Warwick Wrote:
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> 24 x 365 x 20 =175200
>
> Allowing that my Magazine proposal was employed,
> and upgrading my estimate to 1,752,000...
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> We get 10 an hour
>
> Obviously the higher we go the less haul teams
> would be needed
>
> In the first 5 to 10 years we could have been
> looking at far more an hour which exponentially
> accommodates slower rates as they got closer to
> the top
>
>
> The 10 per hour average has been voiced by
> countless researchers
>
>
> Feel free to question my estimates, they are just
> that
>
>
> Warwick
>
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> PS. Apply the same to 2 to 3 million
> Maybe go for more time
>
> The numbers are mind numbing but not the
> impossibility that so many Hobbyists like to
> promote
>
> Warwick

Hi Warwick,

OK, well I commend you for taking the time and effort. I need to point out a few things, though don't want to
upset you. I'm trying to be constructive.

Time study is a structured process of directly observing and measuring human work. This is the area that requires much work. Together, hopefully we can agree to some decent numbers. Working backwards, we need to deliver a stone every 3 minutes. In the beginning, it would be easier to meet that rate, as you don't need to travel as far, as in later. That would comprise a large amount of stones. Building a big ramp could take up materials and manpower, if no other better system was available and/or they lacked the knowledge of. Where you will run into difficulty, is proposing pulling "single" stones up and on top, by any means. It would be better, if you had more than one way up.

Some questions? What size of a ramp do you envision, and is it a spiral ramp. Additionally, how wide do your propose this ramp to be.