Checking the depth of a cut is a necessary step that excavation contractors must take to ensure their work meets design elevations. Conventional methods require sending a person into an excavation with a grade rod while another person reads the depth from a tripod-mounted level. But that process not only potentially puts an employee in harm’s way, it is also inefficient.
iDig is an innovative, economical grade checking system that enables an operator to see his excavator’s bucket position in relation to grade right from the cab. The need for personnel to manually check grades is eliminated. The system consists of
