Was Stonehenge built by just 1 man?

[kandrathe]

Hi,
I like that solution, it is elegant. Personally, I'd be petrified (har-har-har) to work around a rock that big up that high. But, yeah, that should work -- wonder if that really is how he did it.

--Pete

When I was a freshman in HS, I weighed about 115 pounds. I was always looking for jobs around the farm to earn money, so my dad would think up the hardest stuff he could to keep me busy and out of trouble. The one I'm thinking about was a 40 acre pasture that was fenced, but was off by about 50 feet on one corner according to our surveying. So we have to rip up 2 whole fence lines of cedar posts set 15 feet apart for 2 sides of that 40 acre pasture. He thought it would take me all summer.

It took me far less. I spent the first day making a light weight 2x6 tripod I could lug around with a 20 to 1 lever with a logging chain I could wrap about the bottom of the post. I'd dangle bouncing on the end of the lever and wiggle the post until it went up about 6 inches to a foot at a time, then slip the chain down and repeat. It took me about 2 or 3 weeks to remove all the posts, and then dig them back down where they were supposed to be. Pretty easy summer job! :D