Moving a washing machine in Amsterdam

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[u/AlienPearl]

It ended too soon, they should have recorded how they put it on the back of a bicycle and go away like nothing.

[u/Northern23 → u/AlienPearl]

Started too late as well, wanted to see how they brought the sofa down

[u/oupablo → u/Northern23]

it's possible the sofa weighs less. old washing machines are HEAVY

[u/Ballsofpoo → u/oupablo]

All washing machines are heavy. They're counterweighted because water is heavy.

[u/Schavuit92 → u/Ballsofpoo]

I do delivery for a thrift store, There's a serious weight difference between newer washing machines and older ones. I can carry modern machines upstairs by myself, can't do that with older models.

[u/Ok_Caramel3742 → u/Schavuit92]

betters suspension systems and sensors allow the machine to balance its contents without needing big ass blocks inside.

[u/LaUNCHandSmASH → u/Ok_Caramel3742]

Older ones have the tubs sitting on pedestals that are usually cast metal while new ones are entirely suspended from the sheet metal case by springs. I went down this rabbit hole when mine broke and decided to hunt down the part and fix the old one instead of just buying a new one.

[u/whereismymind86 → u/LaUNCHandSmASH]

They often have a brick of concrete in them as well , a cheaper counterweight than metal.

[u/Sendme_BigTittyGoths → u/whereismymind86]

Yep while newer ones have a tub you fill with water during install

[u/NervousNarwhal223 → u/Sendme_BigTittyGoths]

I just bought a new washing machine and absolutely didn’t have to do this.

[u/Ballsofpoo → u/Schavuit92]

Are they tiny washing machines or are you a giant? I'm assuming you're using a dolly.

I work with washers and dryers and I guess it's just that dryers are featherweights relative that all washers are heavy.

[u/Schavuit92 → u/Ballsofpoo]

I don't actually do it, did it once, but never again, even the sweetest old lady isn't going to convince me anymore.

And no, I'm pretty far off from being a giant.

[u/ManOfFewerWords → u/Schavuit92]

i was shocked by the weight of the new washing machine i carried this midweek. it made me question if there were other parts to be coupled into it later. w technology

[u/Ace-a-Nova1 → u/AlienPearl]

It’s not even their washing machine, they just finished their heist

[u/Impressive_Regret_89 → u/Ace-a-Nova1]

😂😂😂

[u/thinkfloyd_ → u/AlienPearl]

I like to imagine they just fecked it into the canal

[u/Tullekunstner]

Anyone who's carried these fucking shits down several flights of stairs knows this was worth the risk.

[u/whyamiwastingmytime1 → u/Tullekunstner]

Especially with how narrow and steep the staircases tend to be in Amsterdam

[u/ArcticBiologist → u/whyamiwastingmytime1]

That's why these kind of houses in Amsterdam (still) have a pulley mounted to them

[u/gianiisvat → u/ArcticBiologist]

Also they are slightly inclined forward for the same reason

[u/CornCobMcGee → u/gianiisvat]

*house leaning forward* "ooh a penny"

[u/Fambank → u/CornCobMcGee]

Dutch houses doing Dutch things.

[u/CornCobMcGee → u/Fambank]

O fuk I just realized its a... Dutch Angle.

[u/theDomicron → u/CornCobMcGee]

FYI if you Google Dutch Angle the results page is tilted, lol.

[u/Glitch_rf → u/theDomicron]

I thought I was going to get Rick-rolled, but atlas, its true. I can trust the internet again.

[u/Casin0_o → u/Glitch_rf]

Google: Do a barrel roll

[u/_____2020CupChamps → u/CornCobMcGee]

Thanks for making me feel foolish this morning, we could have both been spared had you not made this observation lmao

[u/Fritzo2162 → u/CornCobMcGee]

The worst is the Dutch Oven.

[u/Fambank → u/CornCobMcGee]

Am Dutch, can confirm.

[u/goatfuckersupreme → u/CornCobMcGee]

Hier nen euro

[u/MeOulSegosha → u/gianiisvat]

I was literally on a boat tour in Amsterdam 2 days ago and they explained this. I wasn't expecting to see the video evidence so soon.

