Moving a Rifle Safe upstairs

**Controller** · 20-01-2022, 20:46

I am all for the dolly approach, has worked great for me in the past

**Cockroach** · 20-01-2022, 21:38

Originally Posted by griffin

Ds has given good advice. I just got though moving a 16 rifle safe down stairs. Blankets around the safe, racket straps for gripping spots and a board of sorts.

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I am so glad I let you do that part of the move

**treeman** · 20-01-2022, 22:40

Originally Posted by PeaShooter_86

Tried the blanket thing but the safe just wobbles around too much and so afraid to drop it and damage the house or worse someone gets injured. Its a 6 gun safe so quite a lump. Probably around 80kg or more if I could guess

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You must be post 2000 born.
No pre 2000 born would admit to not doing this himself

**BBCT** · 20-01-2022, 23:34

2 of us moved a pair of 10 rifle safes, one at a time, up a (fairly narrow) flight of stairs including a 90 degree bend using a trolley similar to the one in the link below:

https://www.makro.co.za/hardware-aut...00001685359_EA

Makro was just the first link that came up...........

I borrowed it from a friend but I reckon you could hire one from a tool hire shop.

Used a ratchet strap to tie the safe to the trolley and made sure to keep it leaning backwards. We just took it slowly, 1 step at a time with one of us lifting/pulling from above and one lifting from below. It was sufficiently easy that afterwards I wondered if I could have done it single-handedly but that was about 15 years ago when I was younger & stronger...............