LOGISTICS AND STRUCTURE
Jean-Pierre’ says, “All of these beams and rafters were raised up in one run of the counterweight’s pull, but not all in one traction. They were raised in several split up tractions.” Meaning that the counterweights in The Grand Gallery only had to be lowered just enough to raise one of the beams or rafters on the other end of the ropes on the south side slide up to the level in the ceiling where it was going to be used.
So, they raised them on the south side slide lifting platform anywhere between ten, and forty meters and the more they needed to rise the deeper the split up tractions became. The extra effort to raise a beam or rafter could be diluted on a full day and the haulers would have time to breathe.
Jean-Pierre’ says, “On a fifty percent slope, you need 575kg/if to pull one ton. The weight of the beams, and rafters for The King’s Burial Chamber ranged from twenty-seven to sixty-three tons. You have sixty-five beams and rafters in all, but fifty-four weigh less than fifty tons. So the counterweight was calculated depending on the ratio of weight and slope!”
Once the stone haulers had successfully completed a traction or a full contraction of the counterweight’s load.” That would mean that the Architectural Engineers of the day who designed The Great Pyramid on The Giza Plateau would’ve had to come up with a good, real world solution to this brand new engineering problem. How were they going to reset the powerful monolith stone lifting counterweights once they were located back down at the bottom of the twenty-eight percent grade of the counterweight slopes again? While working without assistance of the full strength of a forty-ton counterweight to back up the stone haulers logistically! An engineering feat that’s gone unbeknownst even up until this very day but still, The Ancient Egyptians had an answer with a good solution to fit this problem!
During this same time period when the stone haulers were busy working on the flat ceiling above The King’s Burial Chamber, any one of the pyramid’s three counterweight trenches that needed a full counterweight reset there would’ve been two more secondary steps that the workers would’ve used. First the pyramid workers would’ve used a technique to cut force completely in half. In order for them to have implemented this new technique for pyramid construction there were six ropes anchored to the top of each one of the slides. In the trench above the port ramp they were anchored in the bed rock, and in The Grand Gallery anchored into