World's Heaviest Weight
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- 게시일 2024. 04. 24.
- How do you measure big forces accurately? By calibrating your force transducer on the world's biggest weight - 1,000,000 pounds of force. This machine ensures planes don't break apart, jets provide required thrust, and rockets make it to their destination.
Thanks to the people at NIST for showing me around: Rick Seifarth and Ben Stein. Animations here are by Sean Kelley and additional footage by Jennifer Lauren Lee.
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Before visiting NIST in Washington DC I had no idea machines like this existed. Surely there's an accurate way to measure forces without creating such a huge known force?! Nope. This appears to be the best way, with a stack of 20 x 50,000 lb masses creating a maximum force of 4.45 MN or 1,000,000 pounds of force. I also wouldn't have thought about all the corrections that need applying - for example buoyancy subtracts about 125 pounds from the weight of the stack. Plus the local gravitational field strength must be taken into account. And, the gravitational field varies below grade. All of this must be taken into account in order to limit uncertainty to just five parts per million (.0005%)
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I use that for my warm up sets
Trihard Indachat you must at least be handicapped by now if that's true XD
@@rage_quit7735 shut up
r/madlad
What on a deadlift simulator
cap
"An apple weighs about 1 newton"
Top 5 things that make sense
That may be one of the greatest things I've ever heard.
I only realized the joke when you said it haha
come on, lets goooO!!!
wnna play valorant ?
@@skinnyman2133 no
"Okay so how do we get to space?"
"What if we threw 33 and a half million apples at the same time?"
the fact that they take into account the weight of the air and some how figure out a correction for the gravity constant at their particular location on earth blew my mind.
well luckily the gravitational constant is a constant, would sure be bad naming if it wasn't!
Well, it's constant, but it's not the same everywhere...
@@user-ph9pm6fc7g the gravitational constant is not a constant every time it has been measured no matter where on earth it is slightly different every time. The earth is never is the same location in the universe at any given moment in time so the gravitational "constant" is more like an average. Its one of those things mainstream scientist refuse to acknowledge let along talk abut.
@@crasher88same location in the universe relative to what?
For people who don't know, he is talking about acceleration due to gravity(g) and not about Gravitational constant (G). Since earth is not a perfect sphere, g can be different at diff location
That guy has the perfect voice for his job.
i especially liked how he called this multimillion dollar machine a “gizmo”
He sounds like Bert the geologist from "The Big Bang Theory".
True
He just sounds like an engineer
he sounds like cave johnson from portal 2
And everyone knows that the PE teachers grandma can lift this
@Count Roy wtf
Count Roy I’m Malaysian bruh and I’ve never heard that that word was used to describe that 💀
Count Roy I’m sorry to hear about your disability
XD
@@y2jayden bruh same, I'm a Chinese Malaysian and have never heard chocking
Yeah she can’t but nice joke tho.
1,000,000 pounds...
That's 500 tons to you and me.
Or 454.5 metric tonnes to everyone else in the world
@@Smithy250 OK. 🤷♂️
i read it in the voice. good work.
it's about 453.6 Tonnes (rounded off) actually
@@ParrotPentester How do you figure? There's exactly 2,000 lbs. In a ton. 2,000 ×500 is 1,000,000.
FINE ILL WATCH IT KRplus THANKS FOR PUTTING IT IN MY RECOMMENDED DAILY FOR 2 YEARS
I think your mom finally has a rival.
LMFAO
the second i clicked on this vid i thought the same thing
@@SVdreamin proof
@@rainofrest7778 bruh how am I supposed to prove my thoughts to you
@@SVdreamin proof or it didnt happen
"An apple weighs about 1 Newton. The world record for jet engine thrust..."
That escalated quickly
They were just comparing... 🤦♂️
@@bryant9065yeah, that's a lot of apples
@@xoiyoub Math question 51: how much apples does the world's fastest jet engine thrust have?
