Surveying gadget
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Looks like the old fashioned kind of sighting mechanism that lets you work out distance/ height for surveying. Think monocular with an integral graticule.
Yes/no ?
Meant to screw down securely onto a tripod with levels fitted.
If the lenses are clean and the whole piece moves smoothly there's no reason it shouldn't work.
cheers,
M
Yes/no ?
Meant to screw down securely onto a tripod with levels fitted.
If the lenses are clean and the whole piece moves smoothly there's no reason it shouldn't work.
cheers,
M
I think it's a surveyor's scope,or Alidade, as Toddy correctly stated its used to calculate distances using line of sight, it should have a graduated sight and is designed to attach to a tripod
a similar one
and in use
hope this helps
a similar one
and in use
hope this helps
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greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
BareThrills is right, it's a level. I thought it was Alidade, but was wrong.
Back in the day eh Paul
Indeed although i only ever used a digital one even back in the day. im not that old lol. The total stations they use these days are great though but i cant help thinking they take something away, my younger brother in law is doing a surveying degree at the moment and they dont do half of the trig we had to do back then. I vividly remember calculating whole circle bearings with manual tables because the lecturer said we had too. Ive never touched one since i left uni and i dont miss them
is used to measures angles! of distant objects. its used in map making, they have been around for thousands of years, started of as a straight stick with a notch each end that you lined up.
Here is a link Alidade
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It's a dumpy level.
No idea why they're called that. Builder's use them, they used to be used to make sure that the levels of roads and railways were accurately laid.
Nowadays we've got automatic ones, but I can still do a plane table survey
cheers,
M
No idea why they're called that. Builder's use them, they used to be used to make sure that the levels of roads and railways were accurately laid.
Nowadays we've got automatic ones, but I can still do a plane table survey
cheers,
M
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