Build the Pyramid

[Asmodean]

[Right-wing The Asmo]Damn right! Them illegals from Egyptland, they was. [/RWTA]

[Old Seer]

The devise is referred to as a "djed pillar", which seems to me to be a wine press of some type rather than a force multiplier. The lower part would make a very poor bearing as perpendicular force would tend to move the pillar up out of the base. The pillar would make a better axial means if it were same as top bearing.