At my age I would start with the clothes off and I have to be paid to put them back on.
A few years ago the State Museum was being totally refurbished and they were giving stuff away to the other agencies. Someone here grabbed a couple of display cases which now house our own little museum with some old cameras, planimeters, ship curves and other various pieces of equipment that have been lying around collecting dust all with a card explaining their uses. Unfortunately they didn't ask the people who would have actually used some of that equipment to describe it, so there are just a couple of misleading descriptions.
I have a Leroy set similar to the one pictured with the same type of nibs, but the templates do not have the individual guide at the bottom the templates sit on a separate metal slide that has the guide built in and the box is much smaller. If I could take a pic I would, unfortunately that's some of the stuff still in storage about 1100 miles South of here.
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Well I use it occasionally for its intended use but it spends a whole lot more time as a back-scratcher.
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Licensed Land Surveyor
Finger Lakes Region, Upstate New York
Mine is within arm's reach at all times. Actually use it a couple of times per week. Other times I also use it for a back-scratcher.
I have an extensive collection in feet, meters, miles, rods, chains, yards, dms and inches. When those fail I have my trusty map measure from k&e.
The map measure is great in the field as it replaces all others. It stays in the original box inside a zip-loc when I am out...
I have a Mountain Transit on a shelf above my desk in my office. I haven't been there to NOT use it lately.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this! I keep an architect scale at my desk for that reason - the edges are razor sharp and can reach anywhere on your back. Then someone asks if I have an arch scale they can borrow and I'm like "uh, no I guess I lost it", because I can't let them use that in good conscience.
This post has me on the fence.
I use scales, eraser shield, triangles, degree templates anderasure fan during planing and boundary division and checking every new plot for accuracy of plot.
The tool that remain on the shelf are Leroy inkwell pens, transits, levels, solid leg with threaded heads, chains, tapes, range pole, chaining pins, letter and number stamps.
I am hoping Dewalt come out with a 20v rod driver. I already predrill holes in man made materials and rock so rods go in easier because of the shock my arms receive by driving them.
I have a collection of many scales from using with?ÿ aerial photo, vara maps and plots, pea level 1/64, grads, antenatal height, 12in, 18in, 6in, USGS maps, metric, books and folders of maps, and a few rapidiographic pens with a bottle of India ink.
Old habits are hard to give up and most of my stuff have a distinct use for certain tasks.
One of the basic principles of surveying is to follow the original footsteps and that takes using the equipment they used to retrace them more times than expected.?ÿ
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