Sacsayhuaman Quarries: What the Lost Ancient Technology Won't Show You!

[@RostislavLapshin]

Regarding quarries, I completely agree with the author. “The main building materials of those years were boulders and blocks of rock of random (arbitrary) shape. As a rule, this building material did not need to be mined (broken out in quarries), since it was presented everywhere in the form of multimeter deposits of mountain debris formed at the foot of the mountains as a result of fallings and landslides. In most cases, this material did not even need to be transported from anywhere, since construction took place usually at those locations where the material was already in great abundance. If a megalithic structure was located on top of a mountain, then the construction material was taken (broken out) here on the site. That is why, for example, the top of the mountain, where the Machu Picchu complex of buildings is located, is cut off, and the tops of the neighboring mountains, where no one lives, are sharp.” Above is the excerpt from the article “Fabrication methods of the polygonal masonry of large tightly-fitted stone blocks with curved surface interfaces in megalithic structures of Peru” (DOI: 10.20944/preprints202108.0087.v6). I do not provide a direct link, because KZbin does not allow a comment with this link. Search by the article title.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Thanks. Comments with links tend to get ghosted but it seems even referencing links can get the comment hidden.

[@landspide]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded yep, I think even adding an accurate latitude/longitude location in the comment also seem to suffer the same fate.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@landspide damn, that's a shame

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@landspide maybe try for example 31 point 234 south The dot turns it blue and gives a link vibe to the comment ?

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@landspide 13°30'20.79" S 71°57'53.02" W i found one of them, a little further NE than the circled areas.

[@americanwoman6246]

But how did they fit them together like that? And why do they bulge like they were soft?

[@aribantala]

I was having some intense talk with people claiming that Sacsayhuaman can't be possibly made because the stones aren't mined in situ... Without any prior research in Sacsayhuaman but armed with enough understanding from General Knowledge and Discoveries of Pre-Iron age Stonemasonry in the Mediterranean Civilizations I said that it is absolutely nonsense. That they would have either Mine them nearby or Carry them with Water flows (Like in Egypt, which I know most). I can only show the person a literal image I can found on Google searching for "Sacsayhuaman quarry" where there are clear signs of Stone Quarrying works with the Serrated wall that can be seen on the background and one image where it shows signs of Stone work literally next to a stairs and a platform inside the citadel And here you are, with 32 minute video, massively expanding my basic assumptions to be indeed True. Thank you, Good sir. I can only offer you my subscription... I hope you'd continue combating these Lost Technology/Advanced High Tech Civilization/Ancient Aliens disinformation

[@varyolla435]

"Division of labor". LAHT claims vis a vis blocks "created from some mix" fall to the simply reality that such necessitates exponentially more work than simple quarrying alone. If I want to create a stone wall say. It is far less labor intensive to simply obtain either from already existing stones or quarrying stones from a nearby quarry what I need. If those blocks lack symmetry as one might expect with "advanced technology" such as you see say with a building made from concrete slabs of uniform shape and size that might be chalked up to aesthetics. A more reasonable assumption would be however that it is far less work to alter the shape of the natural block sufficient to make it fit than to spend time totally reworking it to conform to some predetermined shape. To fabricate building stones from a premix necessitates you sourcing the raw materials + working them into useable components such as pulverizing stone into a workable medium for a mixture + transferring that mixture into forms to achieve the desired shape(s) + waiting for them to dry = to then place them into whatever is being built - hence considerably more effort and time expended. So absolutely the blocks themselves and the quarries they came from reflect quarrying from natural stone - whereas fabricating preformed blocks entails considerably more effort. That makes LAHT untenable as they lacked the time and infrastructure to build from some mixture/mold - for which no evidence exists to support such claims anyways. 🤔 Enjoy your day.

[@aribantala]

@@varyolla435 I do not know how that fits into my comment... but, thank you for the extra information about Premix, Prefab walls 🙏

[@varyolla435]

@@aribantala You speak to showing LAHT devotees photos. That is like speaking to a wall as they will only see what they want to see. If however you articulate reasons why fabricating "mix" blocks is untenable such as I noted then it is not merely a question of one person saying they see something as made a certain way. The way itself becomes a nonsensical argument as it is impractical. So by all means show they photos - for the good it will do. But as I alluded to claiming stones were created from some supposed mixture for which no real evidence exists that they did things that way also falls because doing so is far more labor intensive = making it impractical. Yes there is photographic evidence to indicate they quarried things. But creating a mixture to make a block is also impractical given how much more work it is. They can not argue that away as easily. That was my point.

