I'm on Long Island, NY. Since I started with my LGS, I'll wait a few days to hear back from him. Beyond that, I'll try it on Craigslist for a few hundred, with a stipulation that a professional mover takes it out of here.
The reality of getting rid of a gun safe?
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I'm on Long Island, NY. Since I started with my LGS, I'll wait a few days to hear back from him. Beyond that, I'll try it on Craigslist for a few hundred, with a stipulation that a professional mover takes it out of here.
bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
OK. If it doesn't play out for you, I could ask my SIL on LI if he wants it or knows anyone who'd take it away.
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THE PILGRIM
Member
Sold one a while back.
But it was in the garage and my ‘horse’ refrigerator Dolly easily handles it.
Later did the trade of a heavy wood-stove for a Colt SA.
Me and the Other guy. had a heck of a time getting that heavy blivet up into his truck.
But it was in the garage and my ‘horse’ refrigerator Dolly easily handles it.
Later did the trade of a heavy wood-stove for a Colt SA.
Me and the Other guy. had a heck of a time getting that heavy blivet up into his truck.
I would ask top-dollar. Safes are selling like hotcakes around these parts!
LoboGunLeather
US Veteran
Had to settle a deceased cousin's estate in Dec. 2017. Very nice, nearly new gun safe. I advertised it here on the S&W Forum and a member had a moving crew pick it up and take it home, free of charge (he paid for the moving company). The safe had to go in order to get the house ready to go on the market, and I was 2000 miles from home and didn't want to spend weeks in dealing with it.
New value about $1600. Used value, whatever you can get. Moving it out of the house and into a new home, name your price.
New value about $1600. Used value, whatever you can get. Moving it out of the house and into a new home, name your price.
LoboGunLeather
US Veteran
You are welcome, again! Thanks for helping me deal with this and get back home in a timely manner!
375# is nothing with the right equipment.
Heck my truck has a small winch mounted on the rack right behind the cab and I have a set of steel ramps or I can use my gin poles and just go straight up and then in. I loaded a full size freezer and a fridge into it by myself about a month ago.
Inside a building with decent floors a quality hand cart with ratchet type strap will make it easy for a husky guy with a brain. Steps require the roller belts on the rear of cart. Stairs are where 2 guys may be needed. The width and depth means doorways are not a problem.
If your floors aren't up to 375# you sure wouldn't want me and one of my brothers in it at the same time. Any 2 of us would put you over 550
Heck my truck has a small winch mounted on the rack right behind the cab and I have a set of steel ramps or I can use my gin poles and just go straight up and then in. I loaded a full size freezer and a fridge into it by myself about a month ago.
Inside a building with decent floors a quality hand cart with ratchet type strap will make it easy for a husky guy with a brain. Steps require the roller belts on the rear of cart. Stairs are where 2 guys may be needed. The width and depth means doorways are not a problem.
If your floors aren't up to 375# you sure wouldn't want me and one of my brothers in it at the same time. Any 2 of us would put you over 550
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you may be over thinking this one, from the size you speak of and the location, it would be a piece of cake, appliance dolly, or one of them square 4 wheel dollies, ,heck even straps, you could get it out of there, at least out to the garage,,,,,,,heck if YOU cannot handle , get a young friend or relative, could even lay it down, slide it out...............I'm 73 and me another guy moved one much bigger than that , across first floor ,out to the garage and slid it up into his pick up truck....those small 4 wheel dollys can be gotten at Harbor freight, cheap........
as said above, you over it cheap enough and they have to get out,,,it would be gone in little of no time..........
as said above, you over it cheap enough and they have to get out,,,it would be gone in little of no time..........
Here's a video of one person moving an 800 pound safe up a flight of stairs.
Turn your volume down...music is awful.
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Turn your volume down...music is awful.
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^^^^^
Euro Techno Pop. The audio version of waterboarding.
Euro Techno Pop. The audio version of waterboarding.
I bought one of those stair climbing hand trucks. It wasn't originally intended for a safe. It was bought mainly to take my old furnace out of my basement.
Unfortunately, I made a huge mistake and bought one made entirely out of steel instead of aluminum. Well, you can probably guess the result. The damn stair climbing hand truck weighed more than the furnace.
