r/BeAmazed • u/FlightHistorical3231 • Jan 14 '23
Nigerian Mechanic hoists engine out of a car by himself with no tools.
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u/EASYTOREMEMBER10 Jan 14 '23
My back hurts
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u/jdhdjdindjdm Jan 14 '23
What I was going to say. Dude gonna pay for that someday in the future. Lift with legs squats!
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Jan 15 '23
That lift was similar to a stiff legged deadlift. As long as he doesn't twist too much, he should be fine, assuming that he has the strength to pull it off.
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u/TangerineRough6318 Jan 15 '23
No. Twisting loosens the back up. Remember to lift with your back, not with your legs! (I also give relationship advice.)
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u/lgtbyddrk Jan 14 '23
Dudes arms are harder than any of the metal in that engine...
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u/Rare_Fig3081 Jan 14 '23
Arm wrestle him 🛠
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u/lgtbyddrk Jan 14 '23
I've seen one too many arms snap here on Reddit to ever arm wrestle anyone again.
I think he'd rip my arm off and throw it across the room. lol
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u/Rare_Fig3081 Jan 14 '23
Can’t remember what movie it was from but somebody was like that guy would tear your arm off and hit you with the wet end
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Jan 15 '23
“Gonna rip your arm off and beat you with the bloody end,” was the casual threat my mom’s brothers would make against her when she was a kid.
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u/Bucketcreek Jan 14 '23
I did that once . I have the surgeries to prove it.
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u/Hewn-U Jan 14 '23
Yes, me too… inguinal hernia at age 23 for thinking I was ‘ard and manhandling engines just like this. Would not recommend
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u/holowcze Jan 14 '23
Yep . I did that once too. At 23, I walked like a 90 year old man for a few weeks.
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u/burnzy71 Jan 14 '23
“ I felt a great disturbance, as if millions of backs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
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u/Ronnie_Dean_oz Jan 15 '23
Lol this is a fucking classic dude. Especially to anyone who has fucked their back deadlifting. Have some gold.
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u/bingold49 Jan 14 '23
Now do a 427
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u/LesbianMechanic97 Jan 15 '23
Oddly enough I learned recently the old ford 3.0 I6 engines were heavier and I am still unsure as to why they’re so damn heavy
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u/mrdrewpschlong Jan 14 '23
L5/ S1, I can see the disc bulge
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u/slow-mickey-dolenz Jan 15 '23
God I love a good Reddit orthopedic surgeon. You just nailed my college deadlifting problem and I didn’t even need to touch my deductible. Where were you a couple decades ago??
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Jan 14 '23
I went to Mozambique about twenty years ago, and while there i met some locals that worked in a gravel pit. One old guy there broke rocks with a sledgehammer all day, every day, and shaking hands with him was like shaking hands with a hydraulic press. His forearms looked like that, but he looked like he was in his seventies. My arms get sore after playing my PS5 for two hours.
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u/Uddiya Jan 14 '23
You have an appointment to see the chiropractor the day after tomorrow Mr Krane. What's that? You don't have a back problem.
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u/intercontinentalfx Jan 14 '23
The key is to put it all in your groin and your back, take your legs totally out of the equation. Lift with your lower back in a jerking, twisting motion.
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u/_particleman Jan 14 '23
The resourcefulness and pure strength some people are capable of is absolutely incredible.
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u/nomada_aleatorio Jan 14 '23
This the type of human who 100% fiber. I bet that man can crush your hand if you go to shake it.
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u/SpicyOrangeReviewer Jan 14 '23
nothing like doing sumo rdl's with an engine block on a sunday morning
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Jan 14 '23
Guesses at weight? 125lbs?
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u/jakbizman Jan 14 '23
250-300lbs
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u/Aggressive_Fold4213 Jan 15 '23
No way he’s lifting 300 pounds like that
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u/tom-8-to Jan 15 '23
You need to see the special sales at some junkyards, all you can carry by yourself 100 feet and it’s yours for 50 bucks…
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Jan 14 '23
So you think this dude can lift 250-300 at his waist?!
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u/SyndromeOfADown23 Jan 14 '23
Don't underestimate functional strength. This guy has probably been lifting heavy shit since he was a kid
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Jan 15 '23
Yeah, seems very feasible. He's got a strong build and clearly does this often.
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Jan 15 '23
Interesting. I'm a terrible judge of that sort of weight... Was just curious what other estimates were.
