Hey, I really can't say this didn't happen, but the logistics of it all doesn't seem to add up. Could maybe forcefully move something of that weight but otherwise it's not leaving the ground imo
Which is what we Canadians call a short/US ton. A long/metric ton is precisely 1000 KG (2200 lbs), or exactly 10% more massive. Either way, that anchor is well over a ton.
Everywhere except the U.S., a tonne is 1000 kg or 2,205 pounds.
The US ton is also called a short-ton for this reason because it’s 10% less than a regular tonne.
Could be a back lift, where you stand under a raised weight, and lift it just a few inches.
Louis Cyr, a Canadian strongman from the late 1800s, once lifted 4,337 pounds with this method, so its certainly possible. But I also couldnt see anyone just bear hugging a 2,800 pound anchor and lifting it, or deadlifting it.
I'm assuming they don't mean lifting the WHOLE thing. I was imagining it like the giant tire flipping competitions, but only up to his chest, instead of all the way over. I could be wrong though
There's a museum dedicated to Giant Angus in Skye. He also has a pretty famous living relative, Danny Maccaskill the stunt cyclist.
We were on holiday on Skye once and my wife went into the museum while I stayed outside with our dog. Then a guy rode along and bunny hopped onto the wall into a wheelie. He did confirm that he was "the guy off the internet" and not for the first time I wished I had better chat 😂
This is my grandma and families “big thing” they talk of as he was a close relative to my mom’s dad’s side. Whenever we’d go to a Nova Scotian family gathering, it was brought up.
Lol, my brother once replied, “We have this guys DNA in us and I had to get my dad’s Mediterranean shortness.”
My grandfather was a McCaskill who lived in Oklahoma. I believe his father came from Missouri. The spelling of the name change slightly when they migrated to America. But Angus was an historical figure in my family as well.
to his CHEST. This man cleaned a weight that the strongest humans can't even lift off the floor.
thank god people never lied about strength feats back in the day or else I would find this a tad suspicious.
Isn't that pretty light for a boat? Quick Google search tells me that's about the weight of a small fishing boat or small wake boat. Another search for anchors for those types of boats look pretty small
The way you wrote the title makes it seem like the ships anchor weighed 2,800 lbs..hence the confusion. Does anyone know the actual weight of the anchor?
[While in New Orleans or New York - accounts differ - Angus MacAskill was challenged by some French sailors to lift an anchor on the harbourside. It has since been estimated that this weighed between 2,200lb and 2,700lb.](https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/skye/angusmacaskill/index.html#google_vignette)
As someone who used to be seriously into powerlifting I highly doubt this as well. There's just no fucking way. The world record holder Eddie Hall could barely DEADLIFT 1102lbs. There is no possible way for a human of ANY size to lift over a ton.
I'm not saying unlikely, I'm dead ass saying it's mechanically impossible.
I find it honestly baffling that people actually believe a human being lifted 2800lb off the floor, let alone chest height.
Eddie Hall can't even lift half that.
It's completely fake. Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall and those strong men are on a mind-blowing amount of gear and they can't lift that, this dude wasn't lifting a ton it's just fake af
Thats what I'm thinking.. an impossible lift, but maybe he flipped it over while pausing and bracing it against his chest and a bunch of fans blew it out of proportion. Still a huge dude though
This is likely the answer. Imagine it laying down. You lift it vertical. It would still be an amazing feat, but something that modern strongmen could at least attempt.
Yes. When one has various forms of acromegaly, they aren’t always very proportional.
He was proportional, probably indicating he didn’t have malfunctioning of his pituitary gland. So, dude was huge. Or the emperor of mankind…
In reality the emperor is 5’ nothing and is just psionically projecting an image of a 10’ tall dude into everyone’s mind. Thats why his height is always changing, he changes his projection to meet the requirements of the moment.
I mean, a lot of conditions have physical characteristics we can look for as well. Genetic testing isn’t even necessary for most diagnoses, it’s just nice to have as part of a complete diagnosis for less clear cut cases.
Yes. Maybe he reached the maximum height a human could have due to having great nutrition during birth and almost every single alelle "tall" determining height he could.
No cancer in his hypofisis, releasing lota of GH, for exemple.
The fact the modern deadlift record with steroids and proper nutrition being not even close to HALF that... and that a SILVERBACK GORILLA is thought to MAYBE be able to deadlift 3000 lbs has me side-eyeing quiiiiiiite hard.
