ANSI Z133 , Commercial tree/wood cutting rule ?

We had an HR Department.
It's main mission was "to protect the company from it's employees"


Exactly, same crap exists all over.

 

How realistic do you think that chart is ?
Just curious, according to that chart I am regularly lifting fresh cut white oak rounds that are over 300 pounds.
I just don't think I am that strong.

 

With a handle like "Chestnut"??? Ya gotta be a monster!

 

That is my trail name from thru hiking the Appalachian trail. I am just an ordinary sized guy. That chart just don't seem to add up to what I am cutting and splitting, 22" long to some times over 24 diameter rounds. I just find it hard to believe their that heavy.

 

Maybe the chart is wrong .
In the right setting , 300# is doable. Just don't slip, twist or bend with it. Use your legs

Chart matched up real close when I weighed some 12" birch rounds.

Say it's 50 pounds off, still 250 lbs. Just say'n.
Weigh one.

If over 16" ,( is just over 100#s with most wood types), to heavy for me to lift, now-a-days,
Not that I can't, I just don't , ( roll & tumble )

Just cause you can, don't mean you should !

 

I don't have a scale that would work in that weight range.
I Know my 38" yardman lawn tractor is in the 350# range and its a bitch for me just to pick up and move the rear end.
The big rounds are definitely a bear to pick up, and I am no weight lifter, maybe its just a difference in mass, I don't know.
300# seems like a big number, I am just amazed any one can do that and load a splitter all day.

 

Yea
Mass, size & lifting technique, probably has something to do with .
My calf muscles lift near 200 lbs all day long,
Pick up a 100 pound round, my back is close to crying , but the leg & arm muscles don't seem to notice.