Thrust
@@realestSuniaster a lot
This was extremely cool. The last job I worked on had a ringer crane manufactured by Lampson with a 750,000 lb lifting capacity mounted to a barge with a million lb counterweight. I unloaded trucks one whole summer of crane parts and counterweight. Spent a whole winter and spring assembling the crane and mounting it to the barge with nearly the whole summer used for rigging the barge and testing it. Spent a few years off and on either working on that crane barge or with it and although fascinating at times, working with the same rig day in and day out loses its luster pretty quickly. Our load cells consisted of potentiometers mounted perpendicular to the barge deck along with a load cell mounted to the end of a 7/8” cable at the main lifting line on the block. The main lifting block was usually rigged as either 32 parts of line or 16 parts while having to constantly take it all apart and reassemble it to add and remove boom sections for different projects throughout the duration of the job. Our load cells were sent off on a pretty standard basis for recalibrations and updates but remember a couple of occasions when the interns from engineering had mentioned the facility in this video. Not positive if our cells were sent to this particular facility or not as we had equipment from all over the world though quite a bit of our electronics came from Sweden initially, though when recalibrated they were all done stateside as far as the equipment I dealt with. Again it’s really interesting to see this technology and the math that goes along with it to help take away variables and make things more concrete as it applies to everyday things in the construction side of things along with the safety factor it adds to so many different aspects in industry. 👍
That guy was charming and I like the fact that you did it in 5:45. It really gave me an appreciation and understanding of what goes into creating precise standards.
For Americans: 1 million pounds! that's heavy
For brits : no, that's expensive
Lol
@CAN WE GET TO 100K SUBSCCRIBERS WITH ONE VIDEO we didn't make it complicated. The British made it, we just kept it that way. The imperial system was created before the metric system. Doesn't mean it's better tho
I agree I’m American and pounds are such a pain to convert.
$$$
Bruh Europe is not a country
Eddie Hall: "So anyway, I started squatting"
Dammit, one day too late
He still needs a drink
Brian Shaw ain’t getting any attention?
Eddie hall could lift this
Makyah O'Sullivan why would you comment that? Are you okay?
The fact that this is so precise that atmospheric weight and gravitational pull have to be considered is so cool
Another fantastic Metrology topic covered.
There’s no doubt in my mind that man carries around “several American nickels” in his pocket at all times.
I was thinking the exact same thing 😂😂😂
It’s a convenient and understandable way to say they’re accurately weighed within 10-20 grams. A nickel weighs 5 grams on the dot and we frequently used them to check our scales to ensure accuracy to the gram. Really impressive though when you consider how much weight they’re measuring and how precise it is
hahah!
@@joshuah.4496 Thanks for the additional insight; without giving it much thought, I would have guessed a coin to be significantly heavier than that.
Imagine imperial units
"One physical test is worth a thousand expert opinions" that's such a brilliant quote.
"One good girl is worth a thousand bitches" - Kanye West
+Jjaro V My god. No.
MidNightStudios the most ignored statement in all of Science.
"...That has proven itself time and again particularly in the world of... physical testing" - Said the physical tester.
Think it was Wernher von Braun who said it first too.
Enter kevdog
Another fact would be the position of the weights located on earth for gravitational pull , the equator v the poles would also have an outcome differential . None the less a great video .
1,000,000 pounds, wow...that's a lot of money
I think this device actually worth lot more.
Gábor Ács Do you know the conversion factor for pounds to USD?
Boiled Dimsdale I want to take you seriously
200th like
Wow, the British pound has really fallen in the past few years. 1 million pounds is only 1294935.00 US Dollar
Basically 1.3 dollars to 1 pound
When the hydraulic press channel gets a small loan of a million lbs
That's a joke £=lbs
The 7th Good job captain obvious
I'd like to lbs you, you in all the right places.
Don't forget to salt your pasta
Apple Max o
As a metrologist in Kenya in the Mass and derived quantities category I have such an appreciation for what he is doing. And as an Engineer by training to see that stack upto rockets being launched by crazy forces makes one feel proud of Science as whole
"Excuse me, can i clean here?"
That guy has one of the coolest jobs in the world. He's a real heavy metal fan.
a bit underrated
I have a cool job now
He could make a yt channel out of it.
