Back in the 50’s, I remember going on a city bus with my mom to the downtown Sears store. Apparently my dad had hinted he wanted a vise for Fathers Day.
So my mom buys a vise and we took turns carrying it for the several blocks to the bus stop to go home and again during the several blocks from the bus stop to our home. Sucker was heavy! I was around 10 years old. My mom was pretty petite.
When I was a teen and got into working on cars, I looked up the vise in the Sears tools catalog. It was the biggest and best vise Sears sold; no wonder it was so heavy!