Anyone move a building?
 

A couple years ago I moved a wood garden shed with my car hauler. Jacked up one end and put a couple sheets of OSB under it and a couple more on the ramps. Then used the winch to skid it up on to the trailer deck. Getting it off the trailer was just as easy. Wrapped a cable around the base and used another truck to pull it off. The shed was 6' X 10' so it fit perfectly on the 16' trailer. The move was about 3 miles.

A buddy who I worked with remembered this and gave my name to a girl who has two 12' X 14' sheds to move.

I told her I wasn't interested. Being 12' wide they would require oversize permits and pilot vehicles front and back. They have to go about 30 miles and over a bridge, so everything would have to be legal.

I figure two steel beams and lift it up high enough to back the trailer under and two more beams to support the weight while on the trailer. This would require a ton of cribbing blocks. Then two sets of warning lights for the pilot vehicles and another set for the tow vehicle.

Can't see myself making any money off this. :)

is it cheaper to build a new 12x14 sheds then to hire all the necessary folks and deal with all the legal stuff and insurance? A good framer should ba able to build it in two to three days?

12x14 wood shed = $3500-4500. not including delivery, assembly.

Figure moving price from there.

A friend and I moved a two-car garage by renting a boom truck.

Disassembled the four corners of the walls after removing the roof in two halves, boomed them onto the truck's flatbed, load the roof halves on top.

Entire garage moved in one trip.

Simply nail the walls back together, boom the roof right in place.

Cut them in half ... she then has four 7' X 12' sheds.

No wide load permits needed.

Didn't you read the math thread?

Pod rental companies have the proper trucks and equipment to move a shed. She should call around and find one who will move them for her.

I've never done it myself, but I have a friend - he's almost 90 now. In the off-season for threshing he moved houses in Oklahoma with the most manliest vehicle ever - a 110 horsepower Case steamer.


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1444684905.jpg


Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the right side oh his tractor. He had probably 100 feet of 3/4 inch log chain strung from hooks at the front and back of the boiler. It was awesome to watch those massive chains swaying as he idled along in that behemoth. The chains alone must have weighed a ton. He has pictures of the tractor pulling two story houses across the prairie.


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1444685098.jpg

That is the coolest thing I have ever seen.