Posted: 1/8/2009 7:21:33 AM EDT
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Hey folks,
One of my friends is getting rid of a nice, heavy duty gun safe, and he wants to give it to me provided I haul it away. Do you have any idea how much it would be to move it from Ocala to Gainesville? ––Tso |
| Moving companies will probably be cheaper than freight companies because you need inside delivery w/ liftgate service. A pickup, a good appliance handtruck/dolly, two or three friends and some beer will probably be cheaper. I've moved a few, none of the super sized ones but 6-7 hundred pounds. |
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Provided you don't have to traverse any staircases you should be able to do it with two people.
Transporting it will be the biggest PITA. Having a trailer is better than a truck. May be best to rent a truck with a lift. Just my wife and I moved a 800 pound safe. I purchased two 6 foot long wooden pools (these are the ones about 1-2 inches thick and usually found in the closet.) They were cut into 6 inch and 12 inch pieces. Once you get one of these under the safe, it moves with ease. Granted it is a very slow process especially with having to turn corners but yet very easy even for just two people. |
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Cheapest thing would be to rent a small U-Haul with a lift gate. Use a furniture dolly to move it from the house to the truck. You can also use sections of Schd 40 1" PVC pipe to roll it on. thats what I was thinking +1 on the pipe... or you could do it this way..... 
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| ...Once you get it in the house use a pack of golf balls under the safe...add them every 4" or so and as they pop out one side you can start feeding them back under. Works much better than pipe b/c the golf balls allow you to spin/move the safe anyway you want. hth |
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Cheapest thing would be to rent a small U-Haul with a lift gate. Use a furniture dolly to move it from the house to the truck. You can also use sections of Schd 40 1" PVC pipe to roll it on. Funny enough, I think it may be that exact safe. I couldn't wager a guess on weight, but I think it could be manageable. I hadn't thought about renting a truck with a lift gate. Great idea. I think I may give that a try... |
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Find out if it has a glass relocker in the door, if it does then you need to be very gentle with the safe when moving it. Thanks for the tip! Quoted:
...Once you get it in the house use a pack of golf balls under the safe...add them every 4" or so and as they pop out one side you can start feeding them back under. Works much better than pipe b/c the golf balls allow you to spin/move the safe anyway you want. hth Cool idea. ETA: Thanks again to everyone. The Arfcom brain trust "delivers." 
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2 guys a refrigerator dolly and away you go. I just bought another safe tonight from sams club. Little winchester 60 x 28 but it was only $600. I moved it by myself out of the F150 into the house. Hardest part by yourself is tippin it backwards to start rolling. Can some one in S FL find my testicles they rolled out
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| Once in the house the easiest thing to move a safe around the house by yourself is a set of plastic apliance movers. These are strips of plastic (1/4" thickx 4" wide x 3' long) that go under safe and slide over tile, wood carpet with ease. In fact if someone is pushing from the back you may get run over by the safe! |
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I know this will sound stupid to some but... Have you called any local safe retailers to see what they would charge to move a safe? A local safe retailer near me charges about $250 to "install" a (800-1000 pound) safe which includess loading the safe onto a truck at their end, driving the safe a similar distance to your move, unloading it and placing it in your house and bolting it to the floor (if you want them to)... If the locals near you charge a similar amount to move a safe - I'd hire them and be done with it.
... I know that your friends are "free" but sometimes you get what you pay for... a 1,000 pound cube of steel doesn't strike me as the kind of thing that you want to use for "on the job training" especially if you don't actually have any real instructor... Hindsight is always 20/20... Foresight is another matter entirely...
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