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oomis
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I get the feeling that when someone asks this type of question, they might be embarrassed to go to their Rov about the specific question, and they hope that someone here might already know the answer. There are rabbonim in my experience who would make a face when asked that which they believe to be shtus (not saying I think the question was shtus, I actually think it’s a good one).

I have no idea if it is permitted or not, but it seems to me to be uvda d’chol. The lifting of it is probably not an issue, because in reshus hayachid or with an eruv, you can pick such things up. But I was taught that you may technically halachically i.e., carry a couch up and down the stairs all day Shabbos, but moving heavy furniture is an uvda d’chol, and on that basis should not be done.