Posted on 09/23/2009 9:37:19 PM PDT by KoRn
“Actually, it is. The documentation stated that it would withstand a few feet of water for a few hours. The manual read that if enough water was around it, it could float and tip over, and because of this they recommended bolting it to the floor.”
Well then you definitely want to use the bolts just to plug up the holes, if anything. No sense spending a couple hundred dollars more for the flood gasket if you leave 4 open holes on the bottom of the safe.
lol
My gut reaction too but I knew someone here would beat me to the post.
6 hulking men are definitely not needed, just the right equipment. If I knew where yours was, I could get it out and into your garage in under 30 minutes. Two men can get it into one of those mini-pickups in less than a minute. If you go out for a few hours, it can be gone before you get back.
Bolting it to the floor is a very good first step.
I drill a 1 - 1/2" hole in the floor to a depth of about 6" (you can rent the drill for this) and set a standard bolt in the hole with expansion cement (big box home improvement store). One 5/8" or 3/4" bolt right smack in the middle is enough.
I was joking actually. I assumed he keeps his ammo stashed elsewhere. However I can barely get anything else in my safe since I keep all my ammo in it.
I am not dissing gun safes by any means. I was impressed in my early years by a girlfriends father and his “safe wall”. It took me many years until I could build mine. I have invited trusted friends to try to find it...and they couldn’t.(One was a LEO) Insurance will cover everything else, I just don’t want my guns taken by a lowlife.
My panic room is next on the agenda.
“Ya those are basically the same thing I used on mine. Anchor blots.”
Yea - I was thinking you were describing the same thing too. I had a friend have a safe stolen (he was dumb enough to leave it filled while his house was empty, and for sale).
But were they using hammers or axes or crowbars to fid it? No. So don’t delude yourself that it would never be found. Given enough time and it would be.
I know a guy who keeps all his guns in an old refrigerator, but as soon as someone decides that burglary make a guy thirsty, the gun stash will be found. Plus there is zero fire protection in just hiding the guns that way.
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