64 Gun safe

Lafayette Gregory

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Tractor supply has one on sale. BUT!!!--- How do you move such a critter? I can move a 30 gun safe but never tried one as big as a 64 gun safe. Anyone ever moved one of these? How? What equipment? It will go on the second floor. Do I need to reinforce the floor?
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COLORS
Hammertone Black, Hammertone Charcoal Gray

FIRE PROTECTION
30

GUN CAPACITY
64

WEIGHT (LBS.)
451

DOOR GAUGE
12

ANTI-PRY TAB
No

DUAL RELOCKERS
No

TRIPLE HARD PLATE
Yes

ACCENTS & LOCK
Chrome

HANDLE TYPE
3 Spoke

KEYPAD
Electronic

LOCK TYPE
Half Lock

BOLT SIZE
1″ x 4″ (4) & 1″ x 1.5″ (2)

# of BOLTS
6

BOLTS POSITION
4 Left, 2 Right

UL Rated
No

ETL
No

California DOJ
Yes

POWER SUPPLY AND MEDIA OUTLET
No

INTERIOR LIGHT
No

INTERIOR COLOR
Saratoga Sand

SHELF TYPE
Split

DOK
#3 Deluxe
 
Carpet stairs or wood? Best thing would be to lay it on a piece of carpet and slide it up. They have gotten light. My 48 gun safe from cannon weighs 600 something. I took it off my truck and slid it through my front door by myself. For moving it around in the house a furniture slider under each corner will be your best friend. I didn't reinforce my floor, but I live in a mobile home. I positioned it so it's over one of the metal beams
 
Wow! I can't believe you've gone all day without an "Don't buy that cheap safe, you need a blah-blah $8,000 safe and pay $2,500 to have it delivered" comment. I bought the same one a couple years ago, from TS, on sale, a deal imo. Buy 3 or 4 cases of beer, invite your buddies over, after a few give them the old "while y'all are here.......".
 
451 lbs is no problem. Doesn't have dimensions above. Check those _before_ buying or starting the move. Look at stair landing turns in particular. Assuming it fits, strap it to an appliance dolly, have 2 above to pull, a third one above using a come along to take up slack on a safety strap, and heave it up one step at a time. Take your time. Plan your moves. Be careful.

I and small teenage sons have moved several smaller but heavier safes this way.

Also, if the door is removable, remove it. Door is probably 30% of the weight. Do not drop it on your toes!
 
I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on said safe. But I think you should def order some pizzas and beer and get a few buddies too help ya. I'd imagine you should try to have a rope of some sort to avoid a couple hundred pound safe from tumbling down the stairs in the event you lose your grip
 
That is not very heavy compared to a water bed so you should be fine. I took the door of of my friends, layed it on it's side and four of us got it up 2 flights of stairs and around a corner. 1 was steering from up top and three where pushing from the bottom. It was a much heavier safe too. As mentioned before be carefull of someone slipping and it getting away from you. I used a furniture dolly also from tractor supply to go accross flat areas. Check the fire rating on that safe Cannon produces safes with different ratings, they have a low and high end.
 
A 450 lb steel box going up a flight of stairs with a "hold muh beer and watch this"... This could get ugly. And if it does you better post some pics!
Buy what you want but pay the man to move it. Whereabout do you live?
 
I believe that my safe weighs right around 600 pounds and we managed to move it with the help of an appliance hand truck, a couple of ratchet straps and a lot of man power. Granted that we did not have any steps to contend with and it was going on a concrete slab.
 
1 was steering from up top and three where pushing from the bottom.

As long as you get to be the "1," this method should work fine. Using disposable friends, of course! ;)

Funny aside, thanks for the link, Lafayette. I may have to get in on this sale action.
 
Myself and 2 other guys moved a 600ish# safe. There were no stairs involved and we just laid it on it's back into a pickup with blankets down. It really wasn't bad at all.

Check and see if the door comes off. If it does, it makes it much easier to move.
 
