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I used to work on a farm and we had fertilizer delivered in 50kg bags, near broke me unloading 20 tons of that, the scary thing was the woman trucker who shifted all of it on her own on the truck, i just staggered from the truck to the shed. She had Diesel Queen painted on the front of the lorry and came from Monmouth if I remember right.
Those bricks are probably just under 2kg each.
So that's around 85kg, including the hod.
100kg in a sack on the shoulders off a lorry bed is believable.
After all, even a pale skinny vegan can carry 75kg in each hand. 😉
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You'd be surprised what the human muscular skeletal system can do.
I've no problem believing the OP
This guy will be carrying somewhere in the region of 120kgThat's mental. He's not doing that all day long though, is he? Just once every whatever. Still nuts mind. Sure that isn't just staged for the camera, and he'd only be carrying half that?
I'm guessing you've never had a job labouring
I'm guessing you've never had a job labouring
Funny that was my first thought too.
No. Have you? Closest I've ever bin is working in a yard shifting Calor gas bottles onto and off a conveyor belt. Empties on, not too bad. Full ones off, different story. Proper knackering.
Then some massive bloke comes up, lifts one of those 5' ones, full, above his head. Puts it down, laughs at us feeble runts, then walks away.
After all, even a pale skinny vegan can carry 75kg in each hand.
In fairness, you're hardly 'skinny'. Actually, quite a world away from it. An entire solar system in fact. No, a gala... oh sorry. 😳
You'd be surprised what the human muscular skeletal system can do.I've no problem believing the OP
No problem believing that bloke could lift 100kg, when he was young and fit, but not all day long. So, what, big hefty bayg, up off floor, onto shoulders, onto lorry? All day long? Bollocks.
We need a 'STW's Strongest Man' (and bird, no need for sexism of course) competition. Who will win??!
Be funny to see all the 'big strong blokes' come up with excuses why they can't enter...
A lot of it's technique.
I used to fling hay bales about for a couple of summers as a 17 year old. They were at ground level but had two strings to grab onto. After a few days it became doable all day.. I just got the hang of it.
We need a 'STW's Stongest Man'
I just ordered a 24kg kettlebell 🙂
What are you going to do with that, Mol? Use it as a doorstop?
you got mighty purty soft hands there elfin....
Mind you, if you weren't so prejudiced about the rural way of life you might have been more ready to believe that someone is able to heft 100Kg+ around all day. Used to regularly move that kind of weight around, and as above throwing bales can be tricky before you've got the knack and muscle strength up.
One guy I worked with used to be able throw a bale all the way over a lorry load.
Lift it up, swing it around and about a bit and admire my muscles in the mirror 🙂
+1 Stoner. In a busy rural pub the farmer types are the ones who look like tubby old men but bumping into one is like bouncing off a stone pillar.
[i]"We need a 'STW's Strongest Man' (and bird, no need for sexism of course) competition."[/i]
I'm up for it. 😀
How are we going to do this then? At Big Bike Bash?
if you weren't so prejudiced about the rural way of life you might have been more ready to believe that someone is able to heft 100Kg+ around all day
Not someone as small and skinny as that bloke in the pic. It's a tale that's bin embellished somewhat.
Used to regularly move that kind of weight around
Course you did mate, course you did. 😉 The most weight you shift is your gut...
There's a big difference between lifting large weights for short periods of time, and doing the same constantly.
I used to be able to do one-arm pull ups. Looked impressive, but I only weighed just over eight stone! 😀
No. Have you?
Calm down love. And yes I have, not for about 20 years though, it would kill me now.
Thing is, it's totally possible to lift heavy stuff all day long every day. You just need a good technique that protects your muscles and most important of all you need to stick to it. For every bloody single lift. Every single one.
People permanently alter their bodies carrying heavy stuff, there was a BBC doc on this stuff not too long ago, chaps carrying massive pieces of sulphur on their backs etc. Marvellous thing the human body.
Und bend zee knees!
Molly... aren't you trying to lose weight?
How are we going to do this then? At Big Bike Bash?
Great call Mol. I'll let WCA know. Hmm, actually...
I'd seriously like to see some of thiise tough guys on here put their money where their mouths are. Seriously.
I reckon MTQG isn't bluffing, but he's the only one provided any evidence so far.
if you weren't so prejudiced about the rural way of life
I still know bullshit when I smell it, Stoner...
Yossarian - there was something about tennis players too, altering one of their shoulders.
My Mum has a knackered back and always bends over to pick stuff up with completely straight legs. I keep trying to explain to her...
I'd fancy my chances as as a strong man in my weight category.. 🙂
Molly... aren't you trying to lose weight?
Yeah, I don't reckon 24kg is enough to bulk me up.
Thing is, it's totally possible to lift heavy stuff all day long every day
Not disputing that. I've seen fellers on sites lift ridiculous amounts.
