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teacher · 10-27-05, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Napoleon's Nightingale

Interesting. So how would they have lifted the stone onto the rollars and on top of lever?

1st attachment covers 4 ways. Fig 1 is an indent into block to provide a space for the lever. Fig 2 shows a nipple. There is SOME evidence for both these methods. Fig 3 shows a trough chisled into the step for the lever to fit under the block. Fig 4 shows a wedge, (in the Egytians case made of copper), which is how I used to get a safe that sits flat on the ground up enough to get a lever under it. As there will be times they messed up and lost a block off of the rollers I think that sinse there were over 2.3 million blocks making up the pyramids Fig 3 in the long run would be most productive.

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Wouldn't the stone eventually move over the logs and fall off because the logs are rolling under it?

You keep rollers staged ahead of the block. As the block rolls of the rear roller it moves onto the next one. See Figs 5 and 6.

Bonus: Figs 7 shows how to turn a corner.

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Wouldn't it be extremely difficult to roll the stone because the logs would be swerving?

It does take some tending. That's why they call it "work".

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Unless the logs are all somehow connected, a platform was attached to the logs, and the slaves pulled the platform instead of the stone.

I can illustrate how to get blocks on and off of platforms. They call them sleds, but as you have 2.3 million blocks, that is 4.6 million steps that my method does away with. Putting blocks on and off of sleds. You still would move the sled the same way as blocks, why not do away with it? More trouble than it's worth, and needless.

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It might explain the number of deaths in the construction of the pyramid.

I've crushed a couple of fingers in my ten years of safe moving. That jobs workmans comp level was the same as building structural steel riggers. It is dangerous. But I'm not dead.

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Ok. So, the stone is successfully levered onto step 1..how would they put the rollars under it and levered it again onto step 2?

See Fig 4 of post #1. The block goes right onto the first roller of step 1. Same for the next 4 steps. Pay attention class........

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Ok. I'll take a look

It's nice to hear a fresh idea.

Just taking some tried and true safe moving principles and putting a new spin on them.