[@aribantala]

@@varyolla435 Oh this one guy didn't say it's mixed with broken stone cement mix. He call them Natural stones being stacked and worked to precision with machine/steel/modern tool hoolabaloo. And that they don't quarry it there, the stones were mined outside of Cusco's city limits hundreds of miles away because nobody mines stones around cities. I was so dumbfounded that this person did not understand Worker's Camps and did not believe a society of people would stay on a worker's camps for possibly more than 5 years to build the place Heck that place is only a few dozen kilometers from Cusco

[@Chris.Davies]

It is utterly baffling to me that LAHT people have never been taught about Occam's Razor. Because lovely Occam, all by himself, informs us of the self-evident truth about all LAHT garbage. LAHT is the epitome of a super complex and non-sensical solution to a question which has very simple answers. And yet they prefer their complex nonsense (without evidence of any kind) to the simple truth.

[@varyolla435]

As noted before Occam sought to ascertain plausible answers = whereas LAHT does not. They are in the business of monetizing "speech". Thus they disingenuously present information so as to generate conjecture via endless "what if....." postulations to then monetize the response. They don't really care what is said = so long as someone says something. 🤔

[@occamsrouter]

No one can accuse you of not doing the research! Great presentation!

[@Eyes_Open]

The photos are a treasure. Thanks for compiling and connecting the dots.

[@peterwikvist2433]

Magnificent work Alan. Stone is everywhere and still people think space aliens. Reminds me about Jimmy from Bright Insight. In disbelief he asked him self how it was possible to get large stones up there on the mountain at Ollantaytambo in Peru. He was practically standing on the answer! On his right-hand side was the top landing of a ramp, a ramp with a gentle slope, going all the way down to the valley floor. To see the forest, we need to look beyond the trees. There is always a logical explanation for everything we see. This video from SGD is a good example of that.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@peterwikvist2433 ✌️

[@wompbozer3939]

Dude your dog is driving my dog batshit crazy

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

LOL, not my dog, next door and right next to the window, it's much worse in person but she's a sweety, just pining for her owners in their front yard from the behind the side gate.

[@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks]

Lol

[@bustedshark5559]

Nicely and rationally explained. It would appear that these ancient stone masons, far from having advanced tech, actually did the minimum amount of work to get their walls built. You were absolutely correct in pointing out that there was no point in taking a couple of months to make each block rectangular in order to fit together when nature had done most of the work in advance.

[@TheytellToomanylies]

Work smarter not harder

[@BSIII]

It makes sense that since the dawn of time, going back to the stone age where it was necessary and essential to fashion tools out of stone, humans mastered the manipulation of stone. In our modern times, we've gone so far away from that necessity, so looking back at some of these ancient projects gives us wonderment.

[@JohannesMclean]

This is great. How the walls were built is answered. Even though I could only find one photo of the natural rock, I had noticed myself that there were similarities between the natural fissures and the finished shapes. I wondered why no one mentioned it. It's great how many people are interested, but sad how willing to manipulate those people some others are. Kudos to you for nicely illustrating what should have been old news long ago, if not right from the start.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

saxum is Latin for rocks.. just a side note

[@wompbozer3939]

It would be interesting to see if any of the strata in the stone work correspond to the strata in the quarry, or if it’s inverted, or if there’s just no relation. If the rocks from lower in the quarry were higher in the walls, it would seem like they removed polygonal blocks and restacked them. I really doubt they did a whole stone face in the way it came from the quarry, but perhaps they did smaller arrangements or two stones at a time like that.

[@GroberWeisenstein]

most of it would be. this is why the blocks are all random. all quarries take advantage of faults and beds for efficiency. especially outcrop top layers which are most fragmented compared to deeper layers.

