CONFIGURATIONS
Jean-Pierre’ says, “It’s possible to raise these gigantic granite beams and rafters up to the higher levels of the pyramid using a wooden portico, because the counterweight blocks were small granite blocks supplied a forty-ton counterweight. Enough weight to reload the counterweight in the Grand Gallery one time.”
So loading the south side slide lifting platform with sixteen two-and-a-half-ton granite blocks was enough weight to reload the twenty-five-ton counterweight located inside The Grand Gallery on its trolley, and the south side slide lifting platform’s run downward would’ve been slowed just enough by haulers from above.
Jean-Pierre’ went on to say, “Everything was just a question of balance.”
In the Meantime, at the rear of the trolley there were wooden pieces that were connected as a brake that they would’ve used to stop the trolley when necessary. When the trolley ran up, a brake would’ve followed the ratcheted guide beams that lined the walls of the slides and the driver would’ve stood ready to stop the trolley at any given moment. In the event that something should go wrong like a rope should break.
When the trolley ran down the driver at the front of the trolley would have kept the brake up. If you take notice there are two sets of ropes that are on the back side of the trolley running from the front to the rear, and the command or wooden piece on the front of the trolley that could be depicted on the front of the trolley. In the event that something should’ve happened, the driver of the trolley would release the command, and the wooden brake would fall down into the wooden ratchets of the lateral guide beams, and that would’ve stopped the Grand Gallery Trolley from going any further.
And during the second stage of the ceiling’s construction, when the twenty-five-ton counterweight blocks in The Grand Gallery were reset by the sixteen two-and-a-half-ton counterweights that were used on the south side slide lifting platform to reset the Grand Gallery trolley as it was left standing there in its place because the counterweights on the south side slide lifting platform would’ve just kept it standing there in its place.
Jean-Pierre’ says, “You have to imagine that on the other side there were the same wooden devices. Wooden lateral pieces with ratchets, a roller train, a platform, a brake, and a command with a driver. After each traction the brake would have fallen down into the r