It came today. Sturdy Safe. 12-1300 pounds. Leave this thing in an insulated garage with no climate control, or bring it in the house? I'm going to have to get some help for a few stairs if I bring it in. This is a friggin' beast.

bring it to my house, I have ground level heated storage for it. :D

Freight from Fresno was bad enough.

The garage doesn't have wild temperature swings, and I really don't feel like moving this thing. Just getting it off the pallet and on to the floor is staring me down pretty badly.

I'm going to clear out some running room and rock it around for a few minutes. Those of you who pray, please do so now.


















































And you better be praying for my safe return, too. :flipoff2:

Pallet looks like wood. Just dose it in lighter fluid and burn it away

If you bring it in the house, you better be sure the floor will support the weight.

meh, can't be worse than a 14 bolt. :D





If you do decide to move it inside, build a ramp and use a large appliance dolly... At least that's how we got mine into my house. The guys moving it in were pros. They had some thick aluminum they made the ramp out of and had different size blocks of wood they shimed it with to keep it from flexing.

I'd weld a couple of lifting points onto the sides of the safe and get the highlift out. :D

I couldn't find a dolly that would support my safe - so I had it installed. Those guys just used lots of pvc type pipe and rolled it wherever the hell I wanted it.

I could have saved you a ton on freight and just brought it home.
I would have even gone and picked it up, is it from Kodiak?

I could have saved you a ton on freight and just brought it home.
I would have even gone and picked it up, is it from Kodiak?

Maybe the next one, then.

It's from Sturdy Safe. http://www.sturdysafe.com/

I used the engine hoiste and a couple tow straps used as chokers to get mine off the pallet.

I used the engine hoiste and a couple tow straps used as chokers to get mine off the pallet.

mine was moved off the pallet the same way I posted above. they used the ramp.

This is why I got a smaller safe... me, my brother and friend of his were able to get it out of his truck and slide it across the carpet to where it sits now... When it's full(which it almost is) we'll just buy another one...

Maybe the next one, then.

It's from Sturdy Safe. http://www.sturdysafe.com/

Those models are :smokin:

I wonder if this is the same safe co that used to be out of Visalia?

Those models are :smokin:

I wonder if this is the same safe co that used to be out of Visalia?

I don't know.

I'll say this.........it looks like it's worth the money, but they're not lying when they say that they save production costs by being no frills. All the welds are advertised as done hot and done right. They look that way to me. Fit is really good, but finish is another story. It's not junky. No sloppy fab work. This, however, is no Liberty Presidential or high-end Graffunder in terms of paint and appearance. This thing's a tank that should take plenty of fire or other abuse, but it's not a Cadillac.

Why not rip up some 3/4 plywood, maybe glue some metal on one side, and get some ball bearings. Get the safe up onto the plywood and start stuffing some ball bearings under there.....once suspended by ball bearings, just use a couple more sheets of metal clad ply to make a path till you drop it off?

Why not rip up some 3/4 plywood, maybe glue some metal on one side, and get some ball bearings. Get the safe up onto the plywood and start stuffing some ball bearings under there.....once suspended by ball bearings, just use a couple more sheets of metal clad ply to make a path till you drop it off?

I wussed out. Got it off the pallet with blocks and a farm jack and tried to get it all the way to the floor. Wound up trying some levers and fulcrums, au ghetto, and Scared the beejeezus out of myself with a near-tip. Called a guy I know who moves safes, and he's going to set it against the wall for 25 bucks on Saturday. I can't buy the bars and blocks I'd need for that little amount of money.

Use dowel rods and feed them in one side as the other comes out the back. Just roll it on the rods.

I don't know.

I'll say this.........it looks like it's worth the money, but they're not lying when they say that they save production costs by being no frills. All the welds are advertised as done hot and done right. They look that way to me. Fit is really good, but finish is another story. It's not junky. No sloppy fab work. This, however, is no Liberty Presidential or high-end Graffunder in terms of paint and appearance. This thing's a tank that should take plenty of fire or other abuse, but it's not a Cadillac.


It doesn't look like it. My last safe came from visalia safe co.
There are a few safe companys here in fresno though.

that's a nice looking safe... beefy..




glad this story has a safe outcome... :flipoff2:

Based in the pic (and the grumpin' about its weight) I'd be inclined to plant it where it stands iffen it were mine... ;)

Gettin it off the pallet is a matter of leverage and tilt by the looks of it. Something 2 guys a long pry bar and a number of 2x4s could probably do in an hr with beer breaks.

D.

Based in the pic (and the grumpin' about its weight) I'd be inclined to plant it where it stands iffen it were mine... ;)

Gettin it off the pallet is a matter of leverage and tilt by the looks of it. Something 2 guys a long pry bar and a number of 2x4s could probably do in an hr with beer breaks.

D.

It ain't going far, that's for sure. It's off the pallet and on some 2x4 blocks I screwed together. Where I ran into trouble was at about four inches from the floor as the farm jack won't go any lower than that. I couldn't figure out a good fulcrum that wouldn't squirm across that polished concrete, and I'm also working by myself.

Do you all think I should try to raise it off the floor a little for a final seat, or somehow insulate it from the concrete floor? I'm concerned about the bottom perhaps rusting.

Do you all think I should try to raise it off the floor a little for a final seat, or somehow insulate it from the concrete floor? I'm concerned about the bottom perhaps rusting.

Just flip it over and apply some epoxy primer.


:laughing:

Take a couple of pics of the welds and fit/finish 'issues'...

I'd rather spend my money on thicker steel and well-burned welds covered by rattlecan, than on thinner steel tacked together, assembled with chrome hardware, and coated with super-bling paint and 5 coats of clear. And I'm gonna be buying a safe sometime this year. ;)

It ain't going far, that's for sure. It's off the pallet and on some 2x4 blocks I screwed together. Where I ran into trouble was at about four inches from the floor as the farm jack won't go any lower than that. I couldn't figure out a good fulcrum that wouldn't squirm across that polished concrete, and I'm also working by myself.

Do you all think I should try to raise it off the floor a little for a final seat, or somehow insulate it from the concrete floor? I'm concerned about the bottom perhaps rusting.

No doubt the mfg. painted the bottom but personally Im not adverse to a little breathing room between a floor in a realtively humid area and a metal apparatus. Even about 1/8" will help and it doesn't have to be more than at the corners. A gap also helps iffen one happens to get a wild hair and wants to relocate it to another location.

On the negative side of a gap, widows and other 8 legged critters do happen to like dark damp areas... ;)

D.

I thought of that. It's up to where I can get to it right now. At least most of it. It's got a coating of some sort now, but I'm sure it is/will be damaged before it's done.

PM me if you need a hand, I am in Seymour, TN.

PM me if you need a hand, I am in Seymour, TN.

Thanks, man. Those guys should have it in place in twenty minutes tomorrow.

how much was the safe?

$3056.00, delivered.