Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:32 am
Will,
Thanks for the welcome. I will try to put together some posts on some of my tree list. As for my "bugs", I still have to calibrate my laser range finder(LRF) for change over and I have noticed some problems with angles. I have a Leupold 750 LRF with an inclinometer. I like the unit, it is easy to use and has good optics. But I feel that I have been taking angles measurements that include head tilt. As you know a forestry clinometer is meant to be used with no head movement, only the eyes. With the LRF, I need to move my head to see through the optics...giving me different angle readings. My thought is to make a monopod that I can rest the LRF on and maintain a single point of movement for the angle reading. Eventually I will get a clinometer. But for now this is what I have. Change over calibration is just laziness on my part.
Thanks for this great organization,
Pierce
Thanks for the welcome. I will try to put together some posts on some of my tree list. As for my "bugs", I still have to calibrate my laser range finder(LRF) for change over and I have noticed some problems with angles. I have a Leupold 750 LRF with an inclinometer. I like the unit, it is easy to use and has good optics. But I feel that I have been taking angles measurements that include head tilt. As you know a forestry clinometer is meant to be used with no head movement, only the eyes. With the LRF, I need to move my head to see through the optics...giving me different angle readings. My thought is to make a monopod that I can rest the LRF on and maintain a single point of movement for the angle reading. Eventually I will get a clinometer. But for now this is what I have. Change over calibration is just laziness on my part.
Thanks for this great organization,
Pierce