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Herman,sa grange en Arkansas, et verbes

HERMAN ET SA GRANGE EN ARKANSAS

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The nails : Les clous	The beams :  Les poutres	The boards : Les planches

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In 1998, in an Arkansas village, a farmer named Herman, the owner of a sloping field located nearby a river, keeps complainingcomplainedkept complaining that his huge barn was flooded each fall. To overcome this problem, he has thought tothought ofwould thinking of dismantling his sixty-year-old barn with the help of some friends and rebuilding it on the topmost part of the ground protected from the flooding. However another extravagant solution, much cheaper than dismantling and rebuilding his old barn, suddenly had come throughcame throughcame in his mind. He thought he could lift his barn and carry it to higher grounds thanks to some friends' help. He realized that if he wanted his project to becomethat his project had to becomethat his project become a success, he would have to calculate the shortest distance between the current location of the barn and its future location. It would also beis alsowere also of the utmost importance that the weight of the barn would be estimatedbe estimatedwas estimated, that is to say, he had to know the total weight of the nails, the beams, the timbers and the boards. He mustwill havehad to figure out the number of the participants able to lift and carry about 23 kilos each and walk five minutes on 45 meters before setting the barn down at a higher place. After a few days of calculation, the estimated total weight of the barn amounted to 7 tons. So, 344 volunteers were needed and each of them would have to lift over twenty kilos. The people taking part in the operation could get a gripcould have gotten a gripwill get a grip on handles installed around the barn. This wooden barn would be reinforced inside and outside to prevent it from being destabilizedbe destabilizedto be destabilized . Herman found his volunteers among his friends and people in the surrounding villages. For him the project would coincide with the centenary of the village. Before the date of the moving attraction, Herman may registeredregisteredhad registered three hundred and forty-four volunteers. At the count of three they lift uplifted uphad lifted up the barn, walked at the same pace and set it down as if the barn weighed nothing. Thunderous applause broke out among the crowd.