I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

On 1/4/2011 10:39 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?


It all depends how floor was framed. If they did it right, and there are
two lower beams down there somewhere, you can move it with a forklift,
or if you don't have a nearby place to rent or borrow one, roll it on
some sticks of thickwall drain pipe. If it is just framed up and sitting
on corner blocks, it gets a lot harder. You could jack it up with a
floor jack, and slide 2 long timbers under it. Awful hard to say without
a closer examination. If you can borrow 8-10 strong teenagers, you could
lag a long 2x8 to each side through siding into the studs, maybe 3 feet
off the ground, and they could pick it up and carry it.

Wild thought- if you can scrounge some long planks to roll it on, 4 of
those harbor freight car dollies would probably hold it with no problem.
Just jack up each end, put the dollies under (find some way to pin them
in place) and jack up the other end and do the same. Use the baby 4x4
you mentioned as a tow mule, with bigass eyebolts into floor beams. Once
dollies are up on planks, it should roll easy.

--
aem sends...

In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

See page 2 of this site:

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage1

Wherein the guy says:

"my son needed a pole barn moved, due to a desired property split. I
decided to put my technique to the test. The wood building was a 30 ft.
by 40 ft. and** 16 ft. tall. It weighed over 10 tons."

On Jan 4, 9:39*pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
*www.lds.org
.

If the roof is that bad, I would remove it and then sawzall the four
corners, two guys should be able to move each of the four walls to
their new location.

Planks on ground,short peices of pipe ,jack shed , put long planks under
shed.
Run shed with plank runners onto pipe & roll. Keep taking pipe from back
& add to front. A bunch of kids are a great help !!!!

Jr


http://community.webtv.net/awoodbutc...oodWorkingPage

Sorry , I didn't read other posts. Roll it ,& if you can get a s10 &
ranger in there it''ll be easy, I did similar job !!!

Jr


http://community.webtv.net/awoodbutc...oodWorkingPage

On Jan 5, 3:39*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

* *http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
*www.lds.org
.

If the shed was factory made it will come to pieces the same way it
was erected.
If not you could maybe get some scaffolding poles underneath it and
lift/jack it off it's supports. Then put the pole ends on timber skids
and drag the thing with a 4x4. I think rollers might dig in on soft
ground.

I remember in Egypt there are oblisks there weighed hundreds of tons
and the ancient Egyptians moved them hundreds of miles. They were
granite too. Carved out of the quarry and incised with hieroglyphs by
people that didn't even have iron never mind steel.

In article
,
harry wrote:

I remember in Egypt there are oblisks there weighed hundreds of tons
and the ancient Egyptians moved them hundreds of miles. They were
granite too. Carved out of the quarry and incised with hieroglyphs by
people that didn't even have iron never mind steel.

Don't be silly. The pyramids and such were built by aliens. (And I'm not
talking about Mexican-Americans.)

I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?


*If it wasn't built on skids, dragging will be difficult. Rolling it on
pipes is possible, but the terrain does not look the most conducive to that.
I vote for disassembly. Since the roof is no good you will be getting rid
of it anyway.

We may try that. Bevelling the front end, I'd not have
thought of that. Thank you. Good idea.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


wrote in message
...
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:39:54 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve.
Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would
fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.


http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.


http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board,
and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

The guys who sell prefab sheds here roll them on 4" PVC
pipes.
You need about 4 or 5 and keep recycling the one rolling out
the back
to the front. They move a stick built shed like that with 2
guys and
move right along but they are young ;-)

The only thing they do to make things easier is they bevel
the edges
of the beams when they build it so they roll up on the next
pipe
easier.

Sadly, I don't think there are two main beams under there.
The soil is mostly sand, so I'd expect a tow motor or fork
lift to sink immediately. I've seen fork lift on sand
before, it's not pretty. I could likely get back there with
my S-10 Blazer. A couple trees and phone poles provide a
place to hook a cable hoist.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"aemeijers" wrote in message
...

It all depends how floor was framed. If they did it right,
and there are
two lower beams down there somewhere, you can move it with a
forklift,
or if you don't have a nearby place to rent or borrow one,
roll it on
some sticks of thickwall drain pipe. If it is just framed up
and sitting
on corner blocks, it gets a lot harder. You could jack it up
with a
floor jack, and slide 2 long timbers under it. Awful hard to
say without
a closer examination. If you can borrow 8-10 strong
teenagers, you could
lag a long 2x8 to each side through siding into the studs,
maybe 3 feet
off the ground, and they could pick it up and carry it.

Wild thought- if you can scrounge some long planks to roll
it on, 4 of
those harbor freight car dollies would probably hold it with
no problem.
Just jack up each end, put the dollies under (find some way
to pin them
in place) and jack up the other end and do the same. Use the
baby 4x4
you mentioned as a tow mule, with bigass eyebolts into floor
beams. Once
dollies are up on planks, it should roll easy.

--
aem sends...