Me being old and decrepit with just one good arm, I couldn't use it. It would take two seriously good-sized healthy young men to move anything on that thing just because of the weight of the dolly alone.
Afriend of mine just sold a similar, but not Browning, safe. He used a Refrig dolly and got it to a "gun auction" and it sold for $600.
dasnake
Member
Are your kids interested?
Reason I ask is I bought a safe when it was needed, I told Jr it was heavy and I wanted help we went there and he went in and said in a very ( I've got this dad) voice, went and got the dolly and the safe wheeled it to my truck and then I was allowed to help lift into the bed, this was the same size as yours, when I was done with it I sold it to him for 200.00 and he did it again, but for himself this time, just a thought
Reason I ask is I bought a safe when it was needed, I told Jr it was heavy and I wanted help we went there and he went in and said in a very ( I've got this dad) voice, went and got the dolly and the safe wheeled it to my truck and then I was allowed to help lift into the bed, this was the same size as yours, when I was done with it I sold it to him for 200.00 and he did it again, but for himself this time, just a thought
dasnake
Member
You don't like that eh, I started liking techno years ago, it's a fun beat at least for me.
Most any company that buys/sells & moves machinery (lathes, saws, milling machines, ect) can handle that easily.
They may even buy it,,who knows.
Can you 'donate' it to some non-profit for their use to hold valuable items and documents?
Then take a tax write-off (If you itemize)
They may even buy it,,who knows.
Can you 'donate' it to some non-profit for their use to hold valuable items and documents?
Then take a tax write-off (If you itemize)
Yes, when I put it in the closet, I used that ancient Egyptian technique-Wood dowels to roll it back.. Reckon it will come out the same way. Now however, the room has new carpeting, unlike the worn out stuff that was there when I put it in, so a little more care is warranted. I bought a few partial sheets of plywood to help the cause.
I'll wait a few more days to see if my LGS contacts me, and then I'll proceed with another plan.
Me and my wife put my Liberty(800 lbs) in many years ago with 1 1/2" pvc dowels. She in front placing the dowels and me in back pushing and handing the dowels as they came out the back. We rolled it right over the carpet and hardly made any indentation at all. From the truck to the front door I used my 4 wheeler trifold ramp covered in plywood. Wasn't a bad or hard job at all.
I recently had my safe, a piano, a recumbent exercise bike,, my South Bend metal lathe, and two tool chests, plus another storage cabinet moved from our current home to our new one.
The cost was about $750.00 and they did a great job. Safe and tool cabinets, and storage cabinet were in the basement and went in the basement in our new home. Piano and exercise bike were on the 1st floor, and the bike was taken to the basement and the piano was moved into the living room of the new home.
The lathe was in the garage at the old house and went into the garage at the new home.
I was going to leave the safe at our current home, but when I priced a new one for the new home, I decided to move it.
The cost was about $750.00 and they did a great job. Safe and tool cabinets, and storage cabinet were in the basement and went in the basement in our new home. Piano and exercise bike were on the 1st floor, and the bike was taken to the basement and the piano was moved into the living room of the new home.
The lathe was in the garage at the old house and went into the garage at the new home.
I was going to leave the safe at our current home, but when I priced a new one for the new home, I decided to move it.
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When I moved, my neighbor wanted my 2000 lb. gun safe so I sold it to him. My safe was in the basement but there was a door to the outside so it could be moved through the backyard to the driveway. When the moving crew has all of my stuff from the house, I asked the foreman if his crew would like to make $100 cash each. He talked to them and they agreed to move the safe from the basement to the driveway and they used all of their dollies and lifts, put the safe on a wooden pallet. They had it move in about 20 minutes. For $300 I had the safe moved to a point where my neighbor could come and get it and it was even on a pallet!
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Try your local plumbing and heating wholesaler.
The delivery guys put boilers in basements that weigh more than your safe.
They might do it for beer money.
I used to do stuff like that.
When I was younger LOL
The delivery guys put boilers in basements that weigh more than your safe.
They might do it for beer money.
I used to do stuff like that.
When I was younger LOL
THE PILGRIM
Member
If your safe has a solid bottom, you can walk it on most floor types on regular corrugated cardboard.
Just keep adding cardboard in the travel direction.
Just keep adding cardboard in the travel direction.
