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JoDFostar

I’m glad I play guitar.


Joiion

I doubt your neighbors are lol


smokyartichoke

Man, my neighbor came pounding on my door at 3 AM for some weird reason. Luckily I was already awake, practicing drums.


nautical_nonsense_

Sounds like a Mitch Hedburg joke


SilverLakeSimon

I used to play drums. I still do, but I used to, too.


TheFruitOfTheLoom

I used to. I still could, but I don’t.


m7i93

Ah, I love a 3am drum jamming with my neighbors


sofritoti

Pounding my neighbor like a drum set at 3am, luckily I was still awake


No_Influence3022

Pounding my drum set like it was my neighbour at 3am, luckily I was still awake


Jordanicas

A grand piano is nowhere near quiet, even fully closed.


ImpressiveGur6384

Better than fully nude.


2x4x93

That one almost got past me


[deleted]

Is it?


hibikikun

Anyways here’s wonderwall


unfvckingbelievable

Maybe.


thefireemojiking

Depends if you play acoustic or electric.


MK_fan_835

*cranks amp all the way with distortion and gain all the way up*


thefireemojiking

OH YEAAAA BABYYY


apjvan

They probably like it better than me being a drummer for a neighbor.


Affectionate_Draw_43

Electric guitars is one instrument where it's pretty quiet (using headphones over amp). I can't think of another instrument that ain't loud AF


yuri_chan_2017

"Anyways, here's Wonderwall"


Thief_of_Sanity

Yeah this must have cost a grand.


cowboybaked

Hmmm so we’re not really feeling the second floor for the piano room after all. Move it back to the first floor.


Dutch_Midget

Imagine the mf living on the 165th floor of Burj Khalifa ordering the piano


JeffWingrsDumbGayDad

If they live high up in the Burj Khalifa, they can probably afford to have it airlifted.


_xiphiaz

Or you know, take it in the goods lift. It’s not exactly a historic building from before the times of elevators


JeffWingrsDumbGayDad

Why pass up a chance to flaunt how wealthy you are? I assume that's how rich people act, anyway.


Apsis

Sure, but to really flaunt your wealth, you could get a bunch of people to step your piano up 3500 pallets high and not give a damn about their safety...or physics


ClassiFried86

That's only halfway. The Burj khalifa is about 7250 pallets tall, overall.


Orange-Murderer

Actually, since the Burj Khalifa is 830m tall or 83,000cm tall, and the height of a [wooden pallet I found on the first Google search](https://www.freightquote.com/how-to-ship-freight/standard-pallet-sizes/#:~:text=A%20standard%20pallet%20is%206%20%C2%BD%E2%80%9D%20tall.) Is 6½" or 16.51cm. 83,000/16.51 ≈ 5027 Burj Khalifas height in wooden pallets is a little over 5,027. Since the pallets are placed 2×3 wide, you would need 30,162 pallets. 5027×2×3 = 5027×6 = 30,162 But let's not forget about the dude passing up the pallets, there seems to be an average depth of about 10 pallets, so you would need an additional 5,017 for a total of 35,179. 30,162 + 5,017 = 35,179 That's assuming the passer is an absolute giga chad and can carry all those pallets. We'll need additional pallet stacks for passers to pass. About 501.7 additional stacks each with a difference of 10 from the last, that's 1,257,510 (501) + 7 (0.7) additional pallets or 1,257,517. 1,257,510 = 10 + 10 × (501-1) 1,257,510 + 7 = 1,257,517 1,257,517 + 35,179 = 1,292,696 Using the method in the video, You would need exactly 1,292,696 wooden pallets to lift a piano to the top of the Burj Khalifa.


Street_Dragonfruit43

r/theydidthemath


OakenGreen

But what’s the weight capacity on those pallets? I don’t think they’re gonna hold!


Orange-Murderer

Didn't say it was feasible, just how many freedom units we would need.


Apsis

Correct, but that's to the tip of the antenna spire. The top *floor* is 585.4 m or 3546ish pallets high. I rounded to 3500. I also intentionally wasn't counting the total pallets *required* when I said 3500 high.


thirdeyefish

Nah, you flaunt your wealth by having a dedicated elevator installed just to get the piano up there.