@@ThatGuy-hy7tr lol
the band or the object?
I wanna put stuff under it and make a KRplus channel out of it
its called the hydraulic press channel
zz *sarcasm*
no it would be called the gravitational press channel
MrDanish ButterCookie danish!! Oml please reply your my fav ssb4 KRplusr!!
MrDanish ButterCookie you don't need a hydraulic press you literally spike anyone out of like any move
Being able to say that you work at the "Mass and Force Group" has gotta feel good
That guy was absurdly personable. I feel it would be easy to get him going and get lost in his world.
He needs to be on JRE
He reminds me of every high school teacher I've had; Guess I'm lucky!
Lol Bro my thoughts exactly and I wouldn't mind listening to him ramble on
@@keiyon1994 he has been
Any guy in a field like that that uses the word “gizmo” is alright by me.
I’m honestly more impressed that force transducer can take a million pounds of force and not get squished
whys here no reply saying which material its made of
It’s titanium that’s why ;-;
Zach still, a million pounds is a mind boggling number it’s impressive no matter the material
@@Gay_Priest carbon nanorods: *laughs*
You know there are stars called white dwarfs, and they are so dense that when one of them, thousands of light years away, cracked by about 5cm, it changed the earth's gravitational force for a short while
This video was way cooler than I expected it to be
Whoa. Effing crazy. I mean, makes total sense, but whoa. Great content.
Finally something i can bench press. Our battle will be legendary
I can curl that
Well, yes, but no
I can hammer curl that with my pinky toe
Kung fu panda is an underrated movie
easy weight!!
So when is Eddie Hall gonna deadlift this?
Lol
He already did duh
@bing bingbung think
Gus he did 500000 kg lol
@Mike brad has already leg pressed this
lifting goals have been updated
I had them test the standards for my 10M lb hydraulic calibration press, which has an ancient plaque on it that reads: "One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions"
"One physical test is worth a thousand expert opinions". I like that quote.
I had to write it down, yeah!
@@cvall1710 Dude said nothing about the left and you immediately found a way to make it political. Lame as hell.
@@cvall1710 can’t argue with that.
@@cvall1710 Yeah, "the left" does all of that. Keep saying that stuff and fighting amongst yourselves for a second time, you'll soon recieve your customary tiny hat.
@@cvall1710 bro stfu, no one wants to argue about us politics, just enjoy the video and keep your unnecessary comments to yourself 🤦♂️
mans wearing a hard hat next to a million-pound weight like if it falls on him the hats gonna save his life. love this guy lmao
Of corse it will
@@ramen4629 lmao they do be indistructable tho
@@weedjesus5587 they also strengthen all your bones in the event t does fall on you
@@ramen4629 xD
mans rlly stole another persons comment from 7 months ago
Can't imagine the pressure when operating this device.
I'm gonna be honest, because of the videos that normally get recommended to me I thought this video was gonna be a highly detailed "your mom" joke.
The set up would be perfect.
Finally a weight I can use to measure against my student debt
Ispeedymg but college is free
Strav9 depends on where you live xD
And it can even be calibrated with your medical bills
Ispeedymg How much are you in debt?
Ispeedymg well thank the liberals for that debt.
"the worlds heaviest weight"
*my heart when i touch my pockets and do not feel my phone*
Underrated comment
It's in your other hand
Mind controlled.
lmao
Lmao, why is this so relatable 😭😭😭😭
My desk papers aren’t going ANYWHERE with this bad boy
Way cooler than I initially thought
need to fold a piece of paper 7 times with that
It'll compress the folded paper so flat it becomes 1 unfolded sheet again
Neel Parmar lol
0mn0m8w31rdc4ndy how is that funny
Charles Hair how is it not
No, he's serious, it actually will. Paper is made from a pulp. It'll become a single sheet with enough force.
That dude was a great interviewee. Knowdgeable, amiable, and proud of his institution.
