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I was wondering if anyone has a picture of a surveying rod fully extended showing all the numbers????
This is the rod that is used for leveling work or what ever the survey crew uses!!
Please no "Target" type rods just the ones with the numbers one them as I need a good picture so I can print it and reduce it for model making purposes!!!!
Also preferably a 10 foot rod, measurements on the rod don't matter as either feet, tens and hundredths are fine and meteric is good too!!!
Thank you very much, I have made a transit so I don't need that just the rod!!!
I have searched also for pictures but did not get any good ones as most were closed/sales pictures!!
Thank you ALL very much again!!!!!
Dain
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 do you mean like this?
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I presume you are trying to create something like this one by LR130:  If you Google "survey levelling staff" you will get some images, below is a typical metric staff that I have used alot!  Fibre glass staff, (Image a little long to post): http://www.korecgroup.com/direct/templates/images/products/large_7100.jpg
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Jimi wrote:do you mean like this? Jimi is correct for most of the US. We measure mostly(with the Philidelphia rod) in decimal feet, the picture Jimi has shown equals 6.225 feet, fyi  And I think the typical height is 16 feet? Dan
1:1 or 1:50, I am still in awe. 
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we dont use anything but 25 footers. Theres a 5 foot extension you can screw in the top too. Lotta digging when you have to use that.
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we have 16 footers at work as well. they are in tenths but a few guys who have been there for years still cant use them right. they just can grasp the concept.... brian
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mixontour wrote:Jimi wrote:do you mean like this? Jimi is correct for most of the US. We measure mostly(with the Philidelphia rod) in decimal feet, the picture Jimi has shown equals 6.225 feet, fyi And I think the typical height is 16 feet? Dan It more like 3.63 there chief yeah? And up here you use mostly 35 footers for the deep stuff we do.
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brian falcone wrote:we have 16 footers at work as well. they are in tenths but a few guys who have been there for years still cant use them right. they just can grasp the concept.... brian Oh my goodness. You throw in the ones that are tenths on one side and inches on the other, it just goes downhill.  I love it when whoever is checking grade says 5 foot 11 tenths.  They never last long.
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Like this one?  
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mixontour wrote:Jimi wrote:do you mean like this? Jimi is correct for most of the US. We measure mostly(with the Philidelphia rod) in decimal feet, the picture Jimi has shown equals 6.225 feet, fyi And I think the typical height is 16 feet? Dan yeah its 3.63
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mixontour wrote:Jimi wrote:do you mean like this? Jimi is correct for most of the US. We measure mostly(with the Philidelphia rod) in decimal feet, the picture Jimi has shown equals 6.225 feet, FYI And I think the typical height is 16 feet? Dan Yep looks to be 6.255, unless you're rounding to the nearest hundredth and then one has to decide; up or down. Ours (the one I use) is 16ft. plus....0.35' extra or somewhere in that neighborhood. I made a 1/50 theodolite a few years back and was going to make the prism-rod but never finished either all the way, due to not liking what I had done and moving on to some other fancy. Someone needs to do the laser set-up....that would go well in a tench scene etc. Chris
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Jimi, that's close but I need a pic of the whole rod!!!
Martin, yes that's what I'm doing, I have the transit done already (it is 1/50) just need to get the numbering so I can print it and make it fit a rod!!!
The places I worked at we used a two section rod, I believe it was 10 - 15 footer!!!
I will try to work on a Laser version and will get pics for A Cutter's contest!!!!
Thanks for stuff so far guys but I still need a full shot of the numbers for at least a 10 foot rod!!!!
Dain
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Sorry Dain, I missed where you asked for the whole rod. Now this is gonna sound mean and I don't mean to, but that's pretty much what the whole rod looks like for 10-25 feet. The little red 3 is marking what foot you are at, big numbers are tenths, and the dashs are hundreds. At every "foot" mark with be a big red number for that foot.
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Jim
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yeah, pretty obvious that some people dont know how to read a rod 
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Jimi, what I'm looking for is a picture of the face of the rod with at least the first and second section showing. I am trying to make a rod such as the one Martin showed a picture of with the figure of the guy the one from LR120!!!
Dewoc, I know there are some that don't know how to read the rods as there are so many different types!!!
The different ones I saw are,
1) Engineers, scales are in feet and tenths and hundredths of feet.
2) Contractors, scales are in feet and fractions
3) Metric
Guys all I need is a picture of the front of a rod to print out and put on a scale model of a rod.
Thanks for all the help as I appreciate it very much!!!
Dain
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If you have access to a drawing program like AutoCAD, then I'd draw it up on that at 1:1 and then print it off on a colour laser jet at 1:50 and stick it to a sliver of balsa. Just copy the format up to the length you need and edit the numbers.
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I guess my math is bad maybe I need to go back to labor school to learn how to read one of these dar thingys or go work with them guys Eric has up with the big ol crusher for sale. Most rods are tenths. Metric is kinda gone to the wayside here. To hard for too many people to figure out.
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DeWoc19 wrote:yeah, pretty obvious that some people dont know how to read a rod My pal.......yeah you are keeping me on my toes good buddy. I obviously didn't take time to really look at what I quoted, but I'm leaving my mistake up in that other post all the same. The reading I would jot down would be 3.625' I wanted to argue that you were wrong IMtechnicalO saying it was 3.6 3 and failed to acknowledge the proper reading in actual feet. Chris
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To me it looks like a 3.625...
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a Cutter wrote:DeWoc19 wrote:yeah, pretty obvious that some people dont know how to read a rod My pal.......yeah you are keeping me on my toes good buddy. I obviously didn't take time to really look at what I quoted, but I'm leaving my mistake up in that other post all the same. The reading I would jot down would be 3.625' I wanted to argue that you were wrong IMtechnicalO saying it was 3.6 3 and failed to acknowledge the proper reading in actual feet. Chris well then we can both agree that 6.255 is WAAAAAAAY off
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