Work is giving me a Meilink class-3 tl-30 safe at the end of April. Stands about 5ft tall. I estimate the weight to be around 2500lbs. I'm struggling with how to move it. To get it home I'll borrow a buddies car hauler/flat bed and just pay the movers to load it on the trailer. Not sure about once I get it home.


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Work is giving me a Meilink class-3 tl-30 safe at the end of April. Stands about 5ft tall. I estimate the weight to be around 2500lbs. I'm struggling with how to move it. To get it home I'll borrow a buddies car hauler/flat bed and just pay the movers to load it on the trailer. Not sure about once I get it home.


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That's actually a safe. All the other stuff we've been taking about here are RSCs - residential security containers, according to the UL and insurance companies.

2500 lbs is a different class entirely. Pro safe movers won't be cheap but may be necessary. Truck with strong enough lift gate would be good. Or forklift/tractor that can lift it. Lots of info on moving safes out there. There are stair climbing dollies that will crawl up a staircase. Watch some YouTube videos from pros to see how it is done and decide whether you want to attack it.
 
That is not very heavy compared to a water bed so you should be fine. I took the door of of my friends, layed it on it's side and four of us got it up 2 flights of stairs and around a corner. 1 was steering from up top and three where pushing from the bottom. It was a much heavier safe too. As mentioned before be carefull of someone slipping and it getting away from you. I used a furniture dolly also from tractor supply to go accross flat areas. Check the fire rating on that safe Cannon produces safes with different ratings, they have a low and high end.

Danger Will Robinson!!! Sounds like your friends could have ended up dead if something slipped. Kind of like muzzle sweeping them - don't take the chance.

Pull from above. Use a safety strap that will catch it from above with no more than 1 step slack at a time.
 
That's actually a safe. All the other stuff we've been taking about here are RSCs - residential security containers, according to the UL and insurance companies.

2500 lbs is a different class entirely. Pro safe movers won't be cheap but may be necessary. Truck with strong enough lift gate would be good. Or forklift/tractor that can lift it. Lots of info on moving safes out there. There are stair climbing dollies that will crawl up a staircase. Watch some YouTube videos from pros to see how it is done and decide whether you want to attack it.

There may be a forklift at the facility/plant where the branch is located, but they may not want to involve their employees. Catfish sent me the name of a pro mover that I'll put in a call to when it gets closer.

We're going through several moves and mergers over the next 10 months which will leave a lot of unneeded safes. In the past they were just left behind. I think I've got the CEO and CFO talked into giving them to me to sell off, then return the money back to the CU to fund a "thanks for working your ass off" event for staff after all the dust has settled. The few thousand dollars from sales wouldn't really benefit our bottom line, but staff sure would appreciate the "thanks", and from the CU perspective it would be free, so win-win. None of the other safes are as large as this one, but are all actual commercial safes. The big one is my commission. :)

I just need this one moved out of the building, and 100 ft to the trailer. There's a loading dock we can use, no stairs. I think I'll be good once I get it home. It'll live in the garage. Neighbor down the street salvages boats and has a ginormous forklift I can use, there's not much he won't do for a 6/12 pack.
 
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Work is giving me a Meilink class-3 tl-30 safe at the end of April. Stands about 5ft tall. I estimate the weight to be around 2500lbs. I'm struggling with how to move it. To get it home I'll borrow a buddies car hauler/flat bed and just pay the movers to load it on the trailer. Not sure about once I get it home.


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Give us a call and I can give you a guys number that moves safes those size every day at a reasonable price.

Scott Tar Heel State Firearms 704-942-8671
 
Work is giving me a Meilink class-3 tl-30 safe at the end of April. Stands about 5ft tall. I estimate the weight to be around 2500lbs. I'm struggling with how to move it. To get it home I'll borrow a buddies car hauler/flat bed and just pay the movers to load it on the trailer. Not sure about once I get it home.


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If there will be movers on one end, offer them a Benjamin each to come to your house and offload after the main job is done.

