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How heavy is 165.7 hundredweight?

It's about one-twentieth as heavy as The Statue of Liberty (without base)
Flag of The US
The weight of The Statue of Liberty (without base) is about 3,100 hundredweight.
(a.k.a. Liberty Enlightening the World, a.k.a. La Liberté éclairant le monde) (total weight, including foundation)
The total weight of the Statue of Liberty — the Statue's copper and framework only, excluding the base — is roughly 3,100 hundredweight. The statue was designed using an optical trick known as "forced perspective" to make the statue appear proportionally correct when viewed from its base and is, in actuality, disproportionately large at the top.
It's about one-twentieth as heavy as a House
The weight of a House is about 3,440 hundredweight.
(149 sq. m, single-level, unfurnished)
A 149 sq. m (1,600 sq. ft), single-story, unfurnished house (without extensive masonry) of the type commonly found in America would weigh approximately 3,440 hundredweight, based on the weight of the included materials. In contrast, a yurt — a type of dwelling structure popular among nomadic peoples of East Asia — typically weighs less than 10.10 hundredweight.
It's about thirty times as heavy as a Pig
The weight of a Pig is about 5.50 hundredweight.
(Domestic pig, Sus scrofa domesticus, a.k.a. S. domesticus) (adult)
Domestic pigs weigh between 5.50 hundredweight. The titular character "Babe the pig" in the 1995 family film was played by 48 different American Yorkshire piglets due to the length of filming and the rate at which piglets reach adulthood.
It's about thirty times as heavy as a cubic meter of Snow
The weight of a cubic meter of Snow is about 5.10 hundredweight.
(Freshly fallen, standard conditions; measurements taken in Norway, 1965-68)
One cubic meter of freshly fallen snow under standard conditions weighs an average of 5.10 hundredweight. Assembled in 2008, the world record largest snowman was constructed of 130,000 hundredweight of snow and stood 37.21 m (122.1 ft) tall.
It's about forty times as heavy as The Heart of a Blue Whale
The weight of The Heart of a Blue Whale is about 4.40 hundredweight.
(Balaenoptera musculus) (adult)
(for a 2014 specimen)
The heart of a blue whale weighs about 4.40 hundredweight. These hearts pump an estimated 7,100 L (1,875 gal) of blood through the whale's massive body.
It's about 45 times as heavy as a Reindeer
The weight of a Reindeer is about 3.650 hundredweight.
(for Rangifer tarandus granti, adult, bull) (a.k.a. Caribou) ()Rangifer tarandus)
An adult, male reindeer weighs between 3.650 hundredweight. Reindeer undertake a lengthy annual migration, with some herds traveling up to 5,000 km.

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It's about 50 times as heavy as a Panda Bear
The weight of a Panda Bear is about 3.30 hundredweight.
(a.k.a. Giant Panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca)(Adult, male)
An adult, male Giant Panda weighs up to 3.30 hundredweight. Despite having the digestive system of a carnivore, the panda eats only bamboo and must eat up to 0.140 hundredweight of it per day to compensate for the limited energy the plant provides.
It's about one-eighty-fifth as heavy as Christ the Redeemer (statue)
Flag of Brazil
The weight of Christ the Redeemer (statue) is about 14,000 hundredweight.
(a.k.a. O Cristo Redentor, a.k.a. Christo redemptor) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Christ the Redeemer weighs 14,000 hundredweight. The statue overlooks the city of Rio de Janeiro from atop the 709.9-meter (2,329 ft) granite peak in the Tijuca Forest National Park.
It's about 90 times as heavy as a Kangaroo
The weight of a Kangaroo is about 1.90 hundredweight.
(for red kangaroo, Macropus rufus) (adult, male)
An adult, male red kangaroo weighs up to 1.90 hundredweight. Fantastic jumpers, red kangaroos can leap horizontally 9 m (30 ft) and vertically 3 m (9 ft) in a single bound.
It's about 100 times as heavy as a Beer Keg
The weight of a Beer Keg is about 1.6050 hundredweight.
(for US half-barrel, full keg; draft beer; including keg itself, stainless steel)
A typical, half-barrel beer keg weighs 1.6050 hundredweight when full. A keg of this size contains 15.5 gallons of beer, or the equivalent of 6.8 cases.
It's about 150 times as heavy as an Octopus
The weight of an Octopus is about 1.10 hundredweight.
(for Giant Pacific Octopus, Enteroctopus) (Adult, average)
The adult North Pacific Giant Octopus usually weighs around 1.10 hundredweight. It is the largest octopus species and is known for its considerable intelligence, including the ability to open jars, solve mazes, and mimic other octopuses.
It's about 150 times as heavy as a Toilet
The weight of a Toilet is about 0.9610 hundredweight.
(KOHLER Round front sitting flush toilet, model #K-11471-0)
The weight of a typical round front sitting flush toilet is 0.9610 hundredweight. The Indian town of Musiri in Tamil Nadu state features the world's only paying toilet, which rewards its users up to 10¢ Indian (10 paisas) per visit and uses the waste for compost and fertilizer.
It's about one-one-hundred-fiftieth as heavy as a Tree (Sierra Redwood)
The weight of a Tree (Sierra Redwood) is about 29,000 hundredweight.
(a.k.a. Giant Sequoia, a.k.a. Sierran redwood, a.k.a. Wellingtonia, a.k.a. "Big Tree", Sequoiadendron giganteum)
The weight of wood in a Giant Sequoia is 29,000 hundredweight. General Sherman, a specimen in Sequoia National Park in Visalia, California, is the largest tree in the world by volume, with an estimated weight of about 42,000 hundredweight.
It's about 250 times as heavy as a Dalmatian
The weight of a Dalmatian is about 0.650 hundredweight.
(a.k.a. Dalmatinac, a.k.a. Carriage Dog, a.k.a. Spotted Coach Dog, a.k.a. Firehouse Dog) (FCI standard; male)
The Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) calls for Dalmatians to weigh between 0.650 hundredweight. The association of the breed with fire departments (and similarly with Budweiser Beer and its team of Clydesdales) stems from their affinity for horses, having been used historically as carriage dogs capable of guiding horse-drawn fire engines to the sites of blazes.
It's about 600 times as heavy as a Gold Bar
The weight of a Gold Bar is about 0.27428571430 hundredweight.
(London Good Delivery bar)
A "London Good Delivery" gold bar — the variety commonly held by Central Banks — should weigh 0.27428571430 hundredweight. The largest gold bar ever produced was minted by Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (a sibling company of the auto manufacturer) in 2005 and weighed 5.5115565550 hundredweight.
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