18 September 2009
Extraordinary! Using a helicopter sledgehammer to clear loose rock from a cliff!
Posted by Dave Petley

I thought I had seen everything until I saw this video! It is from Norway, showing an extraordinary method for removing a loose rock pillar from a high, steep cliff. The answer is obvious – just hang a 1.8 tonne block on a cable under the helicopter and bash the offending rock with your new sledgehammer. This must take very skillful flying. The most amazing thing is that it worked – and there is some good footage of the not – insubstantial block descending the cliff.

I really strongly advise that you take look! It is on the following Norwegian news site:
http://www.adressa.no/tv/?id=11756

Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
Wow!That's one of the weirdest yet coolest things I've seen