Amenhotep, eat your heart out, and there will be pix on Jane's site soon!

We just got the big stone out of the car and up to the site, and you will be amazed: it weighed between 200 and 400 lbs dead cement weight.

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Empty Nest on June 30, 2011 at 12:01 pm

I hope you had dozens of laborers per stone like he did!
(I suspect not!)

cherryhfan on June 30, 2011 at 1:03 pm

What a gorgeous “bridge”! It’s perfect.

CJ on June 30, 2011 at 2:01 pm

2 of us. Two archaeology students who also know physics. Park Forester up small earthen ramp (inclined plane 1), apply 1 lever, roll stone onto 2x4s: aka inclined plane 2, slide to dolly, lever principle—with wheels; etc, then one person maintains lever/dolly at 0 point and pushes while partner pulls on alternate wheels, uphill, yet, in soft ground.

Jane on June 30, 2011 at 2:56 pm

Gee…sounds so easy when you put it that way.
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zette on June 30, 2011 at 3:09 pm

Have you guys considered a day off? You’re making some of the rest of us look really bad, you know. (grin)

(My work is all end-of-the-month site updates: Newsletter for DAZ 3D, Forward Motion for Writers, Vision: A Resource for Writers.)

CJ on June 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm

The zen of moving stones.
Contemplation more than work.
Cleverness more than effort.
Happiness is that stone sitting in the right spot.

Actually Jane figured how to do it; and did the real work—shifting a monster pile of fist-sized and larger stones to the back yard so she could back that car up to the retaining wall.

BlueCatShip on June 30, 2011 at 4:57 pm

You had a lever, did you move the world? :grins:

The new work looks great! I just wish I had the energy and industry y’all have lately. And you manage to write whole novels too. Good stuff.

Zette, I’ll have to look for those links. 🙂

WOL on July 3, 2011 at 11:14 am

Do you and Jane have unresolved issues from a former life as Egyptian pyramid builders?

CJ on July 3, 2011 at 1:43 pm

There is a tendency in American society to resort to power tools and heavy engines. 😉 But mankind has been moving and building Really Big Things for a long time. 🙂
Did you see that really interesting show where a chap theorizes that the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid and some corner notches high up are for the passage of ropes: ergo a pulley system, and the stones did not wend their way around and around terraces, but straight up a central ramp, through the heart of the pyramid, and on to their location: the site of the ramp was gradually enclosed as it worked higher and higher, until now it’s a Very Tall hallway that people have always wondered at…as in…why did they make such a high, narrow hall?

Wepox on July 3, 2011 at 2:13 pm

I did see that show and never put it together until you just mentioned it now. I guess doing school work (masters degree), email, and watching tv are not wholly compatible after all. After 50 years you would suppose i would have figured that out by now. Geezz!!!

I do watch a lot of stories about ancient technologies, a very good show that i watch on NetFlix is Ancient Aliens, it is a strange but interesting take on the historical works of mankind. i really don’t watch TV per se. just netflix or Tivo. (All hail the Tivo!!).