Thread Lazarus:
I helped my brother move last weekend and he has a Wall Unit thats is quite possibly the heaviest piece of furniture ever created. had to be almost one million pounds… If i had to venture a guess
[quote]BreStruction wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
Used to work in a tire yard. And a ranch, plenty of things over 500 pounds that I lifted, but I don’t usually pull out the scale to see what it weighed.[/quote]
Like what, BC?[/quote]
Pregnant sows, calves, horses, small atvs, furniture, tires, engines, equipment, &c.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]four60 wrote:
I can think of many times raw power has come in handy. But the main thing that stands out is being able to pull people soaking wet and fully clothed out of ocean. And this act was repeated many times.[/quote]
Alive or dead. [/quote]
Honestly…Both. Hatian/cuban ops. Sometimes we came across floaters. But if they were in the water to long your in no rush to grab a floating bloated 170lbs of silly puddy.
Not 500lbs, but I helped my father move an 8’ solid oak conference table a couple of weeks ago. That bitch was HEAVY.
My brother’s best friend once lifted a Triumph Spitfire off my leg when it slipped off a jack. He was SO hot.
When I was in my late 20’s I was a commercial electrician (back in my prime when I was playing rugby and on AAS). I set a light pole by myself on a pedestrian bridge because the logistics of getting a crane back there would have put the job in the hole, so I became the crane. It was ~500 lbs and I had to lift it over a railing and onto a small ledge and NOT drop it off the bridge. I used to set Transformers, Switchgear, Generators and other heavy equipment (several tons) all the time using steel bars, rollers, come-alongs, and whatever else I could figure out how to use in order to rig it safely.
The worst time (most physically demanding, I should say) was on the Washington Monument job back in '97, I think. I was still an apprentice and I had to carry about 40 bundles of rigid metal conduit on my shoulder to the TOP of the fucking Washington Monument. Each bundle is about 150 lbs. There are 50 flights (998 steps). That was fucking hard.
[quote]four60 wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]four60 wrote:
I can think of many times raw power has come in handy. But the main thing that stands out is being able to pull people soaking wet and fully clothed out of ocean. And this act was repeated many times.[/quote]
Alive or dead. [/quote]
Honestly…Both. Hatian/cuban ops. Sometimes we came across floaters. But if they were in the water to long your in no rush to grab a floating bloated 170lbs of silly puddy.[/quote]
Always amazed me the difference in the weight of a dead body compared to an alive person. Besides people with major burns, floaters are the second worst smelling dead people.
Where is the guy who ripped the stop sign out of the ground when you need him.
i use it mainly in hunting season as the main place i hunt doesnt allow atvs so i have to drag what i get out, usually a few miles to my truck. also as has been mentioned, ive had to move dead 4wheelers around several times.
I once had to carry 4 10 gallon jugs of gas, strapped to a pole, two on each side, across my back through 10 miles of desert. I was moving so fast I luckily caught up to my prisoner who was trying to escape and I made him carry it the rest of the way. Then after refueling the Mack truck I had to drive it through a pack a murderous marauders to get back to the compound.
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[quote]on edge wrote:
I once had to carry 4 10 gallon jugs of gas, strapped to a pole, two on each side, across my back through 10 miles of desert. I was moving so fast I luckily caught up to my prisoner who was trying to escape and I made him carry it the rest of the way. Then after refueling the Mack truck I had to drive it through a pack a murderous marauders to get back to the compound.[/quote]
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
I once had to carry 4 10 gallon jugs of gas, strapped to a pole, two on each side, across my back through 10 miles of desert. I was moving so fast I luckily caught up to my prisoner who was trying to escape and I made him carry it the rest of the way. Then after refueling the Mack truck I had to drive it through a pack a murderous marauders to get back to the compound.[/quote]
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Gold star!
[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
I once had to carry 4 10 gallon jugs of gas, strapped to a pole, two on each side, across my back through 10 miles of desert. I was moving so fast I luckily caught up to my prisoner who was trying to escape and I made him carry it the rest of the way. Then after refueling the Mack truck I had to drive it through a pack a murderous marauders to get back to the compound.[/quote]
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Gold star![/quote]
N-ice!
I pulled a door out of the hinges once. But it was an really, really old door and it was falling apart. Let me see what else… I lifted Atlas Stones of different poundages, does that count ?
I omce ripped a 10ft roadsign out of the ground (concrete and tarmac) when I was coming home drunk.
Some douchebag parked (the equivalent of a Geo Metro) front end facing in on the side of a small street blocking an ambulance from getting by. A friend and I lifted the rear end and dragged it out of the way. Certainly not a great feat but I thought it was a pretty heroic use of strength.
i clean and jerked a car to save an old lady.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
I cleaned an old lady’s car and then she jerked me off…[/quote]
I fixed that for you. Wait… maybe that was me.
Either way, the sponge I used was pretty heavy when wet.
I haven’t slept in a long time.
[quote]MassiveGuns wrote:
I omce ripped a 10ft roadsign out of the ground (concrete and tarmac) when I was coming home drunk. [/quote]
I beat you to this look about 4 posts up from yours. Or if you really are that guy, God help you.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]four60 wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]four60 wrote:
I can think of many times raw power has come in handy. But the main thing that stands out is being able to pull people soaking wet and fully clothed out of ocean. And this act was repeated many times.[/quote]
Alive or dead. [/quote]
Honestly…Both. Hatian/cuban ops. Sometimes we came across floaters. But if they were in the water to long your in no rush to grab a floating bloated 170lbs of silly puddy.[/quote]
Always amazed me the difference in the weight of a dead body compared to an alive person. Besides people with major burns, floaters are the second worst smelling dead people. [/quote]if
If floaters are the second worst I pray I never smell the first.