Stonehenge and its Environs 134
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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.

Gordon..

What's the height of your 'lift'

I can see dragging to be efficient across smooth grass areas.. But is that the terrain they encountered? Very unlikely I would have thought. It is very possible the slow and steady is better than fast to nowhere..

Tony

GordonP wrote:
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.
Some, if not most of your ideas are nothing more than elaborations of established techniques for raising and moving heavy objects. I was using such techniques as cribs, and progressive levering in building long before I even met you.

As for the idea quoted above, if you're talking about the method I think you are it's one that you got from me in the first place. I'd thought about it many years ago in relation to raising Egyptian obelisks and I remember discussing it with you and drawing up diagrams of how it would work.