How to measure soil slope?
• The first step is to calibrate the clinometer at sight level (cero), or the horizontal sighting of the person using it. To calibrate it you can use a level rod or the level (0) of your vision height looking to another person. Level cero in the clinometer will be read wherever 0-0 hits the rod or the body of the other person. This initial calibration must be done in a complete leveled site and will be your reference point for the rest of your points. You must look through the clinometer lens keeping both eyes simultaneously open and find the 0-0 measure in the cylinder in the interior of the clinometer. Should you change partner, you must calibrate the clinometer again. • Determine a starting point (site where a conservation practice such as a hillside ditch will be constructed or trees will be planted). Mark the starting point with flags or wood stakes. • At some 20 feet from the starting point, set aside the second leveled point at 0-0 moving to the direction where the practice will
