Khufus Counterweights by Kurt Burnum - HTML preview

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BIRDS EYE VIEW THE CENTER TOWER

Here is a diagram where, RED represents the counterweight glide path. 4 of them altogether. The two represented at the bottom of the diagram depicting two counterweights faced off against one another. One facing right and the other facing left. Together they are able to accommodate a lift on rollers and ropes using The Single Rope and Double Pulley configuration powered by a counterweight on each end in an attempt at getting these very large and necessary granite beams and rafters up to their perch in anyone of the five relieving chambers there in. After the counterweight blocks were successfully placed on the upper tier of level 3 storage area they could start lifting the heavy stuff of around 63 tons or so up to that level of construction.

Same goes for the two construction ramps that you see in the middle of the diagram extending outward to the edges of the pyramid represented here in WHITE. BROWN, or TAN constitute the 3rd level storage area that was used to move blocks into place on to The Grand Gallery lift which fed and lifted two counterweight blocks at a time to level 4. Also, for moving counterweights opposite to the beams and rafters that were raised in The Grand Gallery on the center right by placing these blocks on the same positioned counterweight lift and allowing them to descend two separate levels in a single pass. Moving two separate beams, rafters, or counterweights, and any variation that could be made as long as the total was 63 tons. This allowed them to use The Cantilever Lifting Technique and lift the stone structures into their place in the relieving chambers built above The King’s Burial Chamber. Located at the top of level 4.

GRAY represents the working space of level 4. Used to transport the monoliths one more level to level 5. Their final resting place above The King’s Burial Chamber. To do this they moved the two monoliths into place in the left hand side they would then be placed on the center left counterweight slope described in the diagram of the interior, “tower” if you will. The other would be carted off behind The Grand Gallery lift and then placed neatly on this descending counterweight ramp that stretched from the very top of level 4 down to ground level. Level 4 blocks were placed there in order to lift they giant monolith stones that were placed on the left had side of the center counterweight and hoisted into position. And finally settling at ground level once again after pulling the beam or rafter across the top for the walls of The Kings Burial Chamber labeled in BLUE and into place there above.

There are forty three different beams that support and segregate all of the five relieving chambers that are all located above The King’s Burial Chamber, and starting out at the top rung one of the pyramid and while working their way downwards from the first tier all the way down to where the rafters were at constitute the fifth level that the relieving chambers started out at, and listed from left to right there are eight beams that are all stacked neatly against one another stretching 10 meters from one side to the ceiling to the next.

The first beams weigh around 63.2 tons continuing on from left to right the next beam is 36.1, 55.6, 38.8, 40.6, 31.6, 24.8, and 63.6 tons in that order. Below that we have nine more starting out on the left with a beam that is 37.3, 33.9, 33.9, 51, 46.2, 51, 27.01, 28.4, and rounding off the fourth row would be the last one on the right hand side of 55.3 tons. Traveling downwards once again we start out from the left with 463.5,51, 31.6, 43.4 47.4, 47.4, 47.4 and 56 tons. The second row from the bottom starts out with 47.9, 40.2, 39.5, 51.5, 47.4, 49.7, 43.4, and 44.3 tons allowing plenty enough room for nine more beams that form the actual ceiling inside The King’s Burial Chamber starting out with the one on the left