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Moving a safe...
rudy:
--- Quote from: SemperFiGuy on August 25, 2014, 11:20:51 AM ---FWIW............
A safe located in your garage is often quite easy to steal.
All that's needed is to open the garage doors, back up a pickup truck to the safe, tilt the safe into the truck bed, push the safe further into the truck bed, and take off. Once the safe's center of gravity is on the truck bed, it's EZ.
As it happens, I've moved safes from garage to garage by myself in the same manner. Buying and selling. Used an SUV (bed is lower than a pickup) and totally surprised myself by being able to do it.
Much harder to get one out of the basement. That activity usually takes two strong lads pushing at the bottom and one even stronger one pulling on the dolly to get it up all 13 steps.
Like I said, FWIW.
sfg
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It is wise to bolt your gun safes (or residential security containers) to the floor. Many of them come with predrilled holes in the bottom for this purpose. Bolting down would preclude easy stealing by the method you've mentioned (tipping it into a truck bed and driving off). Additionally, it makes it harder for thieves to force the safe open using pry bars since it can't be tipped over easily (there are youtube videos demonstrating this if you're curious).
RobertH:
bkoenig and gsd helped move it. Great guys and did all the work.
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