What's the heaviest thing you've loaded by hand?

we used to know a guy who SWORE he put his 390 in his 54 ford with a SWINGSET...no one believed him and a good laugh was had by all
creepy

 

Last week I moved a refrigerator up to a second floor apartment by hand. (I forgot to take my dolly to work that day.) I set one edge on the step and set the other edge on one knee. Then I tilted the weight of it back on my knee and caught the next step. I rocked it back and forth like that until I made it up the stairs. I'd like to say never again I'm probably not that smart.

 

Since my back surgery? Maybe a couple of wheels... WITH tires...

Ben

 

I have loadeda bare 454 block in to a ranger before. I also have loaded the plow from this truck in to the bed of the truck. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dr_amx/detail?.dir=9bfd&.dnm=3589.jpg&.src=ph

 

A friend of mine (crazy bastard) loaded his GS1000 Suzuki AND sidecar into a 4 foot long box trailer. It was stuck in gear too and at the side of the Motorway, in heavy traffic.
Loony.

Me? ooh, lets see. Fetched a 302 I found behind someones house (they,d moved out!) in a wheelbarrow. Loaded a Perkins 6 cylinder diesel engine into a truck with no lift,no jacks,no nothing but hands. That hurt. Moved a complete 36 truck front end from the back of a station wagon into the workshop and spent the rest of last weekend bombed out on Ibruprofen and beer. Still hurts, think I,ve trapped a nerve at the base of my spine. Owwwwww.

 

I'm pushing 60, so just lifting my ass outa bed in the morning can be pretty rough....

 

350 shortblock into my trunk, fj1200 motor complete, we slid the 235 with trans from one bed to the other, damn near went through my brothers s10 bed.

 

ive removed and put on my roadster bodies quite a few times by myself
carried a banjo rear across the garage and lifted an A motor (minus head) into a roller cart to move it around a few times. also53 merc complete motor over a 4 inch step on a cart (lifting each end) plus a ton more stuff
im only 24 and im sure this is why my back hurts but no one is around durring the days when im working so you gotta do what you gotta do
this old ford junk is heavy!

zach

 

Do landsape rocks count?
I had a bulldozer load one onto my trailer, then jacked the front of the trailer WAY up in the air, slicked the deck down with a bottle of dishsoap and water, and started to slide it off with a 8-foot prybar. Or that was the plan.
The 'dozer loader and I grossly underestimated the weight of the rock. We guessed it to be about 1000 pounds...the trailer and my Dakota behaved like it was closer to 6000 pounds. It was heavier than my '54 Buick. Mayhem ensued. At one point the trailer started rolling away, toward the big freakin' ravine next to my house. It got hung up on a 6x6 block of wood. A neighbor with a diesel Ram pulled the trailer back, then pulled the rock off.
A few months later I found another pair of rocks: these actually were about 1000 pounds and 4-500 pounds. I did get those off the trailer alone, and placed where I wanted them.
-Brad

 

Brother gave me a pre-War (I mean the FIRST one!) metal lathe, but I had to load and unload it myself. I was a weightlifter/FB player in HS, but that was too long ago so I used brains as much as brawn.

Talking about engines -- we used 800 cid Minneapolis-Moline engines on our irrigation wells. Those suckers were 5' tall and 6' long. Just the crank was a enough to make me grunt!

 

well,
lets see:
the last heavy thing i loaded was my 31 tudor body up onto the frame by myself on friday last week.

but by far the heaviest gawddamn thing was a dodge 360 block for my dads old truck .. 4 guys .. MASSIVE iron engine.. complete .. hang-ons and all.. into the back end of my 12" lifted cherokee..
never EVER bring a lifted truck to a movin party
what a buncha fools we was.

 

440 Chrysler complete on the $40 all you can haul day at the wrecking yard. As much as you can carry out in one load - $40.

Cut the front of the car apart, then lifted out the engine. Then carried it the 100 yards to the main building. Then through the building to my minivan. Then lifted it into the van. My girlfriend carried the tools.

I could only carry it about 25 feet at a time before putting it down. And they made you carry it through the building, through a turnstile, and out.

They all just sat and watched and never said a word. Dead silent. They did say something when I went back to get the transmission....

I think I about killed myself doing that.

 

I loaded to flathead blocks into my truckbed and out of with one other person to help.

 

Sincer the double hernia operation I don't do this kinda crap anymore. Heavy stuff is why God invented cherry pickers and dollies...

I'm healed now and I plan to stay that way, thank you very much!

 

Me and a large freind of mine loaded a 318 complete (carb to pan flywheel to fan) in the back of his 4x4 Dodge.

I ain't strong just stupid.

 

I use to race off-road with this guy, who not only claimed to be a state champ arm wrestler(at 180 lbs and 6'3"), BUT he would always tell me how when he was younger he would lift a SBC into the trunk of a car, drive the the wash it yourself car wash, lift it out, pressure wash it clean, and then put it back in the trunk.......by himself. His concept of weight reflects his concept of time, money, gas milage, women, speed, HP and everything else you can imagine. He swears up and down its true, so dont tell him otherwise. I didnt want to question him too much, cause he would probably kill himself proving me wrong..

 

About 3 months ago I sold a 390 FE and the guy brought his two sons along and they didn't look big enough to hold a drink of water. This engine had the clutch and bell housing on it and the three of them dead lifted it into the back of a 1968 or 69 Dodge Power Wagon. I didn't even offer to help. I just stood there and grunted and ached all over for them. Gumpa

 

The 440 was heavy enough I will never do it again.

