“An excavator is capable of climbing some pretty steep slopes,” says Matt Hendry, product specialist, Hitachi and John Deere excavators. “When working on slopes, it takes a lot of extra care.

when the equipment they are operating unexpectedly gives way to gravity while compacting a steep slope. Many ride-on compaction rollers can potentially succumb to rollover accidents due to their ...

But simply, bootpacking is the art of hiking up a steep slope with skis over your shoulder ... It states that bootpacking is “stabilization by compaction”. This is a whole other kind of ...