Cutting Open A Floor Safe
Although professional locksmiths rarely take this course of action it s possible to cut a locked safe open.
Cutting open a floor safe. Another concept for how to open an old safe is scoping. Using either a torch or a saw they simply cut into the safe. This process is messy noisy slow and destroys the safe. Depending on the material used to construct the safe several sets of saw blades may be needed as they are dulled down.
The door and lock are the best engineered and strongest part of the safe so stay away from those. Use an angle grinder and cutting wheel to cut the back or bottom off the safe. Drilling a safe is the most common and practical method of opening safes because it creates only few simple repairs and it also works effectively.