The Official Status Update Thread: Part 154 - Check It Out

[jagee]

Rural King lifted mine with a forklift and we tilted it back into the bed. Getting it in without the forklift would have been near impossible.

Unloading it involved gravity and terror. That's a LOT of weight teetering on the tailgate.

I helped a guy from work load/move/place a gun safe about the same size as gpa's. (Maybe 600lbs was an exaggeration ). Gander rolled it to the tailgate on a dolly, and tilted it in. We got to his house, unloaded it, took it around the house through the grass and down the hill to a walk out basement using a regular air tired dolly. I think the tailgate can handle it. That's roughly the weight of 3 guys sitting on it.

 

[chezuki]

I helped a guy from work load/move/place a gun safe about the same size as gpa's. (Maybe 600lbs was an exaggeration ). Gander rolled it to the tailgate on a dolly, and tilted it in. We got to his house, unloaded it, took it around the house through the grass and down the hill to a walk out basement using a regular air tired dolly. I think the tailgate can handle it. That's roughly the weight of 3 guys sitting on it.

Maybe. You've seen my safe... How does this one compare?

 

[maansmit]

I helped a guy from work load/move/place a gun safe about the same size as gpa's. (Maybe 600lbs was an exaggeration ). Gander rolled it to the tailgate on a dolly, and tilted it in. We got to his house, unloaded it, took it around the house through the grass and down the hill to a walk out basement using a regular air tired dolly. I think the tailgate can handle it. That's roughly the weight of 3 guys sitting on it.

Liberty Timber Ridge TR30 safe is 685 lbs. per Gander Mountain. TR25 is 565 lbs.

 

[churchmouse]

Dolly it to the tailgate, lean it in on a furniture pad, tilt it up and push it in. That was my plan anyway

You are going to rotate 600lbs over a poorly supported tailgate.........Will the support cables handle this much weight.
The tail gate was not designed for this. It might survive. It might drop the safe coming out. Your call but I would get a low trailer for this.

 

[jagee]

Maybe. You've seen my safe... How does this one compare?

Smaller...I think it's like this one, but I could be wrong.

Liberty Safe Premium 20

 

[churchmouse]

I helped a guy from work load/move/place a gun safe about the same size as gpa's. (Maybe 600lbs was an exaggeration ). Gander rolled it to the tailgate on a dolly, and tilted it in. We got to his house, unloaded it, took it around the house through the grass and down the hill to a walk out basement using a regular air tired dolly. I think the tailgate can handle it. That's roughly the weight of 3 guys sitting on it.

OK....your call.

 

[churchmouse]

Rural King lifted mine with a forklift and we tilted it back into the bed. Getting it in without the forklift would have been near impossible.

Unloading it involved gravity and terror. That's a LOT of weight teetering on the tailgate.

Yes it is. If either of the support cables decides they are no longer happy and let go **** is getting tore up. People might get hurt.

I have moved (successfully) a lot of heavy equipment etc in my time. Always lean to the safe side.

Then again, you may pull this off successfully.

 

[jagee]

All this damn logic. I thought this was INGO! Shoot from the hip and see what happens!

 

[churchmouse]

All this damn logic. I thought this was INGO! Shoot from the hip and see what happens!

Saw a cable come un-done on a crane lowering a 500 Lb compressor into the bed of the shop pick up.
That was an eye opener.

 

[chezuki]

Yes it is. If either of the support cables decides they are no longer happy and let go **** is getting tore up. People might get hurt.

I have moved (successfully) a lot of heavy equipment etc in my time. Always lean to the safe side.

Then again, you may pull this off successfully.

If I hadn't just dropped serious (for me) coin on the safe, I'd have made better arrangements. I was tapped dry, plus it was a flash sale. I got the last one in central Indiana, so there wasn't much time to plan.

 

[maansmit]

Just wedge a 2x4 under the tailgate. Seems perfectly safe...

 

[chezuki]

Plus I tend to Leroy Jenkins things whenever possible.

 

[maansmit]

Saw a cable come un-done on a crane lowering a 500 Lb compressor into the bed of the shop pick up.
That was an eye opener.

Yikes!

 

[jagee]

Just wedge a 2x4 under the tailgate. Seems perfectly safe...

I could just take the tailgate off...

 

[churchmouse]

Just wedge a 2x4 under the tailgate. Seems perfectly safe...

OH boy.

 

[maansmit]

OH boy.

Ok, a 4x4. That better?

 

[chezuki]

I could just take the tailgate off...

Or you could rent a truck you cheap bastage... Grandpa's giving you a safe full of guns.

 

[jagee]

Ok, a 4x4. That better?

I have some spare 1 by's laying around...can I duct tape them together?

 

[jagee]

Or you could rent a truck you cheap bastage... Grandpa's giving you a safe full of guns.

NO!

I refuse to pay money for things that are given to me fo free. It's the way of my people!

 

[chezuki]

NO!

I refuse to pay money for things that are given to me fo free. It's the way of my people!

That's the spirit! You're getting better at this.