Simple building. Stonehenge Reloaded by only one white man!!

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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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[Jintorn]

I don't get why people continue to assume ancient peoples were stupid. Technologies have been gained and lost over and over throughout history. They may or may not have used this method - but it makes a lot more sense than hundreds of people pulling on ropes. Look at us today - if there is an easier way to do something we will find it - no one wants to work harder than they "have" to.

[FerretOverlord]

@wheelmanstan You can't say they were smarter just because they know things that we don't. We learn what is necessary to survive in our environment. Ask one of those people from "back then" to drive your car or call someone on your cell phone, and they would have no clue.

It's all relative, man.

[Yony42]

A friend of mine once stormed out of my appartment in a haze of fury when I suggested that this video casts doubt on his assertion that stonehenge was built by aliens.

Oddly enough, before the fallout, he tried his best to be skeptical about the whole video to an unreasonable degree. I wonder why he never thought to apply the same skepticism to his extra-terrestrial beliefs.

I'm not even going to look at the comment section for fear of seeing the same kind of thing.

[akumachill]

@FerretOverlord The person you were talking to must not know the difference between knowledge and being smart(er). We don't know everything they knew back then because we don't have all the records of everything. This makes us ignorant, or not knowledgeable. However, they too would be ignorant about our cars, ipods, air planes, etc. This does not mean they weren't smart, just wouldn't be knowledgeable about our methods and technologies. This is all knowledge, and like you mentioned; relative.

[ritam216]

This is pretty amazing but I am confused...at 2:24: how does he get the stone slab 4ft into the air for the pivot????

[aerialace21]

@Leadman1989

We wouldn't know about them, that's kind of the definition of "lost"

[lee8264]

When they built stonehenge the avenbury river used to flood and they used boats and draught horses to pull them from Wales where the stone was cut.60 miles away.This would be the easiest way to do it and it makes perfect sense ancient man was not stupid and had to raise crops so it would be neccessary for survival.Then they would use a similar technique to this .

[lee8264]

Engineering 101 cool video moved logs and built a cabin on a 23 degree slope when i was 16 years old with a swede saw and a block and tackle a scribe and one axe for mortice and tenant joint.And was a liscensed boliermaker when i turned 20 always liked building and engineering in a simple mans world of course.That was in 1980 and it still stands hot and cold running water hot from a 1" 20' stainless steell pipe that i bent into a 1' long tube that i plumbed into a box stove that i also made.

[taiddan]

Oddly enough, the video doesn't show how he lifts the block to get the pebbles underneath to begin with when spining, or how he lifts the blocks to get the first board under when he teeter totters the block to raise it... oh and he's missing the top piece (minor detail).

[Mandelbrotmat]

Small men play with legos, this guys builds stonehenge!!



[Mandelbrotmat]

Thor Heyerdahl would be proud! :D

[XU3E]

@natemorey Sorry, but this point of view of modern society is based on ignorance and laziness. History is essential. We should or perhaps have to learn this simple technology for building complex technology. Lot of people say something similiar about everything even modern so they depends on someone else if they build house or build car.