That dude was so great
amicable*
knowledgeable*
@@kikenaround ok
@@kikenaround *amiable is also a word
Rick Seifarth is awesome!
those kind of video are simple amazining
I like how the guy’s wearing a hard hat like it’s gonna protect him from 1,000,000 pounds
Nan he won't get is head stuck under the weight
It won’t. But it might stop something that gets launched by those 1 mil. pounds.
It won't, but if for example something spewed out from those weights, that hard hat maybe will protect him.
Should have worn a Nokia instead, idiot...
Underrated comment
That one athletic kid in class
“Oh yeah this is easy to lift”
You can lift it for 0.01sec but once
@@abdouaboud7490 i like that way
I worked in a shop in Alabama that built enormous steel things, like spillway gates for giant dams and movable railroad bridges. They had a stack of 4' by 8' by two inch thick lead plates they would use to flatten or straighten these huge fabricated pieces. In total they had a million pounds of lead there, and a overhead gantry crane that could pick them all up!!
damn, what a simple but effective way of doing things
Ngl the "Mass and Force Group" sounds like one of the coolest circles you could be in.
One thing that impressed me about Rick Seifarth is his response to questions about whether these masses are the heaviest calibrated weight in the world is not to be egotistical and assume it's the heaviest weight, but to ask his visitors if they know of another one. You can see that this guy actually cares about his information being correct and that's admirable.
Just the facts, not the alternate ones... you know, like science, not politics.
thankfully our measurement and metrology standards are so good that only people like Rick are allowed to be involved in its study and application
once i saw NIST in his job title, i knew he was the real deal
Except once the equipment has been built to the specifications, there's really nothing else for them to do. It's all technician level from there.
It is admirable. Sadly, I cannot say the same for your grammar.
Roadfart Neither can I, for what people currently think about your social life.
"What we sell is the vertical force vector that's generated by these weights hanging in the gravitational field."
I enjoy that sentence very much.
GNCshow
That’s what the NASA engineer thinks is being sold. NASA executive would say that “confidence” is being sold. (Thank you, MBA.)
@@stevedoe1630 severely underrated comment
Dont understand could you explain it with a different approach to someone dumb like.me?
I read the comment and in the second i read it i heard it as well😂
@@theforester_ They sell fancy expensive scales.
guy: explaining science things using hand gestures near massive weight
me: imagine getting your finger trapped in that
I wonder if the accuracy of this is effected by compression in the concrete supporting it. Shifting that much weight has to cause some degree of change.
I think as long as everything is stable it doesn't matter.
“ayo bro how much you bench”
“mmmmmmm, about 1mil pounds”
Only? man I lift about twice of that for my warm up
@@mahmoudnasser3410 nice dream bro
approximately 50,036.27 pounds of mass.
i can only do it when you arent looking, though.
Cag 🤣
4,448,222 Newtons
Chuck Norris called and said that he was missing one of his warm up Dumbells.
it was moon
are you seriously making a chuck Norris joke?.
They will never get old. Just like Chuck Norris.
Igor Kolosha That's right. There's only Death, Taxes and Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris believes in sky daddy. he has no power here in the world of science.
work in kilograms? just convert! Use a vacuum chamber? Just add weight! Find the perfect gravitational spot? Just calibrate! I love these solutions XD
This guy should be the highest paid middle school science teacher of all time, the way he talks and his energy, I think he could inspire ALOT of kids
You know he's a genius when he says 1 of these gizmos!
Finally, a paperweight I won't knock off.
Goshdangit you stole my joke.
weakness disgusts me.
Nasa.. "welp. its nice and fancy that you spent millions of dollars to get a million pound calibrated, but we've switched to Metric eversince bob flung our 900billion dollar satellite into Uranus because of these retarded units, so please dump it in the garbage and start working KG bro"
OHHHH! So _THAT'S_ how they make Fig Newtons! Got it, thanks!
This thing is the most advanced Fig Newton maker in the world.
It can make 4.4 million Fig Newtons at one time.
John Smith Haha!
With that degree of accuracy, they are known as Sig. Fig Newtons.
