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Originally Posted by Napoleon's Nightingale Teacher - Your step system confuses me..what exactly would the Egyptians have used to push down the lever to lift a 2.5 ton block of stone? |
I can honestly tell you I've lifted safes of that wieght and heavier with a 6' lever just as in picture #2 in post #1 thousands of times with just my weight. It's a
lever. That's the whole point.
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What would the rollars me made of that could support the weight of 2.5 ton stone?
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Logs. Yes they will get tore up over time and need to be replaced. Never said this wasn't a lot of work.
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Wouldn't the stone flip over the step thereby crushing the slaves on the side pulling the stone?
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No. Or I too would be dead from all the safes I moved the same way. And I never said you don't have to be careful.
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I imagine the system would work on a small scale and low height but not on a large scale with a large height.
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The pyramid is made up of 203 levels of a average hight of 2.5'. My step method is comprised of steps with a 6" rise and maybe 6' tread. 5 small steps per level. The large heavy blocks of the various chambers will be addressed later.
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The pyramid is too high for the step system to work because the Egyptians would have to have built some sort of scafalding capable of holding the weight of the 2.5 ton stone, and lifted the stone onto the scafalding vertically to achieve that height with your step system.
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Good point. I'm taking this one step at a time here so we can run through your questions of each step before moving on to the next step. This is just the way to move blocks up 2.5'. You have jumped ahead. The process is detailed further ahead in the basement thread "How to Crash a Server".