My grandfather had an old dresser that was so heavy that me and another big dude couldn't pick it up. It was on the second floor and measuring the stairwell we realized we could not get it down. It was assembled with complex wood joinery and barely any screws were visible. Wound up having to smash it to pieces with a sledge hammer which mostly bounced off of it. We felt so bad having to do that but the house was being sold and no way was that thing was going down stairs. That thing was incredibly well built.
Compare that to a shitty particleboard Ikea book case I got 2nd hand from a friend where upon assembly a shelf fell and smashed every other shelf going down tearing the pegs from the particleboard essentially self destructing. Took me hours to glue it back together. Light though.
My grandfather had an old dresser that was so heavy that me and another big dude couldn't pick it up. It was on the second floor and measuring the stairwell we realized we could not get it down. It was assembled with complex wood joinery and barely any screws were visible. Wound up having to smash it to pieces with a sledge hammer which mostly bounced off of it. We felt so bad having to do that but the house was being sold and no way was that thing was going down stairs. That thing was incredibly well built.
Compare that to a shitty particleboard Ikea book case I got 2nd hand from a friend where upon assembly a shelf fell and smashed every other shelf going down tearing the pegs from the particleboard essentially self destructing. Took me hours to glue it back together. Light though.