ArtiGifts Furniture & Appliances Lifting and Moving Straps for One Person - Heavy Duty Lashing Straps Up to 600lbs - Ergonomic Adjustable Length Grip - Good Helper to Mover Russet

I'm only 5' tall, a little overweight, 67 years old with osteoporosis and live in a 3d floor walk up--lots of stairs. I bought a new countertop convection oven and had to get it up all those damn stairs but could not even lift the box, the box was more than half my height too. My brawny friends and relatives all live out of town so I didn't want to ask them just to come in to carry this thing up the stairs for me. So, I bought these straps. I didn't want the ones that go over your forearms because all I needed way to have my bones snap in half. As a younger person, I was able to carry stuff up on my back or on my head but this box was too big and unweildy. After spending about an hour trying to figure out how to put the straps onto the box (and then taking an hour break too sooth my rattled disposition), I did carry it up, had to do some dance steps around the tight turns but I did it! Of course, the box is now sitting in my hallway, with the straps still on it because my old convection oven hasn't given up the ghost quite yet (only a few more heating coils are functional though) and I don't know what to do with the old one once it dies. But these straps really work. I had no problems with unravelings or whatever some of the other reviewers said. Not sure I'd want to try lifting a piano or refrigerator though, even if the straps could handle it (I probably can't). Hmm, I am also a petitely built female so those straps were a little iffy on my shoulders, I could have used a strap going across my chest to keep the straps from sliding off--but I suppose I could just rope them on me, or maybe I'll never have to get anything large and heavy ever again. I hate it when my stuff dies on me, it REALLY ought to last forever.

For some strange reason, they made stiched one of the grips on the external and the other one on the internal. So you have to twist it around so both are ouside and usable. It doesnt bother me much because I just twist them, I just hope it doesnt give more problems later on.I used them both for a 75 pund 360 Platfom and they have held up ok. They feel decently strong.

My husband got this to use for moving some things around when he does not have help.It comes with two straps.He said they are well made. The hardware is good quality. They lock and hold well.He said the padding on the straps is enough to keep it from cutting in.He said it was fairly comfortable to hold and carry an efficiency refrigerator, but he would not try and use these to carry a full size refrigerator on his own.He also used it to carry and move an all in one washer dryer combo and said it was much easier to move it alone that he thought with these.I would buy these again.

Used it to move my daughter’s dorm fridge up three flights of stairs. The straps move. You have to ensure that the clips are locked in but you need to use a cross strap in order to avoid slippage.

The place where you put your arms didn’t work for me I’m too short, but I grab the straps and hold on to the arm loop for leverage and I got it in would buy it again it needed better instructions

This device is good for moving very large objects that you would not otherwise be able to get your arms around. However, don't expect to be able to lift very much weight. The photos of normal sized dudes carrying appliances are BS - and dangerous, if you actually tried to do that!The straps are narrow, and poorly padded. When I used this to lift our dryer - successfully, but only barely - it left pressure bruises on my shoulders.But the main problem is just physics. To lift something, you need to push through the COMBINED center of mass of your body and the thing you are trying to lift. When that thing is strapped to your back, and heavy, it becomes nearly impossible to "load up" and get your feet under yourself. If you try and fail, you will probably wind up getting hurt.I'm 6'4" and 300 lbs - I'm a big dude, and unusually strong. I absolutely could NOT lift anything heavier than the dryer - and even that was dangerous, and I had a spotter. Do NOT believe the photos showing someone carrying around a refrigerator with this thing.

The media could not be loaded. I can't speak about the functionality of the alternative product that came, because I can't even bear to use it as it is NOT the product that had been ordered nor advertised. The only metal part of this atrocity is the spring and the screw. Even the nylon feels cheap to the touch. STRAIGHT BACK TO WHERE EVER IT CAME FROM!

I had a 60-lb air conditioner in a box. The box was too big to put my arms around it and pick it up or carry it by myself. And I had to go up stairs!I got this set of straps thinking that I might be able to carry the AC box on my back. The 60 lb load on my back would have been dangerously unbalanced on a flight of stairs.So, I used the straps in a different way. I wrapped them around the box. I held the loops (tightly!) with my hands while also looping my forearms through the belts. (I was holding the straps with both my hands and my forearms.) It wasn't easy, but I was never in danger of dropping it or falling with it.My arms are more like noodles than telephone poles and I was able to use these straps to carry a poorly balanced 60-lb air conditioner box up a flight of stairs without damaging anything or hurting myself. The ArtiGifts straps saved the day.