[moose07]

okay,,,so how did they lift the lintels in to place? :)

[nixonsnose]

Give me a lever large enough and I will move the earth...

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Dirt ramp. Pile dirt up all around the posts. When you have enough dirt, drag your lintel up the ramp, place it, repeat for all posts. Now, everyone grabs a basket and digs away until you have nothing but your new Stonehenge. Smooth out the site, put in your chalk holes to count the eclipses, erect your sighting stone along the line for the solstice and finish up the rest of the landscape. (Oak trees and mistletoe!) Finally have a dedication ceremony, hopefully without human sacrifice, and drinks all around.

[Oztrich Boy]

Actually the Preseli stones in the article are the small Welsh bluestones, not the big Sarsen Sandstones.

Obviously of we prove they could move the little ones, the big ones are no problem (somebody may have to rethink that)

[minnesota_bound]

#20
Carpenter: The second-floor lintels between the lally columns, should we rabbet them?
Mr. B: The second-floor lallies?

C: Second-floor lintels between the lallies.
MB: Oh, the lintels between the lallies.

C: Yeah, from the blueprints you can’t tell.
You want they should be rabbeted?

MB: No, no, I guess not.

C: Okay, you’re the doctor. Hey, fellas! If you got any of them
rabbeted lintels set, rip them up!

[Loud crashing and ripping sounds...]

Mr. B: It sounded less expensive to say no.

[teeman8r]

You build earthen ramps