Won’t make much difference as almost all of that weight is the motor end and the console

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Holy Frijoles!

Picked it up and the stock guy and I tipped it off the hand cart and onto the tailgate and then picked the other end up and slid it in. Easy-peasy.

Got it home, decided to stash it in the garage until my Grandson can get down to help me lug it up to the "gym". Happened to glance at the data on the box and the boxed unit weighs 249 pounds!

If I were being generous, I'd say 10 pounds of that is packaging. No way no how that's going up the stairs as a unit. We'll unbox it in the garage and lug it up a piece at a time.

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Originally posted by daoliver:
Won’t make much difference as almost all of that weight is the motor end and the console

Haven't unpacked it yet. Are they one piece?

2 large pieces - actually the second piece may be in even smaller pieces out of the box. There’s a band that should not be removed until it is all setup. It’s on the heavy tread portion.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
2 large pieces - actually the second piece may be in even smaller pieces out of the box. There’s a band that should not be removed until it is all setup. It’s on the heavy tread portion.

Thanks for the tips. Grandson headed down now, I'll let you know how it went.

Well, that turned into Plan B almost immediately...

Running surface and motor are a single unit and as noted, the bulk of the weight. We got it into the house and made one attempt to get it to go up the stairs.

Two problems there...the stairs consist of two steps, a landing and a 90° corner then up. The railing is too close to the ceiling for an up-and-over. Getting it up the stairs would involve removing the bottom bannister and a chunk of railing. Done that before to get box springs up/down the stairs, but that combined with the DAMN heavy unit was going to be a huge (possibly insurmountable) issue.

About that time Mrs. PHPaul says "We could just put it by the bay window in the living room and move the chaise lounge (which she uses for her daily 15 minutes of sun...) up to the room we were going to use for a gym."

It took Jarod and I about two nanoseconds to agree to that plan.

Not your average living room décor, but we've never been accused of being fashionable anyway.

Good to hear. I think they seem heavier because there’s no good way to grab it. Even on the main floor I recall it being no fun.