Not 100kg a time though. Not all day. You'd be dead inside a week.
I remember seeing a smallish feller hoick a scaffold pole onto his shoulder, then off onto a site. I tried it once, Jesus H Christ. Nearly shat meself with the exertion. 😳
What weight bell have you been using? What exercises?
the downside is that yes people can and do lift weights around and can do seamingly allday but as they get older they end up crippled
I got 12kg to start with, doesn't really do anything. I tied two together and it felt like a pretty good weight but was too awkward a size to get the right posture. Hence 24 🙂
bale chucking = tape around fingers
or the polished underside of your knuckles timber 😉
I've got more photo evidence if you want it.
I wasn't planning on going to BBB as it's 160 miles for me.
A mountain biker weight lifting contest might tempt me though.
I can bring the weights.
Not disputing that. I've seen fellers on sites lift ridiculous amounts.
Not 100kg a time though. Not all day. You'd be dead inside a week.
It's not weight that's the problem, its the force required to move it plus the torsional stresses. As said previously, someone with muscles developed to do the task plus a bit of knowledge and a bit of discipline...
If you're doing 20 reps of turkish get ups with 24kg I salute you!
Edit: Everyone else... take a look at videos of scaffolders playing around on youtube.
I just wonder if it being an old photo, what you thought said 'Jimmy Slik picking up 2 cwts' might have been something else, sometimes handwriting is hard to decipher
Turkish get-up? 😕
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I've worked with farmers built like beanpoles who could easy move that sort of weight on a regular basis. Bulk is not strength. Of course, these are country folk, not cockneys who are genetically weaker.
Of course, these are country folk, not cockneys who are genetically w**ker.
Of course, these are country folk, not cockneys who are genitally w**kers.
Workers ?
Some skinny blokes don't even need a hod
I've worked with farmers built like beanpoles who could easy move that sort of weight on a regular basis.
No you jolly well have not! Not 100 [b]KILOGRAMS[/b].
100lbs, yeah, easy. I could carry that. 100 Kg is a different matter.
As no-one has actually provided any [i]proof[/i] of such claims, instead resorting to pathetic attempts to insult people from London, I'll consider this matter done.
STW Strongest Mayn; Are you tough enough? MTQG is up for it, are you?
How are we going to do this then?
Elf flinging contest?
No good, I weigh far too little. Got to be someone who weighs 100kg.
No, I'm serious. If people really think such feats are easy, then they can come and prove so.
Easy to say stuff on tinternet, but not so easy to prove it in real life.
they been doing that daily since they left school, its conditioning. We are weedy girls compared to your average 18th century labourer. I call it progress.
As no-one has actually provided any proof of such claims, instead resorting to pathetic attempts to insult people from London, I'll consider this matter done.
Well, I think you've provided proof of some of the claims about people from London
Edit: Everyone else... take a look at videos of scaffolders playing around on youtube
Got the builders in at work. One of the bricklayers is around 16st, spends a lot of time at he gym lifting pretty big things, likes to think he's fairly tough. Got into an arguement with a scaffholder who just lifted him up above his head, and put him in a skip. Been a bit quieter since.
Personally, I can manage squats with 50kg, 25kg each hand, with which my team-mate can do arm-curls with seemingly no effort at all...
I have no upper body strength but am quite happy to enter this STW strongest man thingy if I'm allowed to do leg-presses 😉
Well, I think you've provided proof of some of the claims about people from London
Oh really, what's that then, Mung Bean? Hmm? Come on, enlighten me.
This has descended into the usual 'I can't beat Elf in an argument (cos he's right, basically), so in frustration I'll resort to attempting to insult him'.
Amuses me, but a bit of a waste of energy, don't you think? I mean, you could use that energy to lift 100kg sacks all day... 😉
I reckon the truth here is that that little bloke might possibly have bin able to lift the odd 100kg sack, and then Chinese Whispers turned it into 'ooh he can do it all day long'.
An amusing and entertaining tale. Nothing more.
'I can't beat Elf in an argument (cos he's right, basically), so in frustration I'll resort to attempting to insult him'.
😆 You really think that's why we do it? That's hilarious!
Erm, it is, actually, Mung Bean. And you know I'm right.
It's ok, I'm not really all that bothered by it tbh. I don't take it seriously. In fact I find it fascinating, studying other's behaviour.
It's bin entertaining, this thread. Bit tired now so shh, sleepy time.
No. Have you?
Yup ok not as full on as a brickies mate but I regularly lift heavy loads in a many an awkward position. We have a lot more equipment then we use to and have a minimal lifting policy but it still has to be done pretty often due to constraints.
lets do this scientifically:
Poulsen E, Jørgensen K. Back muscle strength, lifting, and stooped working postures. Applied Ergonomics1971;2(3):133-7.
70kg men regularly lift 120kg loads.
in the early 70's