I had to use the rippers many times to loosen the hard decomposed granite and pull out rocks.
Once a part of the road was level enough, I turned around and used the
FEL to loosen the higher banks I needed to
cut away. I would dump buckets on the low side. I could do this because my tires were on the level part of the road now. Then to continue further down, I would turn around and bulldoze with the boxblade again. It was tilted pretty good on the first cuts and I would get it closer to level as the road got closer to level. The last photos are of the road dissapearing into the meadow below.
