I purchased a Liberty Fatboy (880 lbs) on Thanksgiving morning at Gander Mountain. Picked it up and had it in my truck until yesterday. Rented a 1,200 lb dolly and gathered up some help to move it and didn't have any problems getting it out of the truck or in the house.
Problem is that I have a landing at the top of the stairs with a wall on two sides. You go in the opening and there is a wall in front of you and one to the left with the stairs on the right. The landing is about 4' square. Anyhow, after the five of us messed around for 2 hours, we just couldn't get to the point where we felt safe dropping it over that first step. Getting it tipped back to a 45 degree angle put the wheels near the edge and the top of the dolly up against the wall. We had three guys on the downhill side and two at the top and we all agreed that we didn't feel safe doing it. I even cut a hole at the base of the wall to the left (which my wife really loved) and bolted a hook through the plate and sub-floor and connected a safety chain from it to the dolly.
I even contemplated cutting a very large hole in that wall so that safe could be laid down and then "eased" down the stairs. Heck, I would have even bolted a winch to the floor if possible but with the holidays fast approaching the misses wouldn't have appreciated something like that.
So now I'm looking for a company to move the safe. I've called James Weimer with Valut Mover twice (this is the company Gander Mountain recommends) and can't get a return call (once yesterday and once about a week and a half ago before I purchased the safe). I know he is probably very busy but I need someones help that is experienced in handling safes.
So fellow INGO members, can you help a brother out with a moving company idea?
Craig
Problem is that I have a landing at the top of the stairs with a wall on two sides. You go in the opening and there is a wall in front of you and one to the left with the stairs on the right. The landing is about 4' square. Anyhow, after the five of us messed around for 2 hours, we just couldn't get to the point where we felt safe dropping it over that first step. Getting it tipped back to a 45 degree angle put the wheels near the edge and the top of the dolly up against the wall. We had three guys on the downhill side and two at the top and we all agreed that we didn't feel safe doing it. I even cut a hole at the base of the wall to the left (which my wife really loved) and bolted a hook through the plate and sub-floor and connected a safety chain from it to the dolly.
I even contemplated cutting a very large hole in that wall so that safe could be laid down and then "eased" down the stairs. Heck, I would have even bolted a winch to the floor if possible but with the holidays fast approaching the misses wouldn't have appreciated something like that.
So now I'm looking for a company to move the safe. I've called James Weimer with Valut Mover twice (this is the company Gander Mountain recommends) and can't get a return call (once yesterday and once about a week and a half ago before I purchased the safe). I know he is probably very busy but I need someones help that is experienced in handling safes.
So fellow INGO members, can you help a brother out with a moving company idea?
Craig
them" then so be it.
the trick is blocking up a false landing. As you go down the stairs put in blocking so 1 or 2 stairs before the landing you extend that stair strait out as if that was the landing. This will add a few extra feet to swing the turn a lot easier. Once around the turn it is almost there. I have seen this blocking done with cutting down a pallet to fit the stairs. The question now is how much do you trust your carpentry skills.
