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TWO DEMINTIONAL DRAWING

Now, you may notice when looking at this diagram that the beams and rafters shouldnt be able to cross from one side of the pyramid to the other? Well, what makes this happen is by examining this chart of the inside of the pyramid out. Once you realize that the beams and rafters raised from the ground level up used counterweight lifting system of equal size, and proportion to go up the slope and slide on the other side of the hill. This mainly constitutes the inner make up of the pyramid and The Cantilever Lifting System or Method. The Cantilever Technique, and Hemiunus Counterweight Reset, and Lifting Method are the same ones that can lift any amount of weight that is either 4 or 5% of the actual weight of the block that they needed to lift up a 26 degree counterweight slope.

After you do the math and you find out that’s how the percentage of something that you can lift when using anyone of these counterweight lifting configurations. So if 4% or 5% is all you can move of something then you must consider that times 4.5%. So say they could lift 2.7 of something whatever that may be by using brute strength alone. Whatever that lift might be. It could be 2.7 pounds, it could be ounces, and it could even be tons after you’ve done the math cantilever lifting technique and found that you can lift all but 4.28% of what? In this case 2.7. So 2.7 is 4.28% of what? The answer is 63, or in this case 63 tons. It works with any denomination. In order to find out how much the workers wouldve needed to lift they would’ve needed to start out with 128.8% of the slope of the slide.

Now, due to the indirect rope configuration linked together from one counterweight lift to the other and another set of ropes connected directly to the back of each side’s counterweight lift. So know we cut the weight of 128.8% or 81 tons in half giving us 54.4%. Subtract the 35.4% of the positive weight resting on the other halve of the counterweight lift. Subtract one from the other giving you 18.2% and divide that into the original 54.3 negative counterweight’s weight. That comes out to be 33.4%. Subtract that from the original 128.8% and you get 95.4% is all the workers had to do which comes roughly to 2.5 tons.

Anyway, back to the math at hand. First we should go over how to properly use the single rope and double pulley system. This rope configuration actually lessened the load needed to be lifted by the pyramid workers when resetting 4 times or when lifting a beam that weighs around 63 tons down t