Hi I am new to the forum. Good to be here. I am doing some mining and we are working a gravel hill. We are planning to cut benches. I am wondering how hard do you think this would be to doze with D6? http://www.box.net/s/bh9zle9pc77a1gbayqrf
Really tuff. River gravel runs like water. So when you start working on it one slip of the tracks and your hung up on the belly pan. Just remember to go slow and don't get to agressive.
one thing, never leave your machine over night in there, always move to higher ground. if there is water around that goes double.
That hill looks like it'll start to collapse on you soon as you start undercutting it... and like buckfever said, that stuff runs like water...
That looks like the gravel at my place near Greenhorn creek in Nevada County CA it is actually very stable and easy to work with its an old river bed now high and dry after the Sierra mountains pushed up and changed the topography ( millions of years ago ) ,sometimes its cemented and hard to break up the bank in the picture is near vertical and has likely been that way for a hundred years . Any gold in there will be very fine ( dust)