How Much Can You Save On Professional Measuring Tools?

CST/Berger and Disto –if you are a surveyor or an engineer, the conversation is sure to be peppered with these two names. Understandable; you are the ones to create beauty in a building and are responsible for safety and quality of a construction, a bridge or a factory. Naturally, the shoptalk revolves around cross lines, vertical lines and horizontal lines, ‘levels’ or ‘planes’.

Before CST/Berger and Disto:
Until CST/Berger came up with dependable, user-friendly and powerful Total Stations and laser levels and until Disto started offering ‘Customized for America’ precision measuring tools, surveying was a painful and hassle-ridden process. And, it was also a costly affair; had to have an assistant along for lugging the tripods and equipment, and recall the time wasted – someone had to literally walk all the way to a place and hold up the grade pole for the surveyor to take a reading.

Now With CST/Berger and Disto:
The CST/Berger reflectorless Total Station is self-leveling, has a working range up to 1600 m with single prism; and even over such a long range, it gives you angular accuracy up to 2”.

Then there is Leica Disto the 3D handheld measuring hero. You can stop worrying about skewed walls, tripods, ladders and mobile access platforms or difficult to reach nooks and corners. You can also dispense with note-taking, the Disto Pro and Pro A models can store, hold your breath, as many as 800 measurements. The measurements can, not only be downloaded but also can be converted into a sketch later. With Disto’s in-built camera provides pictures of the records and measurement area, if you so desire.

You need to deploy one person in place of two, most of the jobs are done in less than half the time, and measurements are perfect and accurate the very first time. What are all these adding up to? You will be recovering cost of Disto within the first three or four jobs!

Savings on CST/Berger and Disto:
Now is the time to answer the question ‘how much can you save on CST/Berger or Disto?” The answer is – it depends on where you buy. Let us suppose you are buying from the right source. Then a CST/Berger’s CST-302R 2 Second Reflector less Total Station (2-second and 5-second accuracies, nearly unlimited storage with built in SD Card,) will cost you about $4,120. That is less than half the list price and much less than the price at the local store!

Or on a Leica Disto A8 Laser Distance Meter, you get to save nearly $200. Though branded products, prices for laser levels and measuring tools can swing a bit widely from store to store.

When you want to be sure of genuine products and the right price ‘The right store’ is the online hardware store.