TOM WALKER wrote in a message to JEAN PARROT:

JP> TW> Here in the "States" we call them 8D's.

JP>        In Canada too, that D8 was a misspell on my part.

JP> TW> BUT one of the Boat Yards here in SAn Diego had a fella that
JP> TW> could carry one of those alone.

JP>        I can not believe this, took two of us to move it a few feet at
JP>  the time. The ahrd part was getting them down into the keel space.

 TW>  Not denying it takes a "Special Man". They weigh about 160 Pounds
 TW> so a  fair weightlifter could do it. A year or so ago I "Hepled"
 TW> moving  an 8D arround for a Mobile Crane at the San Diego Railroad
 TW> Museum. 

 TW> NOW getting it into place inside the boat is another problem as you
 TW> know. :-)  :-)

When I was doing the retail battery thing we had a couple of those on hand,
 and whenever somebody wanted one I'd wheel the little cart we had over to
them,  grab a handle on _one_ end,  and look suggestively at the customer. 
:-)

I can remember putting one of those in an RV once,  and also putting a pair
of them in a fire engine,  where the ones in there had been sadly
neglected,  and cooked dry.

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