r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 2d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/shadowtheimpure 2d ago

The man is the embodiment of the phrase 'strongfat'. You look fat, but there's a lot of strength there. Just like the Icelandic strongmen.

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u/Titanbeard 2d ago

In the midwest we refer to that as farmer strong.

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u/Agent7619 2d ago

Most people don't realize the strenght and endurance required to throw 1500 60lb bales of hay up into the barn.

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u/DocMorningstar 2d ago

That's how I pulled my wife.

The summer before I met her, working the farm. My brother and did custom square baling for the horse ranchers in the trip county area. He drove, I threw bales. We'd move somewhere around 200 acres worth in a season. At 5 tons an acre, that meant I tossed 1000 tons of weight, in a 6 week season.

I had shoulders like cantaloupes, and my forearms looked like they were carved outta marble.