This is one of the classic disadvantages of owning a pick-up…
A full-sized refrigerator can weigh 250 pounds, and it definitely takes two strong guys to lift one. Usually, they only have to lift it a few inches to get it onto a rolling cart of some sort. But there comes the lovely effort of getting the fridge up a flight of stairs. Two guys can do it – I know from painful experience – but it’s about as much fun as a visit to the dentist.
Dude, that’s gross. They’re brothers!
A little cultural sensitivity on your part, maybe? They could be from Canada, you know.
I don’t know if you guys are pulling my leg but 200lbs is something you should be able to deadlift after a month in the gym tops. Just picking up one end of a heavy couch or a fridge or some shit involves supporting 100~200 lbs and that’s perfectly reasonable for a normal guy
I’m not asking you to be able to carry it or something, but at least let me do the actual lifting and just hold the other end or something. I lift regularly, my deadlift is over 400lbs, I don’t mind being the muscle. But you should put some effort in
I can’t really imagine a lift other than deads that would apply to holding furniture? Even benching 200 lbs isn’t exactly hard, most guys can do that. Most girls I know can at least deadlift 135~150 and if you were doing that I’d imagine you could “rack pull” a couch for ~200lbs
I’m no weakling, but a 100 pound bag of dogfood pretty much exceeds my limits. I can lift it…but carrying it from the car to the house is too much.
I can throw a forty pound box of paper onto my shoulder and, at needs, walk a furlong carrying it.
200? I don’t know if I could get it off the floor.
Median weight of men in their 20’s United States = ~168 lbs, for 30’s = ~179 lbs.
The American College of Sports Medicine classifies 1RM bench press based on the amount lifted in comparison to body weight, sex and age. An average bench press for an adult male in his 20s is 106 percent of body weight – whereas, an adult female in her 20s is 65 percent of body weight.
So a dead average male of average weight in his peak years can lift 166 lbs x 1.06 = 175 lbs. And that’s at peak age - in your 30’s that multiplier drops to 0.93. 179 x 0.93 = 166 lbs. It only gets worse from there.
So no - most guys, that is to say over 50%, cannot bench press 200 lbs. Many can. Maybe most of your friends can if you hang with a lot of gym rats. I wouldn’t doubt that at all. But not a random sampling of adult guys.
Stop being their friends? He may already be doing that.
Dead average male == average dead male? They can do that?
With enough electrical current.
Not to be rude, but if you can’t bench even 200 lbs I wouldn’t call you a man.
Jokes aside, the majority of mildly physical men, when you discount completely sedentary nerds or whoever, would easily be able to bench at least 200 lbs. I’d say the inability of the average man to do so is a failing on his part instead of mine. Regardless, this doesn’t really relate to the main point of: you should at least be able to hold half of a couch for me.
I think our sofa weighs maybe fifty pounds (I have to shift it every year when it comes time to put up the Christmas tree).
That said, last month I enlisted the help of my daughter and her BFF in moving a 250-pound dining room table from my late father’s house to our apartment. THAT was pretty ungainly.
After a who in a where, now?
And just by and by, as a guy in his late 40’s I gave up moving people’s heavy-ass furniture about 12 years ago after a three day ordeal helping a particular friend of mine move for the second time in two years. Up and down multiple flights of stairs at both places with couches and entertainment centers that felt like they were stuffed with lead.
Need some money to hire a mover? I’m there for you. Need someone to help lug a bureau? Nope. That’s something you do in your twenties as far as I’m concerned. Especially since poor college student furniture is usually a lot lighter than the over-stuffed monstrosities we get as we become more affluent.
You vastly over-estimate the strength of the average man. Laughably over-estimate.
OP isn’t exactly tactful, but he’s right. If an average size adult male under 50, barring obvious disability, can’t hold up the end of a couch, there’s something wrong.
in the moving business, he’s not funny at all.
OP I sure as shit wouldn’t work with you. so you can lift 200 pounds, so what, can you carry it up a flight of stairs around a corner through a door and down a hallway with out beating the shit out of it against the walls, hand rails, door frames and without hurting yourself?
To me, a professional mover, you sound like an idiot.
All this flipping back between ‘you’ (the reader) and ‘guy/man’ as if they’re the same thing is not by any means the most annoying part of the OP.
But it’s pretty bloody annoying.
I’ve put a few of these together
Rest one end on a folding chair and put the legs on the other end. Then hold that end up and put the legs on. Still takes two people, but much easier.