Wallace T. Wallington has figured out how ancient
civilizations like the Egyptians moved giant blocks of stone
before they discovered the wheel. He says, "It's more
technique than it is technology. I think the ancient Egyptians
and Britons knew this."
Kim Crawford writes in the Flint Journal that
Wallington has several 10 ton blocks in the yard of his rural
home that he's learned to move with wooden levers. Last
October, the Discovery Channel recorded him raising a 16-
foot concrete block that weighed 19,200 pounds and setting
it into a hole, in the same way ancient builders probably
created Stonehenge. He now has a 10 foot high column in his
yard. He says, "I call it the forgotten technology."
Engineers have long wondered how ancient cultures were
able to move and stack giant stones in order to build
pyramids and other huge monuments. While they have
different theories, Wallington has proof, because he's done it
himself. He says, "I know how they did it. I'd always thought
there was a simple explanation, but it's really beyond simple.
"There's one guy who's published his experiments who
says, 'Three men can pull a block weighing a ton.' But I can
pull over a ton alone. I've moved 19,200 pounds, and I'm
nowhere near the limit."
He first used ancient building techniques 15 years ago, when
he was trying to solve a problem on a construction job. He
says, "We were moving an existing floor. I had to remove
these 1,200-pound blocks of concrete. We couldn't get to all
of 'em with our machine. I didn't really want to break them
up, so I'd raise 'em with a lever and then tip them up and
move them. I got to be pretty good at it."
He began experimenting with blocks of concrete that weighed
hundreds of pounds, then graduated to bigger and bigger
blocks. He says, "At first, I brought a 1-ton block home from
work. But I found I could move it around by myself pretty
easily." He built a device he calls the "Wallington lever," which
allows him to tilt a block slightly and slip boards underneath
it, one at a time, until the block is upright. He's now working
on an "Egyptian hoist," which will allow him to pull as much as
185 pounds up a ramp about 26 degrees with very little
effort.
The largest block he ever moved was a 10,400-pound
concrete column. He also moved an entire building. "Yeah, it
was a 30-by-40-foot pole barn," he says. "By myself, I could
move it at about 6 feet per hour. With my son, we doubled
that speed. We ended up moving it more than 200 feet."
J. H. Brennan says there's evidence that
time travel is not only possible, but that it's been done! We
wonder if Wallington is one of those who has done it.
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