Ancient Cranes are Modern Cranes GEARS PLUS COMPOUND PULLEYS

#ancienttechnology #ancientcranes #wallywallington
Some examples of ancient cranes being demonstrated.
Plus a sample of Wally Wallington lifting and placing a 20 ton block all on his own, without breaking a sweat, and not a single compund pulley or gearing system in sight.

[@muhammadaliff2288]

As a crane operator,this is so exciting & amazing to watch.. thanks

[@johndowe7003]

now ya get to drop piss on the plebs just like ancient times

[@oldguy8177able]

it amazes me how intelligent ancient romans were

[@Johannes00]

2:13 - A wHHHeel. Stewie Griffin reference. :) On topic: I literally cannot watch enough of these amazing educational videos.. Must learn more! Must absorb the Knowledge of Ages. Archimedes Quotes: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

[@Chuckknotts2000]

Hwow! I hwas about to make the same comment!

[@russellmillar7132]

This is great!! You have made numerous connections that are invaluable in piecing together a coherent narrative/model of how technologies evolve. Truly inspiring.

[@ragnarwiik2054]

As a crane erecter, this was great to see.

[@neoclassic09]

so what about a 100 ton or 300 ton block? they claim the romans had it but egyptians didn't, but egypt had just as impressive stone movement

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

neoclassic09 Roman cranes there based on compound pulley and capstan (mouse wheel) . It’s all based on ancient ship tech. The mouse wheel just a large version of winch used to lift buckets up well and the pulley can be replaced with truckers hitch or just a greased branch. Typically said the Egyptians didn’t have wheels but that means they weren’t using axle wheel such as on carts or chariots. They did have potters wheel. Same with the Egyptians didn’t have pulleys. None found but with a piece of rope tied into hitch or just piece of wood they could serve as a led pulley system. But they did have ships and to rig ship mast and sails you have to have some knowledge of mechanical advantage. Small crew can not operate a ship otherwise. Surviving rope, knots show they had the skill. The wood and rope they used strong enough for the heaviest stones they moved. Plus the best Greek- Roman machine designers and engineers came from the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. Could be it was just a city that inspired inventors and engineers but I reckon people like Eratosthenes read the old works stored there. Then got the credit for repeating much older experiments and designs.

[@barniyamum]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded ..ofc the egyptians had no clue of a wheel...^^ but they measured time and knew about circles etc etc etc xD ...but they never manged to slice up some tree or something to create a wheel ^^ makes so much sense... ^^ that was much too advanced for em...^^ good compilation yo!

[@CosmosGwelf]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded Egyptians had water wheels as well

[@szpakmateusz8500]

Did the Mayans use the wheel? but they built whole cities with pyramids .. likewise cycles of time or round towers ... Incas and their magnificent megalithic walls and temples .. Check the oldest Egyptian boats from the time of the pyramids or the wall paintings .. cranes? Sails? .. are we talking about the Middle or New Kingdom, the age of iron, the age of chariots ??

[@barniyamum]

@@szpakmateusz8500 no. they never saw sth that was round nor square.

[@electricearth1101]

NOW THIS is a video!

[@TheGreatPyramid]

Thanks, as always Alan!!!

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Rome never really died. Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire survived but the Western Empire went backwards technologically) , the writings of Vitruvius Groamaticus survived through Byzantine period then into the early Islamic period, rediscovered in Middle Ages/Renaissance in Western Europe via the Moors of Spain.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

To answer the question in chats.

[@TheGreatPyramid]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded Yeah and tell ThePhilosopher, who asked me a question in chat, here is my answer... I tried to answer him there but the chat time ended... I talk about Vitruvius at about minute 2 in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaKVZomZZ66la5Y

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@TheGreatPyramid www.gutenberg.org/files/20239/20239-h/20239-h.htm Vitruvius online, free PDF's for downlaod available Book 10 all about machines but other books have written description of Vitruvian Man (symmetry of temples) chemistry and philosophy of architecture

[@TheGreatPyramid]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded true, but there is a sense in which it DID die... because of the poverty in Europe during the Dark Ages, the poverty caused by the collapse of the once mighty empire... its migration to the Byzantine side was not a full migration, etc.

[@stevebrickshitta870]

You done it again SGD. Too simple to be true, it's gotta be aliens. You know it makes sense.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

good old fashioned common sense

[@JayJay-vx2tq]

thanks, now i want to play killer instinct on the snes...

