Our poor backs.

Riverslim · Sep 5, 2018

This isn't me. The first time I ever went down, I picked up in each hand a five gallon bucket, each packed with wood ash, what a wienie I guess.

Riverslim · Sep 5, 2018

That's a six banger, right? I thought those early Falcons were four.

rrman61 · Sep 5, 2018

OK I call bulls$&t 300 pounds? Or more

RLA · Sep 5, 2018

170 & 200 six's in early falons

showcrop · Sep 5, 2018

Looks photo-shopped to me. Both he and the motor would be leaning back further if he were really holding it up. The center of mass is way ahead of his toes.

scott mcintosh · Sep 5, 2018

I use to be able to pick up a 221 v8 minus the oil pan and manifolds and set it in trunk of 1963 fairlane.Those days are gone.Scott

centash · Sep 5, 2018

And 144 cid 6 cylinders.
Ben

newhollandnut · Sep 5, 2018

i removed and carried a head off a 9700 Ford this weekend and I am 110% sure I did not look that graceful

rrlund · Sep 5, 2018

Clint Eastwood did it in Every Which Way But Loose.

scott mcintosh · Sep 5, 2018

RRLund you are right I bet Clint can't anymore,right turn clyde.

Elton Fancher · Sep 5, 2018

Well, I know this is hard to believe but I had an uncle pick up and set a v8 chevy with heads and manifolds into the trunk of my 55 chevy. He was sort of abnormally strong and he did sort of drag it up against the bumper but he put it in alone. He could pick up the front of a Super A farmall like nothing. He did have a career of being incarcerated that gave him plenty of workout time.

jeffcat · Sep 5, 2018

In my early 20s I picked up and moved over the 289 block from my 64 Galaxy. Had the crank in it. Nothing else. That was heavy enough. Two years ago I wrassled the six speed transmisson from my Husqvarna garden tractor. Man that thing sure is heavy!

JF in MI · Sep 5, 2018

I remember, in my 20s, lifting a Turbohydramatic 350 (with the torque converter) over ny head to install it. Just thinking about that now nearly gives me a hernia. About all the lifting I do now is a double rye.

Richard from SE AZ · Sep 5, 2018

When I was a kid about 8 or 9 A rancher in our area was replacing a Ford V8 flathead on a well with a diesel engine. We were driving by ( my Dad, my uncle , my cousin and myself ) and my uncle stopped and asked him what he was going to do with the V8. He said it was just going to lay there and he could have it if he wanted it. Now mind you , this was a totally complete engine. My dad helped my uncle get the engine on his knees and my uncle duck walked the engine about 20 yards to the fence. They rolled the engine under the fence and between both of them they put it in the back of my dads 40 Ford PU. Both men were very strong.

Spook · Sep 5, 2018

I used to do stupid things like that to show off. Not at my age!

flying belgian · Sep 5, 2018

I have a distant relative with the same name as me. They say as a young man he used to hold up the back of a pickup while they changed the tire.

cjunrau · Sep 5, 2018

There is a lady out here that use to load 45 gallon drums of oil on a pickup. She was built like an ox. Her relatives were all the same. Very strong in muscle but not so much in brain.

Stephen Newell · Sep 5, 2018

I guess the commercial is right, we are getting soft.

Steve@Advance · Sep 5, 2018

I tried to change out a C4 in a Mustang without using a jack.

Put it up on stands as high as I could get it, crawled under with a creeper and a boat cushion on my chest (usual method for a standard). Got that thing out, down on my chest, then discovered the car wasn't high enough.

Got pinned against the bottom of the car and lost my breath. It was a moment of panic, couldn't get it off me, couldn't get out from under it. Finally just started squirming around and rolled out from under it.

I balanced it on the floor jack going back in! LOL

RedMF40 · Sep 5, 2018

I can lift pretty much anything I want to. Just need a gentle touch on the levers for my FEL and 3 pt lift. Relevant to this: caught a few minutes of an extreme competition on TV. An Icelander won the overall event/spectacle. The weights they moved were HUGE. They led off with a thing called the "frame carry." 825 lb frame the men had to carry 20 meters. One big problem is grip--very difficult for them to hold onto something that heavy, even when it was outfitted with hand-grips positioned for lifting. Other items were just dead weight they had to move somehow. Nothing really for them to grab onto.

RedMF40 · Sep 5, 2018

Pretty much same scenario when I put a junkyard c4 trans in a '74 f150 years ago. That all played out in the driveway. Tranny lasted few years until the
Motor got tired.

oldsarge · Sep 5, 2018

Grandma would say"She;s not very much good for pretty but pretty much good for strong!"

Davidj · Sep 6, 2018

(quoted from post at 13:27:55 09/05/18)

I bore witness to a similar feat of strength years ago when a young fella (not me) was helping a wrangy heifer onto a truck by lifting it's rear end, arms wrapped under the legs as it was trying to kill him kicking. After it was loaded, I said "he's pretty strong", old drover I said it to replied "or pretty stupid". Lol

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