Front end loader cleaving enormous slab of stone - GIF

[Frank S]

Form the color I would say that Marv is correct I believe that having it fracture was a miscalculation though. I twould appear that they had intended the berm to serve as a cushion to arrest the fall and at the same time keep the slab high enough off the ground so they could get their lifting devices under it to lift it to a transport vehicle. Or more probably given the sixe of the slab, cut it into smaller pieces .Also note that just as it hits the berm we can see more of the berm in just wasn't propperly formed to catch the slab. Add in a couple of flaws and there was no way the slab was going to survive.