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 Posted - 05/12/2006 : 20:19:49
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Okay now that Im an admited hoarder I've had some time to brainstorm my eventual heavy penny booty. If my initail enthusiasm carries through..and it's been known not to, but for the sake of this discussion say I get into the hundreds of pounds, what I plan on doing is filling up various objects such as hollow steel pipes with screw caps to use as barbells and dumbbells to perform weightlifting exercises(Im a personal trainer by trade). Also will use them to fill up hollow kettlebells which look like cannon balls with handles. The kettlebell is a great fitness tool. Other various options are endless. In strongman circles this may be considered what is known as "odd object lifting". Examples of odd object lifting are large tire flipping, sand bag carries, striking with a sledgehammer, lifting cement blocks..etc. This way I've got a cool way to functionally use my pennies. Heck If I could I would even melt them down into dumbbells, allthough I don't think my wife would approve of me turning our garage into a smelting plant. Im actually pretty jazzed with this idea as it comes at a time when I have just recently begun to train myself and my clients with odd objects. It's just a matter of getting creative and applying resistance to the body plus it's just plain fun. If you have a 25.00 box of pennies they are in themselves perfectly shaped for hand held exercises, two, one in each hand is even better. give it a try. Try pressing them over your head or some curls and you too can have a bronzed rock hard body of copper in no time! lol! peace
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 20:28:01
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I love the idea of working out with the pennies. I get a work out when I purchase my boxes. I walk from work on my break down to the bank and back with my new box or boxes of pennies. They do get heavy on the 5 block one way walk.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. --- Robert Frost |
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realcent
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 21:21:41
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Hi Stillinthegame, welcome!
The kettlebell is an awesome workout tool. It is often used in martial arts type work outs...it can be very effective and has many uses. I really like the idea of filling one with copper cents. Not only will you get a great work out, but what home invader would ever think of stealing it!
Odd object workout is interesting to me, seems like it might keep you from getting bored, which can kill a workout program faster than anything, stop your brain from getting used to exercises (which can happen without you knowing it)and finding small ways to cheat, and it lets you use your imagination.
Thanks for the post, it makes me want to get back into good condition, which I imagine will be very important WTSHTF!
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 08:38:09
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Sounds like an idea I would read on the IronOnline Weight Training and Bodybuilding forum that I go to under a different name.
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 09:37:13
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Some free weights cast from solid copper would look real cool. You could make them look like giant pennies. Then you could make some out of nickel to look like giant nickels. This would keep theives from running off with your copper and nickel hoard.
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 11:22:46
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking?  Copper barbell plates in different poundage would be so cool! I saw a gold bumbell on T.V. a week or so ago. Plates would be much better. They must have a "mint" mark on them though. You could reach two markets with them.
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 11:29:07
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Exactly! They would be like giant copper and nickel rounds with a hole in the middle. That way the more your fortune grows the more weight you take off with the workout.
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realcent
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 12:33:28
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I really like the idea of copper weight plates. If someone actually made those and sold them for a reasonable profit over spot and whatever the 'minting?' costs would be I buy a whole set to replace the weights on the bench in my basement. I agree though that they would definitly have to have a metal purity stamp on them along with the weight so it would be very clear that they were solid copper for when the time comes to sell them.
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 14:13:54
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| Weights as practical investments. Yeah, I think that idea would rock. How cool to be able to track the value of your dumbbells with current spot metal prices. How many people waste tons of money on exercise equipment only to see it either become an eventual clothes hanger or discarded in a yard sale. That's one of the things I do like about my metal weights and kettlebells is that they will last a lifetime if not more. I've bid on old Russian kettlebells on ebay that date back two hundred years or more. Copper would be a perfect metal imho. The cost is still relativly low and it's the most alluring of the cheaper metals from an asthetic view. Yup, I see plenty of marketing possibilites. So where do we go from here? I've got some fitness industry connections and know alot about that field. I don't know much about foundries, smelting, that sort of thing. I do agree there would need to be some certification of copper content. My guess would be just die startup costs, once they are done you just crank em out. You could maybe contact a place that allready makes weights and make a deal with them. Just a matter of start up costs, what kind of profit margins and of course marketing. Personally I like the idea of copper kettlebells as a kettlebell is allready unique to begin with. solid fixed dumbbells, and plates too. Allthough from a theft standpoint if copper gets closer to 10 bucks a pound those weights would be mighty attractive. Which brings me back to my original idea of just filling unassuming obects with pennies for theft sake. Of course that would not be as cool, but it would be to me as I would know what's inside. Anyway I love this discussion and this forum. Thanks to all for making this a very cool distraction from the frantic world we live in. There is just something so cool, basic and pure about the penny. Glad there are others out there like myself. Peace. |
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Metalophile
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Posted - 08/17/2006 : 12:27:52
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Years ago when I was in better shape I cut slits in three tennis balls and crammed them full of pennies. Then I used epoxy to close the slits. I think each weighs a little more than a pound (I used pre-'82 pennies). These babies make great juggling balls for an upper body workout! Also, when I was in really good shape, I would go joggling with these (juggling while jogging). It added a minute to each mile, but it was a great workout! Only problem was that after a while my back would start to hurt.
Learning how to juggle is really no big deal. However, getting to the point where drops are infrequent is necessary. You don't want to spend most of your workout bending over to pick the things up!
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Posted - 08/17/2006 : 15:36:48
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This is what I was talking about on the welcome thread, the ideas for the use of pennies are limitless! Welcome new members.
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Canadian_Nickle
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Posted - 03/10/2007 : 14:03:57
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I have begun using 2 20lb boxes of pure.999 nickels as workout weights. I just poured 2 bank boxes full of sorted coin and then taped them up so they don't open. The shape is a little awkward at first (especially for hammer curls) but the wieght is just about right for where I need to be right now.