I wouldn't even try it with a ford FE....those mofos are HEAVY.

 

Some of these are really fuckin' funny. I 'bout pissed myself a couple times. And some of you guys are downright stupid!

I've usually been smart, but it's just not always an option. Carried a complete VW pancake motor across the basement and up and out the basement window once...5 feet up is a lot further than it looks. Thought my head was gonna pop off just before I got it on the ledge. Then went out and carried it to the alley. That's prob'ly the heaviest I've done by myself, and I'm a wuss. Picked up a couple engines with buds...and I worked in a door mill for a while...tried to manhandle an 8 foot tall 4 foot wide fire rated door (really fuckin' heavy and akward) off the table and onto the cart once...just about on the cart and I 'bout lost it. Nudder guy was just walkin' up got there just in time.

Now I *gotta* be smart. Six stainless bolts two stainless plates and four carbon fiber blocks in my lower back tell me everyday "don't be stupid".

Olson

 

I've loaded and unloaded a handfull of 455 olds motors,rear ends, transmissions and even a few musclecar chassis onto or into a variety of vehicles or trailers, but the worst,heaviest peice of crap I ever got unlucky enough to deal with was a triumph tr3 with a broke frame.

it got to the shop before I did, and I had to move it to get some other cars in and out. I also should mention one of the cars I planned on moving out was my way home, and I was there alone that day, and would remain so.

I figured I could put a jack under it,and drag it. no dice. any attempt to raise any one side of the car was making the body flex in all the wrong ways.
so I figured the little car couldn't have weighed more than 1500 pounds, so I should be able to scoot it around a little.

I shoved that locked up,broken,shitty tire havin' car the length of a 64 cadillac and that was it. little bastard was alot heavier than it looked.

 

not really that heavy, but once hustled a complete austin 7 engine and tranny (attached together) up 6 flights of stairs and down a hallway at my dorm in college

 

1963 vw bug,,used some 4x4's and wood blocks though

 

Arlo Get back to work!!! Dan Barnett & I moved my 1940 Hudson over 30 foot of dirt and then onto a trailer mind you it didnt have a rear end or a frontend on it but it seemed to still weigh about 1800 lbs! Never seen Dan that pissed before

Got it home and unloaded it by myself! Hardest part of that was getting it over the 1 inch elevation going into the garage

Pain pills are inevitable in our future boys!

 

pussy. you go back to work.it's my day off!

 

I've done so many STUPID lifts that I'm suprised I can still walk let alone lift anything else.

A friend and I put a complete 235 chev 6 into a trailer by hand - all 550 lbs of cast-iron wonder.

recently I loaded a complete '36 rear end into an already loaded trailer. It was complete with torque tube, radius rods, and brake drums. wow what a heavy cumbersome sucker!!!

I had to move 4 more stovebolt sixes from my mother's house to mine, due to loss of storage. My bro helped load 'em, but I had to unload and stack 'em in my shed. Did it all in an arvo, but fortunately they were heads off short motors. total weight - over 2000lbs in an day.
working around the house - gee stairs are heavy. built the rear steps for my house, and moved them into place. The biggest step being over 5 yards wide.

Dickhead!!!

All this with one prolapsed disc, and one herniated!!!

 

I've done similar things - lots of engines, blocks, and transmissions.

I muscled in a 350 turbo trans without a trans jack - mutha was HEAVY; try getting bolts in with one hand and propping it in place with the other! I'm no musclebound freak, but you are MOTIVATED when the damn thing can come down on yer chest any minute! Later, I found out I was bench-pressin' 225# with one hand...

Over the years, musclin' stuff around has wasted both knees and a disc in my back. It's an ugly feelin' when it lets go - especially when you're right in the middle of movin' something and you can't let go immediately for risk of damaging something like yer foot.

Craziest lift was disposing of a rusted hulk of an Opel body by dropping it off inna grocery store dumpster after stripping it of parts. Honest.

 

I cut up a 65 Cuda for the passenger side quarter. It was cut out halfway down the middle of the car and then 18 inches past the door jamb and included the the C pillar and corresponding roof section, floor, trunk floor and inner trunk extension. In other words fully 1/4 of the entire unibody. I loaded it into my pickup, brought it home to unload and carried it across a city street and down the driveway into the basement garage I was using. I don't know if it was the heaviest thing I ever lifted but it was positively the most unbalanced, bulky, thing I ever carried. Being by myself I had to contort myself, bend sort of backwards, balance it against my right hip and walk it sideways. I was surprised that I didn't injure myself. A dolly would have simplified the whole thing but when you're young and dumb you are really fucking dumb.

 

3 freaking heavy Model A 4-bangers, the blue one with a trans and marine exhaust and 50 years rust inside.... I'm happy that Rod Ari took them away. He even paid something of them...

 

I "unloaded" a 37 Ford coupe body on its chassis (no front suspension). Just picked up the front frame horns and rolled it off. I bought the body from Raven and it took 3 of us just to load the body. I have the same mindset as Pork....I aint strong, just stupid!! Although the engine lifters out there may be dumber than me, I have done bare blocks many times, and those are stinkin heavy, I hate to see a long block to have to be lifted!!

 

Complete flathead from intake to flywheel.

It was a heavy son of a bitch...

I let the air out of the rear tires of my truck and jacked up the front. then I lifted it in sections with levers and blocks. Cant really explain how I did it... You would have had to see it. It was stupid. I had to dead lift it a couple of times to get it in the right spot. And to get it out I had to lower it out by hand.

I've dead lifted a few VW motors but those are paper weights compared to a flatty.