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The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [ 2 ] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton , producing a " short ton " of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a " long ton " of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).
The weight of the stone will vary from 16 to 30 lb for men (or 8 to 18 lb for women) depending on which type of stone put event (Braemar stone or Open stone) is being contested and also on the idiosyncrasies of the event (mainly because stones in use have no standard weight). There are also some differences in allowable techniques and rules.
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Born in Cornwall in 1918, he was based at the Belle Vue, Manchester entertainment complex early in his wrestling career from around 1939. Briefly in 1952-3 his wrestling persona was a masked character, The Vampire, though he was mostly known as Man Mountain due to his 20-stone weight (280 lbs, 130 kg), a name he kept after retiring from wrestling.
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In 2011, he loaded a 243 kg (536 lb) Manhood Stone (Max Atlas Stone) over a 4 ft bar and secured a sixth place finish. In 2013, he loaded a 205 kg (452 lb) Atlas Stone 4 times over a 4 ft bar and shared the world record with Brian Shaw for the heaviest Hummer Tire Deadlift performed from 15 inches off the floor at 509 kg (1,122 lb).
In 1860, Dinnie undertook a feat of strength that was to give birth to a long-lasting legacy. He carried two granite boulders with a combined weight of 733 pounds (332 kg), now known as the Dinnie Stones, for a distance of more than 17 feet (5.2 m), across the width of the Potarch Bridge. [26]