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So what's the final outcome here? Squashed peeps? Wrecked stairs? Irate S/O? Collapsed floor? The suspense is excruciating.
 
WELL-- I bought a few guns this month and the safe will now have to wait. Unless I can sell some guns........ Anybody want an Argentine FN in 8mm. Unfired since imported!
 
I was about to buy one, but I called TS and they said they're limited to Cannon stock in inventory, and I don't want the electronic keypad lock. Other than that, it looked like a pretty good deal.
 
Work is giving me a Meilink class-3 tl-30 safe at the end of April. Stands about 5ft tall. I estimate the weight to be around 2500lbs. I'm struggling with how to move it. To get it home I'll borrow a buddies car hauler/flat bed and just pay the movers to load it on the trailer. Not sure about once I get it home.


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Do not attempt to take that one upstairs lol! It's going to need a concrete slab to rest on. I have a 1500 pound safe in a hallway in my house. Long story but it's on a slab.
 
One thing to remember - that safe is slicker than greased owl sh!te. It makes it hard to get a grip on but it will slide out of the truck very easy...

The one stipulation work had was that I wasn't to touch the safe until it was off company property. I could glance at it, but not touch. They didn't want any comp claims. I paid our vault movers $500 to move it from Hickory to Farmington and install it in the garage. It's not moving ever again. Money well spent I think.

3800lbs.
 
Are those rentable from any of the normal rental places?

Sunbelt has them on their website, different brand with two different capacities.
Several companies make them.
 
Go to Lowes and get some 1/2" pvc pipe and cut about 5 pieces the width of the safe. Put one guy in front and one in the back and roll it through the house replacing the pipes as you move along. That's how I moved my Lincoln 35.
 
Carpet stairs or wood? Best thing would be to lay it on a piece of carpet and slide it up. They have gotten light. My 48 gun safe from cannon weighs 600 something. I took it off my truck and slid it through my front door by myself. For moving it around in the house a furniture slider under each corner will be your best friend. I didn't reinforce my floor, but I live in a mobile home. I positioned it so it's over one of the metal beams

Did I miss it,, how much
 
Tractor supply has one on sale. BUT!!!--- How do you move such a critter? I can move a 30 gun safe but never tried one as big as a 64 gun safe. Anyone ever moved one of these? How? What equipment? It will go on the second floor. Do I need to reinforce the floor?
shopping

COLORS
Hammertone Black, Hammertone Charcoal Gray

FIRE PROTECTION
30

GUN CAPACITY
64

WEIGHT (LBS.)
451

DOOR GAUGE
12

ANTI-PRY TAB
No

DUAL RELOCKERS
No

TRIPLE HARD PLATE
Yes

ACCENTS & LOCK
Chrome

HANDLE TYPE
3 Spoke

KEYPAD
Electronic

LOCK TYPE
Half Lock

BOLT SIZE
1″ x 4″ (4) & 1″ x 1.5″ (2)

# of BOLTS
6

BOLTS POSITION
4 Left, 2 Right

UL Rated
No

ETL
No

California DOJ
Yes

POWER SUPPLY AND MEDIA OUTLET
No

INTERIOR LIGHT
No

INTERIOR COLOR
Saratoga Sand

SHELF TYPE
Split

DOK
#3 Deluxe
Make sure the landing on your stairs is strong enough to support it. I opted to keep my downstairs for this very reason. I also paid a "safe mover" $75 to do mine afterwards. He had one of the electric dollies that walked right up stairs, over thresholds....$75 well spent!
 
Go to Lowes and get some 1/2" pvc pipe and cut about 5 pieces the width of the safe. Put one guy in front and one in the back and roll it through the house replacing the pipes as you move along. That's how I moved my Lincoln 35.


That's some mighty strong pvc ya got there pard
 
If you only have to go down stairs, not up, an appliance dolly and an extra body will probably do the job.
Our appliance dolly is rated for over 600 pounds. Bought it at Home Depot for $110. Definitely got our money's worth out of it.
 
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