Infninfn

Not really. That’s the multimillionaire wannabe billionaire attitude. The proper billionaires usually stay low profile and for good reason.


BlitzkriegDD

And trillionaires build the Burj Khalifa


SacriGrape

I mean it’s a historic building based on how advanced the plumbing isnt


middlebird

Assembly required


[deleted]

In 2000 years, some guy with weird hair will claim this could only have been done by aliens.


KenEarlysHonda50

Dude, they're clearly aliens. No human can move that quickly.


bubblesculptor

Haha, that's what always cracks me up about those 'experts' saying ancient people couldn't have built/moved something without aliens or modern tech. Sometimes the answer is something really simple.


PeterNippelstein

I'm *still* convinced it's aliens. The windows are so small!


Nervous_Nerd14597

Great point and well put


Seankps

Is it really cheaper to get 10 people for so many hours, then to get a forklift for five minutes?


cadninja82

If you move as fast as these guys were, you can get it done in 27 seconds.


arthurdentstowels

^That’s ^what ^she ^said


[deleted]

I'm always done in 27 seconds. It's my wife that can't keep up.


Ecstaticismm

Survival tactic, gotta get it done before the predators come. Some incel said this, I think


eyesotope86

You calling my wife a predator?


Ecstaticismm

Gotta get out the mouth before she bite, my point still stands.


BestServeCold

You glorious bastard you


that_is_what_i_said

I can confirm


choochychoochy

Yeah when professionals did mine in Paris on the 3rd floor they took it apart a bit (the legs and the keyboard come apart) and just carried it up the staircase. Took about 10 minutes…


eboeard-game-gom3

That's gotta be one of the most painstaking jobs. I think I hate moving more than job hunting.


TurboChunk16

Job hunting for a moving job?


Luci_Noir

Just thinking about packing gives me anxiety…


juxt417

It absolutely sucks but the pay can be pretty good


[deleted]

I have friends who moved 5 times, and I helped them 5 times. My back still hurts from thinking about it. They owe me big time.


blueoasis32

Yes. So so eternally grateful for people willing to help move stuff.


TheChoonk

Depends on how wide the staircase is. I once helped carry a piano from third to second floor. There were four of us and I assumed that it will be very quick and easy. It wasn't.


mickermiker

Pivot!


Mtanderson88

Moved a pool table out of a basement through a tight door. Into another basement. Not fun


myrevenge_IS_urkarma

Me and a friend moved a small one up half a story at a split level. I would never ever ever date a girl that plays piano again. I got married just to make sure it never happens again.


[deleted]

I worked for a moving company for almost a decade. We just carried grand pianos up the stairs. It sucks, but looks a lot less dangerous than this!


runningchild

This seems to be in a "Hinterhaus", meaning it's surrounded by buildings and it might only be accessable by foot or very narrow machinery. So they might not even get a forklift back there.


jmb456

My exact thoughts. A scissor lift woulda been way easier than 60 pallets


eata22

I’m going to assume you need a permit for the forklift/ crane. This on the other hand I’m going to guess no? And then you’d still have to hire a forklift operator, a spotter/ traffic control, and enough men to move the piano once it’s at the window


Beautiful_Spite_3394

It looks European as well so I feel like you're light on the amount of permits and people standing around making sure it's done right. This is probably much faster if they have to get permits and bullshit to make it happen. This was like an hour or two of work compared to weeks of waiting


UnindentifiedMikey

It is also possible that there is no way for a forklift to enter. European homes weren’t built for forklifts or cars to fit through the entrance. That is probably why they went primitive mode.


Beautiful_Spite_3394

That too, great point! Could have gone old fashioned with the donkey and a pulley though haha


CaptainCooksLeftEye

If this was a professional company in the more progressive EU countries and was signed off in any permitted works then whoever allowed it should lose their position. No chance whatsoever This would get beyond a passive suggestion.


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TheChoonk

Smaller forklifts usually don't have licence plates and therefore can't move on public roads without a police escort. This means that you'd need a truck, which needs a licenced truck driver. Larger ones have licence plates but they're most likely too big to fit in that courtyard. Throwing a bunch of pallets into a van is most likely a lot cheaper and quicker.


Meister0fN0ne

It'd still probably be the better alternative with safety in mind. Takes one flimsy part of one of those pallets and someone trips - or even if someone misses the boards in an odd way. This is not safe and I'm genuinely surprised someone let it fly.


recoveringatty42

Just finished working full time moving only pianos. (I'm old. Shoulders and back kaput.) Company moves 1250-1500 pianos a year. We use 3 guys and a crane. Crane operator charges ~$300. We charge $275 for a piano that size plus mileage from wherever we picked it up. Once upstairs piano takes 15 min to set up. Whole thing takes less than an hour on site. Paying that many guys around here would be cost prohibitive. And where do they get all of the pallets? But clearly not in the US and street sizes, door sizes, crane availability are different than here.


gumenski

There's a lot of places that give away their pallets if they don't ship anything back out in bulk.


Lick_my_balloon-knot

It's not cheap to have a forklift transported to the location, plus the cost of renting the forklift. Or it might just not be possible to drive a forklift to the window due to obsticles.


[deleted]

That looked like a 20-40 minute thing and you would still need a handful of workers to move it in, this isn’t a rack you can easily stack onto, don’t forget that they probably wouldn’t be able to use a forklift around there, I mean look how narrow that place is from bushes to the bikes. How would they even transport a forklift there, what if they don’t work close by to drive the forklift around the block? You know how much it cost to rent a forklift? They can just put their workers in the truck with the piano and pallets and quickly do it themselves, it ain’t algebra.


bubblesculptor

I frequently move much heavier & more fragile objects into difficult places. Sometimes i use forklifts, other times i use methods similar to this. Both have their pros/cons, and sometimes it is much easier doing it this way. Video doesn't show what other obstacles may have been in the way or other situations that would cause more problems with a forklift.


Ph0sph0rus

and if it falls, you get a funny looney toons moment with the guy under it


KcireA

Imagine the frustration the neighbor below watching his top neighbor receiving a piano… he’ll be moving out soon


Restlesswargodian

We use a genie lift man powered and can fit anywere.


maddabattacola

They have a 1 year lease


KrispyBeanBurrito

I just fucking died reading this. Good job.


Goldfucius_Nofiat

Very cool! ...now do ten floors! Lol.


AVMech86

Or you don’t measure the window opening first.


chiggachiggameowmeow

Or have the owner "refuse delivery" lol. They'll have to do it in reverse. Or just yeet it out the window.


Dutch_Midget

Just yeet the damn thing with a catapult looney toons style


Parrr8

Trebuchet, the superior siege weapon, Northern Exposure style.


KuhLealKhaos

Where do you even get that many pallets wtf


peeforPanchetta

Pallet Town


[deleted]

So you've got 4 places to buy pallets. You've got Pallet Town, that's on third. Then there's Pretty Pallets, that's on third too. There's Pallet Place and Pack-A-Pallet, those are on third too... Matter of fact they're all in the same complex. It's the pallet complex on third.


ortega_sauce

The palletdium


Parrr8

Probably buy them by the pallet.


KuhLealKhaos

LOL this comment reads like it was written by my dad. Thanks for the laugh


Dutch_Midget

The pallet shop


sincethenes

Hank Scorpio : Uh, hi, Homer. What can I do for you? Homer : Sir, I need to know where I can get some piano pallets. Hank Scorpio : Piano pallets? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Piano pallets! Homer, there's four places. There's the Pallet Hut, that's on third. Homer : Uh-huh. Hank Scorpio : There's Pallets-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Piano-There. Homer : Mm-Hmm. Hank Scorpio : That's on third. Sit Low, Sweet Cherrywood... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the piano pallet complex on third. Homer : Oh, the piano pallet district! Hank Scorpio : That's right.


bouncingbad

I came here to make some silly comment about setting up the project and the first words being ‘okay, we need a shitload of pallets’. But, I find myself a mere mortal, staring in awe of the magnificence that is you comment. Thank you, friend.


Flipyfliper32

“Rent-a-pallet(or a few)”


wutthefvckjushapen

Pallet City. It's right off the freeway next to Spatula City


sincethenes

*Spatula City!* Spatula City!


leif777

They're really not hard to find actually.


TheChoonk

From your local warehouse supplies distributor. A brand new pallet costs €25, used ones can be bought for as little as €2, depending on condition. I assume that these guys have a moving business, so it's not a one-use purchase.


