Small ramps in green brick were doubtless built to enable building materials to be carried up to the next level, but in this new theory it is only a question of buckets of water and baskets of raw materials, and no longer blocks of stone weighing as much as to forty tons.
Pack animals were also used, in particular donkeys, and quite probably sleds. But under these conditions, the work would no longer have required a superhuman effort as the loads were quite manageable.

Herodotus states that the builders used machines built of small lengths of wood. He also says that the pyramids were built step by step. As the individual loads are relatively small, his story, that seemed highly imaginative a few moments ago, now appears quite reasonable.
Machines using counterweights, as can still be seen on the banks of the Nile today, could also have been used to raise material from level to level.