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What is this called? (media.piefed.social)
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

These are designed to fall out when you’re moving a cheap piece of furniture too many times. They always land spikes up for when you inevitably step on it while rushing to finish up and leave.

They’re like Lego… with tetanus.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    You’re supposed to lift something off the ground instead of dragging it. That applies to cheap or expensive furniture, or anything really.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    No, if you’re using sliders you’re just lazy and cheap. You always lift something to move it. Even if it’s a couple feet.

    Sliders can still get debris or slide on the floor scratching it, no company worth their salt uses them. Since it’s damaging to the floor and the equipment or furniture or whatever you’re moving.

    Just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you should or it’s a smart thing to do. Most stuff isn’t designed to have lateral force applied to it, so to do so, even with sliders, will damage it. If you lift and move cheap furniture instead of sliding it, it won’t break the first time you move it lmfao.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago*

    Talking at me like I don't own and use a shoulder-dolley and furniture dolleys, but no, I'm not a professional mover; My ideals are literally anti-thetical to the need for such. Speaking of things furniture wasn't designed for, have you seen the size of people these days?

    Doesn't change the fact that the screw-adjust feet you drive-into wood with a hammer, as shown in OP, are the wrong solution for just-about all of the furniture they are found in.

    There are sturdier versions out there, as I mentioned in my first comment, and rust-flakes will tear-up a floor.

    Now, if you know enough to be so concerned for floors, are you aware you can get felt-pads large-enough to slide the furniture across, rather than sliding the pad across the floor? The furniture I really like is too heavy to lift in one piece anyways, more like a built-in once its situated.

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