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Old 13th August 2005, 05:37 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Incredible feat of engineering!

Check this video out!

www.fungod.com/coppermine/albums/coolvideos01/barnmover.wmv

This guys's methods of moving heavy objects around, makes

you re-think how difficult it was to build Stonehenge and

the pyramids. Perhaps not so difficult, after all!
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Old 15th August 2005, 11:02 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Incredible feat of engineering!

Now this is my field. Structural Engineering. This guy has done a pretty fantastic job of raising that massive block on his own. Wallinghenge.....

You're right Bill. It may not have been that hard to put up stonehenge or the pyramids, afterall humans are a pretty enterprising bunch. Once they have moved on to the next stage of technology, they tend to forget the outdated stuff...
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Old 19th August 2005, 12:05 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Incredible feat of engineering!

Neat. But how did he get the stone under the center of the block? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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Old 19th August 2005, 01:15 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Incredible feat of engineering!

As he had shown, he probably rolled the block onto the stone to begin with. My second guess is tht he used a simple lever and fulcrum to originally get a bit of space under the block into which he could insert a small stone. Moving that barn was fan-damn-tastic.

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