WM Plant Hire are using their 65 tonne CAT long reach excavator with 24m outreach for specialist civil engineering company Forkers Ltd to undertake soil nailing operations at Weedon Embankment (part of the West Coast Main Line) for Network Rail. This method was successful in avoiding disruption to the rail line and providing improved levels of safety during the earthworks to reinstate the embankment, carried out from the base of the slope.