Building Stonehenge in your Back Yard

[Tohatchi NM]

This seems appropriate for the tinkerers who hang out here:

A retired builder/carpenter is moving multi-ton concrete blocks around his property using clever mechanical advantage and his own ingenuity. Also moves a pole barn, if anybody has need for that sort of thing.

Video on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0

 

[Novadak]

That is SO cool. It's always fascinating to see how things may have been done before the advent of complicated machinery. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Nice work if you can get it.
For those who just wanna watch, though: try this on

 

[Ad Astra]

A man in Homestead did it, and no one knows how:

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa071999.htm


Mike

 

[Eric006]

Cool stuff. I can't hear the word "Stonehenge" without picturing the scene from "This is Spinal Tap" where the band performs the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU3H1Um4Ju4

Eric

 

[Dave Rishar]

A man in Homestead did it, and no one knows how:

He likely did it in a similar way to how this other gentleman is moving his concrete blocks. If we discount his headache-inducing book (which I've read several times in the past, BTW -- the Coral Castle has been of interest to me for over a decade now) and read between the lines, we see other things:

When he was personally asked how he managed the feat, Leedskalnin replied only that he understood the laws of weight and leverage. He is quoted as saying, "I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids. I have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons."

 

[ashtxsniper]

That was really neat.

 

[Daniel Koster]

the bothersome thing to me is why these simple methods somehow baffle modern man....?!?

 

[Esav Benyamin]

The only modern men they baffle are those who never did anything themselves.

 

[C.S. Graves]

The only modern men they baffle are those who never did anything themselves.

I feel no shame in being baffled by the problem of moving a 30-ton coral rock by myself.