Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand

[IdahoMan]

 

[willymakeit]

Simple but effective

 

[Richard Cranium]

Wow, he did it. looks to work.

 

[LXCam]

He's an alien.

 

[gordo9742000]

Not to be nitpicking. But 19,200 pounds isn't 20 tons. Still very impressive thing to do by yourself.

 

[ilovevocs]

Only in Michigan.

 

[ez-duzit]

The guy is built like a fire plug--like me.

 

[bushmechanic]

Edited.

 

[6PTsocket]

A lot of pretty old tricks, but strung together into a very ordered system of movement techniques. The man is clearly obsessed, but then again, he's the sort that someone would have called a few thousand years ago to get the job done.

I suppose the question is this: Has he done anything that required assumptions beyond the apparent capabilities of the people of the time? That's something I see constantly in efforts to reproduce lost techniques.

They'll forget that people of the time didn't grow up with a modern education. [emoji38]

Regardless, the man needs to write a book detailing his entire system; not to make some point about ancient construction, but because one man moving several tons 300 feet per hour without wheels is something to study, even if we know how he's doing it.

Clearly, that's one of the more efficient ways to move an object. I've seen this guy in the past as well as the techniques, but before that I'd never seen anyone formalize a system based on those various techniques.

I think we under estimate our ancestors. A lot if what they knew was lost and had to be re discovered. The Egyptians knew you could drill holes in the head to relieve pressure They have found primitive batteries, though I have no idea what they used them for. Japanese metallurgy was very advanced. Alchehemy lead to breakthroughs in Chemistry. So called primative peoples hava a great knowledge of pharma cology. The Myan calender was dead on. This guy was really impressive. The title was deceptive. I thought the guy was going to pick up the block. Maybe those late night ads for testosterone improvers really work?

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[stage20]

the water in flint may have gotten to him over the years lol.

 

[dutchgray]

I don't think most of his methods would have worked at stonehenge, one the stones are mostly not carved flat and smooth, there isn't any hard flat surfaces that they could have rolled the pebble over, they have mortice and tenon joints to hold the top ones in place.
Similar dig a pit and tip the stone in standing up methods have been tested and do work, as well as a few transportation methods.

It is impressive moving that much weight by hand though.

Stonehenge is local to me, but its only the most well known of many, plus there are earthworks from the same time that would be impressive today done with bulldozers, all dug with cattle shoulder bones, as far as is known.