William Bagwell on Sat, 21 Jan 2017
05:35:08 -0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:41:54 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

This is interesting.

Ed Leedskalnin was from Latvia, moved eventually to Homestead Florida,
where he built a castle from coral limestone.

Of course, "how did he do that?" is always a good question. Ed would
say "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the
secrets of the people who built the pyramids." Which of course also
brings out the conspiracy theorists.
But this guy gives a good explanation of how it worked. "Simple
Engineering". Some serious metal working here if you want to
reconstruct it for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM

tschus
pyotr

Will wait until my days off to watch a 30 minute video.

I skipped through it back and forth while doing other stuff.

Have read
about the Coral Castle before. Not sure if this is mentioned but one
of the 'perfectly balanced' pivoting rocks was later found to be
mounted on a hidden truck axle.

he mentions that 'even the movies show that "The floating stones"
have visible rollers under them'.


Along the same theme, moving huge blocks of concrete by hand,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5gSnfW4 only six minutes.
Actually bought the guys CD about ten years ago to see all the ones
that were not on You Tube. Warning, the wind noise in some of his
videos is awful! He needs one of those foam microphone covers.
--
pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."