I acquired a safe from my parents. I needed to move it about 25 miles from their house to mine.
I already had a Liberty Fatboy Jr and moved it when I moved houses a few years ago. That safe as about 700 pounds and 4 friends and I moved it out of one garage into another. It wasn't terrible but all of us struggled with it since it was pretty wide and getting a hand hold wasn't easy.
This new safe was on a whole different level. It is a National Security magnum 50. There is NO WAY the four of us could move this thing. It is literally big enough for my wife and I to get in and have elbow room to spare. I knew it was heavier than the Fatboy But needed to know since I was going to hire a company to move it. Liberty has bought the National Security name since My dad bought the safe about 25 years ago. I looked on Liberty's site for the specs and they list it weighing over 1500 pounds.
I Googled and called several places in the Houston area that claim they move safes and most of them said they had a maximum of 1200 pounds. One place, Safemoves.net, said they could do it. I talked to Jeff and he asked what kind of safe and I told him. He asked if it was a Liberty or original Nat Sec. I said original and he said that those were built better and weighed about 2000 pounds. Holy shit that's heavy. He gave me a quote of $850 bolted in the new location. I thought it was OK but wanted more quotes. I called two more movers after that and both of them said nope but call Jeff at safemoves and he can do it. Huh, OK looks like Jeff is the only game in town for me. I called him back and agreed to him moving the safe and set a date. Saturday comes around and we all show up at my parents house. A 3/4 ton Dodge with a trailer pulls in and two guys jump out. I said where's the rest of your guys, this thing is huge. Nope just them two. He did tell me he was sweating this move since we agreed on it.
This is right after sizing up the job and getting the game plan. For whatever reason my dad put the safe on these concrete blocks with no anchors. A large prybar and a pallet jack at first to take it off the blocks.
They put it on a fancy dolly that could raise and lower the load. They used this to climb the brick stairs. One more hick up was the safe was too tall for the doorway when on the dolly at an angle. These two pulled it off after lots of pondering.
After getting out of the house it was as simple as roll it to the trailer.
The trailer was also specialized. It could hydraulically lower and raise the deck so you could just roll the dolly on and not have to use any ramps. This is at the new location removing it from the trailer. As you can see, Jeff doesn't have enough ass to budge the thing over. The other guy and I had to push and shove it over onto the other wheels.
I know this thing is a beast but surprisingly it was not too bad to slide once on the carpet. They dropped it close to where I wanted it and then pushed/slid it into its final resting place.
Bolting down in final spot.
All done
Safemoves did a heck of a good job. Nothing was damaged and I can now enjoy my new old safe.
I already had a Liberty Fatboy Jr and moved it when I moved houses a few years ago. That safe as about 700 pounds and 4 friends and I moved it out of one garage into another. It wasn't terrible but all of us struggled with it since it was pretty wide and getting a hand hold wasn't easy.
This new safe was on a whole different level. It is a National Security magnum 50. There is NO WAY the four of us could move this thing. It is literally big enough for my wife and I to get in and have elbow room to spare. I knew it was heavier than the Fatboy But needed to know since I was going to hire a company to move it. Liberty has bought the National Security name since My dad bought the safe about 25 years ago. I looked on Liberty's site for the specs and they list it weighing over 1500 pounds.
I Googled and called several places in the Houston area that claim they move safes and most of them said they had a maximum of 1200 pounds. One place, Safemoves.net, said they could do it. I talked to Jeff and he asked what kind of safe and I told him. He asked if it was a Liberty or original Nat Sec. I said original and he said that those were built better and weighed about 2000 pounds. Holy shit that's heavy. He gave me a quote of $850 bolted in the new location. I thought it was OK but wanted more quotes. I called two more movers after that and both of them said nope but call Jeff at safemoves and he can do it. Huh, OK looks like Jeff is the only game in town for me. I called him back and agreed to him moving the safe and set a date. Saturday comes around and we all show up at my parents house. A 3/4 ton Dodge with a trailer pulls in and two guys jump out. I said where's the rest of your guys, this thing is huge. Nope just them two. He did tell me he was sweating this move since we agreed on it.
This is right after sizing up the job and getting the game plan. For whatever reason my dad put the safe on these concrete blocks with no anchors. A large prybar and a pallet jack at first to take it off the blocks.
They put it on a fancy dolly that could raise and lower the load. They used this to climb the brick stairs. One more hick up was the safe was too tall for the doorway when on the dolly at an angle. These two pulled it off after lots of pondering.
After getting out of the house it was as simple as roll it to the trailer.
The trailer was also specialized. It could hydraulically lower and raise the deck so you could just roll the dolly on and not have to use any ramps. This is at the new location removing it from the trailer. As you can see, Jeff doesn't have enough ass to budge the thing over. The other guy and I had to push and shove it over onto the other wheels.
I know this thing is a beast but surprisingly it was not too bad to slide once on the carpet. They dropped it close to where I wanted it and then pushed/slid it into its final resting place.
Bolting down in final spot.
All done
Safemoves did a heck of a good job. Nothing was damaged and I can now enjoy my new old safe.