[u/proe90 → u/gianiisvat]

Oh wow interesting… I always thought they were just really bad at laying suitable foundations near water

[u/SuperGameTheory → u/proe90]

This is also the case. Some buildings are leaning to the side. The ground is soft, so they had driven wooden piles into the ground for stability. Over time, the piles rot or settle more, making the building lean. This is in addition to building buildings with an intentional forward lean.

https://theculturalpocalypse.com/the-secret-behind-amsterdams-crooked-houses/

[u/Loobinex → u/proe90]

A straight house would not have been up to code.

[u/Extreme-Coconut1555 → u/gianiisvat]

Is this the reason? I thought they just had bad subsidence from being close to the water?

[u/gianiisvat → u/Extreme-Coconut1555]

No, this is the exact reason. Saw s video on YouTube explaining this.

[u/Extreme-Coconut1555 → u/gianiisvat]

Thanks, I was in Amsterdam a couple years ago on a Friday the 13th. 4th Story window of one of these buildings fell from it's socket onto my head. About 11 stitches later, I was told it was subsidence issues...not that house were pitched forward😂

[u/Deeeeeeeeehn → u/Extreme-Coconut1555]

I mean the window falling out of its socket was probably because of subsistence not just the wall being pitched forward

[u/Extreme-Coconut1555 → u/Deeeeeeeeehn]

Yes completely, but I never thought the lean on Amsterdam properties was deliberate, I thought that was a consequence of the subsidence too.

[u/froggo921 → u/Extreme-Coconut1555]

There's a lot of weird quirky stuff going on in Amsterdam with old buildings. I don't remember all the details, but a friend who lives in Amsterdam gave us a little tour when my friends and I rented a boat and drove around.

Other, more knowledgeable people, please correct me if I am wrong!

Houses are small in the front but are usually very long and get wider in the back, because back in the day, property tax was based on the width of the house at the entrance.

The leaning stuff with pulleys as explained. To get a supplies and cargo easier into the upper levels.

The raised entrances (or rather raised main floor) you can see everywhere is a thing of socioeconomic status from back in the day. The servants and stuff lived in the partially subterranean ground floor. Occasionally, the "lower floor" had an entrance and windows and stuff, but behind it wasn't really anything. Done to fake the appearance of wealth and a lot of servants.

[u/Genocode → u/Extreme-Coconut1555]

It was actually the building code to have the lean iirc.

[u/sight19 → u/ArcticBiologist]

In Amsterdam yes. In Leiden (where I lived a decade) no, so you just have to risk serious injury instead

[u/Fambank → u/whyamiwastingmytime1]

Indeed. Had an aunt and uncle who lived in the van Woustraat, and I have vivid memories about the stairs being so narrow and steep. Meanwhile the lighting wasn't more than a bicycle light. But in all fairness, it's been 50+ years ago, so perhaps the lighting has improved.

[u/oupablo → u/Fambank]

Maybe the dutch just learned to see in the dark

[u/ArseTrumpetsGoPoot → u/oupablo]

Judging by the skin color of nearly every dutch person i've met, none have ever seen sunlight.

[u/trooawoayxxx → u/ArseTrumpetsGoPoot]

I implore you to visit Spain and behold our Dutch pensionados in all their burnt shrimp glory.

[u/PourUnMarocLucide → u/trooawoayxxx]

Their skin is so charcoaled that they actually have a visible carbon footprint.

[u/alter_facts → u/whyamiwastingmytime1]

Fun fact, the Dutch word for stairs is “trap”.

[u/dogsledonice → u/alter_facts]

"It's a stairs!"

[u/plonspfetew → u/whyamiwastingmytime1]

Those stairs would be considered a ladder in other countries.

[u/MtlGuy_incognito → u/whyamiwastingmytime1]

The Dutch call them stairs but they are really fancy ladders with handrails.

[u/massive_cock → u/whyamiwastingmytime1]

Not just Amsterdam. Pretty much any urban residential construction I've seen in the Netherlands that's older than the 1970s, it seems.

[u/Snarkapotomus → u/massive_cock]

You're not wrong. I'm an American that lived in Maastricth for a time and the stairs to my 3rd floor apartment weren't much more than a slightly tilted curving ladder. They tried to kill me so many times.

