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
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connectin ...
-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
Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Channe ...
''.
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
Edward Leedskalnin ( lv, Edvards Liedskalniņš) (January 12, 1887 – December 7, 1951) was a Latvian immigrant to the United States and self-taught engineer who single-handedly built the Coral Castle in Florida, added to the National Reg ...
when he had single-handedly constructed his massive
Coral Castle
Coral Castle is an oolite limestone structure created by the Latvian-American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951). It is located in Unincorporated area, unincorporated territory of Miami-Dade County, Florida, between the cities of Homeste ...
in
Florida.
References
External links
*Official website
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Flint, Michigan
Replicas and derivatives of Stonehenge
Experimental archaeology
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Lapeer County, Michigan