Close call on that rolling rock

We were building a retaining wall out of river rock uses the crane and everything was going along nicely.....


As we started to lay the second of three rows, Micheal was on this way over to steady the rock when it slipped out of the harness...


It all unfoleded in slow motion as the rock fell on the ground and then started to roll down the mountain....on it's way it rolled over plants and over the next retaining wall below us.....and came to rest.


So we cable up and boom down to see if it could reach the rock...it could so thru the trees the hook went to get the rock...


The rock ended up about 4 inches into the ground so they had to dig in order to get the harness under it...


Half hour later they were still working on getting the harness around the rock.....but we never give up.....never.


Once the strap is in place they took a hammer and beat the strap in tight this time.....and I didn't need to say either in English or Spanish to clear the area.....


So back to the second row we go......you really can't see on the picture but the strap is placed so when the rock is set the strap is in the front and makes it easy to remove the it without having it roll down the hill.....


This rock only took about an hour to set instead 10 minutes and we had a very close call when it broke loose about 2 feet from Michael.....


This was the last rock for this retaining wall and the next to last thing the crane did before returning to rental center....


Junior is about to take a ride up over the house and into the woods to get a walkboard that blew off the scaffolding during a storm a few weeks back.....yes this is DennisWorld......and we have a sky ride...