Just got my new safe...

 

So far the thing is F'ING awesome. Don't have to empty everything to get to the one in the back. Not a fire safe, and I understand their reasoning. I guess I bought into it.

 

 

And the fifty fits no hassle.

 

Who's the thug in the reflection? Haha

Ha!

 

Shoulda gotten the crinkle finish.

 

Cool concept. But what if your weapons have optics and such? They still fit ok?

 

 

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That's sweet. Would be cool if you could punch in a number after the opening combination to designate a firearm to rotate to the front.

Cool concept. But what if your weapons have optics and such? They still fit ok?

 

 

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Absolutely. ACOGs EOTechs big ass S&B glass. It was a pain in the regular safe. Now no sweat. I think I'll shoot some stuff more since I won't have to dig it out.

 

So far so good. We see how I live with it.

That's sweet. Would be cool if you could punch in a number after the opening combination to designate a firearm to rotate to the front.

 

It is motorized probably not hard to do...

 

The cool thing is it has an electric humidity control system.

 

 

Congrats! Looks pretty sweet.

Awesome... Check out their website. Has a good animated shot of the safe...

http://www.pendletonsafes.com/

Wow! These buggers are over 1000 lbs? Holy crap!

http://youtu.be/cIWm-wwxRqc

Found this on their page regarding fire rating..

 

Busting The Myth Of Fire Ratings Arm yourself with the facts-Important things you may not know about fire ratings.

We believe an informed customer is the best, and often happiest customer in the long run. When armed with all the facts, we can make truly educated decisions about which products will be the best fit, and provide the most value over time.

Most mid to upper level safe companies boast impressive-sounding fire ratings that ensure protection for (X) amount of time with (Y) outside temperature, not to exceed 350 degrees inside the safe. However, these ratings are often deceiving due to the methods by which the safes are tested. As it stands, there is no standard set of tests specifically for evaluating the fire resistance of a gun safe. In fact, most companies use different private testing organizations to evaluate and assign fire ratings to their safes. These testing procedures often vary, and are exclusively based on how well paper documents resist damage as ambient temperatures rise. The problem with this approach is that most people incorrectly assume that paper in a safe will burn before a gun. This is not true. Since steel and other metals "gather heat" much more easily than paper, guns and other valuables will heat up more quickly and reach higher temperatures than documents in the same amount of time. You might notice this principle the next time you go outside to pickup the newspaper from your driveway on a hot summer day. While the hood of your car is too hot to touch, you can easily pick up the paper and carry it inside without any discomfort. It seems to go against logic, but it can all be explained by the scientific principle of Specific Heat Capacity.

When a safe is in a house fire, it acts like a huge convection oven – the fire outside the safe heats up the air inside the safe which, by convection, transfers heat to the firearms and valuables stored in the safe. How quickly your valuables become damaged by the fire depends on three things – the temperature inside the safe, the burning or melting point of the various materials that make up your valuables, and the specific heat capacity of those materials. Specific heat capacity is the amount of heat required to change the temperature of one kilogram of a substance by one degree. In other words, the higher a material's specific heat capacity, the more heat energy is required to raise the temperature of that material. Specific heat capacity is extremely important when taking into consideration the fire-rating of a safe. The paper document used in a typical fire-testing procedure has a specific heat capacity of 1.4 (Kcal/Kg °C) and an ignition point of 451°F. By comparison, aluminum, steel, gold and silver have much lower specific heat capacities of 0.91, 0.49, 0.13 and 0.23 respectively. This means that the steel barrel of your rifle or aluminum casing of your scope will heat up a lot more quickly and easily than any paper document in the safe. With an ABS plastic gun stock melting at 221°F and wood solids starting to break down at around 575°F, you can image how quickly a gun can become ruined under heat conditions that would cause little, if any damage to a paper document in the same safe. If companies began fire-testing their safes using guns and other valuables as the standard, rather than documents, they would find that conventional fireproofing does little to prevent the safe's contents from being quickly destroyed by a typical house fire.

Wow! These buggers are over 1000 lbs? Holy crap!

http://youtu.be/cIWm-wwxRqc

 

Yes sir. I was using SCHD 40 pipes to move it and they didn't last long. So I ended up using 1/2 inch steel rods and inch black pipe and a breaker bar. Once we stopped being scared of the 1250# it went better.

 

There's an art to moving safes. And I learned a bit of it.

 

Bruce Pendleton goes through and works out the interior with you. You tell him what you have or plan to have and he'll set it up so everything fits.

 

One thing that won't fit...KSG.

 

But I keep that in my glove compartment of my Honda /sarc/

 

As if I'd own a Honda.

 

 

 

 

Where did you get it? I can't find it anywhere online so far.... What do those buggers cost?

Basically get it from them. Some stock it but no place I can find. It's sort of custom. It's 7k. I know. But it fits 2 safes worth of stuff and still accessible even with optics. Todays prices that less than 2 rifles, almost. The workmanship is first rate. And you can get any color you want. I choked and got gloss black. What a sissy. Should have gotten the burgundy or burnt orange.

 

Took a month to make and ship.

 

They are 74 inches tall. Complicates moving it. And it says 72 on website. But that's interior. I planned to use a pallet jack. And cruise it in like the browning. Nope.

Wow! Pricey... Too bad they don't offer white glove service. What type of surface you putting it on? 1K+ lbs is a lot of weight in a small space for somewhere in a common home. On concrete floors in basements or garages is one thing, but I'd rather have any safe easily accessible on the first floor rather than run down a couple flights of stairs...

In the basement. To go up stairs you have to brace the stairs and get a creeper. I have a secure storage for certain tools upstairs. All my range stuff is down there with the safes. So its convenient for me.

 

One cool thing, he can Pre-wire it so it connects to your house alarm as a separate zone. If someone messes with it, it like trying to tip it over it'll set the house alarm off.

 

He does offer installation big $$$. Like $800. You never know what you're going to get. Frankly those extra 2 inches screwed me up.

 

All in all, great safe. Played with it all last night. Going to the range today so we'll see how it works.

Hell, after $7K, what's another $800... I'd let them do the whole thing...

Great.... Thanks for sharing... keep us abreast..

Hell, after $7K, what's another $800... I'd let them do the whole thing...

 

+1000

Hell, after $7K, what's another $800... I'd let them do the whole thing...

Great.... Thanks for sharing... keep us abreast..

 

In retrospect, you're right. But now I have a second career...

 

Actually, gun safes are tax-free in nj. Maybe they can expand that to give you a tax credit for installation costs.

 

Oh oh, I just stepped into the 47%

 

Damn.

Lmao....

 

 

In retrospect, you're right. But now I have a second career...

 

Actually, gun safes are tax-free in nj. Maybe they can expand that to give you a tax credit for installation costs.

 

Oh oh, I just stepped into the 47%

 

Damn.

 

 

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so cool!