Help me get into an old old safe

[squirrel]

I purchased a property in south Texas that has an old safe located in an old house.

The safe is very heavy, I cant move it by hand. And it is located inside this old house so it is hard to get any kind of machinery to it, or move the safe outside of the house.

I dont have any power to the property at the moment either.

Pics of the safe are below, it does look like someone tried to get into it through the bottom.

Any way to get into this thing? I am heading down to the property this weekend and would like to see if I can get inside.

[hooligan]

Can you see anything through that hole to see if it’s worth the trouble

[kcmarullo]

Sawsall the hinges maybe ?

[glen]

Angle grinder will get you in about every safe out there. That one would take less than 30 minutes

[glen]

May be as easy as cutting hindges but look and see if it had bars at bottom or door side. Those are easy to cut as well. I’ve cut into safes on search warrants and none of them took very long.

[mooch]

Does that hole actually reach into the inside of the safe? I’d shove my phone or something else that can record video with a light in there to see if there’s anything worth the hassle
inside before I did anything else

[kcnatural]

If that hole goes into the safe get one of these fiber optic snake scope things. It bluetooths to your phone. I have only used it 3 times maybe but its too handy when you need it.

https://www.amazon.com/Endoscope-DEPSTECH-Semi-Rigid-Inspection-Tablets-16-5Ft/dp/B07MV6X4M4/ref=sr_1_11?crid=V6WJQBZN3NNT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dXkKDmGfS53kGBi2dQJViM0NzKTjYjqQg3VWWuQK015rJrDUmgsjVT68qssWB2D89fW-Y0UnGVkQldLK_ffd03HCDrqF2N5bicFoJJZE8AGRrnzBDBaTd8_Az7bqhVljF-YVWD_RKnJCIySsoDCj7pKB2YbLHmr2EqaPisqRkyW4xSJWL-JsxzSzry6bG8Ee5rAYNf_GRQX_p6EvJNjG-WnPa1niUgaBnyfK69Hr6uo.oOsILJJ6A11Sfo-cL5lUyxbIJop6F1UxwqoDTCdhFyE&dib_tag=se&keywords=fiber+CAMERA&qid=1710442141&sprefix=fiber+camera%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-11

[Tony Pic]

Safe bottoms are the weakest part of the safe. A grinder is most likely your best bet

[squirrel]

I bought the camera snake, will see how that works.

The hole in the bottom of the safe is about the size of a tennis ball and too small for me to get my hand inside.

I agree on the grinder but I dont have access to power and wont have a generator on this trip. I am hopeful I wont have to cut the hinges off so that I can try to preserve the look of the safe. I honestly would be very surprised if there is anything of value inside, but very curious.

[Txhunter3000]

There may be another kind of snake in there!!

[glen]

Try and borrow an angle grinder 20 volt and it should cut both hindges on one battery.

[Quackerbox]

Try and borrow an angle grinder 20 volt and it should cut both hindges on one battery.

this.

We did cut the top off one with a bas *** demo blade and a circular saw once.

[Man]

I can't imagine someone went through all that work and then just left the contents inside. Good Luck Though!

[JhuntsAlot]

Some suggestions.

1. Sawzall with several batteries and several metal blades. Cut the rest of the floor out. It is tough to know if cutting the hinges would work. Depends on how it locks.
2. Take a small generator with you and angle grinders with metal cutoff discs.
3. Portable Oxy/acety torch. Easy peasy.
4. Long chain or strap and a tractor or SxS/4 wheeler and drag that sucka onto your trailer and take it home.

All this is after checking it with the camera and it anything is in it. Haha. I bet it has been checked already.

Good luck.



J

[Bassdeer]

whoever took the time to cut the bottom out I'm pretty sure they got anything in there.