Now those are some absolute units
there's a recent plane crash of a plane because mostly it was do to curb weigh of a private plane. its better to have the accuracy more closer than generalizing.
I can imagine the mechanism that lifts this weight screams, "YEAH BUDDY! LIGHT WEIGHT BABY!"
AIN’T NOTHIN BUT A PENUT
I read that in the voice of Penguinz0/Moist Cr1tikal/Charles White
Everybody wanna be a big ass machine but no one want to lift these HEAVY ASS WEIGHTS
@@jasonwong7140 my man.
gud one
@@MrNight-dg1ug wrong person but I get the thought process.
2:16 when you hold that pee for 3 hours
You made me laugh out loud. Nice.
@mrm8wo Bruh u r gonna pee a rock bruh
nomaru ato
*_Yikes_*
Maybe with a yeast infection or something...
OMMMMFG i needed that!
@mrm8wo
Ah, I see you are a man who avoids the school bathrooms as well.
So a jet engine throws away 570,000 apples...
Thats a lot of apples
They are getting real close to my lateral raise warmups
americans: lbs, pounds
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me an european who only understand kilograms:
Edvach Everyboy in the world use KG, only two countries use the imperial system...
KSG KG = Kilogramm ;)
Gork
Edvach a* European
oPepsiFlyz [HEAT] wow you must be smart. that’s a totally fitting critique that went at the meat and potatoes of his argument. I hope you could understand this, jackass.
Guy: an apple weighs 1 Newton
Me: ok, how much does it weigh?
Apple is W = 1N, the weight is measured in newtons. Using the formula:
W = mg.
W - weight(N)
M - mass(kg)
G - gravational field strength ~ 10N/kg
To find the mass it will be
m = W/g
So,
m = 1/10
= 0.1kg.
So what you actually want to find is the mass in kilograms. Hope my explanation/ workings helped :D
@@willion98 or just remember 1 kg = 10 N
Me: yes
@@niksignjarzilavec366 No.
1 Kg ≙ 9.81 N on the surface of the earth
@@jtejada2784 Like my phone's sensors say it's 10.34m/s^2. Either wrong or i live in a gravity well. Point is- it varies across the World.
finally, my winter bulk will be complete.
Do you even lift bro the video haha
Btw this was fascinating.
Everyone : 1 million pounds, that insanely heavy!
Ronnie coleman: lightweight baby!! aint nothing but a peanut!
Yeah buddy! Evabudy want ta be uh bodybuilda...
But nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight!
Hail to the king!
HAIL TO THE KING RONNIE COLEMAN YWAH BUDDY
Yea Ronnie coleman military pressed that
Love how much this guy loves his craft. So knowledgeable.
Knowledgeable? Thats a funny word.
But a real one...
I saw him on a different video talking about another calobrator and he was just as enthusiastic. Makes me want to meet him.
@@waydebaker33 can you link the video? thanks.
@@sean7193 ill keep looking but I honestly cant Remember what I was even looking at that lead to me watching it. Im not a calibrator guy.
This guy sounds like axel from minecraft story mode 😂
finally a weight zoro can lift by with some struggle
Its 2022 and im still processing this!
Not as heavy as your teammates in multiplayer
The legend himself
Good one
laugh will arrive in five business days
Or as heavy as me in Warzone so my footsteps can be heard upto 20 miles away but my opponents are made of aerogel.
Found u
Drop it from 1,000 feet and see what happens
GoldenPlazma56 the world is gonna explode
Not Tank Cat nah probably make a HUGE hole in the ground
There will be an earthquake in te surrounding area
MR.UNKNOWN r/whooosh?
@@kytacoyigo3988 DAE ARE SLASH WASH HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA
Finally something I can use for lateral raises
absolutely thrilled and interessant.
The new Hydraulic Press channel!?
Bruh
@@HyperTextMarkupLanguage-HTML what wrong with bruh, you dont have any room to talk 😂 your pfp Is among us and you KRplus name is cyan xD
@@HyperTextMarkupLanguage-HTML bruh cyan sus
without the hydrologic press lol.
lets hope so
0.0005% is pretty good. Better than the interest rate at most banks.
