AMAZING VIDEO! Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand?

Mystery History · 26.1M views · 2016-09-26 · 6:27

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Overview

A short video of a man moving a 20 ton stone block by himself using wood and levers. It is part of a pyramid-mysteries channel.

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HN cites it as a hands-on demonstration that one person with simple tools can move huge stones, undercutting arguments that ancient construction needed lost technology.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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Mechanical & precision engineering World history Magic, puzzles & curiosities

What people said

alphydan · 2018-01 · Recommendation
Unrelated, but I really enjoyed this guy's hands on approach to moving 20 ton blocks by himself, [VIDEO] It goes to show that wood, levers and clever engineering could have achieved amazing construction feats.
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cletus · 2024-07 · Reference
Ngl, I saw the title and thought it was going to be about the overheard of the JVM. The common view of how hard it is to move large stones doesn't match reality. There are many examples (eg [1][2]) of what one man can do without any heavy machinery. People have been moving large stones around for thousands of years. And the "how" is simply using leverage and the power of many people and beasts of burden. Still, it's interesting that they would. I suspect many of them didn't have a choice. [1]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK]
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jmyeet · 2023-12 · Reference
Moving large stones with primitive tools is much easier than you might have thought [1]. We also know obelisks were built on their side because we have an unfinished one that was abandoned when it was revealed to have a large crack [2]. [1]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK]
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