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

I lift my up my junk every time I have to pee, damn thing is so large I have back problems now.

I am too lazy to do any of the other hard liftingso I spent 3 grand on a nice large tire forklift for doing all the hard work around the shop. Best three grand I have EVER spent, gives me more time and more energy to play with my ENCREADBILY HUGE JUNK.

 

lol

I just did a Dana 70HD dually rear into my F350. 60's are nothing. That 70 is one heavy pig!

 

Around 1968, a 283 short block into my folks basement. As far as I know it's still there.

 

haha a 53 pontiac on a car trailer with near locked up brakes..........that was a bitch

 

It's amazing what can be moved if you know how. Once in Guatamala, I saw a guy who was about 5' tall carry an upright piano on his back with a strap under the piano and around his forehead. I don't know how far he went, but moved it about a block down the street before I lost sight of him.

 

I didn't do this myself, but I once saw my dad lift up a fully dressed 9" Ford. I was rolling it out to the 'Corral' out back where I store all my old shit. I was struggling with it, as it had crappy flat tires on it and a good chunk of driveshaft that kept spinning around wildly. Dad came out to the yard and picked it up straight to his chest like a 2x4 and walked it out to the corral like it was nothing. I couldn't believe it! It had wheels, tires, a complete yoke and short driveshaft attached. He also picked up a '47 Linclon front end w/ wheels/tires braked and radius rods and spring attached in the same manner to the same location, and lastly a 12 foot wooden picnic table over his head. I learned to never piss dad off... He's not one to be tagled with.

Jonny

 

I just read this guys ad on ebay. The guy wants $60 to load a bare Pontiac block on a truck!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1960...629572012QQcategoryZ34202QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I need to go into the lifting things business.

 

lol, holy crap im busting up on this Repoman

 

lifting a Model A coupe body on and off the frame....and bear hugging full dressed VW engines....

 

I loaded a 357 magnum once or twice.

 

I loaded a $100.00 1981 suzuki gs850 into the back of my ranger by myself...and just recently when I moved loaded a 400 BB dodge motor without the aluminum intake and oil pan (all of 25 pounds missing) into the same ranger, then out of because I forgot the tranny had to go up front for space constraints, loaded the 727 Torqueflite, then re-loaded the 400...my buddy and I just lifted a complete (blown up) 351C out of his '55 F-100, luckily we removed all the front sheetmetal first...

 

I call bullshit on this one. How would you stop? the whole front of the car would slam into the ground and the front brakes alone would not be able to stop little alone slow down such a load.

 

I single handedly loaded a 155mm Howitzer a few times, ok a hell of a lot of times.
Me and my mate lifted a complete 351 (No cog box) out of my Falcon a few years back, damn was that fucker heavy!
Doc.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAA

as for me, probably dental chairs...and i've loaded plenty of them onto trailers cars vans etc....weird...

 

a freebie mid sixties electric three wheeled golf cart...steel body...I only wanted it for the reeeally narrow diff in the back, sucker was heavy loading it into the back of a '74 Dodge tradesman van by my lonesome...oh yeah..all the wheels are locked up on it.

 

Many years ago my friend Gino and I were changing a 283 in a 57 Chev., the cars owner had the used engine we were going to install in the trunk. We got the old engine out and I was working on the engine compartment when my friend asked me "where do you want the engine" he had the whole engine in his hands it was complete. I told him ANYWHERE YOU WANT TO PUT IT. that was almost 40 years ago, we do not do things like that anymore.

 

me and another buddy of mine pulled a sbc 350 long block off a dodge dakota that was lifted a little, holy crap i couldnt even move the damn thing. we ended up putting a small wooden table i made during high school right under the tail gate and then lifted the motor and quickly and i mean quickly lower ther motor down the table. i was all happy that the motor was off the truck, then i realized that we still needed to find a way to drop the motor to the ground. we were so tired just from it from the truck to the table that we just said fuck it, we latched the motor down onto the table and then i had some tires from my shifter kart lying around and stacked them side to side. Then we just tilted the motor sideways onto the tires, it worked out great until we found out that the motor was still filled with oil, man four quarts of oil looks a lot more when its all over the floor. i learned my lesson and the next day i bought a cherry picker and an engine stand.

