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But when he retired in 1999, the Lapeer County father of nine and grandfather of 27 had one more building mystery that he was determined to solve. Today, he admits, his pursuit of the issue sounds more than a little obsessive. Yet after five years of experimentation, he's convinced he has solved it. And it's all chronicled for us on a Web site that has made him the object of a Discovery Channel TV special and a worldwide celebrity of sorts. The mystery concerns megaliths. Mega whats, you ask? Megaliths are what archeologists call the ancient formations and edifices, like the pyramids and Stonehenge, made from huge stones and rocks by long-extinct civilizations. Wallington, 58, is so enthralled by them that he's building a replica of the 4,000-year-old Stonehenge in the backyard of his home out in the country near the Genesee County line. And he's doing it like he's convinced the ancients did it, manipulating huge weights without hoisting them. Instead, he's using crude wooden tools and leverage to single-handedly move 10,000-pound cement blocks without wheels, rollers, ropes or pulleys. You can see it on the Web site his son-in-law made for him called the Forgotten Technology (www.theforgottentechnology.com ). The Web site documents it all, in still pictures and streaming video. He's even selling a DVD of his work. "At first, nobody believed them when I told them what I could do," he said. "So I got a camcorder, set it up on a tripod and took video of everything." What Wallington learned was that the ancients were a lot smarter than we thought. "This really is forgotten technology," he says. "It's based on common sense, gravity and leverage." Wallington doesn't lift the massive blocks. Instead, he uses the mass of the object to create inertia and move the weight. He wedges a stone or a stick under the stone and rocks it back and forth, "spinning it," as he says. Think of a big teeter-totter; it's the same principle. Wallington says he can move a 2,000-pound block 300 feet an hour himself. The Web site has attracted physicists and Egyptologists, who have contacted Wallington to voice appreciation for his work. "They used to think that all of these megaliths were done at the same time by one incredibly advanced civilization that developed this special technology that was lost when that civilization died," he says. "They used to think that it took thousands of people to build these things. My work has pretty much changed their thinking." Last year, he tried his techniques on a 30-by-40-foot barn, moving it 300 feet in just a few hours. "People have looked at the pyramids and marveled how they were made," he says. "They've even suggested that extraterrestrials were involved. But I'm sure ET didn't have anything to do with ancient construction, just skilled individuals who used balance and the laws of physics." Wallington has submitted his work to the Guinness Book of World Records to claim credit for moving more weight than anyone else. "They told me they had no category for my area," he says. Undaunted, he's moving forward, moving even heavier blocks. After he completes Stonehenge, maybe he'll build the Great Pyramid of Lapeer County. /Contact MIKE WENDLAND at 313-222-8861 or mwendland at freepress.com ./ Related stories > # Today's picks and clicks <../../money/tech/techpicks26e_20050526.htm> ADVERTISE Place a Classified Ad How to Advertise CLASSIFIEDS Find a Home Find an Apartment Vacation Properties Boats, Motorcycles, RVs Cars.com New & Used Cars & Trucks miCareerBuilder SHOPPING ADVERTISEMENT Click here for Free Press Photos SUBSCRIPTION CENTER Subscribe! 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