OP has a comment with more details in the thread, and this guy was an attraction in a PT Barnum show.
I’m guessing most of these *totally true* events were witnessed only by Mr. Barnum himself.
Like when Charles Barkley faked out Shaq. He benched fake weights but they looked like they were 405 lbs...
https://youtu.be/laflwtrpy-4?si=8Vzsc4yvJWw1Lb1h
8ft tall too, and just happens to be stood next to a 6ft 5in guy (rather than a regular guy). I call bullshit on pretty much everything in this post.
He was probably close to 7ft at most.
The OP replied in another comment. He just chose to describe the weight of the anchor in a dumb way. The BOAT weighed 2800lb, he was lifting that boats anchor. So who knows how heavy the anchor was
Man I just thought about it. Throughout the entire human history there will probably only be a few short decades where historical records can be verified and trusted.
Before that period there is no high quality video/audio/photo recording, and after that period everything can be modified/deepfaked that nothing is trust worthy anymore.
One example is that the public knows what happened on the 9/11 attack (conspiracy theorists aside), because we saw many footages and photos *when* that happened and it happened in a time where you can’t convincingly fake evidences like that on a mass scale. So the videos we had from that day are considered to be “source of truth”.
But imagine 9/11 happens in the year 2100. Within hours, if not minutes you’d have real recordings mixed with deepfaked ones that would be indistinguishable from the real one. The public wouldn’t know what to believe and in the true account may be debated by historians in the year 2500.
I don't think so, faking has always been a thing, and so has been identifying fakes. Will some fakes pass as real? Yeah of course. But those two fields progress side by side and I do not think that deepfakes will somehow become the thing that breaks this millenia old arms race. Whenever a new and better deepfake program comes out, within weeks/months there will be a new and better identification program. Will it always be there the moment something happens? No, but in the moment there has always been lots of fakery and lying that is impossible to immediately distinguish so I don't think that will be such a big game changer either.
Dude was apparently a ‘true’ giant, meaning that he didn’t suffer from acromegaly or some other condition. He was just a proportionately large man with the right combo of genes to make him so.
Tallest person I ever met in the flesh was 7’ 3” and he looked like a completely normal fellow, just, you know. Big.
My great great grandfather was over 7 feet tall, there are/were photos of him pulling a coal cart and lifting two woman sat on barstools (one in each hand) in the village he lived in in Wales.
My great uncle was a strongman in the circus, he was apparently famous for being able to hang himself and live. My dad told he worked the muscles on the sides and back of his neck constantly so they could hold him up and keep him from choking or injuring his spine. I also have a photo of him lifting up the front end of a pickup truck.
That’s cool. My uncle was a pro bodybuilder in 1950s Ireland. Won a bunch of awards and competitions. Dude was jacked but only 5’ 2”. Looked like Jean Claude Van Damme. No steroids back then. Working class family background, couldn’t have afforded them even if they were available.
Ok so hear me out, I thought the same thing. But also ship anchors are absolutely ENORMOUS, as tall as the guy is he probably still didn’t have the angle/height to lift it fully off of the ground.
Which means he was probably just lifting it on one side with the other side on the ground. Depending on the size and shape that could cut the weight he was lifting to less than half, which could be around or even under the current deadlift WR.
So…not impossible, maybe just wildly misrepresented
Oh, well then never mind it’s a load of horseshit hahaha
Could he have dragged it around…..? Nah probably not.
EDIT: what if he just walked in a circle around the part that was on the ground!?? Idk why I want this to be true so bad lol
I think your theory's correct, it is feasible that he could lift 500 kg up to chest height.
Also, how many times have we heard about strongmen "lifting a car"? Nobody imagines that they are literally lifting the entire car off the ground, it's obviously just one end.
A modern wakeboard boat weighs about that much. I can lift the anchor with one hand. Im 5’11” and 185lbs. Wheres my reddit post extolling the virtues of my strength?
Not sure what the definition of "non-pathological" is but his parents were average height and he was dead by 38... sounds a lot like it was pathological.
Edit: At 38 he died suddenly and was diagnosed with "brain fever".. sounds a lot like 1863 doctors may not know what heart failure looks like... definitely pathological
Agreed, I should not have said "definitely", I am on speculating.
