Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I do remember the 6x4 beam across an old shed we used to put a 5 tonne
yacht pulley and hoist on to lift a Morris 1500 engine out..only when
the 5 tonne pulley bent, and the beam deflected about 6 inches, did we
realise that the whole front of the car was 3 " off the deck.. 'er I
think the engine has caught on something chaps'

Weigh more than 5 tons, that Morris, did it?

Si


No. What we discovered was that a '5 ton breaking strain pulley' breaks
at 5 tons.

It gets totally buggered at about 1.5 tho ;-)

It just didn't actually break..