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Welcome to Bigsteel.net! Actually, only the Homepage is here now, with the rest of the site transitioning soon. While
not related to strength I have recently expanded my photography
page with pictures I have taken over the
years. If
you haven't done so already please check out the new the Bigsteel Store. I only recently became interested in trying horseshoe bending. I was unsuccessful years ago trying to bend horseshoes that, as it turns out, were exceptionally strong. After getting some partial bends of these hard ones last month I found that I could bend the type of horseshoe below into a full S-Shape.
Since this bend I've also bent a shoe that had about 20% more steel and it thus was proportionally harder. The harder shoe was about the same strength as the Crescent Wrench below, but it took more endurance to bend, requiring three big bends to actually get it spun around in the position shown. (bent July 7, 2003). Bigsteel readers are also on a quest for strength. Hence, I have begun the Bigsteel Readers Gallery. Guidelines for submitting pictures to the Gallery are in the Call for Pictures. (3/5/03). After meeting Dennis Rogers at the AOBS dinner I was inspired to try and bend a crescent wrench. I have not been bending lately, letting old injuries heal themselves. It's hard for me to stay away from bending long and I decided 
to try again. I've tried to bend this particular 8"
wrench before when I was near my peak. Nothing happened
the last time I tried. I commented to a friend then that
someday I would pull it from my toolbox and I would know I could
bend it. I guess the day had come for this to happen
because before the bend my hands felt good and I saw in my mind
that the steel was not that strong, after all, Dennis can bend
even bigger and thicker 10" wrenches. I bent the
initial bend without bracing my hands, but finished the bend off
with my forearms resting on my thighs. The
wrench was admittedly a cheap one, but it is labeled “Drop
Forged.” (9/29/02).
Here is another
great picture from Saturday,
June 22, On Saturday,
June 22, 2002 I attended the Association of Oldetime Barbell
& Strongmen annual reunion Dinner. History was
made this night as Mark Henry cleaned and pressed an Inch
dumbbell replica. Feats of Strength News Portal Archive. Please read my Dedication page.
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2002
and the Association of Oldetime Barbell
& Strongmen annual reunion Dinner. This is Slim
the Hammer Man Farman, many times referred to as the greatest
living strongman. He certainly put on a show, and at
around 70 years of age! These are two 17-pound hammers
which were first lifted to the rear "Weaver stick"
style. Slim then swung them and reversed the grip in his
hand. Once overhead he brought them all the way down to
his nose. For those of you out there who have tried this,
note the height of Slim's hands and the angle of the handle to
the floor. Slim actually brought the hammers farther down
so that they were parallel to the floor, and the full torque of
the weight pulling against his hand and wrist. 7/10/02.
Photos of the event are 
