoonist.

Inst was set up on conc sidewalk and two idiots were basically digging up trees with an excavator and a dozer. Tree twisted 90 to the PTLA (proposed tree landing area) and the main trunk of the tree perfectly center-punched the inst into the concrete. There were parts of circuit boards embedded in the walk. The tree also covered 3 lanes of a 4 lane road. 2 cars hit head-on, and they stretched a fiber-optic cable as thick as my wrist right to the ground. AT+T guy was the first first-responder on the scene, sweating hard. I had just moved my truck from right in front of the instrument and was doing some calcs on the hood. Could have been a rough day, but everyone walked away. The place I bought the gun from said to box up the remains because there might be some parts that could be salvaged. When he saw it, I think he just said "Oh".
I think I will send that down to Troy for a laugh!

Ouch, glad noone was hurt. I have a few 825a robots we are looking to unload pretty cheap if you aren't going after a new one. E-mail is good.

It would be a pretty long drive from where I'm sitting to the nearest tree of 100' or more in height.

I think your luck is still good as it was the instrument and not you under the tree.

On another note, what are they doing felling a 100' tree in such a dense area? I'm hoping their insurance is going to buy you a new gun.

Doug

Wow -- that's impressive. It'd be hard to reduce a gun to that many pieces if you tried.

Too bad it's not a Leica -- I might have made an offer on the communications board.

Be sure to include that picture with your invoice to the two idiots responsible for your loss.

The utility company will be adding up their bill as well.

Glad it was just a robot, not an i-man,, and I hope insurance gets you back in business ASAP, but this a reminder not to work within 100 feet of a 100 foot tree being removed.

Make sure you strip all the nuts, bolts, washers and screws off of the tripod. They're awfully handy to keep in drawer.

Looks like everything else is dumpster material.

I know I get real nervous when I have to set my base up in open range cattle country. Sometimes they get a bit too curious and if I'm a mile away....

But having a tree fall directly on it - yikes. At least nobody got hurt, and they certainly can't say it was "an act of god".

I once had a 90' or so tree damaged by a storm that was right next to my house. The tree guys came and dissected that thing like a surgeon, until there was only about a 10' high stump which they cut down & ground the stump 1' deep. When they left you'd never know there was ever a tree there. Pretty impressive IMO. Maybe your guys should have called a real professional tree guy

Wayne

I know what you mean about open range. Anything out of the ordinary to the bovine populations means, "Hey, let's all go look!"

Last winter we were out in the middle of nowhere and had a base set up on a hill. Hadn't seen any cattle, but I knew they were there. I just made a mental note to keep my eyes peeled just in case. We were lucky and nobody 'visited' during that set up.

As we were bouncing through the gullies headed back to the base I thought I saw a critter by the set up. Got closer, it looked like a dark dog or coyote laying down by the tripod. Got closer yet and realized one of the crew had peeled his fur hooded parka and coveralls off as the day warmed and left them laying on the ground.

It looked just like a big hungry wolf laying there. Made me wonder if that's why the cows didn't come and sniff.

Maybe a wolf 'decoy' will keep the critters away. Heck, it's worth a try.

> ...., what are they doing felling a 100' tree in such a dense area? I'm hoping their insurance is going to buy you a new gun.
>
> Doug

I agree. Wouldn't you want to take that size of a tree down in parts? If they're just pushing them over, they best get people and all the cars moved out of the area before they do that kind of work.

I don't know how they wouldn't be liable. Hopefully you'll have some new survey equipment soon.

SOMEBODY IS GETTING A NEW TOY! HOPE THE TREE GUY HAD INSURANCE.

Wayne

> ...It looked just like a big hungry wolf laying there. Made me wonder if that's why the cows didn't come and sniff.
>
> Maybe a wolf 'decoy' will keep the critters away. Heck, it's worth a try.

Maybe he hadn't washed it in awhile, or had some other scent? Never hurts to drain a certain vein just before you leave the setup either. 😛

When I used to set my robot up in some not so desirable urban areas, I'd clip a radio on the tripod and if any of the youngster localites got too curious while I was 4 or 500 ft away I'd send off a quick "...hey what are you doing...get away..". Or sometimes just send it into search mode and it would start spinning around. As Howard Cossell once said that got him fired "...look at ________ run...". Kinda fun and it worked.

I doubt that would stop a tree though...

The feet are still good

I spy:

Feet (Sir Veys already mentioned)

A few good screws.

A couple of stakes, to mark corners. (Beside the irons)

And, maybe a wire.

And, probably a good internal battery.

🙂

N

PS Maybe auction it off, with the procedes to Wendell!

N