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What is the most impressive feat of strength you have ever done?

Why did you do it?  What’s the most impressive feat of strength you’ve ever seen anyone else do 

Posted - April 21, 2020
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  • 6988
    Not me, but I have a friend named Rick. He helped me move a cresote soaked railroad tie. That thing musta weighed 300 pounds. He lifted it up onto his scrawny shoulders and carried it about 50' and tossed it down. Rick is not a big guy, maybe 150 pounds. (sorry I don't know the metric dimensions) 
      April 21, 2020 5:52 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    If you begin to think might is right ...just consider the Ant..it can carry up to fifty times its own body weight..it can also run at 800 times its own body length a minute ...that's close to 60 miles an hour...compare that to the strongest human and then freak out...lol
      April 21, 2020 6:06 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Not to mention ants can run straight up a vertical sheet of glass. 
      April 21, 2020 8:16 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I bet that Panes them to do that though...:(
      April 23, 2020 11:59 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Man‘s work. 
      April 21, 2020 7:42 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I took a long weight in a cue at my favorite shoe shop Black Fridays shoe sale day.. :) 
      April 21, 2020 6:18 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Sounds astonishing
      April 21, 2020 6:19 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I'm fibbing really...I've never had a long weight anywhere...:)D 
      April 21, 2020 6:26 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    LOL!:D
      April 22, 2020 10:25 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I brought a brand new car for cash......the sales man who sold it to me,realised I think that I was superhuman for my size,more so  when I told him I carring  fifty thousand Lbs in my bag. :)D 
      April 21, 2020 6:24 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Land Rover? 
      April 21, 2020 6:28 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    No,I was just trying to be Joe King again....:)D 
      April 21, 2020 6:31 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Kings have lackeys who do the heavy lifting for them. ;)
      April 21, 2020 7:43 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Are they all called Jack or Warwick Crane by any chance....:)
      April 22, 2020 4:47 AM MDT
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  • 2706
    I never thought of this being impressive but when I was 18 years old I lifted the front wheels of a small block 62 Chevy Impala off the ground a couple of inches. I did it because a guy said he would give me 200 dollars if I did. That was a lot of money in 1968. Unfortunately, I never got 200 dollars because he quickly got in his car and took off. I guess he didn't have the money to give. Oh well, you live and learn.

    I never saw this done but I read about Paul Anderson, in a back lift, raising 6270 pounds off of some trestles. Now that is impressive.
      April 21, 2020 7:02 PM MDT
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  • 5391

    That or you scared the Dickens out of the guy. He probably was lying about the money, though. 

    Paul Anderson was a special human being. 

      April 21, 2020 7:45 PM MDT
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  • 2706
    You're right, Paul Anderson was a special human being. Though he did train with weights, some homemade, his genetic makeup was off the charts which I imagine had much to do with his feats of strength.
      April 22, 2020 12:59 PM MDT
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  • 7795
    I half filled a 16 oz. cup with sleeping pills and put it next to my bed. I looked at that cup for hours. Nuff said. This post was edited by Zack at April 22, 2020 6:44 AM MDT
      April 21, 2020 7:10 PM MDT
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  • 23664
    Oh, my. You took my breath away just now.
    I'm glad you had the strength to keep looking and that you're here to share the story.
      April 21, 2020 7:20 PM MDT
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  • 5391

    Nothing on TV that night? Just kidding, Zack. One day at a time, amigo. 

      April 21, 2020 7:47 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    A car was stuck in the snow on an interstate exit ramp in PA, where one lane goes left and the other right. It was stuck in the triangle. The husband and I lifted the front end of the car off of it and got it back on the road. h
    He was a Marine and I was in the Navy. Go us.
      April 21, 2020 8:00 PM MDT
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  • 5391

    Why I live in Florida, exhibit A.

    I was in the Army, that Jarhead would have never lived down needing help from a grunt officer. Good thing a swabbie showed up first.... ,) 

     

      April 21, 2020 8:07 PM MDT
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  • 44660
    We didn't know it at the time. Just trying to help. Kinda fun. actually.
      April 21, 2020 8:09 PM MDT
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  • 1817
    i can leg press almost 500 pounds. 
      April 21, 2020 8:13 PM MDT
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