Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity.
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March 28th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Pretty amazing stuff. However…
…how Stonehenge was built is not a central mystery to archeologists – it’s who and why. Despite the video showing it to be “easy” it still would have taken an extraordinary amount of organization and time to accomplish. Why was it so important to these people to devote so many of their limited resources to it? What purpose did it serve?
If you read this article from last December you’ll see that one of the few controversies over the building of the monument is how the non-local bluestones got to the site:
http://www.earthmagazine.org/earth/article/1a1-7d8-c-1f
March 28th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I love this stuff more than pretty amazing it an essential element of humanity. We are animals who build.
March 28th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Mark asked “Why was it so important to these people to devote so many of their limited resources to it? What purpose did it serve?”
Well, outside of hunting up some food, there wasn’t a whole lot else to do. No TV, recorded music, newspapers, books. Hanging out watching the weather change gets old after a while. So someone put forth the challenge. I bet you and your brothers couldn’t build…. And the game was on! :)
March 29th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Interesting but is there evidence of hard surface pathways to the monuments? Those rocks used to turn the blocks are on concrete…I wish they had explained moving the barn more.
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Good project by Wally. I saw an article that suggested Stonehenge was built to house and protect tin. The tin to be used for bronze and give armies an edge. The tin would be stored to await shipment. The druids took over a powerful vault when the tin production stopped. The article said there were similar structures in Eastern Europe. Wally sure showed a practical effort.