[@Aracne80]

Haha, I thought I recognized it!

[@_hunter_hunter1048]

i want to know how the megalithic foundation of the Jupiter Temple in Baalbek were lifted to place , they are massive !

[@russellmillar7132]

The trilithon stones were never "lifted" to be put in place. They were dragged over level ground from quarry to construction site. The Greeks and the Romans had sophisticated capstan and compound pulley apparatus. They also had draft animals (sometimes elephants). The fact that they successfully moved these stones, and placed them just where they needed them, given their level of technology , is unremarkable. The three large stones were the face of a retaining wall that the engineers knew would be necessary due to their findings with respect to the instability of the subsoils and the area's history of seismic activity. Much more impressive was the fact that they (the builders) imported scores of granite blocks from the Aswan quarry that would be made into columns that would then be lifted and erected using the advanced crane technology developed first by the Egyptians then improved on by the Greeks and Romans.

[@spacecreatorband]

YEAH, THAT

[@onkarkitekt]

👏🏽

[@Aracne80]

In short: Humanity are as ingenious as they are a cruel species. Yet, there are a lot of constructions, buildings cut out of mountains, that seems like one artists job, but would in reality be near to, if not impossible, to complete. Oh, I would so much like to go back in time, just to reveal how they did it. The share work, the precision, the solutions ... And I don't even need that knowledge ... I just want it :)

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

"Gather all the knowledge you can. It costs nothing and is no weight to bear." As a wise old man once told me.

[@Chuckknotts2000]

Why are you putting so much emphasis on the "H"?

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Latin: hoowheel

[@szpakmateusz8500]

So .. the Romans and the Greeks wanted to speed up the "time" of the building process ...;)) What about the Egyptians? cranes 4500 years ago ?? to build the pyramids in 20 years ?? or maybe some techniques (for 100t or 2t blocks) are already lost in the Ptolemaic times ?? After all, GP was the largest and shortest construction project of the Bronze Age Best regards ..

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Egytpian Mystery Schools- only for the initiated Greeks but especially the Romans made engineers of as many of their soldiers as possible. Roman army were engineers first and fighters second. Every time they stopped to make camp they had to set up defences and an organised camp site including a HQ. Roman Collegia system (unversities-trade schools) fell apart in 3rd century during the Civil War.

[@TheGreatPyramid]

good points. We don't have any of the cranes the Romans used - yet we know they had them --- why can't the same be true for the Egyptians? They passed down secrets orally and didn't write them down, like the Mesopotamians did...

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@TheGreatPyramid Diodorus and Strabo make no secret that so much of what was Roman was learnt form Chaldea and Egypt. Egyptians had all the tech necessary with their sail boats. Viking boats could only travel so many degrees from the wiind, Egyptian sails could go into the wind, impossible to sail like that without knowledge of mechanical advantage. Even if no direct evidence of the cranes themsleves they had all the elements necessary to make them. What can used to do that can also be made to make weapons of war, Greco Roman Scorpio (giant crossbows powered by torsion springs made of twisted rope) rely on winch systems and simple rachets. What can build can be made to destroy or kill. Keeping weapon tech out of the hands of the enemy as appropriate now as back then I would believe. Egyptian vctory against Sea Peoples fleet, they had ships of war with powerful weapons on board.

[@TheGreatPyramid]

SGD Sacred Geometry Decoded wow... cool... I’m sure there were people telling Diodorus and Strabo that there was evidence of ancient high tech! 😃

[@szpakmateusz8500]

ok;) GP time 4500 years ago So I have to believe in some mystery schools ?? Similarly, sailing with heavy cargo is not a problem on rivers (where the winds on the Nile almost always have the same direction) .. the problem is "loading and unloading" ... In my opinion, even simpler "machines" were used .. instead of fighting gravity, this force was used .. (Lever. Center of mass etc). Therefore there are remains of brick platforms around the temples ... it is easier to build brick platforms than "waste" valuable cedar wood .. Mesopotamia ?? it's a brick architecture, not a megalithic one ..

[@OnoufriosDovletis]

"The Romans invented".. please If it weren't for the Greeks I don't think they would have achieved anything.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

The Greeks invented everything? Nothing existed before them? They learnt nothing from no one outside? If it wasn't for the Egyptians, Hittites, Persians and others I don't think the Greeks would have achieved anything.