Moved a 12x24' building 75 feet and it might as well have been torn down and built back from scratch
Locust Fork
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I have one of those metal storage buildings that I keep my shipping boxes in. I needed it moved from one place on our property to another. A guy was doing work for us clearing some land and said he knew a guy that had some equipment that would be able to just pick the thing up and carry over to the spot.
So, guy #1 has an excavator, and a skid steer there doing the work he was doing. Guy #2 shows up with what looks like the same exact thing to me.....a skid steer, but with bigger numbers on it....so I don't question anything I just sit back and watch this magic happen.
Guy #1 guides guy #2 to the building and they put long extensions on the forks of his machine. He pulls up to the front and guy #1 tells him to go ahead and push under the building. Seconds later I hear a HORRIFIC crunch. Things stop and we see that the building has been knocked off of the bricks and one of the pilons has pushed up into the floor of the building......AND...the floor is now bowed in the back and you can see inside the building along the back wall. (Great)
So, I'm sitting on my lawnmower making every phone call I can to anyone that I can think of that might be able to move this thing....tow truck drivers are all I can think of because that is how it was delivered. I get several references to different people and finally get ahold of Guy #3 who is coming to the rescue.
Guy #1 and Guy #2 decide that the cardboard boxes need to be removed from my building.....so here we go. We form a chain of people....starting with me.....tossing the bundles of boxes out of the building and stacked onto pallets. They move the stacks of boxes off into the yard with their skid steers and Guy #3 shows up.
Moving the building with the right equipment wasn't any easier....but no more damage happened. It was dropped in the spot we wanted it and the floor was reattached to the wall in the back....it was leveled up....shims hammered in place and everyone agreed it was never going to be moved again.
I am still sore from unloading the boxes from this thing.....I'm sunburned.....and I've told Guy #3 if he ever gets a call to this address regarding that building he is to set it on fire. (It turns out he delivered it to us when it first came.)
Pics coming!
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How far did you have it moved?
Sorry, just looked at the title. 75" If it was built on 4x4 runners, we have rolled one on pvc pipe to move it.
I'm just happy you are here sharing life's foibles with us. I don't feel so alone when things go sideways for me. Lol.
Lot of hobby boxes!
+1...😂
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It was a nightmare. I wasn't even going to be out there looking at what they were doing, but I couldn't resist seeing someone pick up that building with whatever equipment they were planning to use. We were only moving it around 75 feet. We have a pasture area next to our house that is overgrown around the edges. Our neighbor has been cutting the inside area with a bush hog for several years, but letting the outer edges grow up. So, when I moved the storage building here we just sat it in the "flattest" are in the field....but it wasn't where we wanted it to be forever. I finally got someone to come and do some clearing out and cut down all the overgrowth, so we had a better place for the building ready. When we bought this place we should have gotten a tractor and kept everything cut down....but we just mowed the yard area and let everything else go. I'm guessing we have about 7 acres still of our property that is just wild, but what we have cleared is all I plan on dealing with.
I moved a building about the same size about the same distance.I used 4 inch PVC pipe,a floor jack, a few nylon straps and a come along.It took best part of a day but I did it by myself.
Glad it is still a building! Surely any issues will buff right out