Any Volunteers For This One?

Yuk!!!

No thanks

I wonder how much hazardous pay he gets?

No matter what, that job would scare me to death.

I suspect the camera may have been tilted to introduce the appearance of the side slope to the roadway. I can't imagine building the cut with that sloped floor. But even if it were level, it seems way risky.

I suspect the camera may have been tilted to introduce the appearance of the side slope to the roadway. I can't imagine building the cut with that sloped floor. But even if it were level, it seems way risky.

Hi, Tracklayer.
You are onto it. Here is a 'righted' version of the photo.

[attachment=32595]Precarious Excavator job_1A_LI.jpg[/attachment]

Looks a whole lot better, doesn't it?

Just my 0.02.

That first picture I could not believe ,, thought it was that photo-shop !!!

Still sketchy though given it looks like it's on fractured rock. I'd be in if the cab was on the other side and I could bail : ) Looks like it's a loong way to the bottom...

I have done a lot of dumb things in my life Niel but thinking you challenge gravity is maybe more foolish.I know are friend O-I-H managed to escape a bad situation with luck but you cannot depend on it.

I have farmed some ground that is close to insane and never had a problem but as I get older I came to the idea just because someone else has done it before I can still say no. I have been tilling some walnut orchards that have been close to the limit for years,as the top soil has been moving down hill there are more exposed rock and it has gotten harder to find a path to the top.Things just happen so fast it is only reflex reaction that comes close being fast enough. Climbing a hill I had been on before,you get a track on a rock with a inch of dirt on it and spine on one side and continue to crawl up the hill correct as you can to not hit the tree. This time spine a second or 2 longer than I expect and I have oil fling, hit the clutch and get on the brakes to keep speed down reversing off the hill. It is very black oil so engine,still have oil pressure no more oil fling. Conclusion lower track had dug a whole lowering bottom side with nose up so that oil was pouring out the breather of my trusty 9u. Trees are no producing in the rock any way not tilling that part any more.

But maybe more to do with Deas video a piece of barley ground where I tried to stay on a couture and cross a "hidden " rock and I am 8 or 10 feet lower on the hillside than I had been a 10th of a second before. There is no time for anything when steel slides on rock. After the first time and knowing it would happen kind of looked forward to it. But alas that hill has been terraced and planted to grapes.

Maybe because of all the aches of being old or I don't know what,I think anyone that thinks they are going to save themselfs by jumping of something to save themselves are fooling themselves. Not that it doesn't happen but not a way to grow old if you keep pressing your luck.

Back to subject at hand with the corrected picture looks much more manageable than the first view.

Hi, Ray54.
I HEAR you, both on the growing wiser with age and on NOT jumping from a machine or truck that is going over - works MAYBE 1 time in 10 - IF you are quick enough - NOT good odds.

Just my 0.02.