I probably chat with my old man about shifting weights about more than I do with most. It's probably his fault that I picked them up in the first place as he was always lifting when I was a kid. Despite not lifting these days, he shows quite a lot of interest in what I'm doing. Part of that is taking advantage of my ever increasing ego...
He's just divvied up a plot of land that he co-owned with his brother and needed a hand banging 6' long wooded stakes into the ground so that he could put up a fence. Knowing that I wouldn't be able to resist a physical challenge he said to me that he could use a hand knocking a couple in. I fell for that pretty quickly (actually I never mind helping out really).
So I spent 90 minutes doing some pretty hard labour using one of these pieces of kit. It doesn't look a lot - and it isn't really. The old iron one that we had probably weighs in around 100lb, possibly a little less - which is less than I could move by a fair amount now. But the motion of banging posts in was something that I'd not done before. In fairness it probably breaks the barrier of push/pull - it is probably just an exercise in upper body conditioning.
Throw in some military presses and push presses with it for a while with the thing - and you've got yourself something of an ad-hoc workout.
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