Jean-Pierre’ says, “All of these beams and rafters were raised up in one run of the counterweight’s pull, but not all in one traction. They were raised in several split up tractions.” Meaning that the counterweights in The Grand Gallery only had to be lowered just enough to raise one of the beams or rafters on the other end of the ropes on the south side slide up to the level in the ceiling where it was going to be used. So, they raised them on the south side slide lifting platform any wherebetween ten, and forty meters and the more they needed to rise the deeper the split up tractions became. The extra effort to raise a beam or rafter could be diluted on a full day and the haulers would have time to breathe.
Jean-Pierre’ says, “On a fifty percent slope, you need575kg/if to pull one ton. The weight of the beams, and rafters for The King’s Chamber ranged from twenty-seven to sixty-three tons. You have sixty-five beams and rafters in all, but fifty-four weigh less than fifty tons. So the counterweight was calculated depending on the ratio of weight and slope!”
Once the stone haulers had successfully completed a traction or a full contraction of the counterweight’s load.” That would mean that the Architectural Engineers of the day who designed The Great Pyramid on The Giza Plateau would’ve had to come up with a real world solution to this new engineering problem. How were they going to reset the powerful monolith stone lifting counterweights once they were located back down at the bottom of the twenty-eight percent grade of the counterweight slopes again? While working without assistance of the full strength of a forty-ton counterweight to back up the stone haulers logistically! An engineering feat that’s gone unbeknownst even up until this very day but still, The Ancient Egyptians had an answer with a good solution to fit this problem!
During this same time period when the stone haulers were busy working on the flat ceiling above The King’s Burial Chamber, any one of the pyramid’s three counterweight trenches that needed a full counterweight reset there would’ve been two more secondary steps that the workers would’ve used. First the pyramid workers would’ve used a technique to cut force completely in half. In order for them to have implemented this new technique for pyramid construction there were six ropes anchored to the top of each one of the slides. In the trench above the port ramp they were anchored in the bed rock, and in The Grand Gallery anchored into the portcullis Chamber. Which was located at the upper corner at the top of The Grand Gallery counterweight slope.
From that anchor these ropes would have traveled down the slides, taken a U turn on the front of their respective counterweights, and from that counterweight the ropes would’ve traveled backwards up, and out of their slides to workers facing west in front of the trench above the port ramp, and to the south of The Grand Gallery facing to the north. The workers would’ve then pulled on these ropes while the counterweights rose in their slide. The port ramp workers had to pull south, while the workers above The Grand Gallery would pull to the west.
Jean-Pierre’ commented about this again saying that, “To be more efficient the stone haulers would’ve leaned backwards using their own weight like fishermen on a beach pulling a net. Because of that, the counterweight stopped after each pull on the ropes and thanks to the ratchets in the slides this is a fractional reloading pull. To move just one Beam or rafter from the port on The Nile to the top of the port ramp that beam or rafter needed to travel six hundred and fifty meters with sixteen tractions and sixteen reloads. Moving them from the top of the port ramp up the external pyramid ramp up to the fortythird-meter level storage area on the pyramid itself that beam or rafter would’ve had to travel three hundred and twenty meters requiring eight tractions and eight reloads.”
That comes out to be somewhere around a thousand meters for each lift or the equivalent of moving them to a distance of nine football fields from the Port on The Nile to the top of The King’s Burial Chamber! During the second stage of construction, in order for the pyramid workers to reset the system so that they could use the lifting platform once again. They anchored a set of six ropes indirectly around the front of the south side lifting platform and then routed them back over to the top of The King’s Burial Chamber directly to the back of The Grand Gallery Trolley. During the second stage of construction there was no need for ropes to be anchored in the portcullis chamber of The Grand Gallery anymore.
Because when the stone haulers of the day had needed complete reset of The Grand Gallery counterweight they just indirectly connecting the ropes around the front of The Grand Gallery Trolley. After that, they connected the ropes directly to the back of the south side lifting platform instead. These workers would’ve connected the ropes indirectly to the front of the south side lifting platform. Once the pyramid workers had done all of that the only thing left to do next was to use the south side lifting platform as a counterweight to The Grand Gallery counterweight.
Jean-Pierre’ went on to say, “During the second stage of the ceiling’s construction the workers would’ve also used the same technique they had used to halve the amount of force needed to raise the beams and rafters as they did in the first stage of construction.When lifting, a third set of ropes, they would’ve also added directly onto the sledge or sledges that were carrying the beams and rafters that weighed over fifty tons. About the same lifting technique that the Ancient Egyptians had found of using a counterweight to help pull the beams and rafters upwards".
Jean-Pierre’ also commented, “The force resulting from the weight of the Counterweight, and the slope of the slide on which the trolley runs along with the friction from the sleds on rollers, and the Ropes a one-ton load will give only around a 575kg/f Restitution force when the slope of the slide is 50% =26.57°. The logs below the sleds of the counterweight were lowering the friction. That said, when you pull a sixty-ton beam or rafter on a sloping ramp, the Force needed depends on the slope on which the beam is pulled. You have five slopes on the pyramid building site. The first slope was a twenty- six degree angled slope facing the port ramp at a hundred and eighty- degree angle which was located inside a trench that was dug into the Giza Plateau beneath Kafre’s Pyramid.
The second was the port ramp of 8.5% (4.87°) to the west. The third was the external pyramid ramp which was also an 8.5 (4.87°) slope, but to the north. The fourth slope was in The Grand Gallery itself with a twenty-six-degree angle slope to the south, and in the second stage there was a fifth slope also at a twenty-six-degree angle, but this time facing to the north at a hundred and eighty degree angle to The Grand Gallery. On a 4.87 degree (Or 8.5%) slope, you need 320kg/f to pull one ton. Jean-Pierre’ says, “The great advantage of controlled traction of the load is that workers were able to easily slide rollers under the sleds, and the sledges while moving at low speed.” The counterweight that was still located inside The Grand Gallery would’ve been reset after each time one of the beams or rafters had traveled up the south side slide and had been unloaded at the same level in the pyramid’s ceiling’s construction.
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