07-06-2021, 10:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2021, 08:43 PM by A G Wood.
Edit Reason: even Trevithick couldn't throw an anvil that far
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(06-06-2021, 08:41 PM)Howard Wright Wrote: Hi Fellow tall tale tellers!
Reminds me of the folk tale from Peover church in Cheshire. There is a huge oak chest in the vestry which, as the story goes, is used as a test for a good Cheshire bride. If the bride can’t throw back the lid with one hand and with one action she is not a suitable wife for the Cheshire bridegroom.
Bit harsh I would say!
Cheers
Howard
Isn't there an apocryphal story of Richard Trevithick flinging an anvil sledgehammer over the roof of a thatched cottage for a wager?
When I reflect on all the manhandling I used to do with automatic transmissions and manual transmissions in confined spaces (only room for one lifter) under vehicles on hoists and over pits, I just shake my head. No wonder my knees hurt. It wasn't until one of the other lads dropped a freshly overhauled torque converter off the nose of freshly rebuilt transmission and dented it (narrowly missing denting his foot) that the manager relented and let us buy a proper transmission jack.