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jcdammeyer said:
Then drop it. Move the hoist and repeat. In this way moving a 1Ton boulder 100' would only require about 30 iterations and cost nothing.
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I don't think that's gunna work as well as you do. LOL!

Another trick is to make a sled out of plywood, put the rock on the plywood and pull the plywood with a truck like a sled. A heavy rope through holes at one end going up through holes in the plywood with knots on the top works well. On my home farm in Saskatchewan, it was called a steinschleppe (stone boat in English) and was pulled with draft horses. The boat was just timber framing back then because we had no plywood. They use plywood and a tractor today. You can even put 3 or 4 fence posts under the plywood to roll it on - just like moving a heavy machine on concrete.
 
Twenty years ago there was British "game" show that was very entertaining. The "game" presented a physical task that had to be completed in the shortest possible time with human power alone. There was one "game" similar to Johns boulder. The challenge was to move a congo/lok block (the 2 ton concrete stacking wall blocks) from the back yard to the front yard, about 120 feet. I believe you were given a day to prepare, using only materials that would have been available to the ancients. The winner of this "game" won the challenge in a time of under thirty seconds. Yes, thirty seconds.
How did he do it ?
 
The pyramid stones, IIRC, were moved on round logs. Push forward, move log that's loose at the back and insert at front. It's how I moved my mill across the garage with 3 iron pipes. But 120' in 30 seconds? Maybe 30 minutes...
 
The most recent research has shown that the Egyptians used barges and simply rerouted tributaries of the river Nile. As I recall, they supported this theory by locating the source quarries.

Ya, one guy isn't moving a big concrete block on roller logs alone in 30 seconds. But I think a team of guys could. The hardest part would be leveraging the block up onto a raft or rollers.

But I watched 4 Mennonites move my garden shed on logs. It was amazing to see. When we moved it from my old house to my new house I did it myself with the help of my Loader Tractor.
 
Nope none of those and yes it was mere seconds once he went to move, alone.
So they had a day for prep and as I said only tools and materials that would have been available in ancient times. Here comes the light bulb moment.
He scratched two grooves in the ground underneath the block approximately 25% in from each end. On top of the block he placed a lay of wood. Another layer of wood but not as wide. Rinse and repeat till the top edge looked roughly circular. The wood was then lashed securely down utilizing the scratches in the ground for access. Using blocks and a big beam he rolled the block on it's side and repeated till he basically had a Flintstones mobile wheel. Next he wrapped a couple hundred feet of rope around the rounded block with the tail coming over the top and pointing in the intended direction of travel. When the whistle blew, with the rope over his shoulder he leaned into it hard, in a second or two it slowly started to roll, in ten feet he was staggering, twenty, pulling like mad at a walking pace. At 120 feet he was at 240 feet running as fast as he could. Everyone backed out of the way as the block flew over the finish line.
 
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