 Survaying Tripod (8605)
Here is a tripod cane I have never experienced before. After you take off the ferrule you loosen 3 exposed nuts to allow the legs to slide sideways into a triangle. 41”tall. The threads are 1” brass over wood making it for surveying not a camera. I love surveying tripods, because they really are all 3*, which is rarely seen. I like finding the proper instruments to put them on. I look for instruments that have the exact threads as the tripod, I don’t buy the instrument then look for a tripod to fit it, because you never would. The two most common camera tripods are Jaci and Dresden. You know they are for a camera by the size of the threads, which is ¼” or 3/8” The Jaci came with a replaceable nut that changed the large thread to the small one by removing it. I see that nut mostly missing today. These two tripods are 2*. Circa 1910. The surveying tripods usually were used with small instruments for farm and construction use, not by professional surveyors which used large professional ones. This is a B value code.
Category: Gadget
Sub Category: Occupational - Tools
Listed: 2006-10-19 22:43:30
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