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Updated: May 8, 2025
It was now the August of 1855, and I was in my twenty-second year. My first lifting-apparatus was constructed in the following manner. I first sank into the ground a hogshead, and into the hogshead a flour-barrel. Then I lowered to the bottom of the barrel a rope having at the end a round stick transversely balanced, about four inches in diameter and fifteen inches long.
Soon afterwards a delegation of Irishmen, rather startling from its numbers, entered the yard. Among them was Mr. Farren. They surrounded my lifting-apparatus, while I, unseen, surveyed them from a back window. I saw Mr. Farren take the handle, straddle the hogshead, throw himself into a lifting posture, and, straining every muscle to its utmost tension, give a tremendous pull.
"Look at that man," he said to me one day, pointing to a large, stout individual in front of us, "you might practise lifting all your life, and never be able to lift as much as that big fellow." "Let me construct a lifting-apparatus in the back-yard, and I will soon prove to you that you are mistaken," I replied. Finding that I was bent on the experiment, he at length gave a reluctant consent.
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