[@cannaewargaming4815]

Where do you get the weights from? My info is that the biggest (the one particularly they like to concentrate on) is 120 tons. Before your video I had made an assessment from various photos easily available that perhaps as few as 4 are over 100 tons. You say these are lighter than that. And that many of the blocks could be lifted by one man without a lever, when I had estimated them as 1-2 tons. I'm not saying you are wrong, I just wonder if you have a source that reliably has measured the blocks. If we had exact sizes, then knowing the density it's an easy enough calculation. On the same point. I had understood the blocks were diorite, and that is the rock in the local quarries. This is the type of rock that was given in some research about 14-15 years ago. The local authorities were concerned about the movement of some blocks and damage to the surfaces. The team they called in took the opportunity to take samples of the rock and examine it chemically and under a microscope. Something which I think had never been done before. Their findings were published in Russian, if I remember correctly. Perhaps there's some confusion between andesite and diorite, but I never heard anyone before say they were limestone. Though I agree they look more like limestone, and I think the darker/harder stone is in the much more regular (and generally smaller blocks) visible at Coricancha. Similarly, do you have any reliable source for the stone type? That would effect the weight of course. But you also seem to suggest there might be both limestone and andesite blocks used, and that the andesite came from further afield. That might account for the misinformation about this subject that gets repeated over and over. Great work by the way. It never occurred to me that Google Maps could have so much readily available information. But, as I have seen heavily glaciated sites in Northern Europe, I long suspected that the whole area was a potential quarry. And that there is the possibility that some of those really big blocks were literally just lying out on the surface, deposited there by glaciers. In Britain most of these were cleared by farmers, who moved them or broke them up in agricultural areas, and most of that was done even before Medieval times, not by modern machinery. But there's still "mountainous" areas (I hesitate to use that term to compare with the Andes!) were there are still boulder fields. Including some massive blocks. Britain was of course covered by an ice sheet 10,000 ya.

[@andrewbroeker9819]

Regarding the post hole claim (not the smaller holes), are there definitive examples of the inca cutting such holes? I've never heard of it but I also don't see why not. On the other hand, similar holes can form naturally.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

In Jean Pierre Protzen - Inca Architecture and Construction at Ollantaytambo he points to other examples of similar such holes though in blocks if i remember correctly.

[@andrewbroeker9819]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded Okay. That's the sort of answer I was looking for.

[@peterwikvist2433]

Great research Alan.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

thank you kindly

[@cathyd74]

You could make short videos as in "LAHT say the stones were moved so so far but here's the quarry " for this site and Ollantaytombo

[@danielpaulson8838]

Always revealing. Thank you for reality.

[@BSIII]

Regarding tours, I think you'd make a great tour guide for this stuff.

[@BartvanderHorst]

Finally I hear a reasonable explanation... Thank!

[@peterwikvist2433]

There are people who think we need machines to create our world. Our ancestors moved and lifted a considerable number of stones all over the world without the help of engines. Remember that steam power, in the form of useful engines, did not exist prior to the 18th century. Before that, we Homo sapiens, built great monuments, be it in ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, or by the romans. Here in northern Europe, 4000 to 6000 years ago. we moved massive stones several kilometres using only muscle power, levers, and rope. Look at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. Those massive "T" stones were moved by muscle power. As late as the 19th century, we still moved large loads using muscle power, often with the help of animals. The old world was not created using engines or machines. We did it. We humans. We did it with tools, ropes, and common sense.

[@63phillip]

All of your videos are great and very informative. I think people tend to overthink things because they want to find a tech that doesn't exist anymore, or a Alien explanation.

[@Alexander1005]

Thank you!

[@briza2022]

Great excellent ✨⭐

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Many thanks

[@JuanHernandez-ii8fc]

7:25 is thatba handorrint on towards the niddlre left of the boulder?

[@CoolRoof1]

What happens when you HEAT limestone, then submerge it in water? Right, it decomposes in a variety of ways. I've thought it possible that the annealing of stone with heat (simply building a fire on the area to work) and then quenching with water could produce some of the inexplicable effects we see in places. This would have also led to the development of primitive concrete, which there is definitely evidence of in certain places. As far as the apparent "tight fit" of stones, I have always believed it a result of millenia of erosion and earthquakes. In other words, the stones "settled-in" on each other over thousands of years of small tremors and would not have been so meticulously fit when built.

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

Excellent video, and I agree with your assessments. These people were experts at manipulating stone because well, they were stone age people, LOL. It's hard not to be familiar with something when you're working with it for a lifetime.........

