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Steve Gray Sep 1, 2003 08:53:16
Replying to GordonP

I'm afraid moveable towers are not really much good for this job. The workforce needs to be raised up at the same rate as the stone. So when we start on the second stone the workforce towers have to be built again from scratch.

Alignment is not a problem. Bricklayers and masons have been using string for millenia. There IS a lot of timber, but Gordon has never said that the WHOLE job could be done in a day. In reality the ancient people would have had to fell, cut and shape the timber and deliver it to site. They would have had to dig the holes and they would have had to transport the stone to the site. We will have timber that has been prepared, cut to the correct lengths with pre-cut joints where needed, delivered to site and sorted. We will have the holes pre-dug and the stones will be within 40 feet of where we want them. The aim is only to show that the stones could be erected in a day.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Sep 1, 2003 09:50:46
Replying to Steve Gray

“the stones will be within 40 feet of where we want them. The aim is only to show that the stones could be erected in a day”

Obviously I agree that we should have everything lined up ready, just as you say, but from a presentational point of view I think we should make a big deal of moving the stones, so that would mean moving them further than 40 feet if possible.
Anyway, you’ve got to, because the letterhead is done, and underneath the project title it has a sort of mission statement…

“A collaborative venture to replicate the transport and erection of a Stonehenge triathlon in the 24 hour period up to Solstice Dawn, June 2003”

Bearing in mind the second and third stones can be being rowed while the first is being erected, and assuming the manpower will stretch to it (I’m sure there’ll be periods during the erection when some of the people will be not needed) I think it will be worthwhile. How much time we have for rowing will become clear no doubt. One option could be to have 2 stones already nearby and make a big deal of transporting the third.

G GordonP
GordonP Sep 1, 2003 18:05:07
Replying to Steve Gray

One day is what people will remember, 130 and people is what they remember of the BBC film, even though in reality it was over 200.