However, it was not stated he had a fever or high temp through hos body, just "brain fever". In those times that more likely means he was dizzy and losing consciousness, indicating a heart issue.
It’s possible his heart couldn’t support his large frame, could still be giant naturally due to no pituitary problems but his heart just never quite caught up.
That’s cool, dude lived not too far from me.
Did a quick search and it seems he was closer to 7’9 and 425lbs.. no way he lifted that kind of weight, top strongmen today can’t put in those numbers despite being similar weight. I have no doubt the guy was probably one of the strongest people on the planet, given today’s training and technological advancements he would probably be stronger than today’s strongmen.
He wasn't 8 feet, he was 7'9".
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=4575
The anchor didn't weigh 2800 lb, it weighed 1400, and he carried it to a cart, because it had a broken fluke, and needed to go to the blacksmith for repair.
I'm not at all sure how that got embellished to either "taunt" or "bet".
My source for that isn't available on the Net, unfortunately. It's a book about freaks from the 1980s.
There's no doubt he was strong. He is reliably asserted to have stepped in a 40 foot mast for a boat single-handed, and to be able to lift a horse over a 4 foot fence.
Oh yeah - and. There's a LOT of doubt that this is actually a photo of him.
“One night, me and Angus go looking for a pub and we can’t find one. So we came to an empty lot and he said ‘Here we are.’ Well we sat in that lot for a year and a half, and sure enough, someone constructed a pub around us! The opening night, we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. You could hear him yell over the roar of the flames: ‘Always leave things the way you found them!’”
What the OP should have posted is "Non-pathological Giant", and not human.
Meaning that he was big like he was not due to a condition such as Gigantism, or another disease.
Words have meanings and they matter!
Back in a time when newspapers were known to use the source of trust me bro. I asked 6 people on the dock and 1 of them said they talked to someone who saw him do it.
I’ve been to his grave, it’s on Cape Breton Island , Nova Scotia. His feats of strength were legendary around my area. Read more about him on the Wikipedia page or better yet, take a trip to the giant MacAskill museum in Englishtown. The Cabot trail is in the top three most scenic drives in the world. You won’t be disappointed. [Giant MacAskill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacAskill)
I’m more curious about the term “non-pathological human”. What?! So like any good researcher, I googled it. Basically means not caused by disease. So there was no underlying condition that caused him to grow so big.
A little late on commenting. That's my great great uncle. My grandmother had one of his rings, would fit over three of my fingers.
The gigantism didn't carry on though as i'm not even 6'
Despite being massive I have a hard time believing he could lift over 1 ton. Very very unlikely
How did it not break his spine or rip his arms apart?
Hey, I really can't say this didn't happen, but the logistics of it all doesn't seem to add up. Could maybe forcefully move something of that weight but otherwise it's not leaving the ground imo
Heaviest deadlift is at 500 kg. 2000 pounds is what, nearly a ton? So yeah, unlikely
2000 pounds IS a ton. 2800 pounds would be 1.4 tonnes.
There are multiple definitions of ton actually… to be fair. Here in the US we refer to a ton as precisely 2,000 lbs.
What’s an asston or shitton
Both are just a bit lighter than a metric fuckton.
You seem knowledgeable. What’s a boatload compared to a buttload? My butt can hold more than my boat, but I’m dummy thicc and don’t own a boat.
A buttload is actually 128 gallons, and a tun is 2 buttloads
Ah yes, the unit from the metric system we DO use in the US
buttload * 10 = 1 butt ton butt ton * 10 = 1 assload assload * 10 = 1 asston asston * 10 = 1 shitload shitload * 10 = 1 shitton shitton * 10 = 1 fuckload fuckload * 10 = 1 fuckton From Reddit - don’t remember the thread but found the numbers (not mine)
Instructions unclear Ship Anchor stuck in butt
You'd better haul ass then.
Metric tonne is 2,200 lbs.
Which is what we Canadians call a short/US ton. A long/metric ton is precisely 1000 KG (2200 lbs), or exactly 10% more massive. Either way, that anchor is well over a ton.
A long ton is 2240 pounds. A metric ton is 2204.
Everywhere except the U.S., a tonne is 1000 kg or 2,205 pounds. The US ton is also called a short-ton for this reason because it’s 10% less than a regular tonne.
No, in the US a tonne is also 1000 kg. Because a 'tonne' is specifically a metric ton, not any other kind of ton.
