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American experimental archaeologist
Wally Wallington
NationalityAmerican
OccupationRetired construction worker
Known forConstruction techniques
Notable workStonehenge replica

Wally Wallington is a retired construction worker from Lapeer County, Michigan, who has demonstrated methods for a single person to achieve the construction and manipulation of massive monoliths.

Work

He has constructed a concrete Stonehenge-like structure using only materials and techniques that do not rely on any modern machine-powered technology. He has demonstrated this technique on the Canadian science television program Daily Planet and also for the Discovery Channel.

Technique

His technique uses simple machines such as levers aided by counterweights and pivots. He says that he has successfully singlehandedly "walked" a twenty-ton barn and multi-thousand-pound concrete blocks using a beam lever and two pivots beneath the object and near the center of mass. These techniques might be comparable to those used by Edward Leedskalnin when he had single-handedly constructed his massive Coral Castle in Florida.

References

  1. Mike Wendland (2004-10-04). "Web Site Shows Old Skills Moving Mountain Of Rock". Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-02-15.
  2. "Daily Planet clip". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  3. "same Daily Planet clip with moving pictures". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2011-06-03.
  4. "Simple building. Stonehenge Reloaded by only one white man!!!". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-14.
  5. "The Mysterious Coral Castle". Live Science.

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