80+kg safe removing it from a transit??how

shandypants5

Laurz is right.

80kg is not that heavy, two blokes should lift it easily or one bloke and his missus and slide it down a plank.

I weigh 95kg so its only like lifting a person out of the van.

Get some weetabix in you and get on with it.:D just watch you toes.

ormus

big girls blouses.
ive lifted engines out of Minis all on me own. and im no arnold schwarzenegger.

ZenUK

Get this http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Ground+Maintenance/Sack+Trucks/Platform+Truck+100kg/d250/sd3156/p46512
Leverage safe onto platform.
Use two ratchet straps to secure safe onto platform.

Guide platform off transit using timber made up into a rail system. Bag of sand at bottom of rail if required.

justjohn

Job done....
tryed rope but it snaped (was too thin lol)
just rolled down on rollers brute force ..no injuries. misus was there giving me verbal instruction/abuse. Am so glad she is here to tell me were i am going wrong.

Mrs_justjohn

justjohn wrote: »

Job done....
tryed rope but it snaped (was too thin lol)
just rolled down on rollers brute force ..no injuries. misus was there giving me verbal instruction/abuse. Am so glad she is here to tell me were i am going wrong.

Told him the rope was too thin:mad: He never listens to me until it's too late

Anyway, safe is out the van and in position. :T

If only he had listened to me in the first place it wouldn't have taken the best part of the morning to sort out

cybergibbons

Safes tend to be more awkward than engines - they are designed to be awkward to lift, and designed for anything external to snap off easily (like the handle).

I've just used a sack trolley and a ramp before, on safes almost twice as heavy. Just make sure the ramp is well braced.

wallbash

But we would have been denied a wonderful thread.

justjohn

cybergibbons wrote: »

Safes tend to be more awkward than engines - they are designed to be awkward to lift, and designed for anything external to snap off easily (like the handle).

I've just used a sack trolley and a ramp before, on safes almost twice as heavy. Just make sure the ramp is well braced.

yes missus said brace the ramp er er erm slung a deafo at that LOL
She is always rite its so annoying!!!

Mrs_justjohn

cybergibbons wrote: »

I've just used a sack trolley and a ramp before, on safes almost twice as heavy. Just make sure the ramp is well braced.

Hhmmmmm .....Sack Trolley and bracing the ramps......Yes I do believe they were two suggestions I made to him just before he decided to try dragging/flipping/pushing and shoving it. Shortly after that we tried bracing the ramps and using a sack trolley....(once I had planted the seed in his head and allowed him to think that it was actually his idea):rotfl:

dacouch

I do removals and we would normally lift it out failing that you could have hired one of these.

It has skids on it so you basically slide it down on the skids, you need someone strong to hold the handles and depending on the weight someone holding the bottom plate.

You can take very heavy things eg photocopiers up and down stairs on these.

The other thing you could have done is get someone with a skate (See the link), you tilt the safe forward and slide the skate under it. Then you could have either pushed it down a ramp or reversed a van with a tail lift upto the transit and the raised the tail lift so you can push it onto the tail lift.

http://www.evo-projects.co.uk/supplies/supplies/skates.htm