How to move /erect a Moai sized stone - by yourself! - General Tiki

C captnkirk Member Hockessin, Delaware Joined: Nov 06, 2002 Posts: 322	C captnkirk Posted posted on Tue, Mar 25, 2008 8:57 AM When I used to teach pioneering at a Boy Scout camp we had this massive rock called the weather rock hanging out of a tree by rope. It had a corny sign on it: "when the rock is wet it is raining, rock is swinging it is very windy etc.". One of the other councilors would get one of the kids in my class to cut it down every week as a prank, and I would have have my class haul this massive 800 pound rock back up into the tree using a spanish windlass. Just me and 10 little kids. You get two sticks and lash them together in a "T" shape and twist it into the rope. Then hold the base of the stick and turn the top part like a crank and wind the rope onto it. When I was in college I hauled a friends car out of a ditch using one with just three people. If you used a device like this with a block and tackle pulley there is almost nothing you could not move provided you had strong enough rope.

When I used to teach pioneering at a Boy Scout camp we had this massive rock called the weather rock hanging out of a tree by rope. It had a corny sign on it: "when the rock is wet it is raining, rock is swinging it is very windy etc.".

One of the other councilors would get one of the kids in my class to cut it down every week as a prank, and I would have have my class haul this massive 800 pound rock back up into the tree using a spanish windlass. Just me and 10 little kids. You get two sticks and lash them together in a "T" shape and twist it into the rope. Then hold the base of the stick and turn the top part like a crank and wind the rope onto it.

When I was in college I hauled a friends car out of a ditch using one with just three people. If you used a device like this with a block and tackle pulley there is almost nothing you could not move provided you had strong enough rope.

Post #369160 by captnkirk on Tue, Mar 25, 2008 8:57 AM