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We moved my safe into it’s final resting place today.
A good hand truck on the forward side and push on the top of the back side till the bottom friction is overcome. Moves pretty easily down the hallway. Getting it through the door is easy when you knock out the latch side of the door jamb because it was an inch too narrow.
It was the 90* direction change to the left that had me in a little quandary in planning this.
The solution was golf balls.
Transitioned the safe onto 100+ golf balls borrowed from a neighbor and rolled that safe right into place. Easy peasy.
My helpers were amazed that it worked.
I just enjoyed the fact that a problem was solved without grunting, groaning and getting hurt or putting a hole in a wall.
Mark
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Lol, didn't you just put that door jam up?
Finally, golf balls became useful!
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Titleist PRO V1’s are awesome golf balls.
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Now you are ready to start building pyramids!
Glad it was a success.
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I have found using a rug (polyester side downing the floor/rubber side up to grip the metal) does the best on my wood floors and linoleum laundry room floors. Scoots right across them.
Doesn’t work so good on carpet but I can wiggle it on carpet.
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Pvc pipe works well. Easy to negotiate corners and rolls well over carpet.
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Lol, didn't you just put that door jam up?
Finally, golf balls became useful! Yep, brand new house, tearing it up. Exactly right on the golf balls. That’s a game I never found to be worth a crap. I offered to rent the neighbor’s golf balls, he’s a guy that sells used ones. The look on his face was priceless. Like a cow at a new gate. LOL! He handed me two 5 gallon buckets full and said he didn’t want any money but he wanted video, good or bad. LOL!
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Is the house on a slab or raised foundation with a crawl way?
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Is the house on a slab or raised foundation with a crawl way? Ranch home on a basement, why?
Mark
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Titleist PRO V1’s are awesome golf balls.
😬🦫 Agree. But they're too expensive to be shoving under safes. Top Flite is a good choice.
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moving a safe? I just hire someone. 
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Titleist PRO V1’s are awesome golf balls.
😬🦫 Agree. But they're too expensive to be shoving under safes. Top Flite is a good choice. Here's a man who knows his golf balls!
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I recruited a big, sturdy kid who worked with me to bring my safe home. I paid him $50 and lunch. The LGS I bought it from loaned me a hand truck. We ended up bruised, battered and sore for days afterward!
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I recruited a big, sturdy kid who worked with me to bring my safe home. I paid him $50 and lunch. The LGS I bought it from loaned me a hand truck. We ended up bruised, battered and sore for days afterward! Work smarter not harder. Power is your friend.
Mark
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I recruited a big, sturdy kid who worked with me to bring my safe home. I paid him $50 and lunch. The LGS I bought it from loaned me a hand truck. We ended up bruised, battered and sore for days afterward! They must not be very sturdy in New Jersey. I had 3 guys helping me, one of which was a big old 17 year old cornfed TN boy. Once we got my safe in the front door, he told us to get out of the way, and hossed that sumbitch to my bedroom all by himself. I told him right then that, if he ever bowed up on me, I wouldn't even attempt to fight him, but would dump a magazine full of 9MM into him as fast as I could pull the trigger................
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I wonder if them golf balls ... got used again... how would they be ...lol
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I can't believe the size of some of these things. Buddies have theirs in the garage, but here in the frozen north, condensation is always an issue. My solution was to not buy such a big safe to begin with and not buy so many new guns, an abhorrent suggestion to lots of the Fire folks. Honestly if it wasn't for the F-150 and gravity, backing the safe down the stairs into the basement wouldn't have happened.
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So, it takes.balls to move a gun safe!
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We moved my safe into it’s final resting place today.
A good hand truck on the forward side and push on the top of the back side till the bottom friction is overcome. Moves pretty easily down the hallway. Getting it through the door is easy when you knock out the latch side of the door jamb because it was an inch too narrow.
It was the 90* direction change to the left that had me in a little quandary in planning this.
The solution was golf balls.
Transitioned the safe onto 100+ golf balls borrowed from a neighbor and rolled that safe right into place. Easy peasy.
My helpers were amazed that it worked.
I just enjoyed the fact that a problem was solved without grunting, groaning and getting hurt or putting a hole in a wall. I don't golf so I grabbed a joint of 1.5" pvc and cut it into 24" sections and it worked great, my safe is 450 empty and I moved it in about 15 minutes without scratching anything. Closet rod would work far better.
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So, it takes.balls to move a gun safe! It takes leather balls to play rugby.
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