• rc__buggy
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    3 days ago

    OK yeah, hyperbole about the work required but can you imagine stepping a 500 pound stone into the air with no mechanical advantage? I’m not sure that a human can even exert that force with their weight.

    They would just haul the lumber up and build the machine at the top of the wall

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      3 days ago

      He’s walking in a big wheel with a rope wrapping around a small wheel on his axle. That’s the mechanical advantage.

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        3 days ago

        Ah, yeah.

        So would that work? Can that dude treadmill stones to the top of the apparently 50-60ft wall with that mechanical advantage all day?

        Would it help if I whipped him while he did it?