Know what this is?
Feb 26, 2016 08:02:34 #
jimbo70
Loc: Orange Park, FL.
My daughter sent me a photo of this and I would guess it is for finding your way in the wilds with a map or for surveying.
Feb 26, 2016 08:05:33 #
Feb 26, 2016 08:06:45 #
Looks like something a surveyor would use. Sort of like a mine survey compass
Feb 26, 2016 08:33:39 #
Feb 26, 2016 08:41:26 #
More likely something a Boy Scout or wilderness hiker would use. The arms across the top stand up allowing the user to site on a landmark & get a direction of travel.
Feb 26, 2016 08:51:05 #
Leitz
Loc: Solms
jimbo70 wrote:
My daughter sent me a photo of this and I would guess it is for finding your way in the wilds with a map or for surveying.
The bowl of fruit, or the engineer compass?
Feb 26, 2016 09:07:08 #
Leitz wrote:
The bowl of fruit, or the engineer compass?
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The bowl of fruit resides west of London, so it must be the engineer compass.
Feb 26, 2016 10:14:36 #
It is a compass that allows you to set a visual landmark to walk to (brass arm lifts).
I used that in the army in orientation courses. Find where you are, orient your map using the compass. Select the point you you can walk to, mark in on the map, go to it, do the same thing until you get to your destination (If you know what you are doing).
You can avoid rivers, cliffs, whatever using this, much better than a walking GPS that just tells you where you are and no information as to what is in between so that you can map the best route.
Basically, you use it to set visual way points within real way point (forced passage).
I used that in the army in orientation courses. Find where you are, orient your map using the compass. Select the point you you can walk to, mark in on the map, go to it, do the same thing until you get to your destination (If you know what you are doing).
You can avoid rivers, cliffs, whatever using this, much better than a walking GPS that just tells you where you are and no information as to what is in between so that you can map the best route.
Basically, you use it to set visual way points within real way point (forced passage).
Feb 26, 2016 10:21:33 #
Of course the ball head (shown above and between the compass and the case) is the kind found with surveyor's equipment. Also the plate under the compass seems to be some sort of mounting plate likely for use on a tripod, further indicating its likely survey use.
Feb 26, 2016 10:32:19 #
Feb 26, 2016 10:39:59 #
jimbo70 wrote:
My daughter sent me a photo of this and I would guess it is for finding your way in the wilds with a map or for surveying.
No its a bowl of fruit!
Feb 26, 2016 12:24:49 #
Rbode wrote:
A guess: azimuth compass
I'm guessing you're right:
http://www.franksfisherman.com/products/18th-century-azimuth-compass
Feb 26, 2016 12:33:47 #
Feb 27, 2016 07:01:48 #
nicksr1125 wrote:
More likely something a Boy Scout or wilderness hiker would use. The arms across the top stand up allowing the user to site on a landmark & get a direction of travel.
Right. If the flat object is the focus of this discussion, it's a compass, and the black strip on top folds up so the user can sight through it.
If the colorful object behind it is the topic, that's a bowl of fruit, to be used to stay alive because the person doesn't know how to use a compass and is lost in the wilderness. :D
Feb 27, 2016 07:03:06 #
Bill_de wrote:
Great catch, and it comes with a ballhead!
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