They are building a new freeway interchange near Detroit, 96 to 23, and I drive through there once a week, so have been watching with interest. Much of the new road is pretty elevated, and I have seen dozers piling up dirt at angles that you couldn't pay me enough to navigate. Yesterday I realized there must be about a dozen really big (40 story high) construction cranes scattered around the area, which is maybe a mile square, an unusual sight for highway construction. There was a little backhoe or something perched on a ledge of dirt with maybe a trail straight up a near vertical face. 
Wondered how he was going to get down, and thought well maybe they could hook a safety line from a crane to hooks on the tractor just to keep the metal side up and the rubber side down. Silly idea? Or do they ever do that?
I don't think I have ever seen a site that has such extensive and steep dirt workings. They are slapping straw mats on it everywhere since we are normally into the mudseason by now, and there is no reason for that surface dirt to stay put. Hopefully there is a lot of stabilization mat or something under there.
Wondered how he was going to get down, and thought well maybe they could hook a safety line from a crane to hooks on the tractor just to keep the metal side up and the rubber side down. Silly idea? Or do they ever do that? I don't think I have ever seen a site that has such extensive and steep dirt workings. They are slapping straw mats on it everywhere since we are normally into the mudseason by now, and there is no reason for that surface dirt to stay put. Hopefully there is a lot of stabilization mat or something under there.
