Tell us something we don’t know.

[Fuddyduddy1952]

A Maltese Cross used to be stamped on engines for non standard bearing sizes. This was for older Mopar engines but is probably valid for newer and other makes, I’m not sure. I think 0.001 undersized on crank bearings?

My grandfather was a machinist and maybe you answered a question. I have his tools and found a cloth bag with stamps, a swastika and others (I'll have to look).
Interesting...

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

The world record for a single horse pull is by a Shire...58,000 pounds!
To put that in perspective the world record human pull was 240 pounds.
A horse can kick with 2,000 p.s.i. pressure at 200 m.p.h.

 

[WinterDeere]

...the world record human pull was 240 pounds.

Very cool, Fuddy! My God, that horse is enormous.

But are you sure on this human number? Seems to me I've pulled plenty of things heavier than 240 lb. across my own lawn... before I owned a tractor.

 

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Both of those figures are likely to be from different types of pulls - wheel? sled? mud? ice?

 

[Eagle1]

I know on Worlds Strongest Man they pull a lot more than 240 no matter what conditions.

 

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I know on Worlds Strongest Man they pull a lot more than 240 no matter what conditions.

I'd take that bet
Bury 240# of plates in deep mud and have him pull it horizontally through the mud
Them's the conditions
I bet that horse up there ^^^ could do it

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Yes I looked it up Guinness book and I thought 240 pounds wasn't all that much either, and I've pulled heavy things here, trees, logs, cement blocks. My sphincter tightens thinking about it .
This is from Guinness.
"The heaviest weighted pull up is 109.20 kg (240.74 lb) and was achieved by Liu Weiqiang (China) in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, on 7 March 2023.
Kevin Fast (Canada) pulled a CC-177 Globemaster III, weighing 188.83 tonnes (416,299 lb), a distance of 8.8 m (28 ft 10.46 in) at Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, Canada, on 17 September 2009."

Rolling weight is no big deal. I'll push or pull my truck loaded with hay bales but it's on level concrete.

 

[WinterDeere]

"The heaviest weighted pull up is 109.20 kg (240.74 lb) and was achieved by Liu Weiqiang (China) in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, on 7 March 2023.

Ahh... yeah. I'm not doing 240 lb. weighted pull-ups!

I thought you meant dragging logs across the lawn.

 

[WinterDeere]

Speaking of heavy horses…

 

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Pretty sure the horse wasn't doing pull-ups either