Anchoring a gun safe in a mobile home

[westhope]

I assume it will be against at least one wall. Put two bolts in the back floor of the safe and two lag bolts near the top of the safe into a wall stud. Safes are mild steel so they will be easy to drill through the back wall at a stud location. Anchoring the safe to the floor and the wall at the top will give the best mechanical advantage against prying it loose.

If a crook has enough time to get a safe anchored as above loose with a crow bar and move it out, there are easier methods of getting into any safe.

Also, a gun safe FULL OF GUNS is a lot harder to move than an empty one!

MERRY CHRISTMAS Cobb.

[AFTERMATH]

Fill the safe with concrete as a diversion and hide the guns in the walls.

My place is so structurely un-sound my fire contingency plan consists of: push safe through wall, grab ammo cans and evacuate through hole created by safe. Though, I've yet to try a dry run.
I've invested in other methods to ensure nobody walks away with the safe.

Anyway, chances are you've got two things to worry about: Securing it and making sure the structor at that given location can handle the load for an extended period. Perhaps, you can kill two birds with one stone.

Good luck.

[tazdevil]

Still kinda on the fence on this. If we are to drill through the floor and use bolts that go completely through, would it not be fairly simple for someone to climb under the mobile home with an 18V power cutter or grinder and grind/cut the bolt heads off in a minute or so? Now if we are lucky enough to be near some metal framing, then welding to that would be great, but I am not that good with a welder and I would be nervous welding under an older mobile home because of fire hazards.

I was hoping I would have more like 1.5 inch of flooring to go through, then 4 good lags with a healthy coat of glue on them I would think would be fairly solid.

Maybe over thinking this.
I guess the bottom line is that we will have to place the safe, do some measuring from both above and below to make sure there are no surprises and drill a pilot hole to see what we really have.

I wish my Father-in-law bought me great gifts like that Cobb!

Really didn't get it for my son-in-law, my daughter has more guns than he does.
But why would that be a surprise.

Reverse the bolts, using carriage bolts (and use Stainless so the won't rust), place the bolt HEADS against the bottom of the trailer, the Nuts/washers inside the safe. That's exactly the way mine is bolted in our house, albeit through the subflooring, and a 2x4 truss plate, with added strip of metal plate for additional reinforcement. There's very little a saw could get to, you'd have to open the safe to be able to cut the bolts from the nut side. Good Luck whatever you do!