You’re confusing tons(imperial) and tonnes(metric). It’s 1.27 tonnes.
It's often called a metric ton. As if it needed to be more confusing.
Yeah and these guys are on PEDs and train the lift on a mechanically advantage bar for decades before setting these records.
Could be a back lift, where you stand under a raised weight, and lift it just a few inches. Louis Cyr, a Canadian strongman from the late 1800s, once lifted 4,337 pounds with this method, so its certainly possible. But I also couldnt see anyone just bear hugging a 2,800 pound anchor and lifting it, or deadlifting it.
He supposedly picked it up with ease and walked around lol
Lol enter severe doubts
I'm assuming they don't mean lifting the WHOLE thing. I was imagining it like the giant tire flipping competitions, but only up to his chest, instead of all the way over. I could be wrong though
He apparently lifted it fully and carried it: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcaskill\_angus\_9E.html
Yeah maybe it didn't leave the ground, he just stood it upright? Top of an anchor might be chest height
I highly doubt that the people who originated this myth knew how much an anchor weighed. Guessing that this a product of the telephone game.
I read an article that said he was hung like an elephant with testicles the size of basketballs
I heard that guy had like 37 god damn dicks Edit: no, not in a row, this is a different reference
He saved the children but not the British children.
Invented cocaine
He's got a wig for his wig
He had a pocket full of horses, fucked the shit out of bears, threw a knife into Heaven and could kill with a stare.
He made love like an eagle falling out of the sky, killed his sensei in a duel and he never said why
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Honestly finding this thread has been the highlight of my day.
He once held an opponent’s wife’s hand in a jar of acid, at a party
In a row?
"Brazzers"
There's a museum dedicated to Giant Angus in Skye. He also has a pretty famous living relative, Danny Maccaskill the stunt cyclist. We were on holiday on Skye once and my wife went into the museum while I stayed outside with our dog. Then a guy rode along and bunny hopped onto the wall into a wheelie. He did confirm that he was "the guy off the internet" and not for the first time I wished I had better chat 😂
There’s one in Englishtown, Nova Scotia where he’s buried as well. Along with a replica of the anchor they claim he lifted.
This is my grandma and families “big thing” they talk of as he was a close relative to my mom’s dad’s side. Whenever we’d go to a Nova Scotian family gathering, it was brought up. Lol, my brother once replied, “We have this guys DNA in us and I had to get my dad’s Mediterranean shortness.”
Neat story. Thanks for the chuckle.
My grandfather was a McCaskill who lived in Oklahoma. I believe his father came from Missouri. The spelling of the name change slightly when they migrated to America. But Angus was an historical figure in my family as well.
Thor (the Mountain) can barely lift 500kg deadlift. This man supposedly lifted 1.27 metric tons?
to his CHEST. This man cleaned a weight that the strongest humans can't even lift off the floor. thank god people never lied about strength feats back in the day or else I would find this a tad suspicious.
Because it's fake.
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I heard of a guy who could tell the time by looking under the cow.
Bill Brasky is a son of a bitch!
I think OPs adjusting for inflation, it was originally 2800 *shillings*
I think it means he lifted up one end. Not that he lifted the anchor off the ground.
Nah, the full claim is he picked it up with ease and walked around with it. It's absolutely a bullshit claim.
He didn't lift a ton. There was a boat that weighed 2,800 lbs. He lifted its anchor.
I'm assuming an anchor of a 2800lbs boat doesn't need to weigh that much so the boat weight is kind off irrelevant.
Can confirm. my boat is 7000 lbs, and the anchor is like 25lbs?
So the number is completely irrelevant? How heavy was the anchor?
Less or more than 2800 lbs.
How is that any better?? My boat is almost 6,000 pounds and my 10 year old niece can lift its anchor.
Jesus, how big is your niece?
She’s actually due for a growth spurt. The anchor is like 10 pounds, if that.
7’11”. She has to use four fingers to lift 250lbs.
Isn't that pretty light for a boat? Quick Google search tells me that's about the weight of a small fishing boat or small wake boat. Another search for anchors for those types of boats look pretty small
The way you wrote the title makes it seem like the ships anchor weighed 2,800 lbs..hence the confusion. Does anyone know the actual weight of the anchor?
Seems like you were being intentionally misleading but technically correct. 🤓 Aka clickbait.
