"Applying more Ass" the Bigger Stick approach to galvanized pipe

As rough plumbing lessons go, this has been a good one to learn: If you can't turn the pipe, someone tougher than you will just turn it harder. The mystery and subtle science of screwing, and unscrewing threaded galvanized radiator pipe comes down to one known entity, applying more ass.

Where to begin... The White 1 1/2" painted Pipe shown below is an existing threaded radiator line, this means the joints all screw together one after another to form the hot water supply to the old radiators in our house. in this "before shot" you can see that this existing radiator line drops well below the new waste lines roughed in. if left in place - as it has been for the past century it would mean the pipe would hang below the finished ceiling in the middle of the dining room. Armed with irrefutable logic Alli proposed "just moving it up our of the way"

here's the wall after we cut out a section to remove the lower elbow

and here's the nastiness that came with it
100 years of paint and heat cycles had the pipes pretty well fuzed together. The replacement pipe required new custom lengths cut and threaded - it was during this process that the hardware store plumber advised "if you can't turn it any further, you just have try harder". Note the guest appearance by Jeff Chown in the lower left of the image. Jeff was indispensable help putting this mess back together.