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Nate The Surveyor

Nate The Surveyor

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Okay it's finally gotten to me. I know how small it is. That's the number one issue having it with me.
So it's on my agenda at this point to buy it it might be a month or so before I do, but it's got to be part of my box of tools.
How many times I've walked 500' both ways, to get one of the big ones...
A smart tip in your pocket. Is better than a hike to get one.
Nate
 
Phillip Lancaster

Phillip Lancaster

Active Member
It's been a long time since Shawn has made a video (He use to make one per month. Not that I'm counting or anything). I think this would be a perfect instructional video on setup and use of the J-tip. As for Adam. Well, he doesn't have his own channel (I maybe wrong) so he falls under the Javad new stuff youtube umbrella. I wonder whats taking so long. It's not like yall have jobs or anything.
 
Jim Campi

Jim Campi

Active Member
Happy New Year!

I hope you all have a grand and prosperous year.

I haven't checked in for a bit. Are the J~Tip and J-Pod shipping.
 
Nate The Surveyor

Nate The Surveyor

Well-Known Member
I don't know if Javad has figured it out yet, but, if he does not make an app, for a smart phone, for his little bitty metal detector, he forces us to carry our old one too.BECAUSE we don't always want to tote the LS.

And, it takes a bit to boot up.

Drive up to job, grab metal detector, and go searching, and digging etc.
But, with his paradigm, we have to BOOT UP the LS, and assemble it, before we can use it. Boot up takes about 1 minute, or 1-1/2 minutes.
After booted, you can keep using it. But, now we HAVE to tote the LS with is, to use the tip.Our hands are often full. Pick, Shovel, chainsaw, and now a SLAMMER tool, for digging.

We want to be able to USE the tip, independent of the LS.

I suspect that others will also want it to operate independent.

I'm a surveyor.

N
 
Shawn Billings

Shawn Billings

Shawn Billings
5PLS
I keep my old locator in the truck for such occasions, but I have only taken it out once in the last two or three months. My normal operation is to roll up on site and immediately set up the base and get the LS going before I do anything else. Most of the time, I look on Google Earth to find my base site before I ever go out. Once the base is setup and the rover is receiving corrections, I then begin my corner search BECAUSE when I find a monument, I want to go ahead and tie it in. My efficiency comes largely from being able to do one-pass-through. Search, tie, evaluate on the spot then proceed. In the old days of conventional traverse, I would do two or three passes on most projects, the first being a preliminary corner search. Being solo, I'm slower in some ways than a two or three many crew, but I save time by only going through once (most of the time). So it is extremely rare that I need the locator and NOT the LS.

Using the new J-Pack, my hands are free. I keep everything in the pack, shovel, hammer, machete, rod driver, flagging tape, field book, field computer, clipboard, rods, caps, nails, washers, J-Tip, regular tip, LS on monopod, and if necessary, J-Pod and my hands are free.

I'm sure others, who are not Javad users, would like to be able to use the J-Tip. There is a way to do that... buy a Javad LS.
 
Darren Clemons

Darren Clemons

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Adam said:
The LS has made the need to recon before surveying, a thing of the past, I believe. Why wouldn't you take the LS everywhere? Now, I do see a use for an app. That is for my helper.
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Agree Adam, I haven't done any recon before surveying for years. It's like Shawn mentioned above - one pass is all it takes. I not only find my base site like Shawn before I go, with most all jobs I have calculated design points already imported in the LS when I arrive. We immediately set up the base, start the LS and stake right to the corners.
 
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