Worlds Smallest Giant

Get an elevator tripod and resection (or free-station seeing that you are using a Leica). 😉

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> Edit-Who says it always rains in Puyallup?;-)

Why are the sidewalks green? It may not rain all the time, but it never dries out either. 😉

> Anybody know where to get a pair of those drywaller stilt's, cheap?;-)

That what that orange box is for.

That looks like my normal set-up. What's the HI?

That looks like a Leica 1200 like mine. It must be difficult to see the fish eye level!

I'm 5'8" and change, and my normal HI is about 5.2'. My instrument man is 6'3", and his normal HI is around 5.6'. I pretty much can't run the gun when he's set it up for himself. However, when I run robotic I tend to set up around his normal HI.

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> Get an elevator tripod and resection (or free-station seeing that you are using a Leica). 😉

I'm working on that; You can lead a horse to water, but you can't teach an old dog new tricks;-)

Cheers,
Dugger

Aah,
had to do the same thing this week,
a jeep parked just before I had to setup, not much of a problem when you can watch the optical plummet, levelling is done watching the dc with our Trimble S6.
I noticed I do my setups higher then before now we're working solo.

chr.

Just a bit to high even for me.

Git a mechanics mirror, center using a plumb bob, then hold the mirror still over the bubbles and do everything backwards from what worked before. Could probably get a peek through the objective lens that way. I use the case and when we carried a T-2 and a 76, I had two to stack up, very tricky doing that especially on a steep hill. On real steep stuff we had a party chief with an hi of about 6.5 feet, mine was about 4.9. I could bend over and get half the shot and he could stretch or stand on a rock and get the other half, got some good results that way.

jud

Not to dis' Leica, because Leica was very good to me, but...we are running Trimble robots with multi-track prisms and shooting through traffic is no problem 😉

We were doing as-builts on a storm line, laid on the curve of the road. So I(the rod man) took the end of a 300' chain and drug it up to the next inlet, while the party chief and instrument man held the mirrors we'd unbolted from the van and shone light from the sun up the 60" pipe we were measuring.

Things were a lot simpler in 1977.....:-P

I never said I was having a problem;-)

My friend and I were just having some fun:-) safety is our biggest concern, the less impact we have on the traffic, the better. But that doesn't mean we can't laugh about it:

We should give them maps.

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We used to use the reel that the highway chain was rolled up on, to reflect the light into structures.

That way you always had it in hand, and you didn't have to dismantle the work truck.

:coffee:

Radar

You don't happen to have Lois' high school photo, do you?
I'd like to see that.

Don