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Flint Man Solves The Mystery Of Stonehenge

Flint Man Solves The Mystery Of Stonehenge	577 Views
posted on Tuesday, October 17, 2006

FLINT MAN SOLVES THE MYSTERY OF STONEHENGE
Michigan Is Amazing
August 1, 2006

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The question of how the ancients stood 26-ton stones on end to create Stonehenge more than 5,000 years ago has puzzled scientists for millennia, but a retired carpenter from Flint may have cracked the case.

Wally Wallington has been single-handedly moving incredibly large objects -- we’re talking 10-ton concrete blocks -- with very little effort for years. In 2003, using only sticks, stones, rope and gravity, he began building on his own Stonehenge in his backyard.

It works like this: Wallington uses a homemade wood fulcrum to turn a giant stone block into a lever. Using counterweights, he maneuvers thin pieces of wood underneath the block until it’s hoisted off the ground. Then he takes the counterweights off the block and allows gravity to take over. Within seconds the giant block is vertical. Wallington stood his first Stonehenge-sized block, 19,200 pounds, by himself in only two days.

It’s been hypothesized that the original Stonehenge took about 2,000 years to complete. Even though Wallington doesn’t have a scheduled completion date for his Stonehenge, we’re pretty sure it will take a lot less time than that.

Wallington first started leveraging heavy objects during his carpentry days. “I had to remove some 1,200-pound saw-cut concrete blocks from an existing floor,” he explains on his web site. “The problem was that we did not have a machine that could reach some of the blocks. The only obvious answer was to break the blocks into smaller pieces with a sledgehammer and load them into a wheelbarrow. To me, this seemed to be too much labor at the time, so I improvised.”

University of Michigan physics professor Michael Bretz agrees that the effort is pretty impressive. While he notes that no one can prove how Stonehenge was built, “it seems entirely plausible that ancient blocks could have been moved via his rock pivot and rocking/rotating technique.”

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Amazing Video Of Wally Wallington Moving Massive Concrete Slabs


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