Surface dtm. We are doing roadwork so its a road surface I created in Terramodel and run through TBC.

Trimble should include a Polaris Ranger with their system. Makes moving the robots and keeping ahead lots easier. They could paint one yellow.

Robots only. Around 500' seemed good. We were keeping an extra one set up for checking behind the paver.

Good to know, hadn't found that. thanks

I haven't tried it in Access, but in the past I have just cut the job up into sections so the equations don't come into play.

Well, you keep talking about precise coordinates, but 3 decimal places on the lats and longs are not precise. Carry your examples out to 5 decimal pl...

Yeah, thats what I do. Maybe I can explain better.This is exaggerated but say you have a 50' radius to the edge of pavement with a 10' shoulder on th...

I always stake the structures, let the pipe crew worry about how they tie in the pipe. Lately I draw the structures in so they can see them on their ...

I run the robot target at 5.50' and the R8 at 6.12'. Use the same rod for both, and 6.12 is where it is when I set the rod at the 2m mark. Since I'm...

Here ya go...

I actually will hang a bipod on the rod as well if I need really steady shots. Don't even take the rod rest off, it's not any more cumbersome that wa...

Hate to say I told you so. The original ones were called a Rod Rest, made by Gardener Engineering, I think. Last one I bought came from Lo-Ink.What ...

Way worth it. I've worn out several, never broke one. Usually the spring steel starts to lose some of it's spring and the legs start to dangle too f...

Set many a mile of slope stakes and blue tops reading those same signals. Party chief had to have nodules removed from his vocal chords after years o...

We tried out the millimeter GPS a couple of weeks ago on a milling machine and an asphalt paver on some roadwork. When it works, it works well. Howe...