marlinguy
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Re: Moving a safe
Reply #13 - Nov 22nd, 2015 at 4:56pm
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I moved one down into my basement, after getting it off a local ad. Went with my truck and backed up to the guy's garage. Lowered the tailgate and used a winch to pull it out of the garage on four 3/4" schedule 40 pipe rollers. Just kept moving them to the front as they came out the back. Once to the tailgate, I moved the strap from down low, to up high, and took the rollers out. Then gradually pulled it over on the tailgate, and then up into the bed, laying down. When I got home, I put a block in my garage, and used a pulley to pull it out of the truck, and then pull with the strap to stand it up again. Picked it with my engine puller from the middle, so it hung horizontal. Then pushed it over to the basement door from the garage, and lowered it down on the landing. Using the strap again, I hooked the winch on again, and used a snatch block to go from outside the garage, and lower it down the stairs. As it was on the landing, I put one roller under it to allow it to roll a bit, and tilt to slide down the steps. I gradually allowed it to move down off the landing until it was headed downstairs, and then slowly lowered it down to the basement. Once it was in the basement, I gave the bottom of the safe a good coat of automotive wax, to make it easier to slide. Had a friend come over, and we pushed it around a corner, and 15' into my gun room. It actually wasn't hard to push with the waxed/painted bottom. Never anchored it, as I figured nobody can ever get it out of my basement easily!
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