cranes?
- knights in jousting armour could be heavy enough and fat!!!! like pigs....and severely restricted in motion to require a kind of gallows to lift them.
this seems in direct contradiction to the preceding statement. references? dab (T) 14:45, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- This is just a myth. Even a knight in jousting armour - which could weigh more than 90lbs - was able to mount his horse without pulleys, perhaps with the help of a squire. --Dy-Lac 08:50, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Sheesh. Didn't stop anon from inserting it right after where I say it is a myth... dab (T) 13:13, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Do we have any sources for this explanation of it being a myth? Not that I doubt it (always sounded suss to me, the whole winch thing) but I'd like to see where the information came from. --Maelin 14:37, 20 December 2005 (UTC)