Will it reschedule my jobs?
No. The flag proposes; you decide. It says may be too wet to run, names the inches forecast, links to the job, and stops there — nothing on the board moves unless you move it.
Weather Gates
Make the rain call before the machines move
Every day, Mastiff reads the National Weather Service forecast for each still-scheduled job starting in the next three days and checks the rain total against how that ground drains. When the two disagree, the job gets flagged on your dashboard — may be too wet to run — and the swap stays your decision.
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The problem
The forecast and the schedule live in different apps
You check the radar over coffee and the board in the office, and the two only meet when a machine is already sitting in soup. Rutting a saturated pasture costs a cleanup pass, a sour landowner, and the billable day — and the swap that would have saved all three needed two days of notice.
Without Mastiff
- A forecast checked over coffee and a schedule that never hears about it
- Ruts across a soft pasture that turn into an unpaid cleanup pass
- A billable machine-day lost to ground you'd have called wet from the truck
- Swaps decided at the site, after the haul, with the trailer already dropped
- Low ground scheduled right behind heavy rain because nobody connected the two
With Mastiff
- A daily rain check on every still-scheduled job starting inside the next three days
- A lower bar for ground already flagged wet — half an inch there, a full inch elsewhere
- The soil survey's drainage class and your own wet-ground call, either one counting
- A flag that names its number — the inches of rain forecast, right on the row
- One flag per job per scheduled day, repeated only when the risk worsens
- A proposal, never an auto-reschedule — the board moves when you move it
How it works
From setup to done.
01
Schedule work like you already do
The gate reads the board you already keep: any job still marked scheduled with a start inside the next three days gets checked. Nothing new to fill in, nothing to switch on.
02
Mastiff finds the rain
The forecast comes from the National Weather Service — free, no account — pulled for the marked work area on the quote's site map, or the shop's address when a job carries no map. Rain over the next three days is totaled for that spot.
03
The ground sets the bar
Ground flagged wet — a poorly drained soil-survey class, or the wet-ground chip on the quote — flags at half an inch of forecast rain. Ground with no wet signal takes a full inch. Past double the bar, the wording sharpens from may be to likely.
04
You make the call
The row on your dashboard names the job, the start, and the inches forecast, and links straight to it. Dragging the date, swapping in the upland job, or running anyway — all still decisions only you make.
Capabilities
Everything in the box.
Thresholds that follow the ground
Saturated ground ruts at half the rain trafficable ground shrugs off, so the bar moves with the drainage: half an inch and one inch on wet-flagged ground, one and two on the rest. The flag always names the total it saw.
Two wet signals, either counts
A poorly drained class from the NRCS soil survey — the same read Site Conditions uses, taken from the marked work area — or the wet-ground chip set on that quote. Either one alone lowers the bar to the wet numbers.
Forecast for the work, not the county
The rain total is pulled for the marked work area on the quote's site map, falling back to the shop's address when a job has no map. Forecasts resolve to about a mile and a half on the ground — the site, not the whole county.
Three days of runway
The check runs daily and looks 72 hours ahead, so a flag lands with up to three days to re-shuffle — enough to swap in the upland job while the low ground dries. Jobs further out come into view as their start approaches.
Silent when the data is thin
A forecast covering less than half the window says nothing at all — missing data is not evidence of dry ground, and it's no basis for an alarm either. And it's forecast-only: rain that already fell isn't in the read, so what Tuesday dumped on the tract is still your knowledge to add.
Flags once, escalates once
One flag per job per scheduled day; the only repeat is a warning that worsened, when may be sharpens to likely. A daily check re-reading the same wet forecast never stacks the same row twice.
FAQ
Common questions.
Where does the weather data come from?
The National Weather Service — the same gridded forecast the forecast offices publish, free and keyless. The number on the flag is the liquid rain total forecast for the next 72 hours at the site.
What about rain that already fell?
The gate can't see it — it reads the forecast ahead, not the ground behind. If three inches landed last week, that's your call to stack on top of the flag, not one the software will make for you.
What makes ground count as wet?
Either a poorly drained class from the NRCS soil survey — read from the marked work area on the quote's site map — or the wet-ground chip set on that quote. Either one halves the rain it takes to flag the job.
Which jobs get checked?
Jobs still marked scheduled with a start inside the next 72 hours. A job with no location to read — no site map on the quote and no address coordinates for the shop — is skipped, not guessed at.
Swap the job before the ground gives
Nothing to configure — schedule work with a site map or a shop address on file, and the daily rain check covers the next three days.
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