How did Romans make columns in roman times Without cranes?
They simply lay the stone down, chiseled out the column, then stood it up via an A frame, however the Romans did have cranes, (not the massive things of today) but mobile wooden ones with counter weights at the back that operated on a system of pulleys (they even had cranes that operated on water)
Columns weren't one piece - they were stacked. They had cranes of a type the used human lifting power.
