Originally posted by Ookie
In my front yard there is a 1,000 pound stone I lifted out of the creek and carried up the hill. There are two more 2,000 pound stones at my pool that I also moved without modern technology. I did it alone.
How? It was simple. I made a tripod out of some trees and suspended a beam from a rope hanging from the center of the tripod. I strapped one end to the rock I wanted to move and the other to a box that I put scrap metal in. Using the beam as a balance I lifted the rocks out of the creek and placed them on sleds that had wooden rollers under them and rails under the rollers. I was able to move the one ton stones with one hand and carefully replaced rollers with the other. Once I came to an incline I set my tripod back up and lifted and moved the rocks 10ft at a time until I stacked them at my pool patio the way I wanted them. I hardly broke a sweat and it only took me a couple days to do it.
No technology, no pulleys, no metal needed. (Any heavy thing would have worked as a counterweight.) One man with a little brains did it by himself. Why is the one in the front yard half the size of the ones at my pool? My side yard is kinda steep and I am a lazy man. So I did a smaller stone because it was easier and faster.
pics, or it didn't happen