Commando Master Damn
I take it for a mortgage plz
@Jesse McFarland-Ward be quiet idc about Grammer...
@@Hawkgaming-pv5wb grammar*
@@E50AK idc also
The kilogram standard is no longer an artifact such as a metallic object. Instead the kilogram is based on Kibble balances. The change occurred on 2019 May 19.
An object with the mass of 1 kilogram exerts 9.81 Newton's with the standard gravitational force constant of 9.81 meters per second squared. (F = mg where F is in Newtons, m is in kilograms, and g.is.the gravitational force constant.)
All true, however, for the time being, the IPK (International Prototype Kilogram) is still the standard.
It is probably a very good thing that this facility is located in Washington DC and not out in Silicon Valley near the San Andreas fault. How would you calculate the maximum stress factors on this equipment and its building for a 7.0 earthquake?
PE teacher could’ve lifted this but, they got injured and couldn’t
His grandma tho........
We need 400 000 PE teachers and PE grandmas
Underrated comment
He took an arrow to the knee
So basically, from the get go, he couldn't?
Must suck to be the guy who has to clean all the weights every hour to make sure dust doesn't add weight.
erikrann Probably gets paid more than any house hold cleaner...
Does wiping the metal surface creates micro burrs?
It would make more sense for it only to be cleaned right before it's gonna be used.
you generally keep it in an airtight container until you clean it before use.
With 5lbs of variance expected, some dust isn't going to be a problem you would think? Then again they factor in its buoyancy!
When I was an AF pilot, back in heavy flight training (and this is before we made the move to computers/devices/digital/etc) they liked to say "measure with an micrometer and cut with an axe", i thought of that when he mentioned error in flight data/measurements.
I recall an additional clause in that phrase... "Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe." :)
First of all didn’t he say “Rich” instead of “Rick”? Secondly and most importantly I believe he is the most enjoyable person y’all have ever interviewed. He is knowledgeable, seems to love what he does and most importantly entertaining.
*1 million pounds*
WW2 Germany: we can make a tank out of this
fun fact: the worlds heaviest tank is about 198 tons! which is about 45% of the weight in the video.
@@johngonzalez3634 wow
@@johngonzalez3634 that's a big tank
@@warbaby8897 theres only 1 hull and 2 turrets of it (or vice versa)
Reminds me of Erika
World's Heaviest Weight = me after the holidays
Kool
Jeez, that's almost as much as my bicep curl warmup
Ronnie Coleman: "Light weight, baby!"
*YEAH BUDDY!*
AINT NOTHIN BUT A PEANUT
"one physical test is worth 1k expert opinions." how do they measure that?
but how did they work out that it was exactly one thousand expert opinions? Could be one thousand and one, aye.
And what's the standard deviation on that, did they even conduct a controlled test?
The asked 1000 experts.
get 1000 experts to lift up the weight
They don't measure it, he said it was an axiom so he's off the hook
With a 1,000,000lb weight
Slap a heating element in between the weight point and think how much rosin you could press with this bad boy
the fact that a 1million pound weight is calibrated using the definition of a kilogram, proves that the imperial system is POINTLESS.
your mom would still break those scales
buuuuuuuurn
Nice
Oh jeez... terrible. Let me help you, by bring this back to the 90's....
Yo mama is so fat, that when she steps on a force transducer it cracks under the pressure.
@@bartsshorts They arent?
@@bartsshorts What about fat men like you ?
So they start counting with kg and then use lbs...
WHYYYYYYYYYY
Because freedom units!
I assume they expect the rest of us to eventally switch to their superior system.
because they know something you don't?
@@Grasss Sure, they know what a pound is and I don't
@Cat Mouth Well then the Big Road Sign industry better get to lobbying...
I never knew of the measurement called Newton. We're spoiling him.
...never?
You’ll need TWO Nokias to hold up this bad boy
Shaw strength: hey guys I just got these new dumbbells, they ain't much,
Also the dumbbells:
Hafþór: hold my beer