Switchback - Planning, Layout and Construction
As the forestry industry moves into steeper terrain across the province, forest planners, layout and engineering staff, and road construction contractors are playing a crucial role in ensuring the roads that lead us there are safe for their intended use. This video illustrates key messages for the correct planning, engineering and building of a switchback and the value the forest industry places on ensuring resource roads are safe for all users.

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Layout Planning: A Focus on Faller Safety | WorkSafeBC

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How to Build a Road

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Forest Service Road Maintenance Series: Reading Beyond the Traveled Way

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How We Built A Road Through The Woods

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Timelapse on the forest road!

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Constructing Trail Switchbacks

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Clearing a steep slope, in an attempt to build a road, so we can build a crazy pond!

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Forest Highways - a 1967 BC Forest Service film

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Unbelievable Smart Worker & Hilarious Fails | Construction Compilation #8 #adamrose #smartworkers

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Medieval Builders Knew Something About Foundations We Forgot

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How does a bulldozer create new roads by cutting through hills? #bulldozer #caterpillar

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Rock Blasting For Forest Road Construction

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We Cut a Steep Mountain Road with A Mini Excavator

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The Preparation Of The Forest Road Base: Excavation Of The Peat(Part 1 of 2)

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Earthwork Part 1

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Installing water diversion bars and regrading forest logging roads

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DIY Building a Long Driveway Up a Hill - With a Switchback - 3500ft Long

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Why Roads Get Washboards

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