Moving a stick frame shed/school bus shelter?
 

We have an old school bus shelter that I built out of scrap, no one uses it, it's an eyesore and starting to lean a bit. (It's not leaning as bad as the pic makes it look.)
It's 65" wide and about 7' long and the high peak is close to 8'.

It's a good shed and I'd like to just move it to the back 40, but it's a tad big. It's built on a heavy skid with 4 posts sunk in the ground 2x4 constrution with old ceder siding. I have an old trailer frame from a tent trailer that might do the deed.
My thought is to sawsall off the posts, jack it up and slide the trailer under the best I can....do you think this is do-able?

Or am I nuts to even try?

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Certainly doable. Take your time.

Might be helpful to deck the surface of the trailer with plywood and roll it on metal pipes to slide it on board.

Great idea!! thanks! This is the reason I ask... fresh set of eye's on the job. SmileWavy
I wouldn't have to deck the whole thing, I just need a bunch of planks, which I have.

If you have a couple of beams and a bunch of blocking, it should be a fun process getting it on then off the trailer. Keep in mind those that moved the stones for the pyramids, or the Easter Island statues.

Quite the bus stop shelter. Could become guest quarters for those that insist on staying more than three days :-}

Cheers Richard

It was built for 9 kids at our stop, but the local public school sucks so bad all have left it. That school has gone from 250 students to 81 in the last four years. :rolleyes:

Nice shed.

I'd cut off the posts, tip it over (winch it over) onto it's side on the trailer, drive it to the new location. Offer free beers to friends and have them help tip it off the trailer :)

That's the way I would do it.

Is the spacing of the wheels on the trailer wider than the shed? If not block up so the shed clears the wheels..

Add some diag/cross bracing on the inside to keep it from tweaking too much. If getting it on the trailer is harder than it looks then a sled built with posts/4x4/whatever could work.

It is interesting how many different way there are to do something like this.
I was thinking of beams long enough to extend out on both sides to clear the trailer.
You could jack up one side then block then move to the other side, jack and block. continuing till its high enough to roll the trailer under, with the beams straddling the wheels. Then repeat in reverse at the new site.

I hadn't even thought of tipping it over.

Cheers Richard

I'd slide 2 beams(wider than trailer) under it, cut posts, jack & block it up until you can roll trailer under it, then lower it onto trailer. Reverse to get off.

Know any friends with a CH-47 Chinook? :D

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How ever you pick it up. Leave it on the trailer for the comfy mobile winter hunting hut.

Cheers Richard

I vote for jacking it up and slidding the trailer under it. You could use a few bottle jacks and floor jacks and some blocks. I moved a storage building about that size about 30 years ago with my dad. Just like moving any house...

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It looks heavy. Do you have help or will you be doing this on your own?

If it's just you alone, Don't even try.

But jacking it up sounds good. I would start at the "leaning" side.
That way you can get it level and then do the other side. Like lifting a 911 one side at a time.

How ever I do it I think I'll pop the two big windows out of it first.
IIRC they only have 4 screws in each one.
It would also lighten it up a bit.

I'm not a politician so I don't think I can get a chinook. ;)

rent a skid steer or tractor with forks?

+1 rollers and plywood. To good a shed to demo.

This.

How are you moving it? That little ATV? My major concern is when you get moving, on that uneven ground, it will tip because its top heavy and the unsteady trailer. I think it will tip the trailer with it pulling you and the ATV along for the ride. Getting it on and off the trailer is the easy part, moving it is the most dangerous. Good luck and keep us posted.

i think id probrobly just get 3 or 4 pvc pipes and drag it along with a truck and some freinds to reposition the pipes in front when they roll out the back. easiest and safest way. thats how the amish do it :)