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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Giant lock

This is a working lock!

Location: Nishan-e-Manzil Park, Gujranwala Cantonment, Pakistan
Constructed: 2002
Pakistan’s largest working padlock (freestanding)
Weight: 890 kg or 1962.11 pounds
It resides in a public park in Pakistan and this massive padlock was built by Haji Javed Iqbal Khokhar from Gujranwala. It’s giant key weighs 80 kg or  176.37 pounds and takes two people to lift. It was briefly the centrepiece of the Lucky Irani Circus.
 

3 comments:

Debbie said...

wow!! that's huge!! when it's not used as a centerpiece, i wonder what they use it for??

Tired Teacher said...

Amazing engineering!

Tracy Batchelder said...

One of the more unusual things I've seen this week!