Happy New Year all,
We are looking in to the topcon gps systems and have been talking to a couple different salesmen. We are just a small family excavating business however we get involved in all size projects and certainly see the benefits of the gps systems. We are just looking to get started with the base and rover set up to find topo lines, drainage structures, set stakes, etc. not looking at machine grade controls at this time but want to have the option of using our base and rover set up with a rental machine that may be set up with the grade controls. The salesmen are trying to sell us on the new Hiper VR system however that comes at a large price tag, when i questioned one of them on the Hiper SR system they said that it would not work with integrated grade controls. Again i dont know much about the systems but i am assuming that to be a lie since the VR system only came out a little over year ago and I know that other contractors have been using grade controls for over 10 years. If anyone would be able to give me any information or guidance it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance
We are looking in to the topcon gps systems and have been talking to a couple different salesmen. We are just a small family excavating business however we get involved in all size projects and certainly see the benefits of the gps systems. We are just looking to get started with the base and rover set up to find topo lines, drainage structures, set stakes, etc. not looking at machine grade controls at this time but want to have the option of using our base and rover set up with a rental machine that may be set up with the grade controls. The salesmen are trying to sell us on the new Hiper VR system however that comes at a large price tag, when i questioned one of them on the Hiper SR system they said that it would not work with integrated grade controls. Again i dont know much about the systems but i am assuming that to be a lie since the VR system only came out a little over year ago and I know that other contractors have been using grade controls for over 10 years. If anyone would be able to give me any information or guidance it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance