Posted: 12/4/2015 5:10:29 PM EDT
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SO I ordered a new safe (yay employee discounts!), but it'll be 8-10 weeks, curbside delivery. No ship to store option. :(
I put a call in to Nick of Time moving, and waiting for a call back. What worries me is that I'll only get 1 day notice of delivery, and frankly, I have no means of moving the safe to a safer location because my house is above street level. I'm worried about it getting stolen or vandalized if left overnight-yes, even a 1000 pound safe, to say nothing of all the snow and shit we'll probably have by then. Anyone now if they can work such short notice? Or deliver it to the safe movers maybe? |
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No friend or relative nearby with a few square feet of storage space in an easier to access garage?
How about a nearby self storage unit? You can typically swing a deal with a privately owned self storage facility, that has an empty unit, to get a discount on a one month rental. I've been a locksmith/safe tech for 29 years. I used to sell safes, and getting delivery was always the hardest part, and was why I quit selling them.  I had no employees, but would hire a friend or two for a day to assist. The trucking company could not give a "time" for delivery, and I spent far too many hours waiting, paying others while we waited, for a delivery truck to show up. Sometimes they didn't make it on the scheduled day ... "driver had troubles, running late, we might be there tomorrow" was the response I'd get if I called the trucking company.  Screw it, I quit that shit. The last 2 safes I sold wound up costing me money instead of a profit, so I feel your frustration.
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I've given up on the safe for now.
No, nobody nearby with a garage or anything. The only thing I could think of was renting a bobcat with forklift, and taking it up the driveway myself-heck, put it near the basement door if I thought the ground would frozen enough by then to support the weight, but then there is the cost of the rental also. :/ So anyway, I decided to get a ruger precision rifle instead. Had to order it, have NO idea when it will be in-could be a week, could be months. Lots of demand for it in 6.5 creedmoor. But I will have to do something about another safe eventually-either getting a big one, or finding room for a 3rd smaller safe, which I don't really want to do. I've actually got 13 guns in one 14 gun safe, so you know it's pretty much crammed full. The self storage idea is a good one. Maybe next year if I'm still working at Cabelas. |
Personally, I'd rather have 2 or 3 smaller safes than one big one. I don't like having "all my eggs in one basket".  Double the trouble for any potential thief. And easier to move, set-up, etc. I now have one for rifles & handguns, one for shotguns. Shotguns have longer barrels and greater OAL, so there's no shelves in that one. Rifles are shorter OAL, so there's multiple shelves above the rifles for handguns, binoculars, rangefinders, etc.
A "slightly modified" Homak steel gun cabinet is lag-bolted to a pole in my pole barn. I keep a Moss 500 - 20ga pump and a Marlin .22 in that one, much more convenient if I'm outside and need to dispatch a varmint, than going down into the basement safes for a gun. And I use it during hunting seasons, storing hunting guns overnight that I'm using for whatever season is current. Once I bring a deer rifle outside, it doesn't go back into the warm house (and condense moisture) until season is over. Main rifle stays in truck, back-up in Homak. After deer season, back to the rifle safe. |
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Now I'm thinking of making a safe room w/o going as far as a safe door. Any idea how I should build a wall w/o going brick/concrete block? There a quite a few threads on making safe rooms. One thought I had was use 3/4" plywood on at least one side and double the amount of studs so someone can't pry back the dry wall and slip between the studs. They can still get in with a sawzall but then again they can get into most safes with an angle grinder in about the same amount of time. |
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When I originally thought about putting up this wall, it was more to separate my "gun room" from the woodworking area. I'd hoped to keep the wood shop side of the wall open so I could store boards in there.
Maybe I could put metal lath under the plywood? It's be exposed on the "outside" (wood shop side), but might give an additional layer of protection, thin as it is. Any ideas for a door? |