Moving a gun safe

[Trav]

I'm looking a buying a gun safe that weighs around 900lbs and I'm looking for some advice on how to to move it. I have read some conflicting reports that you cannot not lay them on their backs to haul them because it will activate some anti theift device. This that true? What tricks have you all learned over the years?

 

[FishReaper]

Buddies and Beer go a long way

 

[Sub_Elect]

Take off the door. I bet the door is 1/2 of the weight. If it has an electronic deadbolt, you could just stand the door up-right and it should be good. All you have to do to get the door off is open it up most of the way and then lift it off the hinges.

 

[Trav]

Thanks

 

[Rowdie]

1/2 the weight of 900 lbs = 450 lbs.....Just lift her right off sounds easy.

 

[USMCDI]

Get a Dakota Safe, it comes on a pallet in sections, put it wherever the hell you want by yourself and put it together, no brainer. Get the manual lock, been there and it sucks very much.

 

[Wild and Free]

If you can Move a Sony Wega TV then you can move a safe with little to no effort............:;:;:;rofl
Here is a link to my sick humor for reference. http://nodakangler.com/forums/showthread.php?5349-TV-recyclers&highlight=wega

 

[ndbwhunter]

Research the safe that you want to figure out if there are issues during transportation with the anti-theft. I've moved two in the past year, and did them both by myself. Transported both of them on their back (one manual, one electronic) on my trailer. Unloaded them by inserting sections of conduit under the safe and rolled it off the trailer (this part requires another person). Once off the trailer I walked it wherever it needed to go.

If you're putting it in a basement do yourself and your friends a favor, and just hire someone for the extra $200-300. If you have really good friends and a heavy duty cart, it can be done, but it's not fun. If you need to move it a ways across carpet, put golf balls under the safe and roll away (these also work for getting it off a trailer).

 

[Wild and Free]

If stairs are involved most rental places now carry the electric stair climbing hand trucks or dolly whatever one wants to call them. Would be well worth the rental fee to prevent damage or injury to ones self.

 

[Trav]

Great advise guys thanks a bunch!

 

[Sub_Elect]

1/2 the weight of 900 lbs = 450 lbs.....Just lift her right off sounds easy.

Why don't you come on over to my house Rowdie. Two of us busted out asses to lift the door off the hinges. It did lift right off. Then three of us busted our asses to get it down 7 stairs. If you and 3 of your friends can get it back up the stairs with the door on it when I sell my house then I would pay you handsomely. BTW, I would guess the door on my 52 gun safe is a solid 300ish lbs.

Sorry, I guess 300 isn't half of 900. But 600lbs and a separate 300lbs is way easier to handle than 900lbs.

 

[johnr]

a friend of mine owns a refrigeration business, in which he uses a heavy duty electric stair climbing cart. We moved mine into the basement, and then back out of the basement when I moved, and back down a basement in the new house. Not going to say it was easy, but it wasn't that terribly hard with that cart and a few guys.

I will likely just buy a new one if we ever move again, as its too much to ask out of my aging friends and myself to do anymore.

find an electric cart and save yourself the hernia.

 

[Rowdie]

Do I really need to use the ::: butten??