"philo " wrote in message ...


The batteries I worked with were usually in the 500 - 4000 pound range
so were not liftable by hand...but we did have to install plenty of VRLA
and it can be a lot of physical work.

I did see my boss once muscle one of those 500# batteries onto a pallet.

He did stuff like that for a while but later needed to get back surgery.



I stopped doing stuff like that a long time ago. I don't need help, I will
use the laws of leverage. :-)

Before my back started giving me grief I should have clued in one time when I
was trying to mount an approx. 250 pound enclosure to some strut. Trying
to leverage the thing off of the ground with my arms and knees was rather
awkward, being that the thing was large and cumbersome, and I had to have
the thing balanced on my left knee while trying to balance and lift and well,
I felt something weird in my right ankle. Sort of hurt, but wasn't really
all that bad, all things considered.

The best I could describe it was like one of those paper towel commercials.
They wet it and pull the thing apart with fingertips. The visual of that
was akin to the sensation I felt along the rear exterior of my heel and
Achilles tendon. Kind of freaky. I finished mounting the stupid panel and
went home for the day.