Stabilizing slides and Road embankments The spider excavator is an exceptional tool that can walk up steep slopes not accessible by normal tracked excavators. they can safely work on 45 slopes and with cable stays can work on steeper slopes(using built-in winch) Removal of continually failing headscarps is a concern for continued ravelling of a slope, and the raveled materials contributing to environmental degredation by entering water streams and also by plugging roadside ditches and diverting water flows across a road. Contour drainage is used to "dry up" a moving slope and eliminate further mass slope movement(creep).