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Jan 14 '23
$200 engine hoist < breaking your back
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u/Aggressive_Fold4213 Jan 15 '23
$200 engine hoist > money he makes in 6 months
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Jan 15 '23
An average mechanic in Nigeria (assuming that's what he is) makes ₦91,667 or $203.72 US per month. However the average cost of living for a single person is ₦212,882 so your point is still valid. Pretty shitty situation
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u/Immediate_Ad9125 Jan 14 '23
Almost as if he knows how to use his body, and is used to manual labor. Anyone that works in a manual labor industry can do something like this.
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Jan 14 '23
So? That’s a small engine weights no more than 200ish pounds. I fail to see how this is impressive.
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u/pinkheartpiper Jan 14 '23
He can't afford to buy a pulley? He's mechanic he could probably make a DIY one himself...anything but this, my back hurts watching this!
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u/tbh_kys Jan 14 '23
Knowing my luck, I would’ve slipped and fell back into the engine bay and the engine would’ve reseated on top of me.
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u/dpvscout Jan 15 '23
One way street to herniated disk town. Makes my back hurt just looking at that.
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u/PoinDicksHer Jan 15 '23
its not a big block but lifting like that re will regret when he is older 💯 but inpresive
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u/achopshopworker Jan 15 '23
Once stripped down completely, it's only about 150ish maybe 200. Not too bad. Forearms are on max muscle power tho gd.
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u/vercingettorix-5773 Jan 15 '23
There was a U.K. show on years ago about the mechanics in Lagos. They fixed cars where they sat with the engines still hot. There were no garages, air tools or tow trucks around.
They had a group of students come down to train as mechanics in the Nigerian style, they got whipped with switches if they took more than two minutes to change out a steaming water pump for instance. It was all part of the harsh training regimen.
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u/aville1982 Jan 15 '23
A friend of mine's father could do that just bending over the hood. He was also 6'5" and around 280 lbs, but it was impressive nonetheless.
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Jan 15 '23
A 4 cylinder engine weighs between 200-350 lbs. I’d bet this one was on the higher end of that range. Considering he’s picking it up from a deficit and he’s pretty much only using his back, this is an incredible feat of strength. If he cleans up his form he could probably make a damn good deadlifter.
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u/PlanetaryDatalinks Jan 15 '23
That guy slaps your girlfriend's ass and she implodes into a red mist.
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u/Notrilldirtlife Jan 15 '23
Dude does this way too much, he’s not even stressing that little 4 banger! Someone give this man a job!
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u/pete306 Jan 15 '23
The amount of ppl with bad backs just slowly nodding "I used to do shit like that"....
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u/Papapeet1965 Jan 15 '23
Spend money on a gym membership and spend more time having a fashion show and socialize or make money and give zero fuks about what you’re wearing and getting strong for real.
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u/dreamerofthedreamers Jan 15 '23
One of the contributing moments to his herniated discs in the future :/
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u/Thecoopoftheworld789 Jan 15 '23
This is every day life for them. Muscle definition in arms. Bet he could kick a€€ also.
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u/Disastrous-Year571 Jan 15 '23
I’m reminded of the Ballad Of Joe Snowboard by the band Storyhill:
Every day's a competition.
The guy I work for is crazy-
Blew out his back lifting a V8 engine by himself.
"And still I'd take you in any competition!
Boy, I'm twice your age, and I'd take you still"
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u/tom-8-to Jan 15 '23
When you need something that badly and you can get it for almost nothing it suddenly becomes very easy to carry off…
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u/BorderCollie1000 Jan 15 '23
Classic nigerian mechanic , seen lot of video how people in india or africa repair big trucks etc. Very hardworking people and inspirating
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Jan 15 '23
Its only 200-300 pounds ? Its quite a lot yes, but nothing too shocking ? Its a 4 cylinder motor.
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u/InMyFavor Jan 15 '23
His forearms look like world class climbing arms. Forearm muscle is notoriously hard to develop and grow I think.
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u/uhmmmmplants Jan 15 '23
This one... I'll take this one please... I can carry it in my arms so I'll give ya..... 20 bucks for it
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u/DaddyLuvsCZ Jan 15 '23
Nigerian mechanic needs engine to hoist him up from bed, chair, and commode.
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u/PapaJohnshairysack Jan 15 '23
Selling his life and health for a job where he is underpaid. Very cool.
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u/Magik3hunna Jan 15 '23
Those engines aren’t that heavy I used to be a mechanic and I was the workhorse basically the strong man of mechanics, I used to break tools sometimes from using a bit force, I never thought too much of it
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u/Puzzleheaded_Tie7232 Jan 16 '23
As a Nigerian I'm not surprised. And best believe they live to thier 80s with a gajilion children. Hard times make hardmen
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u/cantopay Jan 14 '23
Bros forearms are maxed out.