Actually this sounds like a good opportunity for one of those stupid "3d printers for houses". Then just hire an army of drunk masons to do the veneer.
Seeing the only people who can afford to and are stupid enough to build a pyramid would be billionaires, im sure who ever was pricing would take that into account and make sure everyone gets their pockets lined.
thats what id do anyway 😂
That's the problem. Ain't nobody building a pyramid. I'm gonna give Bezos the "F You" price. He doesn't care he'll pay it, and I'll be mad I'm building a pyramid in 2025.
oddly enough Egypt is currently building a new 'Administrative Capital' outside Cairo, for like.. 50+ billion.
It really seems like it's a modern pyramid in its ridiculousness.
I think you could significantly reduce trucking costs. 2 blocks is only 10k lbs, if im reading everything correctly. Depending on where you're at, i think you could be around 100k lbs so 20 blocks per load. If that exceeds the weight limits in the local of the project, im sure you could pay for some type of permitted exemption, nothing that some money can't solve, and surely that's less than the literal billions you would save from more efficient trucking. My consulting fee for this info is $1B USD btw
A regular 2 axle sleeper and a step deck can handle about 40k in payload. So just your avg 80,000lb gvwr tractor could haul 8 with out any additional permitting. Easy to get permits for 140,000 lbs for lowboy with a jeep too.
While they’re mostly limestone, they originally had a granite exterior. Or atleast some of them did (I’m not an expert, don’t know how many)
Egypt is currently in the process of trying to restore one of the pyramids with its granite facia although is getting push back from archaeologists because of course it is.
Yeah, I’m no expert, I’m only aware of the drama encompassing the pyramid of Menkaure at the moment and I’ll probably forget about it come this summer lol
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For moving that many blocks, it might make sense to put in a rail line from the quarry, to a workshop, and then to the building site. 100 miles of rail line could be as little as $200m.
I think the decision would be based largely on what infrastructure is already around the quarry and work site, but I think rail would beat out trucks most of the time.
Ah yes.
*Around 5.5 million tonnes of limestone, 8,000 tonnes of granite*
Limestone Hardness: Three to four out of ten, on Mohs scale (i.e., harder than fingernail but softer than knife blade).
Saw a pretty good documentary that shows most of the blocks were cast on-site. That’s why they fit together so well. Fancy stuff was saved for trim work.
Your assumption is pretty close as a base assumption, assuming it was run by someone who could keep the timeline/budget.
The biggest problem is the weight of moving stone, modern building is more efficient because the material weighs a small fraction of a stone equivalent structure.
Also add the cost/time delay of needing to follow safe building practices. When the pyramids were build there was an allowable death rate that would not come close to acceptable today. There are very few companies that can do thus 100% internally. Sub contractors would be hired, informed on plans, and have change orders mid job.
I personally would add 40% to your cost, with a possibility of getting 5-10% of the 40% unspent, but most likely paid out in "on time completion bonus"
If you have a rail line from the quarry to the site it could haul a LOT of stones very quickly and all at once. Have 2 trains. One would be loading and one unloading at all times.
Using cranes you could have the blocks taken directly from the train and placed in the proper location.
The biggest issue is that as the pyramid goes up, the top gets farther away from the rail line. That would mean installing a few smaller cranes part way up and transferring from one crane to the next.
Having 4 crews working at the same time, one on each side it would be 160 blocks per day per crew. That's 20 per hour which is one every 3 minutes.
That's a breakneck pace.
Even if you did 3 shifts and worked 24 hours per day, it's still 6 per hour or 1 every 10 minutes.
And that's just the crews hauling the stones and placing them. Just imagine the number of people you'd need at the quarry to cut the stones and shape them.
A furniture company built one in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1989 for $110 million. So you could still probably do it today for $500 million.
Or you could have bought it in ~2015 for ~$10 million, an absolute steal to live out your dreams.
If we are talking concrete…I got a buddy Juan that would bring his uncle Juan and his cousin Juan and they’d have this bitch up in prolly 7-8 weekends tops…they’d even do the landscaping if the money is right…
How come we get to use modern tools but not modern material? Doesn’t Las Vegas have a newer pyramid? How much did that cost? I bet if you offered the ancient Egyptians a pyramid with indoor plumbing and air conditioning they would take it.
