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nate-the-surveyor
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What would you do with this? Wire it together, and make it into office decor??ÿ

Maybe a gift for a newly licensed surveyor?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F193062564149


 
Posted : September 1, 2019 8:11 am
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The head might have a repurpose use in making a tribrach mount for a 4 wheeler so that you can put a rover on it but otherwise it is junk.


 
Posted : September 1, 2019 8:52 am
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Well, that's kinda my thinking. I also think it's what I'll look like, when I die!

😉

Nate


 
Posted : September 1, 2019 10:40 am
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"Gorilla glue"


 
Posted : September 1, 2019 10:43 am
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That tribrach he mentioned looks like an adapter plate to mount a Kern theodolite on a standard tripod.


 
Posted : September 1, 2019 10:55 am

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A clever woodworker could reproduce the wooden parts.


 
Posted : September 1, 2019 3:39 pm
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If all the parts were there, a good waterproof wood glue, sand it, and paint it. It'd look good. But, I'd not trust that the parts were all there. That is the broken wood parts.

?ÿ


 
Posted : September 1, 2019 7:06 pm
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Garbage


 
Posted : September 2, 2019 12:53 pm