{"id":1155,"date":"2008-04-23T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T10:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2008-04-23T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T10:43:37","slug":"medieval-crane-walking-and-lifting-weights-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Medieval crane &#8211; walking and lifting weights at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even a 50kg weakling can lift 500kg with this device &#8211; a new fitness craze? No, more a 14th Century crane for lifting building materials up the wall of a cathedral or castle.<\/p>\n<p>In Prague, a team of fifteen have come together and built a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio.cz\/en\/article\/82857\"><strong>replica 14th century tread-mill crane<\/strong><\/a> using traditional techniques and tools. And they are using it to reconstruct a real castle &#8211; Tocnik Castle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.radio.cz\/pictures\/c\/historie\/stredoveky_jerab.jpg\" alt=\" Photo: Martin Dostoupil, www.estav.cz\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estav.cz\"><strong>Photo: Martin Dostoupil, www.estav.cz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it looks cumbersome the whole thing can be dismantled and rebuilt &#8211; like a Lego construction &#8211; and in this way it can be moved from one location to another around the building site. This one is actually a double treadmill version capable of lifting one tonne of material at a time. That&#8217;s pretty impressive for a wooden structure.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the whole story or listen to the radio broadcast at the link above.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even a 50kg weakling can lift 500kg with this device &#8211; a new fitness craze? No, more a 14th Century crane for lifting building materials up the wall of a cathedral or castle. In Prague, a team of fifteen have come together and built a replica 14th century tread-mill crane using traditional techniques and tools. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}