[@histguy101]

Well...15th century is basically modern era, unless you mean pre-Columbians were in a stone age

[@maggot5693]

Half my problem today is getting material to my place.... If I had them materials,, small rock , fines,, Then outcrops,,, there gone,,you gotta read it,,,,dig out underneath get up top ,,put a wedge or 2 in,,, couple of hits Having the shape or close to it is very handy,,, I gotta do it with earth or fill Or form it up with wood But if im presidented with steps that need a bit down or a lift up... Same as floor levaling I got something there already to work with ,,, but I don't go all the way down grinding,, I come up an grind down Meet em both half way Nice one ,,,,, just awesome,,, show to

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

yeah, logistics, getting the stuff on site is most of the problem

[@100HzJimmi]

So Clever people do less and often make use of whats available...and presuming Design is before inspiration isn't always the best starting point. Got ya ;)

[@paulcandiago9339]

Are they blocks of concrete...or stones?

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

stone

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

👍🏻 best channel on KZbin

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

thank you very much but I've been binge watching KLR productions and his animal voice over videos recently

[@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks]

The dog! Lol

[@jasonlowery1369]

I think that if it's in chalk then its flint, if it's in other limestones its chert and flint is a type of chert. Of course I'm casting my mind mack to my school days which were literally in a different century so might not have remembered that right.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Lol. I’m an old timer too. Schooled in 80’s and early 90’s

[@Merovigne]

Great info and video. Just leaving out the elevation part. just doing the work and going at these stones? at 8000 feet minimium and not sea level of a few hundred ft above. People have enough trouble carrying their body weight let alone stones. The highest points are above 12,000 ft. I was hoping you would at least Include an Elevation reference somewhere. Unless I missed it. Easy at sea level elevations.

[@TheMoneypresident]

Try 3,500 feet Einstein.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

I have seen Himalayan and Andean people working hard at high elevations. They are acclimatised and the coca leaves help. Better conditions these days but miners had to haul heavy weights. Porters carrying the baggage.

[@kenbash2951]

These are not limestone blocks. Not sure what they are but they ain't limestone.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

They are limestone blocks from the limestone that the entire area is built upon. Partially completed stones in the quarries. Outcrops of the same stone are on the site and some parts of it are made from bedrock as is the Inca style. Tambomachay, and others, in the area also built from the same locally sourced material.

[@kenbash2951]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded News Flash- Inca were a stone age people- no metallurgy, no science, no math, no written language- they had rope and wood- this is stone cold fact, not speculation- are you are really trying to tell us the Inca built these Megalithic structures-- if so you need to do more homework- sorry for the reality check.

[@aribantala]

@@kenbash2951 > no science > no math > no metallurgy The Inca people: > Built Observatories to observe star movements >Among the makers of most famous Calendar system made by pre-Columbian Civilization, alongside the Mayans and Aztecs. > Have been observed by the Spanish Conquistadores to work on Copper and their Alloys (Bronze and Tumbaga [alloy of Gold and Copper]) for their Maces, Spears, Dirks, and Armors. > Literally have the Legend of Insurmountable wealth in Gold surrounding their entire story by the Spanish. This is a Joke, and you know you're just joking, or drunk... Whichever best applies to you

[@kenbash2951]

@@aribantala Actually I'm not- read 'Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru'- written by an Inca in 1575. Educate yourself and next time your comments won't be so misinformed:)

[@histguy101]

@@kenbash2951 Inca had stone, copper, and bronze tools. You're simply wrong. What about these walls indicates a written language was required? They look like "make this fit and keep going" kind of craftsmanship.

[@TheytellToomanylies]

The post hole at 8 mins has waves around it like the 'post' was there before the rock/ash/sediment whatever it is

[@EmperorNerox]

Let's quarry rock that's fractured, we just need a lever and pop it out and away we go. Good thing this lowbrow isn't quarrying stone lol the wall would have crumbled before it was built. Lmao

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

This makes even less sense than the other in your recent volley of comments. Keep it up. It helps those on the fence to see just how nutty the hard core believers can get to defend their religion.

[@evanazeria]

When you say the larger stones are an exception, that may be true but there are still loads of massive stones that 50 ton+ (100k lbs), with some being upwards of 450,000lbs. That's too much to just gloss over IMO.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

The largest/heaviest stones are on the lowest tier. On the corners. Being very very generous they are 200,000lbs and there are about half a dozen. A long way from there being "loads" of them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lambfnaOp9Z2eac here they are

[@evanazeria]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded even if there 6 100k lb stones that would be very difficult to write off for moving with traditional methods. And when you look medium sized ones, how many possible 50k lb stones would there be. That is still not well explained.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@evanazeria I have a compiltion of videos of old quarrymen moving stones with traditional methods. Especially given the shirt distance from the quarries it isn't a problem. Amongst in the link I sent you can see how many stones of 50 tonnes there are, very few. Also 20 t stones are quite rare.

