Moving A House

rusty6 · Jan 9, 2020

Some more home video here. This from 1991 when we were moving my brother's new (to him) house onto the new wooden basement. Hard to imagine it is coming up on 30
years ago. Not too much tractor content in this one but there is a Case W20 four wheel loader and a backhoe working in it.
Moving a house

Patsdeere · Jan 9, 2020

Amazing what would be done back in the day. Now a days, I can't imagine moving any house, unless it was some historic thing. The hope to jump through would be horrendous. Granted, I live in a populated place in Cali, maybe still quite doable in the open lands of this country.

RCP · Jan 9, 2020

Very interesting, I would like to see how they slid the house onto the foundation.

JohnV2000 · Jan 9, 2020

(quoted from post at 16:31:31 01/09/20) Amazing what would be done back in the day. Now a days, I can't imagine moving any house, unless it was some historic thing. The hope to jump through would be horrendous. Granted, I live in a populated place in Cali, maybe still quite doable in the open lands of this country.

There is an historic home near my house that got moved about half a mile a few years ago. It is a very large house, too. Must have taken some serious power.

Now I hear the house might get torn down anyways to make way for the new local high school.

Billy NY · Jan 9, 2020

That is pretty cool, probably an easier one to dunnage up, brace, secure and get wheels under to move.
It's fascinating work, and great to see it happen.

Local outfit does this work, recent job was an old town building north of here. 2 links below for some photos.
W-20's are great loaders, I spent many hours in one at 2 outfits I worked for. One blew a line with a bucket full and the loader arms dropped onto the side of one of the L series tandem ford dump trucks, caved the sidewall in.
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jeffcat · Jan 9, 2020

Want to move a garage or a barn? Lots of helping hands.
Garage.

jeffcat · Jan 9, 2020

And pole barn.
Barn

jeffcat · Jan 9, 2020

And a bigger barn.
Bigger barn.

Goose · Jan 9, 2020

A neighbor if mine moved a huge barn some 30 miles to his place several years ago.

They waited for sub zero weather so the ground would be frozen and solid enough. In fact a time or two during the process, they had to park it for a couple of days till the ground froze again.

gregww · Jan 9, 2020

Interesting video. I would like to see something like this in person sometime. I am wondering though about the wooden basement you mentioned. How is that holding up after 30 years?

P I Pete · Jan 9, 2020

I had my current moved to where it is now about 16 years ago, was moved about 55 miles, arrived about 5 am. Was parked and put on basement in the summer. Very comfortable.

Pete

omahagreg · Jan 9, 2020

In the early 70s I lived at Marion South Dakota. We had the Becker brothers-one was a house mover, the other an excavator. They liked to set the house, then excavate the basement! They also did not like being under the house themselves- so they had a remote control, tracked loader! As a kid I was in awe!

rusty6 · Jan 9, 2020

(quoted from post at 14:45:13 01/09/20) Interesting video. I would like to see something like this in person sometime. I am wondering though about the wooden basement you mentioned. How is that holding up after 30 years?

That wooden basement is just fine as are several others in the area. They seem to do well here. Watch for part two of setting the house on the wooden basement.
Goose, interesting co-incidence that the nickname of the guy running the W20 was also Goose.

matthies · Jan 9, 2020

Had some friends and family help with that barn move.

rusty6 · Jan 9, 2020

(quoted from post at 13:31:31 01/09/20) Amazing what would be done back in the day. Now a days, I can't imagine moving any house, unless it was some historic thing.

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John in Mich · Jan 9, 2020

My father purchased a 24x40 1 and 1/2 story house for $600 in 1966 that had to be torn down or moved. He had a foundation poured and blocks layed on the corner of the farm 8 miles away for a crawl space. Utility companies wanted $5000 for moving wires and lights. Dad said no. We split the roof at the ridge and layed the roof down on the upstairs floor.
The moving company had the beams in place and wheels at each end. The front was steerable.
Once on the street, the house moved the 8 miles on two lane paved roads with a police escourt in one hour. It then had to cross a 4 foot deep ditch to get to the foundation. By 5pm the house was sitting on the new foundation.
We put the roof back up and added a dormer all the way across the back 40' roof line which I later finished as 2 bedrooms, a full bathrooom and walk-in hall closet.
Later, I added a 24x24 garage with an 8x10 enclosed breezeway/laundry room.
We lived there 17 years and then bought our current property 10 miles away and built a new house. We have been here 35 years.

AlinArk · Jan 9, 2020

marvin jones was moving a house on rt 55 close to vineland, n.j. and got stuck under an over pass tied up trafftc for quite a while they had to let the air out of the tires to squeeze through.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 9, 2020

I bought my first farm in 87, and moved a house from town that was slated for demolition otherwise. The total cost of the house, the move , a new well basement , septic system , rewiring the house, connecting to the electric grid, and a new heat plant. Total cost $30,000.00. It was a bargain!!

Hobo,NC · Jan 9, 2020

The first house I brought was built by the local High school a outfit ran by lumbee Indians moved it... They cussed and fought the hole time their dad said as long as they are arguing they are working don't pay them any mind... It is one of the few times I have got a contractor to do every thing on time the first time they went out of there way to please me...

I set the house where I wanted it and dug the foundation by hand it took me and my BIL a week to do it... Never again will I do that and to make matters worst poured the foundation myself tot'N the concrete to the center piers was a killer...

It was 1982 a new house 1056 sq ft hooked up and ready to live in $27000... Interest rate at that time 16% I borrowed 20K... Sold it in 2017 for 95K it sold a year and 3 mo's later for 125K I left 30K on the table : (

Greg NE · Jan 9, 2020

I remember that, it's sitting about 40 miles from me right now!!

sms · Jan 10, 2020

I was attending college in town when they moved the Potsdam NY train station 1980. Building is all sandstone blocks, very heavy.

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