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Construct and Compact the New Slope in Lifts

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What happens here

Using the compact track loader, spread the structural fill soil in thin layers, or "lifts," across the hillside. Due to the extreme steepness of the slope, traditional external compactors are impractical. Therefore, the weight and repeated passes of the compact track loader itself are used to achieve the necessary compaction. This process involves driving the machine over the fresh layers of soil multiple times to eliminate air pockets and increase soil density, effectively "marrying" the new soil to the existing bank. The operator must navigate the steep incline carefully, often moving diagonally or directly up and down, to distribute and compact the soil effectively.

Goal: Create a dense, stable, and appropriately graded new slope.

Tools and materials

  • Bucket Attachment — Scooping and distributing soil
  • Hearing Protection — Protecting ears from machinery noise
  • Safety Glasses — Eye protection from dust and debris
  • Water — Moistening soil to aid in compaction, especially if the soil is too dry

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here comes the boom now this is an extremely dangerous job I know we're gonna get a bunch of critics that are sitting in their underwear eating their Cheetos with their little orange fingers typing on their keyboards going oh that's not so bad I've done something twice as steep as that well the fact of the matter is you're not going to be able to see just how dangerous these slopes are in the video but if you're a contractor and you're going to attempt to do something like that make sure you have the right equipment in fact I'm gonna go so far as to say this job would have not been possible with any one of our other tracked skid loaders this job is a testimonial to the ability of this ASB to hug the slope it actually performed better than we ever expected it to thank goodness because otherwise we would have been in big trouble now if you're a homeowner and you're hiring a contractor to do this job make sure you get a copy of their insurance and I say that not being facetious I mean this job is dangerous enough that if something happens on your property sure that that contractor is covered and doesn't come after you are going to need to compact to make this job work but you're not going to be able to really bring in an external compactor they just don't work on steep slopes like this so what you're going to end up doing is using the weight of the machine and putting in smaller lips this is going to actually take you longer to do this job site but if you don't do it this way you could suffer failure years later down the road so this is an important step of the process even though it takes a lot longer to do it this way well it only took two days but we finally made it to the bottom [Music] [Applause] [Music] this whole ramp that's that's eight dump trucks full of dirt right there two and

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