Arne Posted May 9, 2002 Share Posted May 9, 2002 This gentleman was extremly big and strong, especially in his hands. Look at the size of his hands and overallsize at the two lower pictures, and remember he was very tall 205 cm (6' 7"). He was known as the biggest and strongest miner ever in Sweden. This pictures are the only known pictures of him. http://w1.240.telia.com/~u24006697/jatten.htm Unfortunately, only on Swedish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Horne Posted May 9, 2002 Share Posted May 9, 2002 Wow, huge hands! Arne, for those of us who can't read swedish, tell us some of his feats of strength. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted May 9, 2002 Share Posted May 9, 2002 what does it say! it looks very interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryduty Posted May 9, 2002 Share Posted May 9, 2002 Here's another one on him: http://hem.passagen.se/jweb/jatten.html Train smart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sybersnott Posted May 9, 2002 Share Posted May 9, 2002 This is unusual, since I've never heard of him before. Maybe Roark has. You might want to ask him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Say Posted May 9, 2002 Share Posted May 9, 2002 I can't find a site that translates swedish. Google & Altavista have translators, but they don't do swedish. I want to see what that guy could do. He looks like an ogre! :0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terryduty Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 Nathan, this site translates web pages in many different languages (including Swedish) into English: http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran Train smart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Horne Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 Still couldn't make head nor tail out of the translation. Arne, help us! David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest woody36 Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 It's times like this,i wish i'd listened more to that chef on the Muppets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted May 10, 2002 Author Share Posted May 10, 2002 I'll try to tranlate some of his "feats". He used to walk 2 km between the brewery and his home carrying two kegs weighing over 40 kg. He uses only his thumb and forefinger and grip over the rim. The rim was only 2-3 cm high. He could also carry two sacks wieghing 100 kg each and walk 3 km without putting them down. He was able to load, only with his hands, more than 100 metric tons of ore? rock? on special minewagons? under one day. Sorry, I hope you can understand what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Horne Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 Arne, Thank you. A very strong individual indeed. Those hands are huge though! David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 115-1005574997 Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 Interesting indeed Arne, thanks for sharing it with us, he seems quiet a guy. Dave I thought Jim and Marc's hands were big Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sybersnott Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 I wish someone snapped some pics of him performing some of those feats. Sitting down and standing poses don't offer much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roark Posted May 11, 2002 Share Posted May 11, 2002 Perhaps it is a translation problem, but I am not understanding what exactly happened. What was the total weight of the kegs; was one pinched in each hand, or was one atop the other horizontally, the the bottom keg pinched with both hands. ? Would not large hands be a hindrance in the pinching of something so small? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Say Posted May 12, 2002 Share Posted May 12, 2002 It's too bad, for us anyway, that guy didn't have a strength show that he took on the road. He was around about 50 yrs too early I think. Louis Cyr started out as a lumberjack & then got famous & npw everyvody knows what he could do. If Anders Ansersson did the same, maybe Sweden would have had it's own version of Cyr. Or Canada would have had it's version of Anders Andersson in Louis Cyr. I wonder if that guy could have held a dozen eggs in one hand (without the carton!). I remember when we went to Ripley's in L.A. seeing pics of guys doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted May 12, 2002 Author Share Posted May 12, 2002 Roark: He carried one keg in each hand. The kegs weights over 88 lbs each and I suspect that the type of grip he used was subtermino-lateral opposition. That's the anatomical name of that type of grip. The sack's did he carried under his arms. I wish my english had been a little bit better so I could have translate the whole page. Nathan: It seem that he died in 1918 in the Spanish flu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mac Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 Andersson does look extremely impressive, especially for that height and weight (6'8"-6'9", around 350). His overall shape in the standing photo reminds me of a leaner, less obviously agromegalic Andre the Giant. One comment I did wish to make was the hands. They are massive, but have the look of the hands of an acromegalic - which are generally not that strong, or at least not as strong as their size would indicate. I do not know how old he is in these photos, but those hands look like those of an old man - and by that I mean very large, almost rheumatuc knuckles and thin (proportionally) fingers. The way he holds his hands also appears to support this (at least to my eye, although of course that could be just the way he held his hands anyway.) Just an opinion based on the photos - did anyone see these things the way I did? In any case, they are just observations - I wouldn't have said that Kinney could close the 4 from looking at him. Anyway, I think it's time that I start trying to carry 2 x 40kg kegs home from the brewery Chris McCarthy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StrongerthanArne Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 Based on the Swedish text it seems that he was well known locally not only by his huge size but rather by his huge strength, which perhaps would speak against him being the result of a genetic defect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1stCoC Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 After looking at the pictures I agree completely with the Mac. All of the mans features...the face, hands,and twisted torso all point to acromeglia BUT THAT DOES NOT SAY he was not a strong man. I would think he could carry the Inch bell for a good distance!The loading of 100 metric tons (2200000lbs in a day) by hand and carrying the barrels by the rims single handed seem to be a folk lore embellished story however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mac Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 Yes, I agree that acromegaly does not mean that he was not a very strong man, it is just what I noticed from looking at the photos. I also agree that the "more than 100 tonnes" (I think you might have got carried with the 000's there, 1st COC, as 100 tonnes is 220,466.2lbs) in a day, especially bare-handed, does sound like the stuff of legend. But then with feats like that, they are so rarely practised these days that I don't know how amazing that feat would be. I have deadlifted around 35 tonnes in an hour (100kg x 350+ reps - falling over afterwards!!)) and I know that over 1,000,000lbs (about 454 tonnes) has been deadlifted in a day, so maybe, given a 12 hour day the feat is possible. I assume that the loading job would involve picking rocks up from a ever-replenishing pile and loading them onto a trailer about waist-height, like the old strongman loading events. Perhaps someone might like to give this a try one day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Say Posted May 15, 2002 Share Posted May 15, 2002 I think that guy could EASILY have moved 100 tonnes of stuff in a day. Frank Richards, the same guy who used to shoot himself with a cannon 2x a day had a job where he had to load freight cars with crates of oranges. Each crate of oranges weighed 78 (or 88?) lbs & he could load 400 of those in 40mins & total 500,000lbs in one day. He weighed about 240lbs & I think that Anders Andersson guy could easily be just as productive at 360lbs especially if he worked up to it over the course of sevral years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lasse Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 Anders could load 500 kg blocks of ore by hand. The mining company and Oxelosund's harbour had an agreement that all the ore arriving to the harbour should be loaded by hand. The harbour officials were soon complaining since many of the blocks were weighing up to 500 kg. The mining company answered that they are loaded by hand and sent Anders to Oxelosund's harbour. There he showed his strength to the harbourmaster. After that there were no more complaints about 500 kg blocks being to heavy to be loaded by hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mac Posted May 16, 2002 Share Posted May 16, 2002 The blocks obviously loaded in a different way than I thought then.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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