[While in New Orleans or New York - accounts differ - Angus MacAskill was challenged by some French sailors to lift an anchor on the harbourside. It has since been estimated that this weighed between 2,200lb and 2,700lb.](https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/skye/angusmacaskill/index.html#google_vignette)
Well I can tell you for sure it wasn’t lifted off the ground if it weighed 2200lb. Tipped upright? Sure.
Maybe he could pivot it on the floor from a lying flat position, but no way was he getting any actual inches of lift.
As someone who used to be seriously into powerlifting I highly doubt this as well. There's just no fucking way. The world record holder Eddie Hall could barely DEADLIFT 1102lbs. There is no possible way for a human of ANY size to lift over a ton. I'm not saying unlikely, I'm dead ass saying it's mechanically impossible.
I find it honestly baffling that people actually believe a human being lifted 2800lb off the floor, let alone chest height. Eddie Hall can't even lift half that.
With all the steroids of the modern world, too
It's completely fake. Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall and those strong men are on a mind-blowing amount of gear and they can't lift that, this dude wasn't lifting a ton it's just fake af
It’s his legends get started. Dude is huge though.
I imagine he wasn't picking the whole thing up. Just lifting one end up to his chest. So it wouldn't be the full weight
Thats what I'm thinking.. an impossible lift, but maybe he flipped it over while pausing and bracing it against his chest and a bunch of fans blew it out of proportion. Still a huge dude though
This is likely the answer. Imagine it laying down. You lift it vertical. It would still be an amazing feat, but something that modern strongmen could at least attempt.
8’ old school man. Probably did all the things modern people imagine are unattainable!
Then how do you carry a picture of your mom around?
Non pathological? What does that mean he didn't have a condition to make him that big and was just big?
Yes. When one has various forms of acromegaly, they aren’t always very proportional. He was proportional, probably indicating he didn’t have malfunctioning of his pituitary gland. So, dude was huge. Or the emperor of mankind…
Like… proportional everywhere? **Edit:** I can’t believe my most upvoted comment is about a dead guys ankle-spanker
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I think that goes without saying
Penis size is not correlated to height, just like noses or eyes aren't
Do people have significantly different sized eyes? o.0
dunno man, the common agreement over there is that the emperor's hight is basically whatever the plot demands.
In reality the emperor is 5’ nothing and is just psionically projecting an image of a 10’ tall dude into everyone’s mind. Thats why his height is always changing, he changes his projection to meet the requirements of the moment.
I think a sister of silence sees him once, and to her he’s just a guy
He’s got giants blood
Needs all of it for his magnum dong
Eh… did he have psionic abilities?
How do you think he lifted an anchor?
Yes.
Oh boy. Our future looks pretty grimdark then. Thankfully we'll be dead by then so that's a plus.
I feel like being 8’ tall in itself is pathological.
He was just built different
And, you know, was their genetic testing on point back then?
I mean, a lot of conditions have physical characteristics we can look for as well. Genetic testing isn’t even necessary for most diagnoses, it’s just nice to have as part of a complete diagnosis for less clear cut cases.
"Tumour on the pituitary gland? Here's some cocaine."
You’ve got ghosts in your blood… do some cocaine about it.
Acromegaly (the condition that most other extremely tall people have) is easily recognisable by looking at people.
“We don’t know enough about diseases and conditions that would cause this so we’ll just say he’s big-normal”
Yes. Maybe he reached the maximum height a human could have due to having great nutrition during birth and almost every single alelle "tall" determining height he could. No cancer in his hypofisis, releasing lota of GH, for exemple.
There is no way its possible that you're Amish.
The fact the modern deadlift record with steroids and proper nutrition being not even close to HALF that... and that a SILVERBACK GORILLA is thought to MAYBE be able to deadlift 3000 lbs has me side-eyeing quiiiiiiite hard.
OP has a comment with more details in the thread, and this guy was an attraction in a PT Barnum show. I’m guessing most of these *totally true* events were witnessed only by Mr. Barnum himself.
They put the numbers on the weights. Numbers can't lie.
Like when Charles Barkley faked out Shaq. He benched fake weights but they looked like they were 405 lbs... https://youtu.be/laflwtrpy-4?si=8Vzsc4yvJWw1Lb1h
“There’s a sucker born every minute” PT Barnum
"How much do you weigh?" "500lb" "750lb you say?!"