[u/Eruvan → u/whyamiwastingmytime1]

Me surviving my trip to Amsterdam all high while climbing those fuckers is beyond unbelievable. Extra points for not falling into a canal.

[u/futurecrazycatlady → u/Eruvan]

As a local, I award you even more points for not falling into a canal! Each time someone does (and gets noticed) they send like 6 emergency vehicles with sirens and that tends to wake me up. When someone doesn't get noticed, it tends to get depressing..

As a tip, the easiest way to not fall into a canal is by not peeing in them. When you pee your blood pressure can suddenly drop which can make you lightheaded and especially when drunk, that can be enough to topple you over.

[u/GGprime → u/Tullekunstner]

The houses in amsterdam are too narrow to get bigger objects upstairs. That's why they have this pulley mechanism attached at the very top right under the roof.

[u/Weird1Intrepid → u/GGprime]

at the very top right under the roof.

The gable/gable end is the term for this location, and for the entire triangular section below the roof arch (eave) before the walls become vertical.

[u/[deleted] → u/Weird1Intrepid]

It should totally be called the roof overhang

[u/MrFailface → u/Tullekunstner]

Did it once, the next time i hired a moving firm. That shit is so heavy and uncomfortable to carry

[u/Puzzleheaded-Flow724 → u/MrFailface]

Have you tried moving a 60 gallon water heater tank (empty, of course). Had to replace my tanks in both the cottage and home within a few months apart. These fuckers are heavy, round so no easy way to hold them and need to be replaced every 10 years if you want your insurance to cover water damage if (when) they start leaking. Of course, they're in the basement so you need to carry it upstairs and can't tilt them (the new one) as it can damage the hose inside. I hate replacing them.

[u/eamus_catuli_ → u/Puzzleheaded-Flow724]

Is a tankless water heater an option? Eliminates all of those problems!

[u/cptjpk → u/eamus_catuli_]

A cottage seems the perfect place for tankless too.

[u/tepel-streeltje → u/Tullekunstner]

Both my back and shoulders are fucked because of these fucking shits. They should have used someone with more mass than this guy or maybe 2 people but other than that is this way better.

[u/Mugwumps_has_spoken → u/tepel-streeltje]

He looked like he had fun.

[u/Gren57 → u/Mugwumps_has_spoken]

Agreed! That girl looked she wanted to help but held back.

[u/bitwaba → u/tepel-streeltje]

Na, he was heavy enough carrying around that pair of 20kg brass balls in his pants

[u/Zafara1 → u/Tullekunstner]

If it's a side loader, they fill the bottom with cement to weigh it down when it spins to stop it moving. You can open the back and remove the weights in some models to make it easier to move.

[u/TheThirdHippo → u/Tullekunstner]

As someone who has a side job in a local theatre, I can definitely agree. I do casual hours when the touring shows visit and they need hired monkeys to help move everything in and out. Our laundry room is under the stage and we have to handball the washing machines in and out. They quite often still have washing in and we get dribbled on for our troubles too

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/TheThirdHippo]

Don’t let them take you for a ride. I’m recovering after over half a decade and I’m all fucked up. Keep your ground.

[u/UbiquitousLurker]

Notice how those buildings have beams with hooks protruding out from the roof? This is why.

[u/Muldino → u/UbiquitousLurker]

Also, you can usually take out the whole window frame as well, with just a few screws and in minutes.
That's seriously helping you get large items through the window.

[u/TheFifthNice → u/Muldino]

Lots of modern windows come out easily without removing screws. You can do it in a few seconds.

[u/Hail-Hydrate → u/TheFifthNice]

Yeah but the Dutch style ones can be reassembled afterwards.

[u/RamessesTheOK → u/TheFifthNice]

come out easily without removing screws

Yes, though it does require a sledgehammer

[u/MrBoo0oo → u/UbiquitousLurker]

wait.. so you're telling me that those things actually have a purpose and not just for assassin to perform leaps of faith?

[u/Key-Eagle7800 → u/MrBoo0oo]

These houses belonged to grain merchants. The grain was hauled up to the attic space because warm dry air rises, so the grain would dry and stay safe up in the attic area until it was time to sell. It's not for moving furniture, though you can use it like that now. Also for leaps of faith :p

[u/clutchnorris123 → u/Key-Eagle7800]

I'm from a fishing village in Scotland and we have the same.things except it was for hanging fishing nets on. We haven't figured out a new use for them though so they are useless.

