OT Gun Safe

pat sublett

Well-known Member
I can get a thousand pound gun safe in the door with a fork lift but I can't figure out how to get across the room. Any advise?
 
Get 3 pieces of 1" pipe or bar stock. Set the safe on 2 pieces of the bar stock spaced with one bar at the front towards the direction of roll. The second bar just past the middle so that the safe does not tip. Start rolling and before the trailing bar is ready to exit add the third bar in the front to direction of roll keep rotating bars with always 2 bars under the safe. Turns can be made easily as the pivot surface is very small.
 
Ground floor I hope, with a concrete floor. What kind of floor covering, if any? Sheets of plywood and pipes or wheeled carts will work.
 
You could of set it on a heavy duty furniture dollie or a heavy duty refrigerator cart. You should be able to move it with one of them and get you some help when moving it.
 
Schedule 40 or 80 PVC gray electric plastic conduit (pipe) will not damage floor. 1 1/2 inch ...cut in 3 foot lenghts and role it.
 
Dont know if mine is 1000 lbs or not. I had a good strong helper and we just "walked" mine across the floor. Tilt it one way, twist it in the direction you need, then go to the other side and repeat the process. You have to be careful of the flooring. Mine is a concrete floor with vinyl floor covering. It didn't hurt it. I think we laid down some thin plywood now that I think about it. To protect the vinyl.

I Made a pedestal to set mine on. 2X8's with 3/4" plywood top. Then trimmed it with oak. I wanted a moisture barrier plus wanted it a little higher off the floor.

My intentions are to bolt it to the wall, but haven't gotten that done yet.

Gene
 
You said its a 1,000 lbs. if it is one models that you can take door off it will help a lot( door maybe 250-300 lbs. + makes big differance). Mine had to go to basement used heavy refrigerator cart and electric winch to get down stairs. They move nice on frig cart because they are straped to cart.If you got a fire proof safe the manufacture doesn't recommend bolting to wall. New safe have places in floor of safe for bolting.
 
I have mine in my basement. I have a walk out entrance. After I got it through the door, I used a pallet jack to move it into place
 
I think a refrigerator cart with straps would work.

Good to hear you have a safe, keeps kids and thieves out of your guns.
 
I had a 800 pound safe delivered 2 years ago.

When I bought it I paid $350 for a crew to move it into my house and set it in place, main floor, up 4 steps. The crew had a nifty hand cart/truck that allowed them to get it up the steps.

If you really want to move this yourself then I would get some 3/4 wooden dowels to put under it while you roll it across the carpet and any other flooring. I would also get 3 big guys to help. What type/brand safe did you buy?
 
I bought a 1,500+ lb. gun safe about 20 years ago and installed in my heated porch with concrete floor.

We moved it on its shipping pallet to the door with a tractor/FEL with pallet forks. I recruited several others to help me position it.

As I did not want it sitting directly on the concrete floor, we slid it from the pallet onto a carpet remnant and slit safe and remnant across the painted concrete floor to the desired position. Didn't take long.

When it's time for me to move on, I will not be taking it with me.

Dean
 
Moved mine across the yard on a refig. cart, using plywood to roll it on with some helpers. Then down a stairs on the cart using a come-a-long to winch it down the stairs. I keep a heater strip on all the time to prevent rust. Doesn't matter where you put the safe, if you have a fire it'll be in the basement.
 
Just be smarter than a lot of people. My brother is a lock smith and one of his biggest calls is from people who have let the batteries go dead on the push button dial, yes there is a manual over ride. Guess where everyone seems to think is a good place to keep the manual combination,that is right, IN THE SAFE. He makes a good living drilling holes in safes.
 
If your going to set it on concrete floor put it on someting so air can get around it so it doesn't rust.
 

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