{"id":343,"date":"2009-09-18T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/09\/18\/extraordinary-using-a-helicopter-sledgehammer-to-clear-loose-rock-from-a-cliff\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:59","slug":"extraordinary-using-a-helicopter-sledgehammer-to-clear-loose-rock-from-a-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/09\/18\/extraordinary-using-a-helicopter-sledgehammer-to-clear-loose-rock-from-a-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary!  Using a helicopter sledgehammer to clear loose rock from a cliff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_09-helicopter-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 227px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_09-helicopter-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>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 &#8211; 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 &#8211; and there is some good footage of the not &#8211; insubstantial block descending the cliff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_09-helicopter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 228px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/09_09-helicopter.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I really strongly advise that you take look!  It is on the following Norwegian news site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adressa.no\/tv\/?id=11756\">http:\/\/www.adressa.no\/tv\/?id=11756<\/a><\/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>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 &#8211; 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 &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":[243,277,280,987,278,27,281,56],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cliff","tag-helicopter","tag-maintenance","tag-mitigation","tag-norway","tag-road","tag-rock-slope","tag-rockfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}