Common items weighing 150 pounds?

[Dr.Lipids]

I'm applying for a job that requires me to be able to regularly lift 150 pounds.  Any idea of how to find something this heavy to give it a try? I've put all my textbooks on a chair and that still isn't close.

Weird question, I know. But thank you for any advice you guys have.

[Grant Lamontagne]

I'd loan you my little Daisy but she's only 120 pounds. 



You could try a beer keg.  When full they are at least 150 pounds.

What kind of job is going to expect you to routinely lift 150 pounds (a whole person) by yourself?

Def

[Threeme2189]

How big is the object you will need to lift?
Or better yet, what is it?

I weigh less than that, so  I couldn't help you out even if I tried

[Biru]

That's a pretty hefty amount of weight. It may sound dumb, but you could always go to a hardware or gardening store and lift 3 50lb bags of cement, or soil or similar. You'd only have the cost of gasoline in it and you'd be pretty sure of the weight.

A medium-sized dresser loaded with clothes might be close, but you'd probably tear something trying to lift it.

[Syph007]

Ya thats quite heavy for routine moving.  At least to me.  I remember unloaded bags of cement and they were 100lbs and my arms were pretty sore after moving those for an hour.

Obviously if you have a weight set thats the easiest.  Other than than, look for the densest stuff you got... metal, rocks, sandbags or fill containers with water.

[Medic82]

Just remember to lift with your legs and not your back.

[captain spaulding]

I would say put a person weighing in around 140 pounds and sit them in a chair. Try lifting the chair with them in it. I would suggest this over just lifting a person standing as I doubt whatever you will be lifting will have the shape of a human and lifting a human is much easier than lifting the same weight in a smaller package. If you have any weights used for working out you could put 150 pounds of weight in a cardboard box and Duct Tape it really good. It will let you get a feel for heavy dense weight instead of weight spread out over an area which both have there own difficulties. 

[captain spaulding]

Just remember to lift with your legs and not your back.

I thought you are supposed to lift with your back in a quick jerking motion.   





(DO NOT DO THIS) ^^^^^^^^^^

[jzmtl]

What kind of job is going to expect you to routinely lift 150 pounds (a whole person) by yourself?

Yeah that.  even the UPS delivery drivers don't lift things half that much by themselves, I had a 80 lb package and the driver got me to go help him.

I don't even know if I can lift 150 lbs if it's in an odd shape, like a box without handle or such.

[Biru]

I thought you are supposed to lift with your back in a quick jerking motion. 



No!    That way you get messed up discs. If you lift with your legs you get hemorrhoids.

At least that's what a couple of bodybuilders once told me...

[Grant Lamontagne]

Funny, I thought bodybuilder's hemorrhoids were from something else entirely!

Def

[Mr. Whippy]

I'd be surprised if there's a job that requires lifting 150 dead weight unassisted.  Of course with some sort of shoulder yoke, 150 press with your legs isn't too bad.

[Dr.Lipids]

You could try a beer keg.  When full they are at least 150 pounds.

What kind of job is going to expect you to routinely lift 150 pounds (a whole person) by yourself?

Def

It was a short description of the job and maybe it would only be every so often. BUT, you guessed right!  It would be lifting beer kegs.  I know it involves lots of lifting empty kegs and some lifting full kegs.  Another job posting I saw said that it needed the person to be able to lift 180 pound kegs.

Thank you for all the replies. I'll probably go out to a store and find some 50 bags soon.

[Grant Lamontagne]

One of the doormen I used to work with could carry a full keg under each arm and carry them across a bar full of people with no problems whatsoever.  I can carry one a little ways and that's about it.

Most of the lifting you are likely to be doing will be just stacking or unstacking and perhaps lifting one a few inches off the floor and into a beer fridge.  When you have to move them you tilt them on their edge and roll them along usually, or put them on a cart.  Only use a cart with solid tires though as pneumatic tires will flatten under the weight.

