{"id":3039,"date":"2011-05-18T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2011-05-18T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:46:55","slug":"using-a-helicopter-to-remove-rockfall-debris-part-2-another-great-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/05\/18\/using-a-helicopter-to-remove-rockfall-debris-part-2-another-great-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a helicopter to remove rockfall debris part 2: another great video!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/extraordinary-using-helicopter.html\">short piece on the old blog<\/a> about operations in Norway to clear potential rockfalls from steep cliffs through the use of the a large (4000 kg) weight suspended beneath a helicopter.\u00a0 This remains one of the most extraordinary landslide management approaches that I have seen.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N8JLfT0r058\">Youtube now has a video<\/a>, which should be visible below, that provides additional, higher quality footage of this operation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wreckingball from helicopter used to remove unstable rock in Norway (Oppd\u00f8lsstranda)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N8JLfT0r058?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Take a look &#8211; it is amazing!\u00a0 In addition to the rockfall removal, which must require extraordinarily skillful flying from the pilots, the video also features the use of waterbombing to remove debris from the cliffs.\u00a0 Finally, the middle of the video also has a section that shows the remarkable effectiveness of an engineered rockfall barrier in arresting large blocks that have detached from the cliff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I posted a short piece on the old blog about operations in Norway to clear potential rockfalls from steep cliffs through the use of the a large (4000 kg) weight suspended beneath a helicopter.\u00a0 This remains one of the most extraordinary landslide management approaches that I have seen.\u00a0 Youtube now has a video, which should be visible below, that provides additional, higher quality footage of &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}