Ken Fitzgerald
01-11-2007, 4:03 PM
The LOML is known as the Camera Queen. She's got a good 35mm, an APS and a digital camera and a good Sony camcorder.....She wanted a good fireproof safe for all of her negatives and some family photographs taken in the early 1900s of which she has the only originals. Tuesday night she took me to Costco to show me what she'd found. While there she noticed only one was left....the others had been sold since Saturday.....We'd driven the van over...it was close to closing time and my F-350 was at home....so we bought it and a young guy and I loaded the 235 lb. monstrosity into the back of the van.
Yesterday I needed it out of the van and into the house and down into the basement. I called around....all the neighbors were out.....So...I backed the van into the carport......opened the back door and tipped the 235 lb. safe out onto the concrete floor. I tipped it up and placed my handtruck under it and rolled it over to the steps at our back door. I took a piece of rope and tied it around the box.....tooked the other end of the rope and tied a knotted double loop around a rafter of the carport roof above the back porch. Using a come-along...I raised the safe up onto the back porch. I place the hand truck under it and rolled it into the kitchen. Last night when my oldest son got off work, we tied the rope around it ....he stood at the top of the stairs....insuring that if the top of the box tried to tip towards me..it wouldn't......I very carefully walked it down the stairs...tipping it from one tread to the next....once it was at the bottom of the stairs....we slid it into position and removed it from it's package......Not once did anyone try to lift the thing......235 lbs...........Some of the best tools are the old ones.....still some of the best!
Yesterday I needed it out of the van and into the house and down into the basement. I called around....all the neighbors were out.....So...I backed the van into the carport......opened the back door and tipped the 235 lb. safe out onto the concrete floor. I tipped it up and placed my handtruck under it and rolled it over to the steps at our back door. I took a piece of rope and tied it around the box.....tooked the other end of the rope and tied a knotted double loop around a rafter of the carport roof above the back porch. Using a come-along...I raised the safe up onto the back porch. I place the hand truck under it and rolled it into the kitchen. Last night when my oldest son got off work, we tied the rope around it ....he stood at the top of the stairs....insuring that if the top of the box tried to tip towards me..it wouldn't......I very carefully walked it down the stairs...tipping it from one tread to the next....once it was at the bottom of the stairs....we slid it into position and removed it from it's package......Not once did anyone try to lift the thing......235 lbs...........Some of the best tools are the old ones.....still some of the best!