[Bill Schwab]

We are renting a slope lazer right now. GPS was my first choice, until you add this that and the other thing, and by the time you are done, you got 20K in a grading tool that, as Paul mentioned previously, does not work around tall buildings, and, in our situation, won't work in many of the canyons we operate in.

I am using a grade poleon each end of the blade, and at this juncture, we adjust the blade hieght by hand. I am a firm believer in mastering one aspect of a new toy before you over technify, simply because it is too much too fast to learn, and, I don't have too much faith in technolgy at this time. When it fails, it holds you hostage, and, production hours/down time to me is everything right now. I don't have too aweful much to report about grading tools on this machine at this time, but we have 3 1 acre lots coming up where we need to push pads, cut and fill for driveways, and set 2-1 slopes around the perimeters of each site, as well as cut wall pads, trench utilities and so fourth. After the dust settles from all that I will have alot more to report, and, I'm sure many questions along the way.