Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Best way to move a heavy gun safe to a new house.

You do not need to spend the money on oak dowels, schedule C plastic pipe works just fine. I moved both a 850lb and a 500+ Through my house and to the garage for a move.
Also moved a friends large safe on the same plastic.
Other than moving it around the house I would pay to have it moved to a new location.
I moved one once on a dolly, coming over a step I fell and the safe just about got me. I ended up with a hernia picking it back up

I moved my 800# safe twice including once up a flight of stairs with just a buddy and an appliance mover. When it had to be moved down the stairs I let the movers handle the job.

Pay them boys that know what the hell they are doing. They have battery dollies that raises and lowers safe to safely get it in and out of doors, trailers that raise and lower to the ground.

There’s heavy gun safes, then there’s heavy gun safes. How heavy?

I moved a heavy lathe into my shop (heavy being relative, in lathe terms it wasn’t super heavy) @ 1700 lbs myself last year. I used long heavy pinch bars from Harbor Freight, and rollers made of steel pipe, to move it across my concrete shop floor. Obviously I wasn’t real concerned about scratching the floor. To actually “move” it, I rented a box truck (moving truck) with a lift gate. The lift gate is the crucial part there.

Rent a portable Sky Hook.

If you are old like me hanco is correct, hire movers, save your back and knees for hunting season.

While they do the work, make sure to mix yourself a Martini or your favorite beverage, and thank God for young men with strong backs lol

Depends on how poor you are and if you are traversing stairs.

If you could possibly give less information, that would help.

Yep !

Just like people selling stuff on market place.

It's a crap shoot !

**I've stopped asking questions, if you're to dumb, to include all the relevant information, you aren't getting my money !

I have come to the conclusion that, in general, people are pretty damn dumb.

Or leave it there and buy another one. I helped move one for my brother, after he had a hip replacement. I wish he'd bought another one.

I like that idea

Mine is only 800 lb, and I have access to a skid steer with forks, so that makes the outside part easier.

Once at the front door we laid the safe down on a furniture dolly from Harbor Freight and rolled it through the house. To avoid damge to the floor from the dolly wheels, I threw 1/2 inch plywood down over the laminate floor.

We moved a few years later, into a house with vinyl floors. We set the safe in through the door with the fork lift, onto a 4'x6' piece of scrap rug. Two guys grabbed the front edge of the rug and pulled, one pushed from behind. We slid the safe quickly and easily right into the corner where it resides to this day. A safe can be set onto a heavy piece of cardboard and slid around quite easily.

But we had no stairs to traverse in either move.

800 or 1000 lbs can be loaded into or out of a pickup by three or four men if they tilt it into the truck. Especially if it is being loaded/unloaded from an elevated position as a step or deck.

I have never owned one, but right now , my days of moving heavy objects are over, anything as heavy as a gun safe is a "leaver right" , leave her right the phuque where it's at!

Hire somebody with a bonded moving business.

+1

Surprised that no one mentioned the baseball method wherein you use baseballs instead of sections of pipe.

Personally, I moved both my safes into place with family helping. Floor jack and a hand truck across the garage and transitioned onto roller pipes. Rolled them onto a plywood base and bolted them down.

I'll be 60 in November and planning a move 3 states away. The gun safes are going into a sea container with everything else. I will lay them on their backs and fill 'em up with cushioned or boxed guns. Obviously, correct protection measures will be used.

Don't get hurt!

If no flights of stairs are involved, and the doorways are wide enough, it's no big deal. Rent the pair of safe dollies, though.

Bought a safe at a bankruptcy auction last year. Perfect condition (just don't have the key, or the combination), but for its size it is one heavy piece of steel... about 28" square and 34" tall and weighs in at 1,000 pounds. They used a forklift to load it for me, and I used my Duct-Lift to off-load it and put it into the garage temporarily until I can figure out what I want to do with it. Think I gave $100 bucks for it, and plan on using it as a machine base for a benchtop mill (maybe putting a rubber pad under it for vibration. Price, they want for safe-cracking and supplying a new key and combination is outrageous and I don't expect there to be anything in it. But that being said, I have thought about turning it upside down and grinding out the bottom metal with a diamond wheel just to see. I can always weld the bottom back on after getting it open. I suppose welding a eye to the top, it would make a good boat anchor too.

Phil