Need help moving safe in Jamestown

Amps 13

Amps 13

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I bought a safe and one of the guys I had lined up can’t make it. I have one guy coming at 330 but it’s a 700 pound safe and I would rather have 3 of us plus my wife is here. I have a furniture dolly.
Anyone board around Jamestown?
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I saw him post an update in another thread...here it is:

Amps 13 said:
I just did this tonight with a 700 pound safe. Biggest issue I ran into was the safe was so heavy the Dolly’s wheels actually were putting marks into my laminate wood floor. We then used sliders which worked much better with no floor damage. I ended up have two guys, my wife and I move it. ibuprofen time...
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My moms hardwood has marks from a dolly and my dads safe years ago when they were first moving into their new house. Dads safe is 900lbs. If it’s ever moved again I’ll use sliders. My safe weighs 600 and I took it off my truck by myself, got it through the front Door and onto furniture sliders and placed it where it is now. They make things slide like they’re on ice
 
My Wizard Killer Charlie Cupps works for Coca Cola. He once brought over a contraption that climbs stairs after it's loaded. Of course you would expect them to have such a thing but it was my first experience seeing it operate....amazing. 1,000 pounds Easy Peasy. The main problem then is keeping the thing balanced.
 
What an interesting day it was.. measured my forester to make sure it would fit before I went to purchase at tractor supply. Got there at 610am yesterday and purchased safe. Two employees tried to get it in car and it just wouldn’t go over the back seat lip. No trouble since my buddy has a bigger suv and we will come back.
Text buddy but no response. Wait till about 1030 and finally call him to tell him the deal. He is scared to put into his suv. So off to Home Depot to rent a trailer. $50 to rent all day so say I will come back at 215 so I only have to pay for 4 hours which saves 20. Pick up trailer and then safe and carefully drive home with it tied down but upright. learned that my CRV is not made for towing. Buddy of mine showed up with a furniture dolly but with the severe angle of the trailer ramp we were not sure we would be able the handle that monster on the way down. My neighbor finally got home from work and the four of us laid the safe down onto the furniture dolly and eased it down the ramp. Neighbor had a couple of Dolly’s with wheels on them which then made it easy till we got to front door. A little struggle and we were through the door. About 10 foot down the hallway we noticed that it was leaving an imprint into the wood floors. We transferred to sliders which made no marks and made it easy as pie to navigate into the closet where it fit like a glove. Only damage was one chip out of some molding and the marks on the floor. No one got hurt and safe looks good and works as advertised. Already Transferred all contents from old safe to new one. This means I have an extra safe. Hmmm, stay tuned since you might be seeing that on here soon.
 
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Excuse my ignorance but I have never heard of furniture sliders. What do they look like?? When we put my safe in,we used a refrigerator hand truck and covered the floor with several layers of cardboard so the hand truck wheels would not mar the floor. We got the cardboard by cutting up the box the safe came in.
 
Have you checked to make sure your floor can handle it?

I helped a friend move a safe... had to pick another spot after finding that the floor joists would not hold it, had to put it against an outside wall!
 
If you get in a pinch and do not have floor sliders and pretty slick floor set it down on couple old thick towels with bottom one sticking out front to pull and steer with while someone pushing on back. Put buddys in that way and slide pretty easy across his hard wood floor with no damage.
 
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