I dont know the length of the hole he made to fasten the gate. But making holes in rocks without modern tools seems near impossible, yet wonderful holes have been made in several mysterious places that I have read about.

GG.



RLPoole Wrote:
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> Thank you for your reply. I am no
> engineer, but what do you think about this quote
> from Wikipedia? I will read your reply with
> interest then stay out of AoM for a while!
> Quote
>
> The gate is carved so that it fits within a
> quarter of an inch of the walls. It was
> well-balanced, reportedly so that a child could
> open it with the push of a finger. The mystery of
> the gate's perfectly balanced axis and the ease
> with which it revolved lasted for decades until it
> stopped working in 1986. In order to remove it,
> six men and a 50-short-ton (45 t) crane were used.
> Once the gate was removed, the engineers
> discovered how Leedskalnin had centered and
> balanced it. He had drilled a hole from top to
> bottom and inserted a metal shaft. The rock rested
> on an old truck bearing. It was the rusting out of
> this bearing that resulted in the gate's failure
> to revolve. Complete with new bearings and shaft,
> it was set back into place on July 23, 1986.[18]
> It failed in 2005 and was again repaired; however,
> it does not rotate with the same ease it once
> did.
>
> No worries! Glad to hear from you.
>
> Oh boy, ok, you asked for it...lol jk. We have to
> put on our critical thinking caps, though, and
> really read the words that are written here.
> First, some corrections are in order: I personally
> know Laura Maye, the Director of the Coral Castle
> Museum (they carry my book in their giftshop now,
> yay!) and have seen her as recently as Feb23, 2019
> when I was down there shooting an episode of
> The UnXplained: With William Shatner with
> Prometheus Entertainment for the History Channel.
> She was there when the gate was being repaired,
> and she said to me personally that she hired two
> 20 ton cranes and about 20 men to repair the gate,
> and they could not repair it back to working
> order. They found the bearing resting on a pie
> shaped piece of stone, which supposedly was of an
> unknown composition. It would indeed have to be
> extremely durable in order to bear the weight of
> the entire door resting on a single point, for
> decades.
>
> To say that discovering how Ed installed the door,
> is to discover how he balanced it so perfectly, or
> how he was able to drill so precisely through that
> giant block, or how he was able to install it
> alone, with no heavy lift machinery, is a
> completely false notion. It only makes it harder
> to explain, not easier. We know what he did, but
> that is not the same as knowing how he did it,
> right? The article is worded in a deceptive way
> which might be taken to mean that the construction
> methods of which Leedskalnin used were explained,
> when then only thing they actually explained were
> the materials of a megalithic doors installation,
> not the methods of megalithic construction,
> itself, or even how the door was hung by Ed, all
> by himself. Does that make sense?