Big Duke Six
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Eastern Safe delivered mine and their recommendation was to keep it on the shipping pallet, which was made from 4x4s. And a Goldenrod inside.
Same here... and I use a dehumidifier year round....
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Eastern Safe delivered mine and their recommendation was to keep it on the shipping pallet, which was made from 4x4s. And a Goldenrod inside.
ES delivered mine, also. Instead of the pallet, I used pressure-treated 4x4s.
As for those mats, they also make for comfortable reloading while you're standing at the press.
Pick up 8 or 10 old hockey pucks. They are plenty strong enough and can be positioned under the safe to keep it off the floor. The price is right too.
Chris
We've got a stair-climbing appliance dolly. Works great, though it cost $2K.wow those things go upstairs i will have to pick one up.
Two guys with dolly installed my 800+ lb safe. Two guys with a dolly could cart it back out again. My safes are bolted to the concrete floor.no easier that tipping it forward and sticking a foot truck under it. Its the 650 ponds that it has going for it that protects it the most.
Just so long as the thieves had the foresight to wear ATF jackets, the neighbors would likely just stand aside and nod knowingly as they did the work...Mine is on the original pallet as well. I'm not worried about it one bit. My safe weighs almost 1000 lbs. empty, so your typical junky isn't going to move it anywhere.
I don't live in a house that would inspire an, "Italian Job" type operation. They'd need to show up with a moving truck, a pallet jack, several sheets of plywood to pull it up the grass hill beside my house, and some common sense. I wonder how long they'd struggle with taking my doors off and removing the woodwork as well. I'm sure my neighbors wouldn't take very kindly to a production like that.......
Pick up 8 or 10 old hockey pucks. They are plenty strong enough and can be positioned under the safe to keep it off the floor. The price is right too.
Chris
Does anyone have any experience with using the "big bag of silica"? The guy who sold me the safe said he puts his gun right on the bad.....but I would need a lot of bags. LOL
You can reactivate silica by baking it in an oven at a low temperature (like 200F) but does anyone really want to do that on a regular basis?