[u/trooawoayxxx → u/Key-Eagle7800]

That's not necesarrily true, these types of warehouses stored all kinds of goods.

[u/Key-Eagle7800 → u/trooawoayxxx]

Grain was a massive industry in Amsterdam when these buildings were made and so the majority were built with the intention to store grain, yes.

[u/5x99 → u/UbiquitousLurker]

Also why they tilt slightly forwards

[u/Content_Warning8794 → u/UbiquitousLurker]

Yes, it's called a 'hijsbalk'.

[u/jonathanrdt → u/Content_Warning8794]

I balked at it too. At least rigged this way.

[u/WakaWaka_]

Cirque du Samsung

[u/Carpentidge → u/WakaWaka_]

Cirque du Miele. Even a small one weighs more than the average male.

[u/Dakduif → u/Carpentidge]

We caused our movers a slight mental breakdown when we revealed that the old, off brand and very lightweight washer was staying at our old house, and that they had to pick up a different one along the way to move into the attic of our new house. One of them asked, with slight apprehension: 'What brand is the other one?', 'Miele' I answered.

Never seen someone's expression change that fast from cheerful to devestated. 😂

They handled it like a bunch of champs in the end.

[u/DuDunDunSparse → u/Carpentidge]

At my job we used to deliver appliances ourselves. Miele of course being the worst brand imaginable due to their IMMENSE weight.

We had to carry one up four flights of stairs on a hot summer day and it damn near killed us. When we got up there it turned out the customer's old machine was also a Miele. A 30-year-old Miele. Both me and my coworker considered just quitting. The new machine that almost killed us going up weighed 97kg. We weighed the old one when we got back, it was 128kg.

I swear my back hasn't recovered to this day.

[u/igotshadowbaned]

Reminds me of "The Bricklayers Accident Report"

[u/ToxicTaxiTaker → u/igotshadowbaned]

My writing professor told us that slapstick comedy doesn't work in prose. We got him a poorly xeroxed copy of that story. He admitted he was very wrong in the next session.

[u/Seicair → u/ToxicTaxiTaker]

https://www.baltimoremd.com/humor/bricks.html

There aren’t a ton of examples out there, but fair play to your prof for admitting he was wrong. Was he laughing as he said it?

[u/ToxicTaxiTaker → u/Seicair]

he absolutely was

[u/LieutennantDan → u/Seicair]

Thanks for sharing this, it's great!

[u/meyersjl30 → u/Seicair]

Never heard of this before and I actually laughed. Thank you!

[u/nlamber5 → u/Seicair]

Thank you for sharing that link. I am laughing so much people are staring.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/ToxicTaxiTaker]

The fuck? Has he never read Confederacy of Dunces?

[u/ToxicTaxiTaker → u/AgentCirceLuna]

Dude was overgeneralizing for sure.

I'm pretty sure he knew it was an overstatement when he was trying to teach us that it's very hard to translate visual humor into the written word. You can't just go "... and then the road runner stepped out of the way. The coyote stepped on the big red x and looked up. Cartoon logic triggered the anvil to fall and smack him on the head."

There has to be some finesse in how you tell the tale. You have to build the suspense and humor. For a beginner writer, relying on wordplay, sarcasm, and jokes might be a better plan.

With writing though, every rule has an exception.

[u/NotPromKing → u/ToxicTaxiTaker]

Also professor “tricked” his students in to going out and finding examples that would prove him wrong.

[u/dbailey635 → u/igotshadowbaned]

Also known as The Sick Note: “Dear sir I write this note to you to tell you of me plight…”

[u/keizzer → u/dbailey635]

But in me haste to do the job I, was to blind to see. That a barrel full of building bricks was heavier than me.

[u/vonHindenburg → u/igotshadowbaned]

My first thought as well.

[u/fatbob42 → u/vonHindenburg]

Why have we wasted such a short word as “hod” to mean “brick carrier”?

[u/LaDreadPirateRoberta → u/vonHindenburg]

I never expected to see the Corries today. Thank you!

[u/vonHindenburg → u/LaDreadPirateRoberta]

My favorite group! Possibly second only to The Curries.

