Always wear your safety harness and seatbelt. Pipeliner dozer operators grade hills steeper in WV. Done properly, another dozer hooks to the front one with a winch and wire rope at the top of the hill. I'm pretty sure he did exactly what he intended. Pushed that rock loose and didn't damage anything. The excavator Op. Didn't seem concerned enough to hook onto him. I have been in something similar and I dropped the blade and the single shank ripper and went on down. No way in hell id jump, my luck id outrun the tractor and het hit.