CurlyDave
Elite Member
I may need to move a gun safe (1000 lb) at some point in the future.
In the past I have done this by working the safe up onto wooden blocks with a lever dolly (http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_35452_35452) until I could get a pallet jack under it.
Then I would roll the pallet jack onto a rented lift gate truck and lift the whole works with the lift gate.
The last time I did this the lift gate was very jerky, and it deflected significantly under load, leading to a few moments of anxiety, with the safe rocking back & forth on the gate, and threatening to tip over and fall 4' to the ground. I am certain it would have fallen on its side and been very hard to upright again.
My next move will be a longer one, so I would like to avoid both the truck rental and the lift gate problems by getting the safe (either on the pallet jack or on a pallet) into the bed of my pickup truck. I will have a tractor with real (not clamp-on) forks at the far end, so getting it out will be easy.
Any ideas on how to, absolutely, positively get the safe into the bed of my truck without any danger of it tipping & falling?
It can either be a lift from below solution, or, there is a 1/4" hole in the top of the safe for an electric heater wire feed thorugh, which I could use to attach a lifting eye, for a lift from above solution.
One-man solutions are preferred, although I could get help if absolutely necessary.
In the past I have done this by working the safe up onto wooden blocks with a lever dolly (http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_35452_35452) until I could get a pallet jack under it.
Then I would roll the pallet jack onto a rented lift gate truck and lift the whole works with the lift gate.
The last time I did this the lift gate was very jerky, and it deflected significantly under load, leading to a few moments of anxiety, with the safe rocking back & forth on the gate, and threatening to tip over and fall 4' to the ground. I am certain it would have fallen on its side and been very hard to upright again.
My next move will be a longer one, so I would like to avoid both the truck rental and the lift gate problems by getting the safe (either on the pallet jack or on a pallet) into the bed of my pickup truck. I will have a tractor with real (not clamp-on) forks at the far end, so getting it out will be easy.
Any ideas on how to, absolutely, positively get the safe into the bed of my truck without any danger of it tipping & falling?
It can either be a lift from below solution, or, there is a 1/4" hole in the top of the safe for an electric heater wire feed thorugh, which I could use to attach a lifting eye, for a lift from above solution.
One-man solutions are preferred, although I could get help if absolutely necessary.