Part 6: Working Smarter is Still Hard, but it Could Be Harder (The Living Legend Frijol)

Our pulley is mounted and with it 3 truths and an epiphany: 1) we have tested it, 2) it works, 3) it is man powered but we figured it would be, 4) but it has come to all of our attention that... it could be (prepare for the epiphany) horse-man powered… and off they went to fetch the cousin that’s coincidentally said to be built like a horse and is known to be able to move anything; not just mountains themselves but coincidentally ANYTHING that needs to be lifted up them as well.

Our supply chain consists of a few rotating teams:

First, Alex takes the wheelbarrow and fills it with as many cinder blocks as he can manage to push through uneven terrain

and returns with them and unloads them in a pile at the foot of the Limoncello tree...

...Second, Luiyi mounts the cinder blocks onto the claw governed by the pulley system in 2's and...

...Next “Frijol” once given the signal (by Luiyi), walks down the stairs powering/pushing the pulley forcing/pulling the blocks up the other side...

Finally, once at the top a team off loads the blocks and gives the signal for Frijol to walk back up and prepare for another load and repeat.

It took our team days on end, on repeat to raise the materials up that mountain and the work was not only hard but tedious, BUT it could have been harder: it’s honestly amazing what one can do with a dream; a determined team/family, a godlike cousin, a lot of laughs; more sweat than is reasonable; and a pulley…

As for everything the pulley couldn’t pull: mules helped us raise the sand; heads and hands balanced 100 lb bags of cement as feet took one step at a time; concrete was mixed by hand; and 20ft pieces of rebar were lifted a few at a time and slowly but surely we completed our agreement with the stairs and the HOW became less of a worry and more of a legend.

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Frijol (The Man, The Myth, The Legend)