If you want to get it out safely, look into a local moving company. I'm not talking about Mayflower Van Lines. Most fair sized towns have at least one local mover with manpower and equipment to handle this. Many of these companies have an item called a stair-crawler that helps movers get big items up the steps -- Like my 800 pound gun safe.
I had such a group move our possessions into a storage facility a few years ago for about $350. That included the safe.
RonB
I, like all of you, have read of a number of accounts over the years
> of how some of our fellow lovers of heavy machines have moved their
> prized machines into the bowels of a basement shop.
>
> What I would like to hear are stories of how you have removed a
> machine from a difficult location such as a basement.
>
> Anyone?
>
> TMT
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