How do I create a slope, and how do I best compact it?

Hello,

maybe someone still remembers our 42m long embankment, which we originally wanted to make solid at 90°. But since all these solutions would break our budget, we will do it the natural way and create a slope that will then be planted with ground-covering bushes. We will receive soil in the next few days, with which we want to shape the slope (there is still quite a bit of soil missing up to the boundary). Now the question: Do I have to compact the soil specially? Can I do it with a wheelbarrow, shovel, and tamping down, or does it have to be done by an excavator? Then a slope net or a mat will be placed on top to prevent the soil from washing away. Do you have any tips on what is good and affordable?

if you think 42 meters can be managed with the god-given legs without a hunch....

even if a digger runs over it, the ground will still settle in the next 1-2 years

You would be surprised how good the legs are
Joking aside. Yes, it is quite possible that I will stomp myself to death there. Hence the consideration of whether an excavator can compact the layers better.
We had thought about doing it on our own, but of course I don’t want to get really pissed off because the slope then subsides by half a meter over the winter.

Do you want to plant it then?

Do you want to plant that then?

Yes, with creeping spindle and similar plants.

And what slope are you thinking of? I can't remember anyone from the neighborhood having flattened their hills with an excavator here. But I'm not sure. It could also go unnoticed by an attentive neighbor. I know it is usually done at around 30 degrees, and the soil is then held in place by the roots including [Vlies].