Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Pit
This is the last remaining quarry that Ed Leedskalnin used in order to
excavate the blocks that he used for the wall that encloses the Coral
Castle.
There were two other quarries that were filled in purportedly as a
safety issue when they initially opened the park to the public.
One has to wonder how Ed was able to lift these enormous blocks into
place out of the pit after cutting them out with simple hand tools.
Although it is rumored that he used enormous tripods made from
telephone poles to maneuver the blocks, one has to wonder if the
tripods were only a prop to distract people from the real reason he was
able to move these enormous stones.
The last thing to consider is if he really did use a simple pulley
system which had to do with these tripods, how in the world did a man
that weighed less than 100 pounds have the strength to lift telephone
poles together in order to move his blocks?
Would he not have needed some kind of pulley system to maneuver the
massive weight of the telephone polls into a tripod configuration so
that he could begin his work to begin with?
More pics to come.
Stay Tuned...
Michael Kohler
Coral Castle
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