Stonehenge and its Environs 134
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GordonP wrote:
Hugh amount of time and energy? Who had the 12 ton replica made? I did.

Who organized the transport for the same? I did.

Who obtained permission to use the field at Crich? I did.

Who obtained and paid for the insurance for the experiment? I did.

Who two years before built a 4-ton concrete replica and did the initial experiments? I Did.

That is not to say I am ungrateful for the help and encoragement I received from all who took part.

Steve Gray (earlier in this thread) wrote:
...you have invested so much time and effort in trying to prove the viability of your stone-rowing idea.
You see, I DO acknowledge your effort. Although you may perceive it to be so, my agenda here is not a personal vendetta. I'm just not willing to sit quietly by while you continue to push stone-rowing as THE answer to moving large stones.

I'm not even particularly presenting dragging as THE answer either, though I think it's a strong candidate. I'm only using it as a comparison because we had a clear demonstration of both methods under near identical conditions.

The stone-rowing horse died at Foamhenge and no amount of flogging will make it any more or less dead.

Stone-rowing is alive and well thank you very much, as are some of my other innovations, like providing the lever operators with a working platforms that rises in line with the stone when using a crib to elevate a lintel stone. And rowing the raised lintel into position using working platforms.

Using the support logs to provide shoring when levering up a stone from horizontal to vertical. Intial experiment successfully tested last year in America where I was warmly welcomed and entertained for 14 days all expences paid.

Only this week did I receive mail from a Russian Archaeologist asking permission to quote from my old website in a book he is writing.

Without abandoning stone-rowing I am at the same time hoping to test a new method of transport I have devised. Needless to say it won't involve brute force.

I could go on but you'll only ignore what I have to say.