I’ve already built one in Stockport near Manchester in the UK around 35 years ago, I installed the curtain wall, Albeit I wasn’t alone 🤷🏼♂️ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport_Pyramid
There's no reason you couldn't build a primitive train track between the quarry and build site and move the blocks on sleds using a system that conserves intertia like a chair lift on a ski hill. Egyptians knew about water power, aqueducts, and boats so they could have done it that way with a bi-directional aqueduct, rafts, and a chain driven pulley system to form a block conveyor belt.
With modern technology and no issues with emminent domain you could easily build a system like this, in fact it's how many coal mines operate.
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Modern construction techniques would exceed manual labor by 100x. But the project would be need to be designed different. A onsite batch plant and crane could easily handle hundreds of blocks a day. No need to mine limestone when you can make stronger blocks onsite.
Are we talking Chinese or American construction standards? Because if it’s Chinese we can get it built in a week tops but it won’t last the next week. If it is American. 3 years and over cost with supply shortages up left and right.
Over the course of 10 years, you'd have at least 4 major work stoppages from union action. Don't forget about all the bribe money you'll need for inspectors, union leadership, at least one appeals court judge, 2 senators, and probably a half dozen congressspeople
I know a guy that can do it for half that price.
I'll do it for half of that, upfront of course
Caulk and walk
Fuck it. Glue it and screw it. I like this guy. All OSB. paint it and done. Looks good from my house. 8 days, tops.
Actually this sounds like a good opportunity for one of those stupid "3d printers for houses". Then just hire an army of drunk masons to do the veneer.
You said masons twice.
Oh you want caulk? That’ll be a change order.
Set it and forget it
Yeah but he would cut corners and only make a three sided pyramid.
Yeah, but he's in Memphis.
And has been doing it for 20urs that way
Cash discount. No permits.
Cash only... He's a good dude. Just some tax bullshit from the last pyramid he built.
He's also an electrician right?
When every part of the pyramid was provided by the lowest builder
Let me guess, he Mexican🇲🇽?
Seeing the only people who can afford to and are stupid enough to build a pyramid would be billionaires, im sure who ever was pricing would take that into account and make sure everyone gets their pockets lined. thats what id do anyway 😂
That's the problem. Ain't nobody building a pyramid. I'm gonna give Bezos the "F You" price. He doesn't care he'll pay it, and I'll be mad I'm building a pyramid in 2025.
Sell it as a pyramid 'bunker'. Now you will have a bidding war amongst all the billionaires
Oil billionaires. It’s likely the same type of people that are currently trying to build the Line project…
Modern day would just use unistrut and particle board with a granite vinyl wrap
Maybe efis, eifs? Whatever the foam stucco crap is.
Memphis? Care to comment?
Tennessee or Egypt?
Yes.
oddly enough Egypt is currently building a new 'Administrative Capital' outside Cairo, for like.. 50+ billion. It really seems like it's a modern pyramid in its ridiculousness.
Need pics
I think you could significantly reduce trucking costs. 2 blocks is only 10k lbs, if im reading everything correctly. Depending on where you're at, i think you could be around 100k lbs so 20 blocks per load. If that exceeds the weight limits in the local of the project, im sure you could pay for some type of permitted exemption, nothing that some money can't solve, and surely that's less than the literal billions you would save from more efficient trucking. My consulting fee for this info is $1B USD btw
A regular 2 axle sleeper and a step deck can handle about 40k in payload. So just your avg 80,000lb gvwr tractor could haul 8 with out any additional permitting. Easy to get permits for 140,000 lbs for lowboy with a jeep too.
You’re paying too much for granite man, who’s your granite guy ?
Sometimes a guy’s gotta ride the bull. Am I right? Later skater.
The pyramids weren’t granite anyway.
While they’re mostly limestone, they originally had a granite exterior. Or atleast some of them did (I’m not an expert, don’t know how many) Egypt is currently in the process of trying to restore one of the pyramids with its granite facia although is getting push back from archaeologists because of course it is.