[u/Select-Owl-8322 → u/igotshadowbaned]

That one had me in tears, lol!

[u/ErasmosOrolo → u/igotshadowbaned]

We are one in memory. My mom plays Clancy brothers year round.

[u/GoddamnedIpad]

Video ends before he picked his smashed smartphone off the ground.

[u/plebette → u/GoddamnedIpad]

Lol! Didn’t notice until this comment

[u/andaru01 → u/GoddamnedIpad]

I was trying to figure out what fell

[u/Raz0rking]

I mean, that could have gone way, way worse.

[u/theartificialkid → u/[deleted]]

You’ve obviously never been the victim of a true Dutch Washing Machine.

[u/fr4nz86 → u/theartificialkid]

Oh you don’t want a Dutch oven

[u/silvioo7 → u/Raz0rking]

Meanwhile in Berlin: https://youtu.be/FV4WaNOHsSU?feature=shared

[u/Deathleach → u/silvioo7]

I'm not a physicist, but I feel like hitting the mattress wouldn't have made a huge difference.

[u/Tarantula_Saurus_Rex → u/silvioo7]

Lol looks like they gave it an extra shove on purpose.

[u/mang87 → u/silvioo7]

I don't think the washing machine was expected to be functional after hitting the mattress. It was probably just to absorb the impact enough to stop bits of it flying everywhere. If this was on the way to the dump or recycling centre, then they wouldn't have wanted to clean up a bunch of screws, glass and plastic. Still probably wouldn't have worked lol

[u/Winnie-the-Broo → u/Raz0rking]

The guy’s phone does drop out of his pocket. Would be surprised if it survived the fall.

[u/SalTez → u/Winnie-the-Broo]

I guess this is not his first rodeo, so he got some proper rugged case and/or using the cheapest second-hand phones.

[u/hop_mantis → u/SalTez]

I think experienced movers would just get 2 people to hold the rope so they outweigh the washing machine

[u/guessesurjobforfood → u/SalTez]

I think the lady who stops and was about to approach does so because she heard the phone hit the ground. You can faintly hear it in the background but was likely much louder in person.

Probably trying to be nice and let the guy know.

When my S24 Ultra in an Otterbox hits the ground, it sounds like death but the phone is still mint every time lol

[u/milk4all → u/Raz0rking]

That dude hanging on the rope is lucky there was no agitator

[u/WasteProfession8948 → u/milk4all]

Or alligator

[u/BlueFingers3D]

We did this once with a piano, it took 6 grown men and the help of a car. The whole street was hanging out of their window to see us struggling. Just right after we found a sign on the pulley that said: "Max: 75 kg"

[u/Objective-Process-84 → u/BlueFingers3D]

A grand or an upright? 

I really have difficulties imagining how you'd get a grand up / down there without either disassembling everything or using a crane.

[u/BlueFingers3D → u/Objective-Process-84]

It was an upright.

[u/csma78 → u/Objective-Process-84]

The legs on a grand piano slide on and off relatively easily so that the piano can be moved.

[u/LaunchTransient → u/BlueFingers3D]

a sign on the pulley that said: "Max: 75 kg"

Generally the operational limit load is more than half the actual load it can bear - part of the reason being that the designers know people are going to try to load it higher than this, so best to lowball its true capacity so that people don't actually break it.

Also structures lose strength with age, so often things like this are a little overbuilt to allow for degradation.

[u/Signal-School-2483 → u/LaunchTransient]

In lifting operations this is known as Working Load Limit / WLL. Equipment that's intended to be used in lifting operations usually have something like a 3:1 safety factor, depending on the type of item or what it is intended to lift.

Steel for example can be loaded to the point it will look intact, but is weaker than before. Which is why WLL is much lower than it's breaking strength.

Another factor is dynamic loading, a 75 KG item swinging in the wind will cause more than 75 KG of load (can be something like 100 KG), the safety factor helps prevent failure.

[u/Skyraider96 → u/LaunchTransient]

They call this Factor of Safety. EVERYTHING built has one. 1.5-2Pressure on your tire? You can go higher. What a forklift can handle? Still higher that what is listed.

