Moved my gun safe today
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- El Chivo
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Moved my gun safe today
Been thinking about it but was afraid to try it by myself.
However tonight I was in one of those moods so I decided to go ahead.
My safe is a small Cannon, about 475 pounds. I used PVC pipe as rollers - I used 1.25" (inside diameter, outside is about 1.75"). I just tipped it up and kicked some pipe under it. Pushed it along over the rollers. Then, off the rollers, I slid it the last few inches by lying on my back and pushing with my legs.
I think 1.75" is a little high; I had to tip it quite a bit and was close to the point of tipping over at times. Next time I'll use a smaller size. But otherwise it was a snap; no strain at any time.
However tonight I was in one of those moods so I decided to go ahead.
My safe is a small Cannon, about 475 pounds. I used PVC pipe as rollers - I used 1.25" (inside diameter, outside is about 1.75"). I just tipped it up and kicked some pipe under it. Pushed it along over the rollers. Then, off the rollers, I slid it the last few inches by lying on my back and pushing with my legs.
I think 1.75" is a little high; I had to tip it quite a bit and was close to the point of tipping over at times. Next time I'll use a smaller size. But otherwise it was a snap; no strain at any time.
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
My suggestion for this type of move is to use my beloved golf balls. They will roll in any direction as well as spin in place and can take a lot of weight. If I need to roll something by my self, I can line up two rows of golf balls and easily push a safe. Word of warning is to use a 1/4" plywood over surfaces you don't want golf ball tracks on such as wood or vinyl flooring.
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Hmmmm, rollers and golf balls......
Guys, we need to get together on a project I was thinking of.
I've got this property in Egypt and I'm thinking of some sort of monuments of stacked stones.
I was going to hire outside for alien technology to help build them, but now it looks like I won't have to outsource and can do this in-house.
(grin)
Guys, we need to get together on a project I was thinking of.
I've got this property in Egypt and I'm thinking of some sort of monuments of stacked stones.
I was going to hire outside for alien technology to help build them, but now it looks like I won't have to outsource and can do this in-house.
(grin)
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People credit the Scots with inventing golf but the truth is that the Knights Templar discovered the game in digging under the temple mount and brought it back to the Rose Chapel from whence it spread. Golf was hugely popular in Egypt but they didn't mummify their balls so we have little to no proof of their invention of the game.wecsoger wrote:Hmmmm, rollers and golf balls......
Guys, we need to get together on a project I was thinking of.
I've got this property in Egypt and I'm thinking of some sort of monuments of stacked stones.
I was going to hire outside for alien technology to help build them, but now it looks like I won't have to outsource and can do this in-house.
(grin)
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
I used nominal 3/4" PVC and it worked well, even on carpet (though you can really just slide them on carpet if you can use your feet when lying down).
There are youtube videos of a guy moving 'Stonehenge' sized rocks with similar 'primitive' pivoting and rolling technology BY HIMSELF, which is thought-provoking.
There are youtube videos of a guy moving 'Stonehenge' sized rocks with similar 'primitive' pivoting and rolling technology BY HIMSELF, which is thought-provoking.
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
My Wife and I moved a 10 X 50 Deck abot 20 feet using 4in heavy wall tubing as rollers. Worked like a charm.
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
Kid's disc type snow sled will work, too.
Re: Moved my gun safe today
PVC rollers I'd heard of.
Didn't know the golf ball trick.
And when you're done, you have a lifetime supply
of stickball outfits! (Yeah - that dates me!)
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
Old Chinese saying, "One man can move a mountain if given enough time"
I had a 1,200 lb safe flat on the cement floor and backed in a cubby hole..........then I remembered I wanted it 6" off the ground........Took me about 2 hours to lift it straight up and slide in the 6 X 6.
A buddy of mine used to work at a graveyard and he told me how they used to get coffins back in the hole in mausoleums.....b b's--------Sixgun
I had a 1,200 lb safe flat on the cement floor and backed in a cubby hole..........then I remembered I wanted it 6" off the ground........Took me about 2 hours to lift it straight up and slide in the 6 X 6.
A buddy of mine used to work at a graveyard and he told me how they used to get coffins back in the hole in mausoleums.....b b's--------Sixgun
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Several years ago I needed to move a 10X12 utility shed. I took a lot of the stuff out of it but left a bandsaw and about 400# of fertilizer that was in the back. I levered it up then had Jr. put some round fence posts under it. After I set it down I started to push on it and almost broke my nose. Just a little bit of pressure and it took off like it had it's own engine. I didn't even break a sweat. In fact it was so easy it really made me think about how the pyramids were built.Maybe less to it than meets the eye.
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It's not something I do in my house, but I once helped move an ATM located in a grocery store. We poured cooking oil on the floor and used about four guys to slowly push it into place.
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When I brought my safe into the house I just borrowed a vertical dolly. Took 3 of us to move it on the carpet, and for extra eyes to move it into the fourth bedroom . (to avoid any hole in walls or torn up woodwork). I sure don't want to move it again, one of my sons can when I pass. God Bless.
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Used ¾" sched 40 PVC when I moved mine last. Worked like a charm. It's how the safe builder moved into my house from his trailer when he delivered it in 1982, so in '91 when I moved it... figured I couldn't do ANY worse than the professionals that move it from CA to TX the year before did... (THEY put the ONLY scratch it has on it)! Hint... don't use a refrigerator dolly unless you pad it well.
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
Depending on the floor, I've used cardboard or an old rug and slid safes before. Even "duck-walked" them. Okay as long as you aren't going too far, and staying on a single level, AND the safe isn't too heavy, it works.
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
Rollers work great until things get heavy.
Had to move 14 pieces of electrical equipment that weighed 6,800 pounds each once. Smooth floor, thick steel rollers, four men pushing and four pulling and they wouldn't budge.
Watched a heavy electric motor get lowered onto two inch thick steel (schedule 40) rollers on asphalt. When the motor touched the rollers it just kept right on going until the rollers were about a half inch high. Motor weighed 30 tons.
Some of the structures in Egypt have blocks that go over 200 ton. Ani't no way they were rolled on logs over dirt.
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Had to move 14 pieces of electrical equipment that weighed 6,800 pounds each once. Smooth floor, thick steel rollers, four men pushing and four pulling and they wouldn't budge.
Watched a heavy electric motor get lowered onto two inch thick steel (schedule 40) rollers on asphalt. When the motor touched the rollers it just kept right on going until the rollers were about a half inch high. Motor weighed 30 tons.
Some of the structures in Egypt have blocks that go over 200 ton. Ani't no way they were rolled on logs over dirt.
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
We bow to your superior knowledgeHobie wrote:they didn't mummify their balls
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Re: Moved my gun safe today
I like the numbers the experts give on the Great Pyramid that is was built in 20 years. But what I like even more is I remeber hearing that with the number of those many ton blocks that were used, they would have had to lay one every 9 seconds for that 20 years.Catshooter wrote:Rollers work great until things get heavy.
Some of the structures in Egypt have blocks that go over 200 ton. Ani't no way they were rolled on logs over dirt.
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