Contractor tripod

[SolarYellow]

In this old Enerjet promo piece, they appear to be using a contractor/surveyor tripod as a launch base.

https://plans.rocketshoppe.com/enerjet/enj1340/enj1340.pdf
It occurred to me that those might still be a good value for launching. Only about $60-70, ultra-beefy, come with feet that can be staked into the ground, elevate the business activities to chest height or better.

https://www.amazon.com/Johnson-Level-Tool-40-6335-Contractor/dp/B001H1LQ86/
https://www.homedepot.com/s/tripod?
Might want to have an easy way to pivot the launch rod or rail, I guess. But definitely gets the top of the rod up above eye level, and old guys don't need to kneel down to hook up the ignitors.

Anyone else using them?

 

[Hobie1dog]

I have a rather beefy photography tripod that is very adjustable, and I adapted a drill chuck (keyless Style) to the top. also it has the standard pivoting head on it so it makes loading Rockets easy and highly adjustable for winds and local tree magnets, the ones that you're talking about are usually old Transit tripods like they use in surveying, they have to be a killer way a way of doing it.

 

[Alan15578]

In this old Enerjet promo piece, they appear to be using a contractor/surveyor tripod as a launch base.

https://plans.rocketshoppe.com/enerjet/enj1340/enj1340.pdf

They might be using the tripod from their Skytrack.

 

[SolarYellow]

Yup, that does look like the tripod of a Centuri Sky Trak.

https://plans.rocketshoppe.com/pubs/Centuri/sky-trak.pdf