I was told there would be NO MATH.
That’s great. I actually have a room full of gorillas I need help with.
I doubt my 21-year-old-nice–4’11" and 90 pounds --can budge such a weight. But she’d pitch in for a friend who was moving by carrying many smaller weights., organizing, et ceter.
I’m sure the OP means 20 pounds. He still seems fairly uncharitable.
But…but…I want to help elliott move! I must help! It is all I live for!
Tote it and hang it? Man, that shit would be the end of the friendship. If there was a flight of stairs involved, it would be justifiable homicide.
Yeah, you can. First step - don’t ask your friends to move you, if you do, then you are automatically a shit. When you move, you do it yourself or pay someone. Second step - when they call, you’ve made plans - preferably with your mother, but anything other than a bullshit “have to wash my hair” excuse will do.
If you can’t afford to move yourself, then the barn building method of moving works great - just don’t be the last in your friend set to grow out of it because then you’ll be sitting there with a U Haul, a case of beer and six pizzas, and all your friends are their homes with toddlers.
Saint Peter wasn’t gonna call you, anyway.
You know, we’ve moved plenty of times - including two cross country moves - without help from friends. But once we acquired a toddler? Shit, we need all the help we can get now.
200lbs for 30 secs? That’s pretty difficult for strong males much less the average population.
Make friends with a yak. Or many yaks.
According to this guy, they can carry up to 210 pounds for more than 30 seconds.
As it happens, my fridge weighs about 200 pounds, so I just tried to hold it off the ground for 30 seconds.
Congratulations, OP, I will never ask you to help me move.
Its not that hard, the average couch is almost 200 pounds. Just pick it up under your arm and hold it for the length of an average TV commercial.
Actually, I pay people to lift heavy things for me. America is a great country!
Bull. That’s one of the stupidest things anyone has ever posted in the history of the SDMB. You’re out of your fucking skull.
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WTF?
As a pick-up owner and someone capable of moving heavy things, I used to get volunteered by friends to help them move, this always resulted in me doing an unfair portion of the work. When it came time for me to move myself I figured I was owed some help. Lazy ass’s I’d helped in the past made excuses, rather than deal with that crap I just paid people to help me.
The peopled I’d helped in the past that didn’t reciprocate I won’t do anything for. I’ll lend a van or pick up to others but avoid being thier manual labor.
Lifting 200 pounds is an unreasonable expectation. Most people can’t handle that. I would expect the average person to support more than a hundred pounds for any period.
I’m 48, and I just had to help my older brother unpack his new pinball machine. One of those weighs about 250 pounds, and while there wasn’t much actual lifting, I did have to hold the darn thing up for 30 seconds while he screwed the legs on.
Next time, he holds it and you screw.