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Karson

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195 days ago

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Stonehenge mystery solved!

For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, people have been trying to figure out how primitive people could build huge structures such as Stonehenge and the pyramids out of stone blocks weighing thousands of pounds. Scientists have been stumped.

Then along comes a normal guy – a retired construction worker—and he says well, I would do it like this. And he does. This guy uses the simplest tools known to man and shows how simple and easy it would have been to create Stonehenge

This is a really great video clip. Amazing how this guy could figure out something that has confounded scholars for centuries. He not only figures it out, but demonstrates it!

This guy could build a replica of Stonehenge single-handedly, while a committee of 20 or 30 Civil Engineering professors from leading universities would be debating how it might be done.

‘Stonehenge Reloaded.’ Take a look.

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-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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Timbo

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195 days ago

Now that is amazing!

-- Tim: Remember, if it doesn't say Binford, someone else made it.

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DaleM

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195 days ago

Very impressive, yet so simple too once he shows you how he does it.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

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Napaman

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195 days ago

sooo amazing.,..did you share this before ? Or another similar one…

human ingenuity is marvelous…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

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tenontim

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195 days ago

Now if I can apply this to lifting a 6’ dresser by myself. Thanks for the link, Karson

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

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Pete_Jud

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195 days ago

WOW, Keeps me rethinking on ways to do things. I need to move the 600 lb planer from the old shop to the new shop, but I don’t think a rock under it will get it done over the gravel path.

-- Life is to short to own an ugly boat.

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TopamaxSurvivor

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195 days ago

That is amazing. Pete, all you need is a few planks and 3 or 4 rollers.

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a1Jim

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195 days ago

I agree way cool

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

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LocalMac

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195 days ago

Very impressive video. One of the great mysteries of Stonehenge is where the different rocks came from. They are not native to the area and are believed to have been transported from the quarry about 20 miles north while others like the bluestones might have came from over 100 miles.

-- Don't tell her I'm in the shop!

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Skarp

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195 days ago

Saw this a couple years back and thought it was cool. He’s a clever feller. They figured out how the pyramids were built too. Poor Erich VonDaniken, looks like him and his aliens are out of an ancient monument building gig.

-- Ooo, er.

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Craftsman on the lake

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194 days ago

Well, actually back in the 70’s a group of scientists raised granite blocks about this size using similar mechanisms. And they devised a plan to put the crosspieces on too. There were about 5-8 of people I think. Building stonehenge was never much of an issue accept for those people who think martians did it. The biggest questions were; Why? and of course now they know, and the other one was how’d they get the blocks there? It seems the granite needed was cut from cliffs miles away. This guy is very clever but an internet search would have saved him a lot of time.

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odie

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194 days ago

Thanks Karson … fun to watch.

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke". http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/ (my funny blog)

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mtnwild

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194 days ago

That’s interesting. Saw on Ripleys believe it or not, a fellow in Florida, years ago in the horse and buggy days, cut a ton or more of solid coral out of the ground. transport it, then make things out of it. His stone coral garden. Maybe someone has heard of him. They never figured out how he did it, last I heard. Can’t even do it today.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

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DannyBoy

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194 days ago

That’s cool.

-- He said wood...http://hickbyassociation.blogspot.com/

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TopamaxSurvivor

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194 days ago

mtnwild, I heard about him and thought of it when i saw this guy,

Now at least we know how those 20 ton rocks were moved 100 miles ;-)) (if aliens didn’t move them on space ships)

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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pommy

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194 days ago

Karson
thanks mate if only we knew of this guy earlyer could of saved us poms a fortune lol….......

Andy

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Grumpy

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194 days ago

An amazing feat by one man Karson. a friend of mine moved his workshop from one place in his back yard to another by himself. Jacked it up & rolled it on pipes.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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Karson

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194 days ago

I’ve used pipe a lot to move my workbench. It really helps. I now keep the bench up on 2X4’s so I can get under it easily if I need to move it again. They are spaced like little pillers around the outside.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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cabinetmaster

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194 days ago

Amazing. Really simple . Fascinating video. Thanks Karson

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

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Loucarb

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194 days ago

Great video. Thanks for sharing

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hooky

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193 days ago

I loved it it certainly created a couple of how obvious is that

But im still stuck on what sought of form work and reinforcing was used to make th concrete blocks

Meybe im just a sad case but who knows

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