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Posted: 4/14/2025 3:08:10 PM EDT
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Two 800lb safes... 60x41x27... How would you move them? A pro safe guy told me a moving.company is an absolute no-go. Some movers quoted $700 to move. Pro safe guy said $1k. Several movers said they can't handle that weight. I thought about renting a safe dolly and a truck with a hydraulic lift, but might just leave it to the pros. Advice and.comments welcome. |
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| I hire pros. They even offer to wrap it like an appliance so it doesn’t look like a safe. |
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Where are the safe's in the current house, and where are they going in the house after being moved? Garage to garage, yes it's not difficult. Basement to basement, good luck finding anyone who will actually show up and do it. Try places that sell safes, they have the equipment needed to move them. |
| I had one moved with a tractor and a flat bed, one Delivered on a Roll Back, One was moved with a professional safe company to basement. Had to do quite a bit of construction on that one as I had to build stair blocks and then remove them for angles and the like. Even with there equipment it was a bear. Moving one from ground level outside the house then to new location flat bed and forks gets my vote. To get it outside PVC Pipes or Golf balls to roll it out or a good appliance dolly and buddies. |
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Originally Posted By engineer61: Where are the safe's in the current house, and where are they going in the house after being moved? Garage to garage, yes it's not difficult. Basement to basement, good luck finding anyone who will actually show up and do it. Try places that sell safes, they have the equipment needed to move them. Not exactly garage to garage, but close. I just.don't know how to get 800lb safes into my pickup truck bed without specialized equipment or guys who do it for a living. and I assume a little furniture dolly will break... |
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| Seems a bit on the high side, but then again it's 2 safes and not just 1. I usually pay around $300-500 to move one safe that is 750 pounds. If there's stairs involved it's more expensive. First floor is cheaper of course. For my TL-30 safe that's 3000 pounds it's like $1000 to move it. That thing is never going upstairs, haha. Need a fork lift or pallet jack to move it. The lighter safe can be moved with a giant dolly and a cargo strap. Definitely need at least 3 or 4 guys. An electric stair climber makes it a lot easier if going up and down stairs. A truck with a trailer with a hydraulic lift is good too. |
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How far are you moving? I used my furniture dolly to move my 25-gun safe about a block, towed behind my truck. Surprisingly survived til in the driveway when it hit the lip and broke. Then cut up 2 broomsticks and made rollers and shoved that heavy SOB into the new garage. |
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Just moved a 1000lb safe with a friend and PAID To move a 2000lb safe Both doable light 1000lb safe rolled on pipes and used the door open to "tip it" to get pipes under it. We used a pallet jack and tractor with pallet forks to move. YouTube short of me by myself tipping an amsec BF6030 by myself after it was unbolted from the floor  How to move a 1000lb safe use door as lever(next put pipes under and roll!) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aXYa1-NHPno and see 30 second in to moving the Amsec Bf6030  The Move is over, now living the Arkansas ozark's adventure in Homesteading! PRO with TL30 Him and his wife used solid 1/4 metal rods, LONG pry bar, pallet jack, wooden blocks, and lots of adjusting. I paid them and they came from a few hundred miles away. No photos of safe and location I paid around $600 and that included milage to get to me, getting it off pallet, moving it, and putting in new lock |
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Well you seen much combat? ......... I've seen a little on TV.
We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns.
Lifetime NRA member SADLY
now GOA and ASA member!!!!!
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Moved a 72x40 a couple times just on a utility trailer, using multiple come alongs, a lot of wooden and steel pipe rollers, and crow bars. Was a 3 person job, but not that hard. You would be amazed at how easy it is to lift up a safe with crow bars and then moving them with rollers can be. The trailer load/unload was the sketchy part…. But a professional safe dealer will have a lift gate, I imagine you could rent a lift gate truck and keep it a lot easier/safer than using a utility trailer… |
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Originally Posted By mudholestomper:
I hire pros. They even offer to wrap it like an appliance so it doesn’t look like a safe. |
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