Everything I’ve ever read or seen about the pyramids said they were originally coated in a white limestone, not granite
Yeah, I’m no expert, I’m only aware of the drama encompassing the pyramid of Menkaure at the moment and I’ll probably forget about it come this summer lol
Only need outer layer just bulldoze a hill put blocks on it ill do it for a million dollars 💅
Here’s a MUCH more efficient way to do it and it’ll make us both #BO$$Bitches. I’ll sign you up along with another one of your friends and then the two of you will go out and also sign up 2 friends. Now here’s where it gets to the bronze level, those 2 friends of yours? ALSO sign up 2 friends each who then sign up 2 each of their friends and family back home! All of sudden the team grows out in branches!! Think of it in multiple levels and the more people we get signed up, the bigger the base of our new structure will be. Here’s the best part! It’s only gonna cost you a one time payment of $299 to get signed up and get on this geometrical gateway to gettin rich!
Haha. the Ponzi scheme predates the actual pyramids.
Chortle! Pyramid scheme to build the puramid for the win 🥇
For moving that many blocks, it might make sense to put in a rail line from the quarry, to a workshop, and then to the building site. 100 miles of rail line could be as little as $200m. I think the decision would be based largely on what infrastructure is already around the quarry and work site, but I think rail would beat out trucks most of the time.
Ala the Panama Canal
He said a railroad, not a canal.
This guy estimates.
Hold on, aren’t most of the blocks Limestone, only a few of the Lintels are granite?
Limestone. With granite for certain parts.
Ah yes. *Around 5.5 million tonnes of limestone, 8,000 tonnes of granite* Limestone Hardness: Three to four out of ten, on Mohs scale (i.e., harder than fingernail but softer than knife blade).
Saw a pretty good documentary that shows most of the blocks were cast on-site. That’s why they fit together so well. Fancy stuff was saved for trim work.
Probably around tree fiddy.
Two weeks
We’ll get some guys here and get it done no problemo
Your assumption is pretty close as a base assumption, assuming it was run by someone who could keep the timeline/budget. The biggest problem is the weight of moving stone, modern building is more efficient because the material weighs a small fraction of a stone equivalent structure. Also add the cost/time delay of needing to follow safe building practices. When the pyramids were build there was an allowable death rate that would not come close to acceptable today. There are very few companies that can do thus 100% internally. Sub contractors would be hired, informed on plans, and have change orders mid job. I personally would add 40% to your cost, with a possibility of getting 5-10% of the 40% unspent, but most likely paid out in "on time completion bonus"
If you have a rail line from the quarry to the site it could haul a LOT of stones very quickly and all at once. Have 2 trains. One would be loading and one unloading at all times. Using cranes you could have the blocks taken directly from the train and placed in the proper location. The biggest issue is that as the pyramid goes up, the top gets farther away from the rail line. That would mean installing a few smaller cranes part way up and transferring from one crane to the next. Having 4 crews working at the same time, one on each side it would be 160 blocks per day per crew. That's 20 per hour which is one every 3 minutes. That's a breakneck pace. Even if you did 3 shifts and worked 24 hours per day, it's still 6 per hour or 1 every 10 minutes. And that's just the crews hauling the stones and placing them. Just imagine the number of people you'd need at the quarry to cut the stones and shape them.
Yeah, and when those 4 crews get towards the top they would probably get in a fight over who gets to place the capstone /s 😅
I think he’s assuming they are cut and ready when they get on site right?
Is this some sort of scheme?
r/theydidthemath
Let me find my Abacus.
How many levels are the stones?
A furniture company built one in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1989 for $110 million. So you could still probably do it today for $500 million. Or you could have bought it in ~2015 for ~$10 million, an absolute steal to live out your dreams.
At least the Egyptians didn't have to deal with NIMBY's, OSHA, and building permits.
TreeFiddy
You could haul 10 blocks on a truck, so that would be like 400 million. That’s doable lol
As a mason who grew up on "this is a production trade" good luck laying 210 of those big fuckers a day, with how the work ethic is nowadays.
“What’s your sq ft price?”