 

1979 Ford Bronco Dana 44 front end, complete, brakes..knucklles , axles everydamn thing..

I loaded it off the ground, into the back of my truck, and then unloaded it at my pop's house..

that bitch was HEAVY....

PC

 

When I was in college, there was this really fat chick I had to lift into bed...

 

When I was a kid I thought nothing of carrying a sbc bare block into my bedroom just to stare at it at night. Many years later and a couple of discs later I know better!!!! Of coarse the night before disc surgery I took the complete shovelhead motor out of the frame and set it up on a bench so I could have something to do while recooperating.....would never do that again.. unless.......

 

The heaviest thing I've ever had to lift was...........MYSELF!, off the floor, after my L-5/S-1 AND L-4/L-5 disks decided to let go.

In Nov. of 2001, I was 34, 6'3", 210lbs and in really good shape.
I was lifting with my knees, not with my back. The part I was lifting only weighed 80-100 lbs max.

I am, well, I used to be, a machinist, and had been lifting these cast iron valve bodys on and off my mill for the better part of a week.

I needed to check them for squareness on the big surface plate in the inspection room. I wheeled them in on a dolly, set them on the plate, checked them out(they were perfect! ) and moved them back to my mill for the next machining operation.

Thats when my life changed FOREVER! While lifting one from the surface plate to the dolly, I felt like I'd just been shot in the lower spine by a
16 penny nail gun. The pain was so instant, and so severe! I don't know what hit the floor first, me or the valve body I was lowering. Life has been pure HELL ever since. If you've ever had serious back problems, you know what I mean.

My condition has deteriated to the point that I have to wear a Fentanyl
patch and take between 40 and 60 mg of Methadone a day, just to be able to walk. It used to be 90 to 120 mg of Methadone a day, but I was such a zombie my doctors had to switch my meds.


Sorry, I'm not tryin to bring this thread down. I just wanted to share with the class what can happen to you when lifting heavy parts.

If you have a hoist/cherry-picker, USE IT!


OK, on to the next "lift" story

 

I was 16 , got aline on a running 350 SBC in a near by town I need for my Impy , So me and friend get to this 5' 5'' guys Barn And there it sits looking all grease. I told the guy I'd take it gave him the money he said he get his tractor to load it in the back of my dads truck. He comes around the corner of the barn and the hydraulic hose blows! Now the guy is pissed off ,,gets of the tractor and says get out of the way...... Ya he piked it up by him self just like on the ston man compition and walked 5' over to hte truck and lifts it even higher and set it on the tail gate..... When people say don't mess with a farm boy he's what I think of !!!!!

 

Not quite the same story, but that's where mine blew too.

November of '04 I had a double spinal fusion because of it. Had to use a walker to get around for the first month, then it slowly but surely got better over the next 4-6 months, 'til I finally felt pretty human again in June 05. It gets stiff fairly often, hurts enough for a vicoden once in a while, and I have permanent nerve damage in my legs that makes gettin' a good nights sleep damn near impossible...but it is 50 million times better than before the fusion.

Now I'm stealthy. I gots carbon fiber and stainless steel hardware back there. PM me if ya wanna yack about it...I know exactly how it feels.

Olson

 

I hope there are no women reading this.

I can see this thread being used for evidence in a divorce case.
"Your honor, read this! See what an idiot my husband is? I can't go on! I'm living with a Neanderthal!"

"Yes I see..., he a very stupid, stupid man."

 

I drove up to Brooklyn, carefully moved a baby grand out of a house and into a U-haul at the curb. Drove back to NC, unloaded it and set it back on its legs by my lonesome. Heaviest thing though has to be a 2,800 lb forklift battery me and 3 other guys replaced here at work. We suspended it by chain near one end of a 12ft beam then lifted from the long end. The beam had to weigh at least 200 lbs. Give me a lever and a place to stand...