Scored the "QUIZ" 1 Star...Definitely not written by an "Old Fart" :-S I scored 62%
On a MoDOT project a few years ago, I was able to compare 2nd order closure direct levels with the real-time results from the Missouri RTN over a sixt...
I Said Accurate, I Meant AccurateI see 😀
Maybe you mean PRECISE??just wunderin :-S
😀 :good: :good: Now that is funny... thanks for the chuckle.
😀 :good: you nailed it
Texas Instruments made the TI 4100. That's the receiver used by GSI in the late 80s and early 90s. Our company had contracted them to do GPS control f...
Mark I posted this below and it probably escaped your attention, so I copied it here. "I have always liked the way my old Ashtech receivers from Z-12s...
I have always liked the way my old Ashtech receivers from Z-12s through Z-Surveyors and Z-Extremes will do the OPUS but also true kinematic and start/...
Good PointI'll bet most of JQ Public spends more time scrutinizing a mechanic or roofer than they would a surveyor. Most folks pay for one or two surv...
looks like a knock off made in India item
You have saida lot. And I have to agree with pretty much all your vision. 🙁 I am one of the lucky ones to have worked in the golden age spanning ch...
Some of those were auctioned off on the government surplus website last year. I made a few bids but they went higher than I was willing to go. So, I h...
Yup, pretty much all survey instruments, transits and compasses mainly, have been labeled that way for a long time, especially the ones made in the st...
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I think it's because this instrument would not "transit" (plunge). But then that makes one wonder why a T-1 is a theodolite when it will transit.
Not to hijack..... but this old fashioned scribed vernier device is a theodolite? It doesn't have glass reading circles like modern day theodolites an...
pibal theo is the shorthand name
I am curious like TommyWhy did you not get paid to begin with. I did thousands of miles of route surveys during my career and it is commonplace for th...