[@tpxchallenger]

Ahh, Fred Flintstone himself. So are we now going to look into the Monostonic Era? Even more unexplainable than the Megalithic Era!! Dinosaurs were helping early humans to vacuum their Monostonic homes and humans had harnessed dinosaurs to move stone but not to power their Monostonic automobiles. Absolutely baffling. I can't wait for Uncharted Ben and Bright Insight to explain this impossible Monostonic technology.

[@martinterhaar3287]

I think your video is very good and sounds logical, with a lot of explanation, but just like a LAHT believer leaves out your observations for his convenience, you are leaving out the realy interesting LAHT anomalies for your logical point of view. What about the complete molten wall in Peru, or molten to glass marks on stone walls everywhere or on stonework in Egypt? what about 90 degrees incredible sharp angles, or on purpose sligtly of like the H blocks? What about the protrusions on some stones?? making everything perfectly flat, but cutting of an extra 10 cm layer!!, to make a stupid knob? WHY are these same protusians found in Peru, Italy, Greece, Japan and at the bottom row stones at the great piramid in Egypt. What about the scoupmarkes everywhere, like for example the unfinished obelisk in Egypt. And what about the perfect drilholes where you can see circular saw markes and tell it must have been very fast cutting in deeper, even on the also found broken out cores, and on top of that, the drilholes in form of a perfect star with SEVEN arms wtf. And the list goes on, thats why i can't tell, who is most probably right with his theories and you making it sound so easy and logical, almost sounding tired of wasting your time on sucht an funny easy explanation, doesn't help me to believe al this work was done with flint, copper or bronse, something just doesn't seem right and i stil tend to beliefing LAHT and the most suspicious is that scary totaly MOLTEN WALL.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Where is the molten stone wall exactly? I have covered all these other topics in previous videos and have done how to video experiments with primitive tools to replicate the marks and polishing effects etc. Where I haven't done this i have shown other people having done the same. kzbin.info/www/bejne/joqZhIiKhbtjZ5o A playlist of just my experiments with primitive tools, the LAHT people know about them and pretend they don't exist. The same with the work of Scientists Against Myths channel before me. I have also addressed their claims of flatness for example and shown that they are knowingly continuing to spread false claims that have been proven wrong. People simply take a straight edge in show the pictures and video in high resolution. The LAHT use a couple of old out of focus photos taken from weird angles. I beg to differ that I and others ignore the other issues. We've spent a quite a bit of time addressing or replicating them. Scroll down through my uploads to see for yourself. My channel and others have been systemically blocked from the LAHT types and they refuse to acknowledge the facts to preserve their fraudulent business. It is why I hold them in utter contempt, they utterly deserve it.

[@martinterhaar3287]

@@SacredGeometryDecoded Thank you for your information! I just got home from work, it's 17:10 in the Netherlands and i will for sure check your link to learn more. There are a few places with molten rock, but the scary one with a complete molten wall i just checked was at Tambomachay.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@martinterhaar3287 since YT shadows comments with links even if i share from my own channel please search the video "Tambomachay Peru Incan Polygonal Walls, Trapezoidal niches & Incorporating Nature slideshow" at 12 secs you can see one side of the road at Tambomachay, the smooth piece is a a modern concrete wall made for preservation. at 1 min 24 sec on the top right there is section of wall which I think might be the piece you are referring too. One thing unique about Inca architecture is how they incorporated bedrock into their buildings. That section is one such example and you'll find similar in virtually every one of their sites. I have another video "Inca Trail (Ollantaytambo to Machu Picchu)" showing the lesser famous sites along that trail. It's interesting because you see the use of bedrock into their buildings but also the grades of stonework quality. From the roughest to the highest quality.

