Terry, actually you do have some alternatives: 1. Fill a bunch of 32-gallon pails with locking lids and roll them down the hill. 2. Fill a bunch of 32-gallon heavy-duty garden bags and roll them down the hill. 3. Hitch a field barrow to one of the horses. After all, if they can voluntarily make it up there by themselves, then they could surely find the footing to make it down with a barrow. 4. Build a makeshift sluice out of the old lumber and slide the compost down the hill. 5. Place an adv in the local paper for 2-fers: whatever you come to cart away, leave me an equal pile at the bottom. 6. Take a deep breath and bring the D6 Cat up top. My son's building a road across a ravine on a hill behind his cottage with his tractor, and it is enough to turn a mother's hair white, but so far, he has survived. 7. With the right outlook, obviously an 1/8 of a mile is not so bad. You can still schlepp it. Penny, NY . ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.