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How much you can carry on one rod?

That is the question I wanted to answer. We have built a long line  of rods from ceiling to the floor. But it was not enough, it was easily possible to carry ca. 2.6m of rods on one of them. So we have built a basket and filled the basket with balls.

Basket1

20 balls, 30 balls, 40 balls and still it was possible to grab last rod on top of the basket and lift everything above the ground. Finally, we were able to put 51 balls into the basket and with just one rod was still possible to lift it up. With 52 balls inside, basket was too heavy.

Basket2

Total maximum weight of basket and balls was 740g on our kitchen scale.

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3 Responses to “How much you can carry on one rod?”

  1. Amafirlian Says:
    April 6th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Would be nice if you could add this information on the Geomag Wiki here:

    http://geomag.wikia.com/wiki/Geomag_Weights_and_Measures

  2. kockopes Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    So, I have tried :-) Nice inspiration, I’ll try more experiments…

  3. Tychi Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    U vás stavebnice spí?

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