Rock protection

Rock protection

the mountain calls

If the prehistoric marine sediment had been shale by pressure from above, we would have beautiful, horizontal plates and a fairly stable rock. But the continent Godwana didn't fall from the sky but drifted over the Ozan. When it collided with the Old-Red 350 million years ago, the sediments were pushed, lifted and sometimes even turned overhead. If, as with us in Uhlen, the grain of the rock is more or less vertical, the gnawing ravages of time have a rather easy time. The softer layers in particular weather particularly quickly. And then all of a sudden a threatening crevice appears and rocks weighing many tons threaten to fall down the mountain. Lifting them away with a jack screw - way too heavy. They blow up - far too dangerous. We have no choice but to carefully carry the rock from above, armed with a hammer and chisel, well secured in an alpine way.


A real piece of exhausting work.

Rock protection

the mountain calls

If the prehistoric sea sediment had been shale by pressure from above, we would have beautiful, horizontal plates and a fairly stable rock. But the continent Godwana didn't fall from the sky but drifted over the Ozan. When it collided with the Old-Red 350 million years ago, the sediments were pushed, lifted and sometimes even turned overhead. If, as with us in Uhlen, the grain of the rock is more or less vertical, the gnawing ravages of time have a rather easy time. The softer layers in particular weather particularly quickly. And then all of a sudden a threatening crevice appears and rocks weighing many tons threaten to fall down the mountain. Lifting them away with a jack screw - way too heavy. They blow up - far too dangerous. We have no choice but to carefully carry the rock from above, armed with a hammer and chisel, well secured in an alpine way.


A real piece of exhausting work.

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