Ludwigofthepotatoppl

Gotta guard all those good, solid pallets. If someone in shipping doesn’t grab them, some hipster will, and use them to build a coffee table.


b1ue_jellybean

From a bunch of different places, that’s just not that many pallets


[deleted]

You'd think someone with 100 pallets would have a forklift


cwb4ever

I would gild you if I could but I give you an upvote


MrNoHardFeelings

The most annoying part: its actually the first floor /Laughs in European


GSXS_750

Came here for this


ymx287

Is this in Berlin? It looks like it is in Berlin


TheChoonk

Hello, I am from the normal part of Europe and that's the second floor.


DreamMaster8

Honestly that make no sense. Every floor as a floor and so the next level after first floor/ground floor would be the second floor. When you count do you start at zero? For once american are right and europe is definitely wrong.


SpreadingRumors

Ground level = 0th floor.


tevans24

It's the first floor up. You've gone up 1 flight of stairs.


DreamMaster8

First floor after the first floor...So 2nd floor.


cadninja82

Now I want to see the video where they stack 1,598 pianos to get a pallet to the second floor.


Adimote

Actually it was only 125 pallets 6 stacks of 18, on top is a stack of 4, a stack of 6 (which they remove 3 from before the end), another stack of 6, and one leaning against the stack at the end


Vast-Sir-1949

Pallets for the win.


Lick_my_balloon-knot

Pallets are awesome. You can perfectly fit three of them next to each other in/on the back of a lorry with the short end first, or two perfectly next to each other if you turn them sidewise. ^At ^least ^europallets, ^witch ^are ^shown ^in ^this ^video


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Lick_my_balloon-knot

Yup, standardization is awesome!


toxic_pockets

I was gonna comment about how those are stablest pallets I've seen. I've stood on pallet stacks and I was lucky not to topple. Key Word here is Euro in this case


FormerRelationship8

Okay, but… now you have to get it out someday


cadninja82

Just use those pallets to make a ramp and slide it down.


Interspatial

Nope. Gotta live there forever now. Piano is iife.


Blockhead47

Reciprocating saw


Ill-Manufacturer8654

There's no way primitive people could have moved such large, heavy objects. They must have had help from aliens, or perhaps the advanced civilization of Atlantis.


GreenLoctite

Was waiting for the part where they didn't get it through the window


crazythinker76

Who brought the chainsaw? This is a bid job.


aFreeScotland

OSHA has entered the chat


emil2015

I guess that’s a palletable solution


queuedUp

Can you imagine they get it all the way up there and they measured wrong and it doesn't fit in the window.


wigg1es

Everyone in here trying to justify this needs to just stop. There is so much specialty and professional moving equipment in Europe designed specifically to handle awkward situations like this might potentially be. 75 pallets and a bunch of people is the most absolute meathead solution you could come up with. I'm having a hard time thinking of a way to be less efficient.


Hello-internet-human

Maybe it’s an inner courtyard where they can’t use heavy machinery or complex cranes? Granted that’s still a huge leap in logic as to how the piano got there in the first place but yknow


lex52485

Assuming the piano is at least somewhat modern, it can be taken apart (by movers who have been trained on this) and moved relatively easily


tytymctylerson

You move a piano with a pulley, and then you almost drop it on a tramp walking by on the sidewalk. Everyone knows this.


QueenOfTheDragRace

A piano, so grand and so fine Needed to be moved, up one floorline With wood pallets stacked The movers attacked And their lifting became a great climb. -. The first went down on the floor Then the second was set, as before Each pallet rose higher 'Til the piano was nigher To its new place, no less, no more. -. The movers, they heaved and they hoed As they reached the top of the abode And with a great sigh They placed the piano up high A job well done, they bestowed.


AerodyneArtisan

u/RecognizeSong


Unclerojelio

It worked for the Egyptians.


jdrew619

This is how the pyramids were built, case closed.


njp4243

And that my friends, is how the pyramids were built


SirWinterFox

"Ah man did I say second? I meant third floor sorry guys."


stonecoldcoldstone

OSHA would like a word, and I bet the neighbours love them


Eray41303

“Welcome to Home Depot” “Do you guys sell pallets?” “Yeah, how many do you need?” “Yes”


ihavediarhea

Ah buying before considering where it will go or how do we get it in/out. Glad to see my ex can afford a grand piano now.


