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Stonehenge

Stone shifting 5

Yes, but the problem with extending the fulcrum is that the forces start to get a vertical component in the wrong direction i.e. one that is trying to lift the strut (and the tower). The longer you make the strut, the less of a problem this will be, but from the top of a 24 foot tower you'll need a very long strut. It needs to be 34 feet long just to get 45 degrees and that will give a vertical force equal to the horizontal force. As soon as you start extending the fulcrum in a horizontal direction, you have lost the "levering at 90 deg" principle; all the forces from the fulcrum act horizontal on the strut and will give rise to an equivalent vertical force. To get an angle of 60 degrees from vertical needs struts 48 feet long and still gives a vertical force of 50% of the horizontal. That's 3.5 tons lift on the tower.

If we use the lintel as a counterweight for the pole and rope method then we have a weight of 10 tons. The torque required to rotate the stone is 218 foot-tons, so in theory at least, the pole could be as short as 22 feet.

Steve you are making me work in a way that is alien to my normal trial and effort approach, still I'll have a go.

Problem. We cannot move the fulcrum point. Solution. Leave it where it is.

Lever the stone up as far as possible, then insert packing logs between the stone (stone side) and the fulcrum. This will bring the contact point of the levers (now acting against the packing) back towards the fulcrum. Continue and repeat as necessary.

The distance to be covered cannot be much more than 3 or 4 feet.