Man what a beast. I have thought of used, but there is currently no listings on Craigslist.

You're right, when you're most interested in a safe there won't be ones readily for sale. LOL but when you're not..... they can be picked up at bargain prices. I'd try Facebook marketplace too though. Oh and check moving and storage companies. The one I used said they always have a few that they move and store, and the owners keep putting them off where they want it moved and eventually they just leave it rather than pay for the storage and delivery charges.

The safe the towing guy had the most difficulty with was the little one in the front of the truck. (The longer Fort Knox laying down took no effort at all.) The little one came from a bank branch that was shutting down. It is 1" thick steel with a 1 1/4" thick door and *very* heavy. Being so squatty they couldn't begin to even tip it to get dowels under to roll it. They finally got it tipped enough to get end of the the times of a heavy duty pallet fork under to start raising it to eventually get it on a pallet.

As far as delivery is concerned I never thought about tow truck companies. But, I have observed them in my town moving construction equipment around so why not safes.

Anyone willing to put their best kept secrets out on the world wide web is out of their fn mind IMO.

Maybe we should not mention safes or handguns on the internet but these old safes are certainly not one of my best kept secrets. And other than some average handguns and a few .22 rifles, there's nothing of real value unless one likes deeds, titles, and loads of tax paperwork.

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Originally posted by kaschi:
Anyone willing to put their best kept secrets out on the world wide web is out of their fn mind IMO.

Because a guy coming to rob your house is going to scour the interwebs in case he may find a picture of where you "hid" your gun safe.
I was talking to a buddy the other day about how much of a pain these big safes are to install or if you move. I opined that if one has an unfinished basement a few pallets of cinder blocks, rebar, bag cement, a security or vault door, and a little creativity and you could have a pretty effective safe room/gun vault for about what a Fort Knox would cost.

The last safes I saw delivered, the company had an awesome trailer like this:



I helped a friend move a Ft Knox gun safe that was 60" tall and weighed about 1,000 pounds. I used my utility trailer, a couple 10’ 4x4s, and some lengths of pipe. I strapped the 4x4s to the back of the safe using tie down straps and the pipes to roll it around. I took the tailgate off the utility trailer, rolled safe backwards to the back of the trailer, grabbed the 4x4s and levered the onto the trailer. I did the reverse at my buddy’s house. Fortunately, it was going in the garage.

Unless you are building a home or have a really large home to begin with, the safe is going in the garage, basement, or closet (probably master bedroom). I don’t think hiding it will buy you any meaningful time or security vs not hiding it. If you have insurance, a monitored alarm system, and your firearms aren’t rare, valuable, or hold sentimental value, then a $2,000 gun safe will be fine.

My views are biased based on have a total of $60,000 worth of stuff stolen on three different occasions. Once from our home and twice from our garage at a different location. Long stories, but the second time the garage was broken into was the morning of the day we had an alarm company coming to install an alarm system. No guns or safes were stolen and no safes were broken into.

The first time the garage was broken into was someone we knew. The second time, two weeks later, was someone who knew the first person. This is why I’m adamant about not telling anyone what you have.

The house was an organized group of thieves breaking into the homes of snowbirds and stealing appliances as well as whatever else they could find. We didn’t know them and they didn’t know us. They carted off our appliances including both refrigerators. I’m sure they could have managed a 1,000 pound safe that wasn’t bolted down.

My Dad always kept firearms out of sight, and I'm the same way. That is one cool trailor. I'm surprised it can carry some weight without an axle.

I don’t understand how it works without axles between the wheels. I saw it while walking my dog a few streets over. They were unloading a big Amsec gun safe and there were two more still on the trailer. I’m guessing between 5,000 and 6,000 pounds plus a pallet jack.

I saw a safe that looked like a Pepsi machine.

In my searches of the interwebs I saw one picture of a safe wedged inside a refrigerator. I can't see how they could have bolted it down.