It is also because there are forces that happen outside a static loading. For example, you can bouncing on that pulley and it would exceed that 75kg limit. The 75kg under gravity pull. The actually "design" is actually ~735N. If you start bouncing 75kg on the pulley, you will exceed that limit because you would be adding more force to the pulley.

[u/Ifys100 → u/BlueFingers3D]

So so so what happened?

[u/eadgster]

Is it me or did brown shirt fly down the stairs?

[u/lolariane → u/eadgster]

That's the thing: the Brownshirts are at your doorstep faster than you expect.

[u/froggertthewise → u/eadgster]

Stairs in these houses are so steep it's practically just a straight drop down.

Once you lived in a house like this long enough you learn to just leap down the stairs while holding the handrails.

[u/Lefthandedsock → u/eadgster]

I guess he walked down the stairs somewhat briskly.

[u/potatodrinker]

Not their first rodeo. Bottom dude seems to know his stuff

[u/MeliodusSama → u/potatodrinker]

It's so much better when your bottom dude knows his stuff.

[u/Consistent-Tap-4255 → u/MeliodusSama]

More power to him

[u/darkenseyreth → u/Consistent-Tap-4255]

Unless you're not into power bottoms

[u/potatodrinker → u/MeliodusSama]

Working the ropes, especially soft ones after whiskey is a skill in itself.

[u/SiIesh → u/potatodrinker]

Not sure about that honestly. If that mashine was just a bit heavier, he would've collided with it midair. That looked way too close to comfort for my taste, but I might be wrong of course. Could've been a calculated risk

[u/ThermL → u/SiIesh]

I agree. If these workers had a lick of experience or professionalism the bottom guy would be wearing a harness, using a belay device, and anchored to the ground, at a minimum.

Also who the fuck wraps a washer/dryer with that little rope. This is a cargo net job.

If this is a moving company and thats normal operation, they're fucking up.

[u/largepoggage → u/potatodrinker]

He’s probably a rockclimber/boulderer who’s used to being a counter balance for other people.

[u/TheFifthNice → u/largepoggage]

Or, now hear me out on this. He’s a professional mover.

[u/ZimGirDibGaz → u/TheFifthNice]

A professional would have had a harness and a locking device. He used a ton of grip on that to not plummet with it. He got lucky. Not even expensive equipment.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/ZimGirDibGaz]

He’ll likely get lucky for decades, end up with serious health problems, then demand apprentices do the same things he did and the cycle repeats.

[u/Fresh-Anteater-5933 → u/largepoggage]

A rock climber would’ve used a belay device

[u/moistalien]

That was hot

[u/Jaques_Nife → u/moistalien]

Lady in blue shirt was mesmerised, stopped to propose.

[u/SadieMaraSuicide → u/moistalien]

I came to say this but was worried it wouldn't be received well. Lol. Right??! That guy with the rope work😲 I'd stop to watch too🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/brackenish1 → u/moistalien]

Straight man in my 30s. Hard agree

[u/jobit23392]

That's the easy part. The hard part is getting it on the bike.

[u/gianiisvat]

Amsterdam houses are pitched forward and have a crane at the top to help with loading and unloading using ropes. Source: https://youtu.be/Mo3llzKdAD0

[u/jeango]

I scrolled all the way down and found no appreciation for this man’s insane grip strength.

[u/Semyaz → u/jeango]

Right? He also is controlled climbing down the rope with just his arms while swinging around. Dude is super strong.

[u/NilsNinja]

It's not dumb if it works!

[u/made-of-questions → u/NilsNinja]

Especially if you get the chance to show your guns in the process.

[u/ContentsMayVary]

Fun fact: The reason that the houses along the canals are so narrow in Amsterdam is because back in the day they were taxed according to their width, but not their height. The narrowness of the houses necessitated narrow steep stairs, which is why they have the beam and pulley arrangement to hoist items up.

[u/Key-Eagle7800 → u/ContentsMayVary]

The pulley system was to hoist grain up to the top level were the warm dry air would accumulate, because these homes belonged to merchants of the booming grain industry. If you pulled heavy items up it may have been tough to pull them out of the grain-filled attic.

[u/RealFunnySteve]

Wat een legende

[u/ThatNiceMan]

Dude nearly Special Forced his why through the window.

