Bill Wallace wrote:
>
> >but looking at similar phenomenon such as the coral castle
> >of Leed Skalnin's makes for some interesting reading.
>
> Yes it does, have you ever cared to study his history, I believe he was a
> mason by trade when very young, and learned much about engineering when he
> worked as a logger, have you ever physically visited the coral castle?
I have somewhat. I have all the materials he wrote. As for being a mason
by trade... sure might be possible, not sure. I havent visited the site
but a gooclsoe friend has.... he was amazed!
>Many tools there, used springs to split his coral, had a friend drag his blocks
> with a tractor when he moved it, had many drawings showing how he used
> levers to lift the large stones and had tools to match, did a lot of reading
> on magnetism in the local library, they did a special on it on mystical
> places, dispels many of the myths,
Interesting! I'd love to see the tools! Regarding the tractor... I was under
the impression that neighbors had reported no one had ever seen or heard this
sort of equipment at work and that Leed typically did most of his work at night?
>I feel bad for the man however, was never able to get over his sweet sixteen. Poor guy.
yeah... no kidding eh? that sucks.... I bet he would have traded all his acomplishments
in a moment for her too eh?