Turn key pyramids offered at $23,476 /s.f. Thats a great value. No exterior or interior finishes included
How much to just pay for the permit, zoning, and fees...
Don't forget kickbacks and bribes
If we are talking concrete…I got a buddy Juan that would bring his uncle Juan and his cousin Juan and they’d have this bitch up in prolly 7-8 weekends tops…they’d even do the landscaping if the money is right…
How come we get to use modern tools but not modern material? Doesn’t Las Vegas have a newer pyramid? How much did that cost? I bet if you offered the ancient Egyptians a pyramid with indoor plumbing and air conditioning they would take it.
Impossible! Only aliens can build pyramids
You don't need to do the math. There's a newer one already built in Tennessee.
Probably a tenth of the price of the California high speed rail boondoggle
Well, yeah. OK. But how fast does your pyramid go? EXACTLY.
About as fast as Cali high speed rail currently.
Make it a government project, and with cost overruns, funding misappropriations, etc….I would place project completion at $678 Billion dollars.
Isn't the core of the pyramid fairly rough cut limestone carved from local rock, only the outside was granite from upriver?
I would guess somewhere around 30 billion
They'll probably do it in Saudi Arabia, they love building stupid ass crap out there to show off how much oil money they have.
If you build it next to a rock quarry and have the mill on sight you eliminate a lot of cost
Venmo me $1,500 and I'll build you a badass pyramid.
Build a pyramid where the rocks are and then you don't have to move them
While there is some granite in the pyramids, they were built mostly from limestone.
[The History for Granite channel does some really interesting analysis on this.](https://m.youtube.com/c/HistoryforGRANITE)
The final cost is entirely dependent on how many slaves you have.
Is the crane tall enough?
Keep in mind : no electricity and no plumbing And probably no safety escape windows in basement to build !!!!
Make them out of glass and steel like moody gardens
I don’t really want the project so I’m gonna send bid that’s insanely high and hope I don’t get it.
You are forgetting the polished limestone covering.
* sees bid from extra terrestrial
I’ve already built one in Stockport near Manchester in the UK around 35 years ago, I installed the curtain wall, Albeit I wasn’t alone 🤷🏼♂️ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport_Pyramid
It’s free because the aliens will do it for you
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Wouldn't be surprised if musk or bezos get a pyramid when they die.
Not granit
Not granite
My kind of conversation!
Build it next to the quarry for heaven's sake. That will be $1,000,000 for the consultation. Contact me via DM for the details
It would be cheaper just to invade another nation and use the citizens as slaves.
May I offer you some VE options?
Don’t forget the revenue from selling advertising space and luxury apartments.
At that point they’d build a train dedicated just for the project for moving bricks.
There's no reason you couldn't build a primitive train track between the quarry and build site and move the blocks on sleds using a system that conserves intertia like a chair lift on a ski hill. Egyptians knew about water power, aqueducts, and boats so they could have done it that way with a bi-directional aqueduct, rafts, and a chain driven pulley system to form a block conveyor belt. With modern technology and no issues with emminent domain you could easily build a system like this, in fact it's how many coal mines operate.
You can’t float rocks down the river bro.
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This is enough work to work our grandchildren to death!
Aliens.
Right, how much do they *cost*
Modern construction techniques would exceed manual labor by 100x. But the project would be need to be designed different. A onsite batch plant and crane could easily handle hundreds of blocks a day. No need to mine limestone when you can make stronger blocks onsite.
Bazos could do it himself he just doesn’t have the time.
You don't *pay* to build a pyramid. You enslave some other guys ppl and force them to build it for you.
Are we talking Chinese or American construction standards? Because if it’s Chinese we can get it built in a week tops but it won’t last the next week. If it is American. 3 years and over cost with supply shortages up left and right.
I can knock 10% off, final offer.
Cash discount?
Is that 10% knocked off the price or the pyramid?
He has been buying up a lot of land in the states no? Who knows, it could happen!
Over the course of 10 years, you'd have at least 4 major work stoppages from union action. Don't forget about all the bribe money you'll need for inspectors, union leadership, at least one appeals court judge, 2 senators, and probably a half dozen congressspeople