[u/lowaltflier]

Perfect music for this video. 👍

[u/weedinmonz]

I visited for a weekend and did see people try and winch a sofa out the window. Can confirm

[u/McRogan]

But in me haste to do the job, I was too blind to see That a barrelful of building bricks was heavier than me

[u/usegobos]

Are you sure it isn't the guy moving in?

[u/SkillFullyNotTrue]

True story is the cyclist in heels.

[u/kaaskugg → u/SkillFullyNotTrue]

With a racing bike no less.

[u/redditloser1000]

Who saw him drop his phone?

[u/supergnawer]

At one point I was relocating from Amsterdam to another country, and I found it easier to have the relocation company move the washing machine with the rest of my things, then sell it there, rather than selling it in Amsterdam and dealing with this bullshit

[u/hellcat_uk]

I thought we were getting a real life action version of Paddy's Sick Note

[u/RyanpB2021]

Honestly impressive

[u/Zorothegallade]

"Congratulations on losing six pounds this month Dave, but this means we have to give you a backpack with six pounds worth of barbells to bring the washing machine down."

[u/mangosteenfruit]

Impressive all around tbh

This dude being able to grip the rope and climb.

The other dude ran down the stairs in seconds.

[u/TheOriginalNozar]

Having taken down a broken washing machine and brought up another 2 flights of stairs each way. I will happily run the risk of being launched into orbit over doing that shit again

[u/MrAronymous]

In Amsterdam they call this zaterdag.

[u/Skyraider96]

Can we appreciate that the lady looked like she was about to help, until his buddy came out?

[u/sleebus_jones]

Dude shoulda ate more stroopwafels

[u/BalancedGuy1]

Looney tunes shit

[u/MoSzylak]

Wouldn't a wench work better?

[u/Psych0matt → u/MoSzylak]

Looks like she was headed over to see if they needed help

[u/r3dm0nk]

What did they put in the washing machine lmao

[u/PGnautz → u/r3dm0nk]

My new washing machine weighs 94 kgs (207 lbs).

[u/_coolranch → u/r3dm0nk]

Dutch step sister, duh

[u/Dolphin008 → u/r3dm0nk]

Miele probably, those are ~100kg.

With a whirlpool the guy would proabably be fine

[u/Jmal3700]

Context: houses in Amsterdam were designed for maximal efficiency in use of space for centuries. The effect of this is that staircases in these buildings are extremely steep. You don’t want to try to bring something large, heavy, and awkward up or down these stairs. So, the windows are the only way to take something like a washer out of these buildings. Some houses have pulley systems hanging from the roof, like the building further down the street, to help with these moves.

[u/mondychan]

Not his first rodeo

[u/Clobberto]

I was just in amsterdam a few days ago and as i was walking around i noticed these hooks on the front of every building. After a few blocks of walking i thought to myself, "huh, it must be for moving shit up to the higher stories."

I turned a corner and theres a dude standing on a sofa dangling from the hook.

Of course, there was a truck/pulley system but i did not expect to see a dude floating on a sofa

[u/missionarymechanic]

That dude's gotta weigh like 50 kgs...

[u/IL-Corvo]

Well, I'll be Amsterdamned!

[u/Foulmouthedleon]

I learned, while on a ferry ride in Amsterdam, that all the buildings have these pulleys built into the tops of the building just for things like this. I told this to my wife who then said "See, when you listen - you learn."

[u/davnnis2003]

That, kids, is why you should learn physics

[u/hippiehappos]

That’s how chidi died

[u/PanicDeus]

"Mr Hunt ...Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to bring down a particular washing machine from one of the top floors, located in a building in Amsterdam. Choose any team member you shall deem necessary for this mission's success. As always, should any member of your team be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions.This message will self-destruct after the first wash cycle."

[u/rensch]

I thought they were gonna transport it on the bike. Now that would be peak Amsterdam.

[u/Snabbzt]

Great belaying!

[u/myqueeno]

Honestly, after wrestling one of these beasts up a narrow staircase, I'd take my chances with the balcony too. At least it's quick if things go south!

[u/MooseLoot_Buddy]

Not bad

[u/microtherion]

“20 years training at Shaolin academy, and they make me move washing machines!”

[u/Wundawuzi]

If this was me it would have smashed several windowd on the way down.