Gun safe recommendation

[375 Ruger Fan]

 

[HankBuck]

Interesting video

@375 Ruger Fan - very informative video, enjoyed it….Thanks

 

[Tanks]

I bought a Revolution XL by Pendleton Safes. Cant recommend them enough. Their turret design is a game changer when it comes to organization and storage solutions.

As mentioned before I wholeheartedly recommend Pendleton safes. I have a Knight with the turret. I ordered another last month with door opening to the left side. Safe movers moved the existing one to a new house already and we made room for the new one coming in to the left of the existing one.

I know they are not the cheapest in the market, but buy once, cry once.

 

[Tanks]

All set

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

All set

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Sweet!! I always gawk at those at the shows. Very nice

 

[Ray B]

I've considered replacing my smaller safe with a large one from Costco but it would be delivered to my driveway- Costco recommends I contact a moving company that deals with moving large heavy objects such as grand pianos to get the safe from the street to inside the house. However in this small town the nearest such company is in Seattle metro area, a hundred miles away. Hiring them to move the safe would be charged portal to portal- travel time and mileage for the 200+ mile round trip. The safe I'm considering weighs 1600+ pounds. Any suggestions?

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Buy your own jacking system and get a few friends to help you. A 1600 pound safe is quite challenging though.

 

[Ray B]

Per Rigging.com the pictured model has a capacity of over 3,000 pounds, so sufficient for a less than 2,000 pound safe. the cost is $850 which is less than hiring someone, so that works- the problem is figuring out how to get the safe up the three steps into the house and Down the 13 steps to the basement. My son has a Jeep with a winch- I'm thinking we could figure out a system to pull it up the stairs and then with the winch in reverse, lower the safe down the stairs. I probably should get things sorted out before I order the safe.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Professional safe movers have a dolly that can climb up and down stairs. It’s pretty neat to watch how it works. Something else to check is what are the stairs rate for. The safe and two or three big guys might cause the stairs to fail. Not good.

 

[HankBuck]

Per Rigging.com the pictured model has a capacity of over 3,000 pounds, so sufficient for a less than 2,000 pound safe. the cost is $850 which is less than hiring someone, so that works- the problem is figuring out how to get the safe up the three steps into the house and Down the 13 steps to the basement. My son has a Jeep with a winch- I'm thinking we could figure out a system to pull it up the stairs and then with the winch in reverse, lower the safe down the stairs. I probably should get things sorted out before I order the safe.

@Ray B - I’ve moved several Safes but am no expert and here’s what I’ve learned:
1). Moving a Safe under 500 lbs can be done ON LEVEL ground using a heavy duty dolly/hand truck and 2-3 strong Men. I’ve moved one Safe that weighed 900 lbs from my pick up truck bed, off loaded in a driveway onto an old “mattress” to cushion the impact as we slid it off the truck tailgate to the ground - then onto a hand truck on a flat driveway - then wheeled into a house built on a concrete slab (No Stairs) and directly into a room on the same level. Although it went well, I would NOT do this again, rolling the safe off the tailgate and onto the mattress the “impact” was much greater then we expected and we were lucky not to damage the safe or injure one of us.
2). Any Safe over 500lbs should NEVER be moved up/down stairs except by a Professional Safe mover using proper equipment they are “experienced” in using.
Even using the stair climbing hand truck —safes over 500lbs are awkward, wood stairs often can be heard “cracking” with each step you lower the safe onto, there is no room for error and anyone “below” the safe (as it is on the stairs) is at high risk. The equipment you can “Rent” is Not the same quality Professional Safe Movers use AND you can’t learn to be Proficient with it in One Day. Amateurs are injured or killed moving heavy safes each year - Google it.
I assume everyone on this AH site is more “Adventurous” then most and consider myself the same way ie: stubborn, willing to try something most will not, think I can do “more then most”. Hence, I’ve moved a total of 4 Safes (2 Safes myself w/rented equipment & 2 friends) and the other two safes (the last 2) were moved by paid Professionals. I would Never move another Safe 500lbs or greater without using professionals and would factor the moving “cost” into the price of the Safe —— think of it as a “Safety TAX $$” and it will be the best $600 to $1000 you ever spent

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Go to about 6 minutes in this 2nd video

 

[dogcat1]

Liberty Fatboy for me.... works fine. Recently, I have decided to display my guns and insure them....

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

Physics 101 - a gas expands to fill the chamber that contains it. Buy a bigger house or a bigger safe and you will fill it!

 

[HankBuck]

Go to about 6 minutes in this 2nd video

@375 Ruger Fan - good video and exactly the type & size power hand truck I rented & used to move 2 Safes, it is a “Light Duty” hand truck and although rated to 1200lbs.+/- it struggles with 900lbs. Also, the video shows it used with a very small safe and on a concrete floor & stairs, Not common in most homes. Also, the stairs are very wide with a large landing up a top the first flight of stairs so Plenty of room to maneuver— also NOT common in most homes. This machine when used on a common wood staircase 36” wide and going thru a 32” - 36” doorway that requires any type of “turn” to line it up and get thru at the top or bottom is where this gets very difficult or impossible….don’t find out “half way down or up the stairs” because by then you are already in trouble. My one experience getting a Safe 900lbs 60” tall by 27” wide x 25” deep Up a single flight of stairs started out fine but halfway up the battery of the handtruck lacked power and then “died”…so the safe was STUCK. The Rental Company responded but were Unable to fix their own machine and “then” told me my 900 lb Safe was “too heavy” for the machine, when I reminded them I had informed them I was moving a “1000lb Safe” and they told me “that’s fine as this machine can handle 1200-1500 lbs” — they backed down. Eventually the Rental Company paid “another Safe moving company” $1200 to come to my home and move my safe off the stairs and into a moving van. They also paid me another $430 to have my wood stairs repaired (2 steps cracked” when the handtruck failed). >> Maybe everyone needs to find this out for themselves - I was certainly warned in advance Not to move my own safe - I ignored them because “I Knew Better!!”.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

@Ray B maybe consider two smaller safes. Another option might be to build a reinforced concrete closet in your basement and just buy a safe door.

 

[Tanks]

Buy your own jacking system and get a few friends to help you. A 1600 pound safe is quite challenging though.

With my safes pictured above I had two challenges. First one was the fact that the clearance between the top of the safe and the cabinets above is about half an inch. Second is that the floor of my garage is not level. The safe movers were able to move it and used shims (as can be seen in the pic) to make sure that the safe was level. They made sure that when I opened the safe doors they stayed put at whatever position I opened the doors at.

Well worth the money to move the two safes. The first safe was uninstalled and moved and the second one was shipped directly to their warehouse and they delivered it from there and installed it.