Moving heavy sh!t back in the day

[Locutus]

if you want something big moved, call a millwright.

no occupational safety drones, day-glo vests or cops directing traffic:

 

[darkbeaver]

Damn good film, I think I'll get stoned this evening and watch it again. Nothing can be done without millwrights. We rule the world.

 

[Blackleaf]

You never hear British narrators on TV talking like that nowadays.

 

[MHz]

Now add some 1,000hp and a lot of weight

 

[Locutus]

yeah, there's noisy draggin' sh!t like you or me could and then there's setting stuff safely and precisely like the old dudes did.

 

[Blackleaf]

 

[darkbeaver]

yeah, there's noisy draggin' sh!t like you or me could and then there's setting stuff safely and precisely like the old dudes did.

Try and imagine how some old dudes moved 100 ton blocks of precision cut andesite or granite. There are pieces all over the world that defy being moved today not to mention the fact that they can't be reproduced today either. You can even see the radial saw marks left in the pieces, Egypt, Peru. So there's been millwrights for many thousands of years. I don't know where they went.