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Very cool!! That could be really useful.
I always watch and admire the work the guys have done here moving earth and doing cut and fills -- house, barn, arenas -- and it's perfection. They must have something like that.

A lot of it can be done with grade lasers, but takes a lot of time to measure, write it up and draw it up. That is what those workers use, sometimes geo fencing which is close to this toy. Versus this it does all of that except the machine operator can’t see the results as he works like they can with grade lasers. Such as on my machines I have a Spectra GL622 grade laser that rotates a laser at whatever grade and can do a dual plane grade that is sent to receiver attached to whatever implement mounted with magnet. Unlike this toy my receiver can compensate for angle of the implement such as boom on excavator as I dig.

Take information from this toy and compute it then input it in my grade laser, but before hand I can visually see it.
 

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Please let us know how it works for you. Also, what do you recommend for a grade laser? This winter we will hopefully be tackling fencing and inflow to pond.
Depends on how far you are looking to go in distance and are you wanting single or dual plane? I recommend Spectra cause it's what I use, as for which one depends on your answers.
https://www.spectraprecision.com/grade-laser
 

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Over 600’ of 1.5” poly pipe, 100’ of 2” poly pipe, 100’ of .75 & .5 poly pipe on sale in town. Grabbed all this for $52. Not the first time to win here, I got over $1500 in metal cutting blades for $32 cause people don’t realize they make bushings for 20MM arbor saw blades to bring them down to 5/8”. While at it got a couple pair of Carhartt double front carpenter pants for $23 today too.
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I believe between drone fly overs, bobcat I recently killed, hot temperatures and molting in the past 60 to 90 days our ducks have went from 18 eggs a day to 2. Has been like this over past month of just 2 to 4 eggs and these ducks are only a year old. Past 6 weeks or more these ducks look like they are molting and haven't stopped.
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Don't mind me, it's a Sunday, raining outside and I'm bored.
This design should solve a lot of space wasting issues. From the peak to the corner on each side if one were to draw a triangle would put this design at 60° strength in the Y+ axis plus the roundness will add strength in the X axis and the thickness of the roofing materials will cover the Z axis while able to hold any snow/wind loads.
Based on using the most from materials such as a stick of square tubing I use comes standard in 24' lengths with this design it minimizes waste even amongst the metal roofing. With waste someone has to eat it so I design to prevent it.
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