[@varyolla435]

Feel free to articulate a supposed "molten wall" in say Egypt??? Methinks you will invariably find if you dig deep enough that a town where say as a conflict occurred and fire stonework was scorched is the likely explanation. Tanis in the Nile delta is an example of a destroyed city which was in part consumed with fire when the invaders torched the city as commonly happened. Similarly you seem to overlook the most obvious point when looking at ancient structures = "dating". The Egyptian civilization as an example directly existed for almost 3,000 years beginning in the Bronze Age to end during the Iron Age under the Romans. Ergo Egyptian sites were routinely added to or cannibalized for raw material to build other things throughout this timeframe meaning what we see might represent Old Kingdom tech and nearby you find things which date to much later and hence were created using iron tools. When the Spanish conquered the Inca they occupied some sites + destroyed others + and used others still for raw material to build their own settlements nearby. So if you genuinely want to understand a thing = you must view it in its entirety as far as context and the timeframes involved. As others have noted what we see could in fact be created with the technology of the time. 🤔

[@martinterhaar3287]

​@@SacredGeometryDecoded Thank you very much for doing all this work. By now i have seen about 40+ of your highly valuable video's. You teached me al lot and made me realize how naif and lazy this machine age had made me. I am totaly absolutely confinced and an new ANTI-LAHT person was born last week. How easy it was to fall for this hoax, these people are realy mean and misuse the internet with false knowledge to make money, because they know exactly what the real truth is, anyone who takes time to watch all your pure honest beautiful explained work to help and wake honest people up, can understand and see that it is true, also can someone like Brien Foester who studied at an university. Before i knew the truth, i liked his video's and to be honest hoped a pre civilization had existed, because the tought is exiting and the mystery is nice to think about, but somehow i could not read his face very wel, he always looked self assured, technical, a bit angry and driven, but there where no other emotions, never! for example he never ever laughs, thats why i always thought something was'nt normal about him, like a narcist. But you are lauging all the time, enjoying your hard work when you make a beautiful LAHT hole with copper, you have fun and even if you know you are right, are telling it respectfully without provocing or calling other honest normal people that think LAHT maybe could be thrue, dumb and idiots, you only warn them for there own good, without getting beter from them or creating a false subject and need them to make it popular so it can exist as a real thing on internet. So i without an doubt trust you and myself judging your honest work. It is all highly compelling !! Thank you for telling me and the world. Have a nice day!! :-)

[@robertbiolsi9815]

When was the last time you even lifted a 500 pound stone . It's incredibly hard to do and you talk about dressing these huge boulders like that's easy . You don't know what you're talking about

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Lol. There are kids moving heavier than that. They learnt the magic power of the stick. Yeah dressing a huge boulder isn’t a problem. You wanna see old pics when people did hard work as a way of life. You hit the rock with a hard tool using your hand. They still might use hand tools in demonstrations at your local museum. Not sure if you’re trolling for lols but I am guessing you are ignorant and lazy and your religion is lost ancient technology Atlantis. Buddy I am a bean pole and used to regularly move 600 pounds, even more than that. As long as you’re not utterly useless it’s easy. Easy as a plank of wood to slide it over over to lever it with. Sorry to burst your bubble, though if you’re going to make a fool of yourself in public then so be it. That’s all on you for being so inept and without real world experience. It’s quite sad how far we have devolved in that sense, all this technology but people have lost the ability to use a piece of wood.

[@JesseP.Watson]

That depends on your perspective, Hafthor Bjornsson can deadlift 1104 pounds... so he could lift a 500 pound stone with one arm.

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

@@JesseP.Watson and Wally Wallington lifts 20 tonnes without breaking a sweat or bulging a vein but he uses the old noggin more than anything else. Where I used to work the biggest snatch block we kept on stock was 325kg , rather than wait for a forklift half the time I’d slide, flip and crowbar that thing and my weight doubles if I don’t shave a few days in a row. The big fellas threw huge chain and gear around like it was feathers. Especially when the pretty girl in the lunch truck was driving in. Which just gave me a revelation, strategically place some of those pretty Inca girls around and triple the work output. All the fellas stand up straight with broad shoulders and chest out with abs on display!!!! Nothing quite like a pretty maiden to turn a bunch of tired slackers into a mean crew of supermen.

[@varyolla435]

🥱 There are videos here in YT of as an example young men flipping a car onto its side as a lark. They did not use cranes or any other technology save for muscle power. I have seen movers using a large canvas strap slung around themselves balance a heavy piece of furniture so as to carry it up a flight of stairs - just as I have stuck pieces of cardboard under the corners of a large appliance to slide it across a room. There are always workarounds. So no one said anything about being "easy" = merely possible if you are determined enough - which they were. Enjoy your incredulity.

[@Akimos]

@@varyolla435 Got beaten by couple of squares of cardboard. My hat is off. That is all.