"v" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:31:30 -0600, someone wrote:

I had my mother in law's house lifted 3 feet and had 6 steel beams lifting all
at one time. We had no trouble at all. Using Bottle jacks and wood beams is
history now.

Recently, local fellas had a house jacked up to do foundation work.
They were underneath when the house shifted to the side, the jacks
tipped over, one man was killed. It was a father & son doing the
work, I think it was the Dad that died (not that either one would be
okay).


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This is Turtle.

I can't believe it is still ok to raise these house with the bottle jacks and
wood beam because of being under it all the time while raising it. These steel
beam and computor systems has about 30 something jacks hooked to the 6 or so
beams and all raise the house at one time. each jack raises 1/4'' at a time and
all go up and then starts over with another 1/4" raise again of all 30 something
jacks. The system took about 3 hours to lift the 1,800 sq. ft. house up 3 foot.

I feel sorry for the house lifter that lost his lift doing this.

TURTLE