bc - on the subject of the fence that you want to replace along the highway - I can't speak for Kentucky, but over here in Illinois I have marked right-of-way many times for people who are wanting to build a fence. There was no cost to the property owner. The property owner would place a phone call to the district office and the order would be passed down to me. I always liked those little jobs. I got to meet many very nice people.
You can find some real good deals on used transits. There was a pretty nice looking one on Craigslist a few months ago for around $25. I personally would prefer a nice old K&E transit like shown in that photo, but I am most familiar with them, having spent many hours using them over the years. If you are making long shots, you would appreciate the accuracy of the higher cost transit, but if you are mainly using it for construction and leveling, a builders level or "dumpy" level would be adequate. We never used our transits for leveling, although they did have a level vial on the scope tube.
It's interesting to note - I have had several people bring transits to me that they had bought at an auction. At least three or four "needed the crosshairs replaced". You need to know that there is a crosshair focus adjustment on all of the transits that I have fooled with. It will be somewhere near the eyepiece - where you look into the scope. Sometimes the eyepiece will twist to focus the crosshairs, and sometimes it will slide like an old telescope. With that focus adjustment, you can throw the crosshairs out of focus so badly that they can't be seen. There is also a tiny little "shade" that will slide across the eyepiece on the K&E transits, and at first glance will make someone think something is wrong with the instrument. I think the auction transits are fiddled with and either accidentally or on purpose made to appear that the crosshairs are "gone". I can see where that would make a transit sell cheaper if interested parties thought that it might be broken. I like to think that it was accidental, just to give humanity the benefit of the doubt.
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