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  • At the time, it was my bookbag, it weiged in at Publix at a whooping 27 pounds. (I was only 90 at the time) and when I put it on my shoulders, it broke my collar bone. Now that I'm a grown up, the heaviest thing was a 65 pound kid.
  • 25 years or so ago I had to roll up an area rug and get it out to a car to be moved. I folded it in thirds, then 4 times the other way. Somehow I managed to get it onto my shoulder. I bet it weighed 80 pounds or more. And I was not a heavy guy! I got it to the car trunk, but it tore a muscle in my shoulder that took doctor visits and about 3 months to heal. I guess it was not as bad as if I had gotten a hernia, but it still hurt alot.
  • an oak chest of drawers that was seriously heavy even with the drawers removed. Managed to drag/flip it over all the way to the 3rd from top stair and then Pudding (being the shit that she was), decided not to let me past any further and sat, in my path, refusing to budge. Unable to move her, even with the threat of her being squashed as I approached the stair she was sitting upon, I leaned around the side of the unit, balancing it on one knee while using my free hand to try to swipe her out of the way. All that happened was she emitted a low and threatening growl and then in true Pudding style, bit me. As I was not willing to retreat back down the stairs or be savaged, I sat and waited 15 mins until she moved. (Pudding is mog by the way).
  • A refrigirator weighing 126 kgs. A struggled to carry it. I challenged my sister that I would carry it myself. But to my bad luck I stepped on a stone and the refrigirator fell down and it didn't work . That was new one !!!!!!! I told my father that my sister was the one responsible for it. I escaped she got scoldings !!!!!LOL
  • My suitcase. I was at the airport and I lifted it off of baggage claim by myself and I felt the ligaments tear in my chest. It took about a year for them to completely heal.
  • I did lift 140 kilograms (about 310 pounds) at the gym a while ago - deadlifting, where you pick the bar up off the ground and lower it to your knees and straighten up for a few repetitions. I only managed 2 or 3 repetitions though. Heaviest thing I've carried around was a UPS at work - basically a bunch of big batteries. It weighed 100 kilo's and had sharpish edges and I had to carry it about 20 metres - nearly cut me fingers off!
  • My friend, Nick. He is 6'5 and 350...I am 5'9 and 225. I carried him over my shoulder, drunk, up the 17 steps to his apartment because he refused to get out of his wife's car(?) He was just obstinant and had to be forced to go lay down.
  • My hubby used to carry the gearbox and bellhousing from a Toyota Landcruiser from one workshop to another, about 100m, on his shoulders. This got him the nick name 'CRANE" as in human crane!
  • I was carrying an air conditioner to the basement missed a step and fell down 13 steps and made a hole in the wall the size and shape of my body. The air conditioner luckily went to the left and I went to the right. Lots of bruises and some sticthes and out 1 air conditioner.
  • What does a bundle of composition roofing shingles weigh? I carried one of those; I'm a 125-pound female. I also lifted one end of a pool-table top to move it.
  • A couple of months ago I worked construction and had to carry 14 200ibs doors up 2 flights of stairs. I got really hurt and the accidently shot a nail with a nail gun through my finger. Then I went outside to my car and watched everyone else work untill I fell asleep. When I woke up I quit.
  • A bin full of watermelons. The watermelon bin was sitting on a wood pallet, and the management wanted it on a plastic pallet so that it wouldn't damage the floor. The only problem was that the floor jack that was designed to lift pallets could not handle the weight of a bin full of watermelons. Somewhere, I came up with the crazy idea that I could put the bin on the pallet myself, and gave it a shot. I managed to raise one side of the bin, and drag it across the pallet until it sat on the plastic pallet. Then the process has to be repeated seven times because there were a total of eight pallets. Watermelons were on sale at the time. The other problem was that I was already labled the strongest person in the store because of some of the things that I was doing so lifting watermelon bins did not help me get rid of the label, but I didn't care. I was growing muscles like a football player. So there a wager made to see what could move a heavy load faster, me with a manual pallet jack, or a smaller person using a electric pallet jack. My load was twice as heavy to make the bet interesting, but it didn't matter because I beat the machine anyway. The load was a fully loaded pallet of laundry detergent (my load was double stacked), so it was like pulling a Ford Focus or a F-150. I stopped using the machine jack because it was slowing me down. Big muscles are worthless if you can't show off what they can do.
  • A bar of steel weighing about 500-700 pounds...I only carried it like 2 feet before I had to drag it instead.
  • A leg press of 500 lbs., but that isn't quite what you meant, is it? Actual lifting, the corner of a small car just for kicks and ego. Considering the weight distribution bias, I figure it was around 600 lbs. Not bad for a vegan. Another time, I lifted / slid the back end of my Brother's car diagonally into the street to see the look on his face when he walked out to it. Finally, an overhead press of my 220 lb. brother.
  • My helper and I had to lift a 26 ft beam up onto the 9 foot walls of the house we were building. It was a 20"x8" glu-lam (pieces of wood glued together to make a one-piece beam), so that's about 30 lbs/foot. To maneuver it into position, we lifted an end each, that's about 390lbs for each of us. Of course, we didn't lift it very high by hand!
  • When I used to work in my father's bakery supplies warehouse, many years ago (I was about 19 at the time), I tried to see how many 56lbs bags of sugar I could lift at once. My personal best was five, which equates to a total of 280lbs.

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