Whats the heaviest thing in your house?

No idea how much it weighs but probably the 9’ pool table. It’ll probably stay with the house whenever we decide to move.

The fridge. Everything else in the house I could move on my own. (wouldn’t be pretty or fun but I could do it) The fridge I would need help with.

Oddly enough you’re like the third person to suggest just that. Would something like that work IYHO?

I’ve never done it, but what could it hurt to try? Hell, give it away if you just want to get rid of it.

Groovy. I just looked and there’s actually a lot of early 1990’s style TV’s being hawked on Craigslist for way more than I would have asked for. I’m going to do it, thanks!

Definitely. That’s what makes craigslist so beautiful - it’s all local, so your ad goes out to people who are close enough to come pick up your junk. Great for things you could never imagine shipping!

As for moving it - think about who is going to want a deeply-discounted humongous TV right now, just before the Super Bowl? It’s highly likely that there’s a group of burly young men with a truck waiting for your ad to show up on craigslist! :smiley: (or perhaps that was a dream I had…hmm…)

WRT the actual thread…I’d say my fridge is the heaviest thing in my house. I got it for free from someone when I moved in, and it’s about twice the size of what I need and 20 years old, and I got to be part of the moving team. So I can vouch for its heaviness.

My soapstone woodstove is 650#. Two of us moved it into place. That thing is heavy.
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My gun cabinet filled with ammo and guns is probably close to 800#.

I think the heaviest thing in my apartment is my Satan’s Hollow arcade game. Not sure of its weight, but it’s the heaviest of my three arcade games, and despite having built-in rear casters, is more difficult to move than anythin else here.

As an aside, if the proposed Craigslist ad said “front-projection,” I’d be all over that. I was fascinated with front-projection sets when I was a kid, and I think using one with my RCA CED player and Sony Betamax deck would be the bee’s knees.

My grand piano wighs about 700lbs. Full, but with no occupants, my hot tub weighs about 4800lbs.

Chest freezer.

It’s a toss-up between the lathe (425 lbs) and the wood stove. I’ve never actually weighed the wood stove, but I have had occasion to move it around using the “lift one end a tiny bit and pivot” method. That thing is heavy.

The 125-gallon aquarium.

Hmmm. Forgot about the wood stove. Those buggers are heavy aren’t they.

Cast iron radiators. Several of them. I’m 99% positive they weight more than the piano and the refrigerator (heck, I’ve moved those two myself) and the cast iron claw foot tub (I can at least lift a portion of it). One of the smaller ones in the dining end of the great room has bowed the hardwood floor planks under its feet.

In a normal house one would not need to move one of these suckers.
When we bought the place, unfortunately, a radiator was missing from an upstairs bedroom. The piping is there, so I needed to find one the same size/capacity as the one that is gone. I found one on Craigslist for $50 (Viva la Craigslist!) This is an incredible bargain (typically they run $10/20 per fin) The woman had converted her house to forced air and this was the last one she had, and it worked leak free until it was decomissioned. She still had it because no one wanted to move The Beast (as we have named it.)

The Beast is 56" long, 22" high, and 12" deep. It has 30 fins. My husand and brother and the seller’s husband moved it into our SUV together, and they estimate it weighs about 800lb. We had to get two more guys and build a ramp to get it out of the SUV into the garage.
The plumbing guys are supposed to move it upstairs for us. Good luck to them.

We’ve got a nearly identical Beast in our bedroom, but it’s even longer at 32 fins, so I’m guessing it’s the heaviest thing in our house.

Probably my 78rpm record collection - at 3 to the pound, I’d guess I own close to half a ton of the ole groove biscuits.

Probably the dirty socks on the floor in my son’s room. I know he never seems to be able to pick them up and if he can’t do it, then I’m certainly not going to risk a hernia by trying.

My ego.

My washing machine. I bought it when living in my last apartment, third floor, no elevator. The company That sold it had a “bring and install” guarantee, for which I was very glad.

I offered to move in, and out of that apartment with the washing machine staying put. But both the last tenants and the tenants after me preferred to haul their own washing machine down and up those damned stairs. I have counted them once; that stairwell was 120 steep steps.

The piece of furniture that holds our bigscreen TV. There are two towers on either side (for all the electronics, etc.) that bolt against the stand that easily holds the 60" set and then there’s a bridge that bolts to the top. Assembled, it’s a royal pain in the butt, ass and backside to move. Just to slide one side out so I could work in back I had to put both feet against the wall and slowly inch it out. But then, trying to slide it back my feet could gain no purchase. I finally had to stack a bunch of furniture against the far wall till they reached clear across the room and I could use their combined length to thrust against and shove the entertainment center back in place. Each of the four pieces weighs enough on their own but assembled they’re way more than manageable by anything short of a D9 Cat.

Probably each of the filing cabinets (full), then the fridge, then the bed and the stove.