Stonehenge built this way?

http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks

This guy does it all by himself. No machinery, no levers, no pulleys, no tools! He just uses counter weights, sticks and rope.

 

That's so simple, yet so very clever indeed. He sounds like a really cool guy too - imagine knowing someone who built a replica stone henge, just because he could!

 

How does he raise them off the ground in the first place to put stones/wood underneath them?

 

Probably some of those techniques were applied to building the pyramids.

 

i still think the aliens did it!



Seriously though, that's pretty cool.

I wonder how he plan on getting the rock on top of two of those rock pillars...

Just put a small pole underneath one end of the block and lift? (dig a small trench to get the pole underneath)

 

Very cool. It looks like the 'spinning' technique depends on having a fairly solid base, so moving something across soft ground could be difficult. Not impossible, though.

 

Saw this on TV a long time ago.

Doesn't explain how he puts the horizontal block on the top.

 

Built by aliens

 

or how the blocks got there to start.

 

Move the stone between the two blocks. Rock it up to the same height as the top of the other blocks. Do the pebble trick at the top, twist it around until it rests on top, rock it again, then the planks out.

 

If i remember correctly stonehenge's construction isn't so much a mystery but just somewhat unknown what method was used

 

Well maybe.... but you know what they say:

 

Believe me, this photo should have been used:

 

"Endless supply of expendable labor"? This guy was showing that it didn't take all that many people to do it, by his method, although he does say he almost had some accidents.

 

Nicely done

Using the rocking technique to get the massive blocks up high isn't that hard afterall, and once it's up a little higher than required, stand one block vertically on one side, and stand the other block vertically on the other side, and then lower the rasied horizontal block into posistion, which would probably involve softening & digging the ground under the central support.

10 people would have been more than enough to build stonehenge, over say a month or two perhaps, and very possibly without any casualties, maybe even no injuries! The pyramids however

 

Excellent thought. Except, how do you move the stone between the two blocks? There isn't room to spin it.

So now you've got a multi-ton block thirty feet in the air, and you're digging out the ground on both sides to set the vertical blocks... sounds like a disaster in the making to me, but I guess it could be done, I don't know. If it were me, I'd set the vertical blocks first, get the horizontal one close with the spinning trick, then drag it the last bit on rollers. That could even be done with just a small crew, if it's going slightly downhill. You'd have to build supports on either end to rock it thirty feet into the air (can't have it tipping more than a few degrees either way), but that wouldn't be much harder than anything else they're doing. The uprights could also help brace the teeter-totter structure as well. The spacing on Stonehenge even looks about right for it.

Now I want to build one...

(Also, I <3 Firefox. My computer crashed right as I was going to post this (I'm getting a new motherboard tomorrow), and I thought I was going to have to retype the whole thing. Nope, I just clicked the button to restore the previous session, and it's all here. Nice.)

 

You've gotta read the original page on Despair. The Great Wall is mentioned several times.

 

I think Eddie Izzard says it best:

 

Very cool. At times the simple laborers are the smartest people on earth!

I love simple yet fantastic ingenuity!

 

Considering most people wouldn't even get to the stage where they could move those things?

That's pretty damned smart, that.