That was the best idea I had yesterday, is to take the roof
down in pieces with a sawzall. And then cut along the
corners, to take the walls out. That may turn out to be the
only way.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"hr(bob) "
wrote in message
news:0768dfe3-4517-4602-99d0-

If the roof is that bad, I would remove it and then sawzall
the four
corners, two guys should be able to move each of the four
walls to
their new location.

Ah, the Egyptian Roll method. Could work.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Jerry - OHIO" wrote in message
...
Planks on ground,short peices of pipe ,jack shed , put long
planks under
shed.
Run shed with plank runners onto pipe & roll. Keep taking
pipe from back
& add to front. A bunch of kids are a great help !!!!

Jr


http://community.webtv.net/awoodbutc...oodWorkingPage

Best idea yet. Find someone with a space drivers license,
and rent a space ship. We'll do it!

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Smitty Two" wrote in message
news
I remember in Egypt there are oblisks there weighed
hundreds of tons
and the ancient Egyptians moved them hundreds of miles.
They were
granite too. Carved out of the quarry and incised with
hieroglyphs by
people that didn't even have iron never mind steel.

Don't be silly. The pyramids and such were built by aliens.
(And I'm not
talking about Mexican-Americans.)

The terrain is lumpy, and also mostly sand. From what I can
figure (the next day, after I've had a chance to think)
diasassembly is going to be the only option.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"John Grabowski"

wrote in message ...

*If it wasn't built on skids, dragging will be difficult.
Rolling it on
pipes is possible, but the terrain does not look the most
conducive to that.
I vote for disassembly. Since the roof is no good you will
be getting rid
of it anyway.

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:39:54 -0500, Stormin Mormon wrote:

I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh. A good
friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If ehe can move it
about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he can have the shed. Else, it
will be torn down and scrapped

Obvious question: what's the budget?

At the cheap end of the scale, jack it and get some timber skids under
it, then drag it.

At the expensive end, rent a skycrane and lift it out :-)


Or you could go for the "Star Trek matter transporter" approach: take
extensive photos, set fire to shed, buy building materials, assemble
clone of shed at final destination ;-)

cheers

Jules

On Jan 4, 7:52*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:39:54 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"





wrote:
I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

*http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

*http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

*http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
*http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

*http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

The guys who sell prefab sheds here roll them on 4" PVC pipes.
You need about 4 or 5 and keep recycling the one rolling out the back
to the front. They move a stick built shed like that with 2 guys and
move right along but they are young *;-)

The only thing they do to make things easier is they bevel the edges
of the beams when they build it so they roll up on the next pipe
easier.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I moved a shipping container a bit smaller but constructed teh same
way in Texas. Shifted it from one side of the lot to the other and
turned it end for end using noting but a pry pole and a concrete block
for a fulcum. I only shifted it a few inches per 'pry' and it took a
few days of going at it in the evenings.

Harry K

On Jan 5, 5:50*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
Sadly, I don't think there are two main beams under there.
The soil is mostly sand, so I'd expect a tow motor or fork
lift to sink immediately. I've seen fork lift on sand
before, it's not pretty. I could likely get back there with
my S-10 Blazer. A couple trees and phone poles provide a
place to hook a cable hoist.


If it is a question of traction or getting stuck...

I carry enough cable and snatch blocks in my "wooding" truck to tow
jsut about anything from a long ways off. There must be an alley or
something the tow vehicle can work from and those poles give an anchor
point for snatch blocks. Don't look at it as needing to be a 'direct,
1x1 pull. Of course cost of snatch blocks and cable would probably
exceed the cost of the shed

Harry K

On Jan 5, 8:54*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
The terrain is lumpy, and also mostly sand. From what I can
figure (the next day, after I've had a chance to think)
diasassembly is going to be the only option.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
*www.lds.org
.

"John Grabowski"

wrote in ...

*If it wasn't built on skids, dragging will be difficult.
Rolling it on
pipes is possible, but the terrain does not look the most
conducive to that.
I vote for disassembly. *Since the roof is no good you will
be getting rid
of it anyway.

If you are going to disassemble it, I'd look closely at how the walls
are constructed.

If they look flimsy (2 x 2's studs, right?) you might want to add some
diagonals across the interior face of the studs to prevent racking.
Make sure the diagonals are attached to the studs *and* the sill/top
plates.

I realized you said that it's sheathed with flakeboard, but the
thought of someone building a shed with 2 x 2's make me think that
they may have taken other shortcuts/cost saving measures along the way.

1. Ohio blue tip.
2. Allstate.

On Jan 5, 1:05*pm, Thomas wrote:
1. Ohio blue tip.
2. Allstate.

Don't oily rags enter the picture somehow?

In article ,
Stormin Mormon wrote:
I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve...
...snipped...
I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

Direct your vaunted problem-solving abilities to learning how to
NOT TOP POST!




