While at the local salvage yard looking in a 1940s ford, I noticed this weird shape covered mostly in dirt by an ant hill sticking out of the passenger floor board. as i reached my bare hand down, grabbing the mount and pulling it out while ants and dirt fall away. I noticed it was an older headlight by the size that you dont see that aften anymore. when I was haggeling with the owners son on a price the owner walks in and gives it to me for free for finding something special in a sea of junk.

I got the surveyors tripod while working as a survey tech which was my first career.