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Welcome to the OptiSurface Newsletter for October 2019.
It’s been three months since our last newsletter. We’ve been busy supporting our clients, promoting through USA/Canada and releasing a new product. This is outlined in our News Of The Month(s) below.
We’re excited to release our new machine control product, OptiWorks, which allows you to survey, design and carry out earthworks all from the tractor cab with the power and ease that OptiSurface is known for.
If you’d like to know more about OptiWorks, please reply to this email or call me on +61 405-686-425 (Australia) or Preston on +1 870-340-2020 (USA).
The Design Of The Month demonstrates the flexibility of OptiSurface for designing rice fields in Arkansas.
The Feature Of The Month shows how to use OptiSurface 1Way for furrow irrigation.
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Regards
Graeme Cox & The OptiSurface Team
DAVCO OptiSurface
Mobile: +61 405 686 425 Skype: graemejcox
Web: www.optisurface.com
News: www.twitter.com/OptiSurface
“Celebrating One Million Acres of Optimized Agricultural Earthworks”
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P.S. If you haven’t taken advantage of OptiSurface yet, we’re offering a special service where we will take your topographic data for a field and conduct some FREE analysis and design. Go here to find out more: http://www.optisurface.com/nlt/
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OptiSurface @OptiSurface Jun 18
Midwest flooding delays planting. Minimize these by improving surface drainage with OptiSurface. As one Cornbelt client said: “The first field we OptiSurfaced was able to drain the incredible amount of rain and still have a nice looking crop.” https://bit.ly/2RlkFyO
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OptiSurface @OptiSurface Jul 10
Enjoying a tour through some ancient landforming at the World Heritage listed Jatiluwih Rice Terraces and ancient Subak irrigation system, Bali.
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OptiSurface @OptiSurface Jul 19
Problems we solve with OptiSurface: Ponding between beds cut profit by reducing crop yield and limiting timely field operations.
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OptiSurface @OptiSurface Jul 23
OptiSurface enabled this client in Arkansas to irrigate this field that wasn’t possible to irrigate with traditional land grading technology because he had a zero cut requirement in a part of the field.
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OptiSurface @OptiSurface Jul 29
“I made more money on that one operation than any operation I have ever done” Stan Holsapple, Illinois referring to OptiSurfacing his first field and taking a nasty 80 acres with deep ditches and water problems to this:
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OptiSurface @OptiSurface Jul 31
Catching up with Tyler at DIGS Associates, who understands the value of OptiSurface Landforming to enhance subsurface drainage.
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OptiSurface @OptiSurface Aug 1
Going above and beyond. We traveled 15,000 miles to discuss and optimize Mark Von Holten’s first OptiSurface design with him in Illinois.
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OptiSurface @OptiSurface Aug 2
Graeme & David dreamt about tractors last night in this hotel converted from a 1914 factory that made John Deere’s first tractors in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Tommie Geluk @Tommie_geluk Aug 7
Goes nicely with optisurface !! Saves a lot of cubes and better for maintaining the cultivation layer. Add compost of the week and green fertilizer in it
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Sneak peak at OptiWorks, our new survey, design and control system. Here running on iGrade but can also run with any GPS and hydraulic system. We want to hear features and price points you want. Comment here or email support@optisurface.com
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Amazing correlation between this yield map and our unique ponding and flow path analysis. Get your free analysis at http://OptiSurface.com
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The client is looking for ways to increase farming efficiency by smoothing out the existing levees.
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Several design types were used to compare how each can be used and how the parameters can be loosened or tightened to increase or decrease earthworks. See the table below for details:
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Single Plane of Best Fit Proposed Topography (left) and Cut/Fill Map (right)
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OptiSurface 1Way with 2000 m/% Smoothing Proposed Topography (left) and Cut/Fill Map (right)
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OptiSurface 1Way with 200 m/% Smoothing Proposed Topography (left) and Cut/Fill Map (right)
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OptiSurface 4Way Proposed Topography (left) and Cut/Fill Map (right)
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The results show it is a matter of balancing the trade-off between earthworks cost and more efficient farming from higher uniformity of grades.
Watch the video explanation here.
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Overview: OptiSurface 1Way is a Surface Type in OptiSurface which can drain to one direction (1Way). This suits crops grown with furrows where the water needs to drain in one direction along the furrow to exit the field. All furrows will have positive slope to one end. An example application is furrow irrigated corn where water is added at the top end of the furrowed row and must drain out the other end.
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Displayed by:
Menu: Tools > Landform Design > Surface Type > OptiSurface 1Way
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An example application is a furrow irrigated field where water is fed using a polypipe from the top of the field and water can drain out to the lower end.
The field is currently grown with dryland corn and the client is looking for ways to improve the yield by irrigating. It will be designed with furrows running north-south and is located on the NW corner of the field.
Significant ponding was shown on the Drainage Analysis but these will be fixed with OptiSurface 1Way landforming design.
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Existing Drainage Analysis
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An OptiSurface 1Way Surface Type was used with main slope set between 0.086% to 0.172%. We have done some irrigation analysis that shows that varying the furrow slope by up to 200% doesn’t significantly impact irrigation performance.
Additionally, the Max Cross Slope to Main Slope Ratio was set to 2 to reduce the risk of water over topping the furrows on areas where the cross slope is significantly higher than the main slope.
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Subzones were used to force water direction on the headland (polypipe pad) to fall in one direction (from west to east) as shown below.
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Earthworks ended up at a very reasonable 105 yd3/ac.
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We have clients looking for experienced earthmoving operators in Africa, France, Australia and USA. If you’re interested, contact support@optisurface.com
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