Sam: yes. He explains it very clearly. As Toi said, they would make a form out of wood and fill it with whole stones. Then they would pour the cement in around it. The reason it says “a box on top of a box” is because it is physically imposible for the cement to fill all the cracks if you stack the rocks too high. So they probably poured the yesod in one shot, then worked their way up from there. And yes, zevachim will be much easier when we see it done.
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