Cowboyrob
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Any tips for rough grading while cutting with an excavator? This **** is frustrating.
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Tips for rough grading with an excavator
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Ronsii
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What problems are you having? most of the work we do is always fine grading with the hoes.
Cowboyrob
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I have to tear up CTA and mix it with the good dirt underneath while cutting from 2ft to 5 ft over about 1/8 mile. My work is wavy and will slope to different sides over the stretch i stead of to the same side. Its bot smooth at all. And i have to continuously load the dump trucks while breaking up CTA and trying to slope and grade.
Ronsii
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GPS.... 
Not sure of your particular site layout but is a stick mounted laser an option, i do this when I don't have a ground guy... mainly because I am the ground guy it sure beats jumping out of the hoe every few feet to check grade!
Not sure of your particular site layout but is a stick mounted laser an option, i do this when I don't have a ground guy... mainly because I am the ground guy
it sure beats jumping out of the hoe every few feet to check grade!
Cowboyrob
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Its a highway. No laser or gps on the hoe, just the dozer. Im just cutting to fill.
Bls repair
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Keep tracks at about same slope you want to finish at. If going in to a low spot fill it in ,going over a pile knock it down . In other words you want to rough grade behind you as you are digging. Only need to be a little wider then tracks
uffex
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Good day
Some machines are equipped with a floating device this can be useful when grading, you do not say which you have or how the equipment is configured.
Kind regards
Uffex
Some machines are equipped with a floating device this can be useful when grading, you do not say which you have or how the equipment is configured.
Kind regards
Uffex