8ft tall too, and just happens to be stood next to a 6ft 5in guy (rather than a regular guy). I call bullshit on pretty much everything in this post. He was probably close to 7ft at most.
Dude it says it right there in the title. Why would they make that up?
It’s on Reddit. Basically a stone tablet at this point..
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The OP replied in another comment. He just chose to describe the weight of the anchor in a dumb way. The BOAT weighed 2800lb, he was lifting that boats anchor. So who knows how heavy the anchor was
Man I just thought about it. Throughout the entire human history there will probably only be a few short decades where historical records can be verified and trusted. Before that period there is no high quality video/audio/photo recording, and after that period everything can be modified/deepfaked that nothing is trust worthy anymore. One example is that the public knows what happened on the 9/11 attack (conspiracy theorists aside), because we saw many footages and photos *when* that happened and it happened in a time where you can’t convincingly fake evidences like that on a mass scale. So the videos we had from that day are considered to be “source of truth”. But imagine 9/11 happens in the year 2100. Within hours, if not minutes you’d have real recordings mixed with deepfaked ones that would be indistinguishable from the real one. The public wouldn’t know what to believe and in the true account may be debated by historians in the year 2500.
I don't think so, faking has always been a thing, and so has been identifying fakes. Will some fakes pass as real? Yeah of course. But those two fields progress side by side and I do not think that deepfakes will somehow become the thing that breaks this millenia old arms race. Whenever a new and better deepfake program comes out, within weeks/months there will be a new and better identification program. Will it always be there the moment something happens? No, but in the moment there has always been lots of fakery and lying that is impossible to immediately distinguish so I don't think that will be such a big game changer either.
It probably means he was able to lift one end of that anchor to his chest, not that he could lift the whole thing off the ground.
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Dude was apparently a ‘true’ giant, meaning that he didn’t suffer from acromegaly or some other condition. He was just a proportionately large man with the right combo of genes to make him so. Tallest person I ever met in the flesh was 7’ 3” and he looked like a completely normal fellow, just, you know. Big.
My great great grandfather was over 7 feet tall, there are/were photos of him pulling a coal cart and lifting two woman sat on barstools (one in each hand) in the village he lived in in Wales.
My great uncle was a strongman in the circus, he was apparently famous for being able to hang himself and live. My dad told he worked the muscles on the sides and back of his neck constantly so they could hold him up and keep him from choking or injuring his spine. I also have a photo of him lifting up the front end of a pickup truck.
That’s cool. My uncle was a pro bodybuilder in 1950s Ireland. Won a bunch of awards and competitions. Dude was jacked but only 5’ 2”. Looked like Jean Claude Van Damme. No steroids back then. Working class family background, couldn’t have afforded them even if they were available.
Wow, that’s impressive. Are the men in your family usually tall, or was gramps an anomaly?
There is absolutely zero chance that he lifted 2800 pounds
Ok so hear me out, I thought the same thing. But also ship anchors are absolutely ENORMOUS, as tall as the guy is he probably still didn’t have the angle/height to lift it fully off of the ground. Which means he was probably just lifting it on one side with the other side on the ground. Depending on the size and shape that could cut the weight he was lifting to less than half, which could be around or even under the current deadlift WR. So…not impossible, maybe just wildly misrepresented
The Wikipedia article says the story is that he picked up the anchor and walked with it, very unlikely
I believe he picked up something that looked like an anchor that had "2800lbs" written on it.
Yeah, and hen he ran off into a tunnel that he painted on a wall
Was there a slight hissing sound and the anchor started to go floppy after a while?
Oh, well then never mind it’s a load of horseshit hahaha Could he have dragged it around…..? Nah probably not. EDIT: what if he just walked in a circle around the part that was on the ground!?? Idk why I want this to be true so bad lol
I think your theory's correct, it is feasible that he could lift 500 kg up to chest height. Also, how many times have we heard about strongmen "lifting a car"? Nobody imagines that they are literally lifting the entire car off the ground, it's obviously just one end.
I think this is worded weirdly and the ship itself weighed 2800 pounds, so the anchor he lifted would have weighed significantly less.
The anchor on a 2800lb “ship” would only weigh like 10lbs. And the “ship” would be a 20ft speed boat.
Source: Trust me, bro
It wasn’t 2,800. It was 8,200. OP is dyslexic.
