Home Improvement → Re: What can I use to shoot my grade.

said by robbin:

Normally a transit level would be used for this. I imagine some of the surveyors may have them with GPS built in for importing into the PC. You definitely cannot rent one which does this with the accuracy needed. Rent a transit level and survey the property and then type it into the computer.

said by AVD:A transit and a level are two different things.

You sort of have to know what you are doing with an optical equipment. I would suggest, that instead of a string line, you use one of those laser levelers.

When I took surveying in college, the fist day we went out with a tiny sight with an integrated bubble level and a broomstick.

I've never seen a handheld GPS device that could determine survey grade elevations.

said by AVD:

A transit and a level are two different things.

said by AVD:

I looked on line and see transit-level and level-transit used interchangeably. I dunno, over here a level won't measure the vertical angle while a transit will show the horizontal and vertical (and also has a compass). I'll have to check my old surveying text to see if I'm just going senile.