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Posted - 03/10/2007 : 15:45:23
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How about filling up a pipe with pennies or nickels and capping off the ends? A guy could even start with a wider pipe on the ends and reduce the pipe size down to the part where you grip onto it. Dumbells could be made like that too.
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Canadian_Nickle
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Posted - 03/10/2007 : 16:03:53
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hmm good idea. maybe i'll hit up home depot and make something.
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Posted - 03/10/2007 : 18:16:30
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Some free weights cast from solid copper would look real cool. You could make them look like giant pennies. Then you could make some out of nickel to look like giant nickels. This would keep theives from running off with your copper and nickel hoard.
That would be cool, although it would probably be better to make it look sorta-but-not-really like the coins.. Maybe use a different portrait on them and don't put United States, etc. I can just see the FedGov whining that you are trying to counterfeit coins and confiscate them. |
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Posted - 06/11/2007 : 17:18:25
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Hey gang, it's been awhile since I've posted but I've been lured back here after taking a break from penny sorting and just recently getting back into it. I'd first like to say this is one of if not thee most pleasant communities on the net. no yelling, no putting anyone down, no judgeing, just a bunch of folks who are having a blast doing something that 99.999% of people doesn't know exists...not yet anyways. So thank you to all of you. I've got back into penny stuff and have about 30 lbs of pre 82's and now Im taking my first plunge into nickles by buying a couple of boxes from my bank. They were happy to do it since they know me as a customer and I told them what I do with the pennies and nickles(maybe not smart, but I doubt any of them will start hoarding. The bank manager was fascinated with the story of melt values which just goes to show you if the folks in the banking industry are not keen to this then I think we will plenty of time to hoard. I can only imagine what everyone here will end with if and when the public catches on{3-5-8 yeaRS?)
tHE MAIN REASON i REVISITED THIS THREAD WAS CONCERNING THE PENNY WORKOUT..opps sorry to yell, I had mentioned I workout with kettlebells and thought it would be cool to make one out of copper. It would be functional and a great investment and if painted a robber would never know. Well here's the kicker, I won an antique kettlebell from ebay which are pretty rare. It's from the late 1800's and has the russian czars emblem on it as russia is where these started..intesting history story too. Well when it arrived it had a chip in it and lo and behold I realized it was made from solid copper! I knew this because of the weight(20 lbs} and have similar weight ones that are much larger. Then I told a friend of mine who is a kettlebell master, one of the best in the world in my opinion and he told me they used to hollow them out back then and store their precious metals in them to save them from confiscation from the russian army.
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pencilvanian
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Posted - 06/11/2007 : 17:36:16
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Good to hear from you Stillinthegame,
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"they used to hollow them out (kettel bells) back then and store their precious metals in them to save them from confiscation from the russian army."
Thanks for revealing another secret hiding place for PM's.
Since the melt ban is in effect is it possible to do the following:
1. Manufacture kettel bells (Would require melting and casting, there may be a backyard metal caster willing to try to make them as part challenge part fun for them)
2. Manufacture them hollow for just as you said, a hiding place.
3. Sell them as reproductions on e-bay, to friends interested in weight lifting or fitness, etc.
The content could be scrap copper or scrap brass melted down (not pennies to avoid the hassle from the man)
Recycled scrap into kettle bells, an interesting recycling project.
Another oddball idea from me, just thinking out loud.
I should have chosen "Cut-n-Paste" as a forum name, since that is what I do, mostly. |
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Posted - 06/11/2007 : 18:45:16
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Buy at your own risk. I have nothing to do with the sale of this item. I'm posting this for discussion only.
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pencilvanian
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Posted - 06/11/2007 : 20:45:08
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Sometimes it takes a while for the thinking process to get wamed up,
do you suppose the plastic dumb bells, the kind you can fill with sand, water or cement, would also work?
I should have chosen "Cut-n-Paste" as a forum name, since that is what I do, mostly. |
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just carl
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 06/13/2007 : 08:03:45
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All these ideas are decent but still cost money to produce and possibly a wasted of coins. I prefer Lead as weights and I find I can get it for free or almost free. Examples are spent lead weights used to balance tires. Many places if you ask will give them to you. Watch for old Lead-Acid Batteries discarded in alleys, dumps, etc., smash, remove plates. Some shooting ranges will give you piles free or at a small cost. If you know someone with some of the Bell phone systems they are slowly replacing Lead Sheathed cables. They could give you some of the Sheathing. If you frequent bars, taverns and know the owner or bartender ask what they do with the tops of bottles of wine. Many are sealed with a lead sheath.
As I said many places to aquire Lead for free or low cost. Easy to melt into any shape you want.
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LarryB
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 Posted - 06/23/2007 : 18:40:43
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Hi there Stillinthegame! Great thread you've started here buddy. I really like your "penny power pipe" idea dude! Disguised stash & usefull & healthful apparatus, all in one, for almost nothing. Can't beat that for brilliance friend. I'm looking for some stray steel pipe right now!
Have a big one...
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just carl
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 18:20:33
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I just thought of something reading about using coins for weights. Now here is a way to use them and make money making them. naturally it is against the law to melt down coins. However, imagine making a barbell out of liquid plastic filled with pennies. You buy some liquid plastic, pour some in a rounded cookie type sheet, let it start to harden, add as many pennies as you want, pour more liquid plastic over that. When dried you sell them as a weight lifting gimmick. Liquid plastic can be purchased in many places since it is used as a decopag thing. Not sure if decopag is spelled right. The weight could be varied by the amount of pennies and/or the size of the cookie sheet. Make sure you find the center and place a metal doll rod there so there will be a hole in the finished product. Even if never used they would make a fantastic display item in a gym. Anyone making them and selling them should send me royalties.
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