Quoting%20commentary for Shabbat 11:2

כֵּיצַד. שְׁתֵּי גְזֻזְטְרָאוֹת זוֹ כְנֶגֶד זוֹ בִרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים, הַמּוֹשִׁיט וְהַזּוֹרֵק מִזּוֹ לָזוֹ, פָּטוּר. הָיוּ שְׁתֵּיהֶן בִּדְיוֹטָא אַחַת, הַמּוֹשִׁיט חַיָּב, וְהַזּוֹרֵק פָּטוּר, שֶׁכָּךְ הָיְתָה עֲבוֹדַת הַלְוִיִּם, שְׁתֵּי עֲגָלוֹת זוֹ אַחַר זוֹ בִּרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים, מוֹשִׁיטִין הַקְּרָשִׁים מִזּוֹ לָזוֹ, אֲבָל לֹא זוֹרְקִין. חֻלְיַת הַבּוֹר וְהַסֶּלַע שֶׁהֵן גְּבוֹהִין עֲשָׂרָה וְרָחְבָּן אַרְבָּעָה, הַנּוֹטֵל מֵהֶן וְהַנּוֹתֵן עַל גַּבָּן, חַיָּב, פָּחוֹת מִכֵּן, פָּטוּר:

How so? [The rabbis say this.] Two gezuztraoth [boards projecting from the upper wall outwards over the public domain. The gezuztraoth themselves are private domains. And when they are one opposite the other on either side of the public domain, one who hands and throws from one to the other is exempt, for we do not find throwing and handing in the work of the sanctuary from one private domain to another with a public domain intervening.] (two gezuztraoth) one opposite the other in the public domain — if one hands or throws from one to the other, he is not liable. If they were both on one level [along the length of the public domain, the public domain intervening], the hander is liable and the thrower is not, [since he is higher than ten cubits, and we do not find throwing from one private domain to another via a public domain in the sanctuary. The hander, however, is liable, even though he hands (over the object) above ten cubits. For we find such "handing" in the sanctuary, from one private domain to another with a public domain intervening.] For thus was the work of the Levites. [They would hand from one to the other above ten cubits with a public domain intervening. How so?] Two wagons, one after the other in the public domain, and [those who took apart the tabernacle] would hand from one to the other. [They would hand to those on the wagons closest them, and they, in turn, would hand to those before them; and each of the wagons was a private domain.]; but they would not throw, [the boards not being thrown because of their weight.] The chuliah of the hole [the sand dug out of the hole. They would place it around the hole as a kind of encircling wall. We are here apprised that the hole and its chuliah combine to ten. We are taught "hole" for depth, and "rock" for height], and the rock, which are ten high and four wide — if one takes (something) from them [and places it in the public domain], or if one [takes something from the public domain and] places it on them, he is liable. If it is less than that, he is exempt.

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