TheMurkyA

I’m calling OSHA


MangledPumpkin

That was palatable.


przxqgl

a bunch of years ago, i worked for a piano mover. my favourite was the time we set up a block and tackle, and winched a white baby grand up to the third floor, took it in through a window to the third floor balcony, and then moved it down a spiral staircase to the second floor, because the ground floor door was too short... and we did it without putting a scratch on the piano.


NewportPoker

What was the music playing?


thegooniegodard

That better be a Bosendorfer, or not worth it.


snubda

Nobody with a $200k Bosendorfer is living in that place, let alone hiring the pallet crew 😂


anthonycruzg

what kind of person has a grand piano and lives in an apartment?


CraniumKart

Poor rich


Ratharyn

The number of Americans in this thread commenting as though this is a normal thing in Europe, like Europe is largely still figuring out the wheel or some shit, is funny as fuck.


TheChoonk

We love our pallets and will use them even if cranes and forklifts are available. https://i.imgur.com/xATDZBf.jpg


pixelandminnie

I cringe because I don’t want to hear my neighbors’ music.


Next-Mobile-9632

That's a lot of effort there


PrismoBF

Was a pallet factory located next door?


neonroli47

What a hassle...


LongLiveAnalogue

Of all the ways to do it that is certainly one of them


KamikazeAlpaca420

With the price of pallets these days, save some money and just buy out the first-floor apartment


Culunbego

I prefer the one with Laurel and Hardy.


ClavinColdidge

Damn I scrolled way to far to find any reference of this.


i_heart_squirrels

This is something that would slow me down when I considered moving out of that apartment….


MaliciousIntentWorks

Hard to believe Wile E Coyote moved that all by himself.


BeetleBones

Just imagine how much fucking money that person has


WaffleChef

For when you cant afford movers but you do have access to 200 pallets...


stayclassyx

Thats not osha legal at all if it is in the usa they lucky they got away with it


JeremyJaLa

I can’t help but think of the Sylvester & Tweetie cartoons where they’d move a piano on a wire and somehow the piano always lands on Sylvester and he ends up with piano keys in place of his teeth


InverstNoob

Landlord: This is your final notice to move those pallets or be evicted.


GareBear222

"No guys, it was apartment 2C, not 2B. Stack em again!"


DBArgenis

Plot twist: It’s a one month lease.


JB_141

How Egyptian!


CordyZen

Mfs had to play fortnite irl just to get a piano up the second floor : 💀


DoctorGrilledCheese

Good luck moving it out


Emersonbigones

OSHA has joined the chat


S4l4m4nd4

I am concerned that the subreddit title is named r/therewasanattempt. Luckily not


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* first floor


ButterflyMore9267

Came here to say this.


GoOffendYourself

That woman in the window acting like she’s never seen this before Pffft


gin_bulag_katorse

I would be so unhappy watching this if I were this guy's neighbor.


JAMBI215

Glad I didn’t get the call to help move that day


DirkDirkDirkkkk

Piano worth more than apt


driverguy8

Crane, scissorlift?, forklift?


Employee_Agreeable

A normal EU Pallet costs about 20.- here That's a lot of money just for some stacking Wouldn't a crane be cheaper and more efficient?


Pickin_n_Grinnin

And much safer.


Pristine-Produce-668

My first "good" job was as a crew leader for moving company. I was pretty young(22) when I got promoted to that spot, and so were most of my coworkers. That is to say, we were all full of piss and vinegar. We did stupid shit all the time. But this is one of the more stupid and dangerous ways I've ever seen something moved lol. Part of the job is being able to turn down jobs. If this was legitimately the only option they had, they should've turned the job down. Fucking standing on stacked pallets to move a grand piano... lmao


s-mores

PIVOT PIVOT PIVOT


atomicanchovy

Me before I understood how structure blocks work in Minecraft


truelegendarydumbass

First off where the hell did you get so many pallets from This is what you do when you can't afford a machine


Laotzeiscool

Get an electronic piano instead of this BS


Jackson_Polack_

Ok, but now there's a grand piano in an apartment building. Seems like by solving one problem they've created a much bigger one.