Photos 2001- Page 2

    This page includes the remainder of pictures from 2001.

     This is my best bend to date.  It may not look different than other steel, but it is a 6"x1/4" Grade 5 bolt- Heat Treated (tempered), Medium Carbon Steel (120,000  PSI), see Nutty.com.  After bending I tested another bolt from the same source and it took 365-pounds of weight hanging off the bolt to bend it only 1/4".  The picture on the left is to show that the bend was off-center, which made it harder.  The picture on the right is to show the Grade 5 markings (3 lines on top).  Based on my recent tests, this bar is only a few pounds of bending force away from the infamous Ironmind Red bar.  Bent June 9, 2001.

 

 

 

 

 The nail on the left takes 330-pounds to bend 1/4".  I've recently bent one of these with 1/2"cut off.  It is unknown how much force this takes, but I estimate it to be around 355.  Not all 60-penny nails are created equal.  The nail on the top is for comparison with the one on the lower right, which has 1.25" cut off (note the length of the cut off piece).  This nail was hard to bend because I could only put three fingers of each hand on the nail.  All these nails were "finished" by putting a cloth over the side of the point end and hammering them with the bottom of my fist.  Please do not attempt to duplicate this with adequate reflection of your current strength levels and abilities!  See your Doctor or Psychologist before attempted anything of this nature.

 

   These nails, bars and bolts all have different stories.  The carriage bolt on the top was broken bare handed in around 10 seconds, the bar on the left is a piece of cold rolled steel cut to, I believe, 5.5".  I've recently bent the Ironmind Blue cut 5.125", bent very strictly.   The 60-penny and Ironmind yellow bars in the center and right were bent way off center to increase the difficulty.  The two nails in the front of the picture were the first two I hammered with my fist.  I think I'll make a chain out of all of these.

 

This page is beginning to look like a little house of horrors with all the bent steel above.  For a change of pace, here's a "Slim-Style" bend that I did a few months ago.  I'm not exactly sure what I'm bending here, but it is probably hot rolled steel cut fairly short, perhaps 5.5"x1/4".  This is the technique used by Slim the Hammer Man Farman to bend 60-penny nails, hence the name "Slim-Style."  I have not practiced this way much, hence the "easy" piece of steel. I eventually bent 4.25 inches in this style in December of 2001.

 

                            

     While reading  the classic "The Super Athletes" by Willoughby recently, I noted with interest a lift by the great leverage lifter, Paul Von Boeckmann.  He would strictly lever an 80-pound, 20-inch, Iron Indian  club from floor to overhead.  The lift would start with the club parallel to the floor, up and "over his shoulder."  I wondered how I would do with this lift, and the results are in the picture to the right.  I found that I could lever 65-pounds in this manner, but for the picture I needed to swing the weight up because the self timer would go off before my top down lever.  This is about  650 inch-pounds of torque.  I believe with practice and patience I can duplicate Von Boeckmann's feat.  It was said that Sandow and Charles Atlas tried the club, but failed to make the lift.  Only Joe Nordquest "with great effort" could lift the club in the prescribed manner. 12/2/01.