The big dig

For my reading activity I had to write all the main points about the story and what things they used for clearing the slip.

1. In 2004, a storm led to several landslides, which closed the road for seventy five days.

2. But the latest slip was the biggest slip in New Zealand and it was something else, and work started straight away.

3. Diggers were used to dump dirt into quarry trucks but as they were working more rocks started to fall and people that drove trucks faced higher fuel costs.

4. Transport agency’s state highways manager,                                  stopped working because it was too dangerous to operate the machinery at the base of the slip.

5. The workers formed a track through farmland and bush to reach the tippy top of the slip.

6. It was time to bring in the bandit. The bandit is a grunty bulldozer whose scoop had been replaced with a winch and heavy duty cables. Heavy diggers were then lowered down the very unstable slope while the bandit held them in place with its mighty cables.

7. A 20-tonne digger scooped a massive bucket of rock and earth then a loader came and dumped the loose material into big trucks. They came up to about 250 times a day.

The vehicles they used.

1.Diggers

2.Quarry trucks

3.Bulldozer

4.Helicopters