I'm sending a couch to a friend and need to know how much it weighs for the people shipping it. I'm not interested in average weights or estimates online (especially not from a moving company that gets more if they say it's heavier).
There are ways to do this - formulas... weighing parts and multiplying... it's just so hard to search for this online.
Thanks!
2007-07-01 22:18:00 · 9 answers · asked by akathepurplecow 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Find a friend with a second scale.
Weigh yourself on your scale, have them weigh themselves using their scale.
Place the scales on a HARD surface far enough apart for the following:
Each of you pick up the couch at one end and get on your respective scales.
Add the two amounts. Subtract from this your two weights above. This is the weight of the couch.
This assumes you can pick up the couch and still see the scale readouts. This also assumes you have friends.
If you don't have friends, you don't need a couch? Or are you weighing it so you can ship it to your only friend? :)
The one-person solution involves lumber and muscle. Cut two pieces of 2x4 to rest under each pair of couch legs. Cut a third piece of 2x4 to connect the exact centre of the above two pieces, so that you have formed a letter "H". Mark the centre of this third, longer piece.
Getting the scale under this whole mess is the trick. it has to be balanced on the exact centre. Use a level if necessary. Don't forget to weigh the lumber (and the crane) :) separately and subtract it to get the weight of the couch alone.
2007-07-02 08:38:37 · answer #1 · answered by neoplop 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Put the scale under one of the legs (the other legs will need to be raised by the same amount as the scale) and record the value. Do this for all of the legs and simply add them up. The total will equal the total couch weight.
Keeping the couch so that the weight on each leg is the same using shims with the scale under it as without is important. An alternative is more scales.
2007-07-02 02:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by Poor one 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Couch Weight
2016-10-13 10:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Borrow three other scales and put them under the legs. The sum of the weights is the weight of the couch.
2007-07-02 02:35:50 · answer #4 · answered by BRUZER 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simply lift one side of the couch onto the scale and multiply by two.
2007-07-02 07:14:26 · answer #5 · answered by Emissary 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think you can ... unless you have a really big scale... maybe find a couch similar to it and see how much it weighs...if you do what the first person says... you may need more than one person to lift a couch so it wouldn't work...since you wouldn't be holding all the weight
2007-07-01 22:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats an interesting question. I'm not sure but you might be able to put it under one of the four corners and then multiply by 4.
2007-07-01 22:23:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stand on your scale and record your own weight. Then step off the scale, pick up your couch, step back on the scale and subtract your weight from the total weight.
2007-07-01 22:21:11 · answer #8 · answered by Some Guy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would love to read it you kept me hooked the whole time. Wish u the best of luck
2016-03-19 05:13:20 · answer #9 · answered by Gregory 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