This guy is completely NUTS!!

[ovrszd]

My friend owns a trackhoe larger than that one. He wouldn't hesitate to do that.

I'd also drive my buggy off that.

 

[kevin37b]

Yep soft sand is the key or loose dirt . I worked for an outfit last December at a water plant in Champaign . We had to get a 270 Deere to the backside . About a 20 ft drop pretty much vertical . Would not have been bad but the road was was just wide enough for the machine and a very tight radius around treatment tanks . The tanks had a 6" curb on them so getting the approach lined up was difficult . About 9;00 in the morning and the frost turning to slime , grease .My laborer waved goodby , I knew what that meant ! Anyway I arrived at the bottom upright , just not in the fashion I had envisioned .

 

[orezok]

Back in the 80's there was a project next to a freeway that the firm I worked for was building. It was run by a different Project Manager. but I went by the site a number of time to observe. They were building an office park in a canyon at the bottom of a 150' high slope, and condos at the top. They would run scrapers up a winding haul road to the top and the scrapers would go over the edge of the slope that was almost as steep as the one shown. The front end of the scraper would be suspended in the air while the rear engine pushed it over the side (637 twin engine cats). The operator would drop the pan and would slide straight down the slope with material boiling over the sides of the pan and the rear wheels completely off the ground.

When they got to the bottom they had to time it just right and make a turn or the front end would impact the flat area and get stuck.

I don't know where they got operators with enough brass to do this, but it went on for weeks!



Condos are the upside down "L" buildings and office park is at 8 o'clock position. The condos literally hung over the edge of the slope and were anchored back to a huge concrete dead man with 2" stainless steel cables.

It was quite a project.

 

[dickfoster]

Back in the 80's there was a project next to a freeway that the firm I worked for was building. It was run by a different Project Manager. but I went by the site a number of time to observe. They were building an office park in a canyon at the bottom of a 150' high slope, and condos at the top. They would run scrapers up a winding haul road to the top and the scrapers would go over the edge of the slope that was almost as steep as the one shown. The front end of the scraper would be suspended in the air while the rear engine pushed it over the side (637 twin engine cats). The operator would drop the pan and would slide straight down the slope with material boiling over the sides of the pan and the rear wheels completely off the ground.

When they got to the bottom they had to time it just right and make a turn or the front end would impact the flat area and get stuck.

I don't know where they got operators with enough brass to do this, but it went on for weeks!

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Condos are the upside down "L" buildings and office park is at 8 o'clock position. The condos literally hung over the edge of the slope and were anchored back to a huge concrete dead man with 2" stainless steel cables.

It was quite a project.

Sounds like one of those stupid building projects to me. Building on hillsides in California? Come on, how many times does this have to go wrong before people ever wise up? Next thing ya know their place is at the bottom from either a mudslide or earthquake and they have their hands held out for the taxpayers to bail them out of their own stupidity. Just like rebuilding below sea level in New Orleans, a really really stupid idea but it's not their money so the politicians keep handing it out. Bout time people wised up and put a stop to this kinda nonsense. It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature or try to cheat Darwin.

 

[dickfoster]

My friend owns a trackhoe larger than that one. He wouldn't hesitate to do that.

I'd also drive my buggy off that.

Or you could just take your buggy up the slope like this.

Or maybe not.

 

[jerrybob]

Where are the environmentalists when you need them......these guys are ruining that hill! LOL!

 

[Gary Fowler]

I have seen much worse than that while working overseas.

 

[orezok]

Sounds like one of those stupid building projects to me. Building on hillsides in California? Come on, how many times does this have to go wrong before people ever wise up? Next thing ya know their place is at the bottom from either a mudslide or earthquake and they have their hands held out for the taxpayers to bail them out of their own stupidity. Just like rebuilding below sea level in New Orleans, a really really stupid idea but it's not their money so the politicians keep handing it out. Bout time people wised up and put a stop to this kinda nonsense. It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature or try to cheat Darwin.

So perhaps you could give us a couple of examples of CA hillside developments that failed from the millions built?

 

[xtn]

Menzi Muck says, "Wussy...."

 

[Ed of all trades]

I don't have a problem with HIM taking that hoe down that hill. Ed