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How do you move a gun safe to the basement? #7229560 12/26/12
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,961 Front Range, Co DayPacker OP Campfire Regular
OP DayPacker Campfire Regular Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,961 Front Range, Co	How do people get a gun safe moved, they are heavy? Time spent hunting is not deducted from one's lifetime.

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Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? DayPacker #7229566 12/26/12
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,669 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage
The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,669 USA	Originally Posted by DayPacker How do people get a gun safe moved, they are heavy? With great difficulty.

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? DayPacker #7229568 12/26/12
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52,680 North of Liberalism in Wyoming eh76 Campfire Kahuna
eh76 Campfire Kahuna Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52,680 North of Liberalism in Wyoming	Does yours have a receptacle for a lifting eye to be installed in the top? As far as trh's comment he again shows he doesn't know what he is talking about. Are your steps carpeted? Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? eh76 #7229603 12/26/12
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HankStone Campfire Regular H Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 901 North New York State	With blood sweat and tears,and some choice words,been there also friends helping..

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? HankStone #7229608 12/26/12
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Bearschlayerx2 Campfire Regular B Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,594 Dillsburg, Pa	Refrigerater cart with straps, a couple budies, and a whole bunch of gruntin If it looks good, you'll see it If it sounds good, you'll hear it If it's marketed right, you'll buy it But...If it's real, you'll feel it Kid Rock

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Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? Bearschlayerx2 #7229611 12/26/12
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Oakster Campfire Tracker O Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 4,113 Wyoming	Alot easier than getting it out of the basement!

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? Oakster #7229631 12/26/12
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norm99 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,692 BC transplant to n alberta And...	empty it first 20 guns is at least 140 lbs There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden . If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? Oakster #7229635 12/26/12
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Mathsr Campfire Tracker Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,167 Georgia	It will be a lot lighter if you take the door off. I used a refrigerator dolly(roller on the back and a heavy strap that locks the dolly to the safe.) and a son to move mine up stairs. I wasn't really much of a problem. Just do it one step at a time. I wouldn't let anyone get between it and gravity. Harry

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? Oakster #7229642 12/26/12
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mark shubert Campfire Ranger M Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 16,389 Las Vegas NM	1) Stand upright on first floor 2) saw hole through floor around said safe 3) voila! (Sorry - couldn't restrain myself!) Good luck. Mark I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? Oakster #7229652 12/26/12
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NeBassman Campfire Tracker N Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 5,222 Nebraska	Originally Posted by Oakster Alot easier than getting it out of the basement! Not if you have a walk out basement, then it is about the same amount of work getting it in or out. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence". John Adams "A dishonest man can always be trusted to be dishonest". Captain Jack Sparrow

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Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? DayPacker #7229656 12/26/12
Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 6,755 Atlanta D doubletap Campfire Tracker
doubletap Campfire Tracker D Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 6,755 Atlanta	Originally Posted by DayPacker How do people get a gun safe moved, they are heavy? I assume this is a basement that doesn't need a sump pump. He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. - Albert Einstein

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? doubletap #7229663 12/26/12
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rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,480 Alaska	I'd be thinking about a good easy ropes system with pulleys and put the safe on its back and slide it down. Then roll it on pipes wherever. Would be the easy way to get it back up again too. But as always depends on what you might have to anchor a ropes system to. We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? DayPacker #7229664 12/26/12
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RoninPhx Campfire Ranger R Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 16,000 arizona	I watched a professional safe mover do it. pulled up with a tandem axle trailer, used a small fork lift to move safe to street level, sitting on it's wooden box. Brings over a dolly on wheels that has metal that goes under the safe. Has hydraulic jack on side to life safe up about four inches off ground, dolly wheel on all four sides of safe. Two guys can move off a truck and install a safe in about ten minutes. THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? RoninPhx #7229669 12/26/12
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rost495 Campfire Kahuna R Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 57,480 Alaska	the pallet jack went down the steps into the basement? We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? rost495 #7229678 12/26/12
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RoninPhx Campfire Ranger R Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 16,000 arizona	Originally Posted by rost495 the pallet jack went down the steps into the basement? wasn't moved into a basement, but they DID have to move it up some steps. Had some sheets of metal they laid over the steps so they could roll it. THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? rost495 #7229690 12/26/12
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GreatWaputi Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 18,456 OreGONE	Check your local yellow pages for a professional safe mover. I had mine moved out of my basement earlier this year and it cost right around $150.00 for them to come do it. It was worth every penny and my friendships are worth a lot more than that! They had a hydraulic stair climber taking it up and then used wood dowels to roll it across the carpet and into a room upstairs. Took longer for them to unload and load their equipment than the actual job took.

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? DayPacker #7229697 12/26/12
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joken2 Campfire Outfitter J Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 13,944 Kentucky	Originally Posted by DayPacker How do people get a gun safe moved, they are heavy? If you don't mind spending some money hire professional safe movers/installers who should have the proper equipment. Or with a little help you could DIY by renting one of these rated for whatever weight load you're wanting to move:

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? joken2 #7229702 12/26/12
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tndrbstr Campfire Outfitter T Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 8,217 E TN,..yep, thats right!	Originally Posted by joken2 Originally Posted by DayPacker How do people get a gun safe moved, they are heavy? If you don't mind spending some money hire professional safe movers/installers who should have the proper equipment. Or with a little help you could DIY by renting one of these rated for whatever weight load you're wanting to move: never seen one of those....

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? tndrbstr #7229709 12/26/12
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buckthumper Campfire Regular B Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,524 Pennsylvania	PUSH IT DOWN THE STAIRS!! Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money but we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money. What's interesting is the first group WORKED for their money but the other group didn't.

Re: How do you move a gun safe to the basement? buckthumper #7229716 12/26/12
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Huntz Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 14,260 N.E.Wisconsin	I had my house built around my basement safe.It will never leave the house. Its all right to be white!! Stupidity left unattended will run rampant Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience

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