The world's heaviest hinged door Weighs 97,000 pounds or 44 | Honest historian
The world's heaviest hinged door
Weighs 97,000 pounds or 44,000 kilograms. 1979, Livermore, USA. It is located in the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, in the fence of the "Rotating Target Neutron Source-2", the most intense source of continuous neutron fusion on Earth. Thanks to the peculiar design of the door hinges, it can be opened by one person.
The door was eight feet thick and about twelve feet wide. The door could be opened or closed either manually or by remote control.Special bearings in the hinge allowed one person, to open a door that weighed as much as 32 cars.
