John4cars Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 I finally have healed up enough to try out the DO bending tonight. I had and AWESOME time tonight with the bending session. I started out my warm up with some squats and wall push ups then started my bending session. My little boy was with me and kept telling me "YOUR STRONG PAPI". I think that was my motivation tonight. this was all in about 50minutes. I started off bending really light and bent five 3/16 x 7" drill rod from FBBC, then one 6" IM white nail. Then I proceeded to bend an IM (7") yellow nail. That went down fairly easy. So I brought out the FBBC 5" Square and that was quite a bit more of a challenge, especially on the kink.Then I started to feel brave, confident, or possibly disillusioned or something to that effect because I brought out the FBBC 7" Hex and gave it a shot. It didn't quite go as I had hoped it would. If I was attempting to bend it in a timed effort I seriously failed, but it was one hell of a battle. So far I haven't given that much effort on a bar for so long a period of time. I tried to bend the 7" hex for almost 30 minutes about 21min of actual bending. I only took a couple of short brakes, one lasting about 5 minutes which isn't very good for not letting the metal cool down. I was able to kink it and then give it a couple more bends throughout that long period of time. I had to finally give up because I had started to get these large swollen bumps on the inside of my knuckles. After this difficult attempt without getting it to bend very far I had to cool down with a 6" Grade 2 bolt so that I could quit on a positive note. I will try to get the videos uploaded to youtube and posted tomorrow. But for now here is a pic of what I bent tonight. Man I am exhausted and need to hit the sack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booyah!!! Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Nice workout John. Nice work up to an over max bend and then a small cool down. Very nice!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bencrush Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Very nice John! All that volume and effort is paying off already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumpster Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Sounds like a fun workout. Was that hex 3/16" or 1/4"? You said you did a 5" square so I'm assuming that was 3/16" and the hex was 1/4". Anyway, keep at it and you'll continue making fast progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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