Average lifting weight

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Tue Feb 19 13:21:40 2002

At 12:12 PM 2/19/02 -0600, you wrote:

>
>My question is, does anyone know how many people it takes
>to lift this comfortably?


  The amount of allowable lift weight has gone steadily down. When I was in
the USAF (mid '70s) it was 75 lbs for a man. It's since been lowered to 50
lbs and about 10 -12 years ago was lowered again to 40 lbs. I'd say that
you'll need *at least* six big strong guys. If they're not big and strong,
you'll need up to twice as many.

  Joe
Received on Tue Feb 19 2002 - 13:21:40 GMT