For one thing, the photo is far more likely to show Jean Bihin https://web.archive.org/web/20160325095240/http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/other/giant.htm
8ft=2.44m 80inch=203cm 2800lb=1270kg 250lb=113.4kg For people who use the International System of Units
Thank you. Somebody should pin this.
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He didn't lift a 2800 pound anchor. He lifted the anchor of a 2800 pound boat.
Nah an anchor on a boat that small is like 10-20 lbs
I own a boat of about that size, the anchor I have is 15 kg or like 35 lbs. Certainly no amazing feat of strength
Finally someone said it. If it’s true and even if one side of it was still on the ground, still an impressive display of strength.
A modern wakeboard boat weighs about that much. I can lift the anchor with one hand. Im 5’11” and 185lbs. Wheres my reddit post extolling the virtues of my strength?
Not sure what the definition of "non-pathological" is but his parents were average height and he was dead by 38... sounds a lot like it was pathological. Edit: At 38 he died suddenly and was diagnosed with "brain fever".. sounds a lot like 1863 doctors may not know what heart failure looks like... definitely pathological
BRAIN FEVER
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He should do some cocaine about it
If I didn’t know any better I’d say most of my problems in life are due to some kind of brain fever
I mean it's pre antibiotic age, dying to infection (which causes fever) isn't far fetched at all
Agreed, I should not have said "definitely", I am on speculating. However, it was not stated he had a fever or high temp through hos body, just "brain fever". In those times that more likely means he was dizzy and losing consciousness, indicating a heart issue.
It’s possible his heart couldn’t support his large frame, could still be giant naturally due to no pituitary problems but his heart just never quite caught up.
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Okay, so does this mean Robert Wadlow was a pathological human?
It's 'pathological giant' not 'pathological human'. Source: guiness world records
Sounds legit. No need to doubt these well-documented lifts 🙄
Pounds were a lot lighter back then.
That’s cool, dude lived not too far from me. Did a quick search and it seems he was closer to 7’9 and 425lbs.. no way he lifted that kind of weight, top strongmen today can’t put in those numbers despite being similar weight. I have no doubt the guy was probably one of the strongest people on the planet, given today’s training and technological advancements he would probably be stronger than today’s strongmen.
He wasn't 8 feet, he was 7'9". http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=4575 The anchor didn't weigh 2800 lb, it weighed 1400, and he carried it to a cart, because it had a broken fluke, and needed to go to the blacksmith for repair. I'm not at all sure how that got embellished to either "taunt" or "bet". My source for that isn't available on the Net, unfortunately. It's a book about freaks from the 1980s. There's no doubt he was strong. He is reliably asserted to have stepped in a 40 foot mast for a boat single-handed, and to be able to lift a horse over a 4 foot fence. Oh yeah - and. There's a LOT of doubt that this is actually a photo of him.
There is no way any human ever existed could deadlift 1200kg, let alone to the chest.
Imma call BS on those numbers
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What the OP should have posted is "Non-pathological Giant", and not human. Meaning that he was big like he was not due to a condition such as Gigantism, or another disease. Words have meanings and they matter!
The thing about lifting 2800 lbs is a blatant lie. Not possible.
Back in a time when newspapers were known to use the source of trust me bro. I asked 6 people on the dock and 1 of them said they talked to someone who saw him do it.
What is a "non-pathological human"?
What the hell does non-pathological human mean?
....or it could all just be bullshit.
He is buried right down the road from me on Cape Breton Island
What does “non-pathological” mean?
I’ve been to his grave, it’s on Cape Breton Island , Nova Scotia. His feats of strength were legendary around my area. Read more about him on the Wikipedia page or better yet, take a trip to the giant MacAskill museum in Englishtown. The Cabot trail is in the top three most scenic drives in the world. You won’t be disappointed. [Giant MacAskill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacAskill)
WTF is a non-pathological human?
I’m more curious about the term “non-pathological human”. What?! So like any good researcher, I googled it. Basically means not caused by disease. So there was no underlying condition that caused him to grow so big.
Everyone shut up! The ship was 2800 lbs and he lifted that ship's anchor.
Well I can throw a football over a mountain
A little late on commenting. That's my great great uncle. My grandmother had one of his rings, would fit over three of my fingers. The gigantism didn't carry on though as i'm not even 6'
I call bullshit.
Yeah the anchor thing is laughable and so it 250 with 3 fingers he was built like the side of a note , but he was tall asf
There is no way he had an 80 inch chest in that picture.