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Grade and Shape the Final Slope

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What happens here

Continuously work the structural fill soil to achieve the desired slope ratio (e.g., a 2.5:1 ratio, as mentioned in the video) and a smooth, stable contour. This involves multiple passes with the compact track loader, precisely pushing and pulling soil to match the engineered specifications. Regular measurements with a tape measure are used to verify the grade. The goal is to seamlessly "marry" the new soil into the existing bank, creating a cohesive and stable hillside. The final surface should be well-drained and ready for future vegetation to prevent erosion and runoff problems.

Goal: Achieve the precise, stable, and erosion-resistant slope specified in the engineering plan.

Tools and materials

  • Shovel — Minor manual adjustments to the slope
  • Tape Measure — Verifying slope ratios and measurements

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now you're gonna see us actually bringing out a tape measure and measuring the slope because we're not creating a random slope we know that we've got to hit two point five to one at our steepest ratio a two point five will allow this backyard to easily establish vegetation without having a whole bunch of erosion or runoff problems before that vegetation can be established so we have a benchmark and we've got to hit it [Music] [Applause] [Music] until we can get vegetation to establish over this slope we've got to maintain a silt fence at the bottom what you don't get to see in this video is just below this hill there is a drop-off and then a hill direct a house directly beneath it if this machine goes topsy-turvy down the slope it'll land in somebody's living room down at the bottom of this cliff

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