Cutting out for backboxes

[ebee]

Housemaids knee & tennis elbow for me

Electricians knee (a.k.a housemaids knee) and arthritic shoulders and torn ligaments from electrical works for me, serves me right as being overweight does not help

 

[Jurassicspark]

At a site I was working on, the builders were working at the same time. The cement sacks were 25kg but then reduced to 15kg. The bloke there said to me "Ah at least we can carry less weight and save our bodies".

He then carried two sacks at the same time.

 

[ebee]

Yes those sacks went down in weight. Coalmen used to carry some really awesome weight sacks of coal in my youth

 

[morqthana]

Sack of coal was a cwt, I think?

 

[ebee]

Yes you were right I reckon, approx nearly 51 Kg !!!

Builders I worked with called the 25Kg building matls bags *for whimps!" LOL

 

[morqthana]

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1977-03-03/debates/73260f67-838d-4e79-b4dd-870ee10eb142/CoalConsumption

 

[JohnW2]

Sack of coal was a cwt, I think?

Yes, I think so.

When I was at uni, I spent one summer vacation working in the 'stores' of a hospital, which dealt with everything from food supplies to medical equipment. Sugar and flour were both delivered in 'bulk' sacks. Sugar, like coal, was in 112 lb / 8 stone / 1 cwt (i.e. about 50 kg) bags, and it amazes we to recall that I was somehow able to pick them up and move them short distances. However, flour came in 140 lb / 10 stone bags, and they beat me, even then!

Today, I struggle to pick up and carry one of the 25 kg bags that people have been talking about above

 

[morqthana]

I no longer have to worry about the single-item weight limit for check-in luggage when flying.

If I can lift it, it's under the limit.

 

[SUNRAY]

At a site I was working on, the builders were working at the same time. The cement sacks were 25kg but then reduced to 15kg. The bloke there said to me "Ah at least we can carry less weight and save our bodies".

He then carried two sacks at the same time.

Cement always used to be 1cwt bags, then reduced to ½cwt for H&S reasons. On a site I saw labourers unloading a lorry and most accepted 3 on their shoulder, those who took 2 were called whimps.

 

[morqthana]

Where's Eddie Hall when you need him