The Hyundai-10000, the world's largest shear-leg floating crane, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. It has a lifting capacity of 10,000 tons (11,000 short tons)

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[u/SloanWarrior]

Forget shit tons, what about imperial fuck tons?

[u/nothing_911 → u/SloanWarrior]

shit-tons are a measure of volume (262 gallons) so it doesent count for this.

Imperial Fucktons are about 1.6 (metric tonnes) Metric Fucktons are heavier than that at 2.2 (metric tonnes)

so this beast can lift 4545 Metric Fucktons. thats really impressive.

[u/davewave3283 → u/nothing_911]

264 gallons of your shit weighs a ton? What are you eating?!

[u/nothing_911 → u/davewave3283]

its not about what is being carried but how much liquid, its all based on old English measurements of wooden casks.

a Barrel is a small cas with around 32gallons in it a Hogshead is twice that at around 63 gallons Then a Butt is about 136 gallons. then the largest cask is a tun at around 252 gallons.

these can all be turned into a "load" generally meaning how much liquid you can bring.

example: Fredrick can bring you a barrelload of wine on his back, but if he hitchess up the horse he can deliver a buttload.

now for the old proto germanic work "skit" meaning both to split or deficate.

so in this use Fredricks customer wants a tun of wine but Frederick only has the Tun cask at his vinyard and he has no wagons big enough to bring the whole thing. so he decides to deliver a skit-tun of wine (the equivalent amount but delivered in two butt casks)

and since language evolves the word skit turned into shit and tun turned into ton (old English long ton).

hope it helps clear things up.

[u/_Enclose_ → u/nothing_911]

These are the kind of comments I come to reddit for.

[u/nothing_911 → u/_Enclose_]

im here for you, guy.

[u/Gnonthgol → u/nothing_911]

That makes a lot of sense. So a shit ton is two butloads.

[u/GhastlyGhost2008 → u/Gnonthgol]

Thus a butt can load half a ton of shit.