Ape Strength: Myth vs Reality

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One example about difficulties with wood weight and dry wood.

Look at 1:17 and forward.

That log is obviously dry again. She say that it is 26 inches log. When she takes it and I stop video at 1:20, I used ruler and measured on my screen, that log was 5 cm long and 2 cm thick. So when it is said, that it is 26 inches long, 26:5= 5,2 and 5,2 x 2 is 10,4. So that is diameter of that log, I think.

Then if that would be for instance pine, log of that size, humidity 20%, weight should be about 18 kg which is about 40 lbs. It looks like to be, that she lifts is much easier than she should if that would really be about 18 kg when looking how slim she is. But that doesn´t look like some plastic fake log either :) I think, that it is just very dry and light wood species. I put this just here to show how difficult it is to know too well unless knowing tree species :) 

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