The major construction and moving project of moving the 47 batteries from the warehouse to the garage is completed. A shelving unit was engineered and constructed to hold 4136 pounds of batteries and here is the completed result.
These are all for sale so I figure each reader could buy one and put it in a backpack and carry around to run their phone or something.
Also, it should be noted for those not paying attention, I’m not 25 anymore and I had to lift and move each of these 88 lb batteries 5 times to get them from the warehouse to the shelf. That is a minimum of dead lifting 20680 lbs during the course of this project. I had to carry them probably a total of 30 feet which I guess would make 620400 ft/lbs or something.That makes you want to sing a song about carrying heavy weights.
This version is Merle Travis that wrote and recorded the song in 1946 and if that had been the only recording no one would have a loading song to sing because it wasn’t a big hit.
In the mid 50’s there was a guy from Tennessee that had a TV show that my mom and dad watched every week. Dad in particular liked the show. I’m sure that we were watching a couple weeks before my 7th birthday when Tennessee Ernie Ford sang on TV for the first time his hit song 16 Tons, pencil thin mustache and all.
This song went on to be covered by many groups and singers and there is probably not a person over 40 that can’t sing along with at least part of it. In fact here is the most recent cover by Jeff Beck and ZZ Top with Tal Wilkenfeld on bass.
HOWL HOWL HOWL HOWL