I remember your grand gallery crane. I didn't like it in the grand gallery because the area is too restrictive. With any significant movement forward the operation has to stop because the crane is lifting instead of pulling the load forward and the operation must stop and the crane repositioned. On the pyramid top it can be far more effective since it can be turned on its side and the stones tacked to their final position. It's more useful since it can even use reverse mechanical advantage, ie- a 20 ton pull can be used to move a 10 ton load twice as high and many stones can be moved laterally a greater distance in a single move. It's a simple device that can have numerous applications in the chaos that mustta been going on on the pyramid top. Lateral movements on top of the pyramid don't interest me a lot (except to note the stone stayed in sequence) because they are so easy, but they didn't have the manpower for even tiny teams to be dragging stones. Almost all moves employed a motive force. Using your cranes to split the power of the counterweight could have been used rather than some of the means I've envisioned.

It's a great idea and I have have little doubt it was in the ancient tool box. I shouldda thought of it myself.




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04-Apr-20 15:00 by cladking.