The weights for the Men's catagories. heavy weight for distance: 56 lbs weight over bar: 56 lbs light weight for distance:28 lbs light hammer: 16 lbs heavy hammer: 22 lbs open stone: 16 lbs bramer stone: 22 lbs caber: changes based on class. but the height is what's difficult.
One time I was fucking around with a discus and it slip out of my hand and flew backwards and hit a girl in the leg. I cried I felt so bad. That happened to someone else sometime back and I think it killed someone and I heard they were trying him with manslaughter.
The Braemar stone weighs about 26 pounds. The weight for distance and weight for height are the same; 56#. The hammer weighs about 22 pounds. There is no standard weight for a caber; they vary from 15-20 feet in length and somewhere in the neighborhood of 120#. The one even that we have here that isn't shown in this video is the sheaf toss for height. Using a two or three tined pitch fork, one tosses a burlap bag of straw weighing about 16 pounds up and over a cross bar.
Whoa there, gents! "Weird" doesn't necessarily equate with "Unacceptable," you know. How many times have _we_ been faced with some hobby, custom or tradition that's new to us, and things go something like "So people around here _really_ paint the shells of turtles before tossing them back into the sea? Well...this is just a bit weird, isn't it? Oh, what the hell. I'll try anything once. Hand me my turtle and my paintbrush. Man, this is weird. Give him an hour to dry, and...all right, back into the Atlantic you go! You know, now that I've actually tried it, I'm beginning to understand the charm of turtle-painting. See you at next year's Painted Turtle Fest?" So don't go scaring him off just yet. He may just need a minute to grow into the Highland Games, that's all. (Late reply is late, I know.)
