#4 Stair-Step Cuts

Stair-Step Cuts

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Leave your vehicle here momentarily and take a closer look at the unfinished cut on your right. Please pull off to the left. Rock impasses like this were breached in stair-step fashion. Several crews worked on a cut, but from opposite sides and different levels. The result was a systematic and efficient method of removing rock.

• Stair-Step Cuts

  
  

  Leave your vehicle here momentarily and take a closer look at the unfinished cut on your right. Please pull off to the left. Rock impasses like this were breached in stair-step fashion. Several crews worked on a cut, but from opposite sides and different levels. The result was a systematic and efficient method of removing rock.

  Date created:

  04/11/2025

  Audio Transcript

  Leave your vehicle here momentarily and take a closer look at the unfinished cut on your right. Please pull off to the left. Rock impasses like this were breached in stair-step fashion. Several crews worked on a cut, but from opposite sides and different levels. The result was a systematic and efficient method of removing rock.