Good luck, and invest in a decent lifting belt!

Def

[Sazabi]

>.>  This thread makes me feel scrawny.  I don't even weigh 150, yet alone capable of carrying 150. 

[Dr.Lipids]

>.>  This thread makes me feel scrawny.  I don't even weigh 150, yet alone capable of carrying 150. 

Don't worry! I don't think I would be able to carry anything weighing 150 pounds far at all. I feel scrawny compared to the guy that carries two kegs! 

Thanks for the advice Def! 

[Grant Lamontagne]

I think most of us feel scrawny next to him- he's six foot four and 380 pounds.  With a mohawk. 

Def

[Ashley]

My boss is a body builder and he lifts 700# like its nothing.

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[mvyrmnd]

I'm applying for a job that requires me to be able to regularly lift 150 pounds.  Any idea of how to find something this heavy to give it a try? I've put all my textbooks on a chair and that still isn't close.

Weird question, I know. But thank you for any advice you guys have.

If you're required to lift that unassisted, that job would be illegal in Australia!

Over here you can't legally lift more than 25kg (55lb) before WorkSafe (the ombudsman) will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

[Grant Lamontagne]

Bodybuilders are nothing to naturally occurring strong people.  Years ago while doing baton retention drills at an R&D facility we found out that some people are just freakishly strong and there isn't a darn thing you can do about it.  One of the guys taking the course with me was a bodybuilder, and he was ripped.  To illustrate how retention techniques are not always effective the instructor called one of the engineers over and asked him to grab the bodybuilder's baton.  He did and the bodybuilder was instructed to try snapping, angling or pulling the baton away from the engineer using the techniques he'd been taught and anything else he could think of.  A few minutes later the bodybuilder was sweating and the engineer hadn't even interrupted his conversation as the bodybuilder jerked, yanked and twisted with all he had!

Of course we all felt pretty useless after the strongest of us couldn't beat an engineer, and we kind of wondered what the heck we were needed for.  As it turns out the engineer is just one of those freakishly strong people who never works out yet could arm wrestle Superman and could win. 

One day the engineer had forgotten his pass card and didn't feel like going back for it so he grabbed the steel gate and yanked it open, despite the mag lock that should have kept it shut no matter what.   

Def

[82brutus]

Fyi if you are looking for 150 pounds, just get 18 gallons of water.  (1 gallon = 8.3 pounds)

You can use four 5 gallon water containers which are also useful for emergency water.

And water is nice because you can use it to gradually work up to the right weight.



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[jan.]

I'm applying for a job that requires me to be able to regularly lift 150 pounds.  Any idea of how to find something this heavy to give it a try? I've put all my textbooks on a chair and that still isn't close.

Weird question, I know. But thank you for any advice you guys have.

If you're required to lift that unassisted, that job would be illegal in Australia!

Over here you can't legally lift more than 25kg (55lb) before WorkSafe (the ombudsman) will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

Same here.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Over here 25kg is the max one person is aloud to lift, and with my back I'm glad of that

[AimlessWanderer]

Every time I pick up 150 pounds I just seem to spend it really quickly 

[82brutus]

You could just buy 192 LT Surges and lift those.   That should be about right. 

You know what they say, "one is none and 192 is one." 

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[Logrus9]

I'd let you use my Aunt, but it depends on where you are, She doesn't like to travel much at 87 

[hansthebear]

Over here 25kg is the max one person is aloud to lift, and with my back I'm glad of that

thats an urban myth mate!

i fit boilers for a living and some of them are 150ish pounds, but EFF doing it all the time, from ground level to 4 foot up the wall is about my limit for that!

[Grant Lamontagne]

Folks just want the Scots to hurt themselves so they don't have to deal with them!





Def

[Chako]

 

[captain spaulding]

You could just buy 192 LT Surges and lift those.   That should be about right. 

You know what they say, "one is none and 192 is one." 

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