--
There are no stupid questions, but there are lots of stupid answers.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org

Dismantel it & build it out of real studs. 2x2 are for baby cribs !!
Jr


http://community.webtv.net/awoodbutc...oodWorkingPage

Does the 'S' on the door stand for '****ter'
or shanty ???
JUST KIDDING !!!

Jr


http://community.webtv.net/awoodbutc...oodWorkingPage

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
...
I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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.




Some of your pics timed out so my advice is generic.

A neighbor at a rental I owned move one about 2 miles over the roads very
early one Sunday morning.

He jacked it up and put 2 2x8 runners under it. Those runners were securely
bolted together with a 4x4 cross piece at the front and the back. Those
runners were arched on the front. Think like Santa's sleigh. A chain
attached to the front 4x4 and the rear of a 4 wheel drive. And down the
city streets he went.

Colbyt

On 1/4/2011 11:05 PM, Smitty Two wrote:
In ,
"Stormin wrote:

I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

See page 2 of this site:

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage1

Wherein the guy says:

"my son needed a pole barn moved, due to a desired property split. I
decided to put my technique to the test. The wood building was a 30 ft.
by 40 ft. and 16 ft. tall. It weighed over 10 tons."

PC Tools Spyware Doctor says the website is evil, and wouldn't let me go
there. Can you summarize?

--
aem sends...

Near zero. The person in question has been unemployed since
the factory closed a year or so ago.

--
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"Jules Richardson"
wrote in message
...

Obvious question: what's the budget?

At the cheap end of the scale, jack it and get some timber
skids under
it, then drag it.

At the expensive end, rent a skycrane and lift it out :-)


Or you could go for the "Star Trek matter transporter"
approach: take
extensive photos, set fire to shed, buy building materials,
assemble
clone of shed at final destination ;-)

cheers

Jules

Sandy soil, not likely to have much purchase. And the shed
is seriously too heavy. I'm glad it worked for you. And I do
thank you for sharing an excellent idea.

--
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"Harry K" wrote in message
...

I moved a shipping container a bit smaller but constructed
teh same
way in Texas. Shifted it from one side of the lot to the
other and
turned it end for end using noting but a pry pole and a
concrete block
for a fulcum. I only shifted it a few inches per 'pry' and
it took a
few days of going at it in the evenings.

Harry K

Wish they had short cutted the floor. Or put it down with
galvanized deck screws, so the future movers could take it
apart.

--
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"DerbyDad03" wrote in message
...

If you are going to disassemble it, I'd look closely at how
the walls
are constructed.

If they look flimsy (2 x 2's studs, right?) you might want
to add some
diagonals across the interior face of the studs to prevent
racking.
Make sure the diagonals are attached to the studs *and* the
sill/top
plates.

I realized you said that it's sheathed with flakeboard, but
the
thought of someone building a shed with 2 x 2's make me
think that
they may have taken other shortcuts/cost saving measures
along the way.

Best idea I've heard, yet.

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"Thomas" wrote in message
...
1. Ohio blue tip.
2. Allstate.

They provide tinder, and plausible deniability. Even better.

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"hr(bob) " wrote in
message
...
On Jan 5, 1:05 pm, Thomas wrote:
1. Ohio blue tip.
2. Allstate.

Don't oily rags enter the picture somehow?

Geez, I don't know. "Stationary", or "stuck down" or. I'll
go with ****ter.

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"Jerry - OHIO" wrote in message
...
Does the 'S' on the door stand for '****ter'
or shanty ???
JUST KIDDING !!!

Jr


http://community.webtv.net/awoodbutc...oodWorkingPage

Could work. Never know....

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"Colbyt" wrote in message
m...

Some of your pics timed out so my advice is generic.

A neighbor at a rental I owned move one about 2 miles over
the roads very
early one Sunday morning.

He jacked it up and put 2 2x8 runners under it. Those
runners were securely
bolted together with a 4x4 cross piece at the front and the
back. Those
runners were arched on the front. Think like Santa's
sleigh. A chain
attached to the front 4x4 and the rear of a 4 wheel drive.
And down the
city streets he went.

Colbyt

The guy boasted how easy it was for him to move huge slabs
of granite. He boasts, anecodes, and then tries to sell a CD
of information.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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..


"aemeijers" wrote in message
...

See page 2 of this site:

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage1

Wherein the guy says:

"my son needed a pole barn moved, due to a desired
property split. I
decided to put my technique to the test. The wood building
was a 30 ft.
by 40 ft. and 16 ft. tall. It weighed over 10 tons."

PC Tools Spyware Doctor says the website is evil, and
wouldn't let me go
there. Can you summarize?

--
aem sends...

In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

Near zero. The person in question has been unemployed since
the factory closed a year or so ago.


The factory isn't going to reopen. I assume your friend is spending 40
hrs. per week seeking other employment and / or training or schooling
for another career? If he's just sitting on his ass drinking beer,
watching I Love Lucy reruns and moaning, tell him to move the shed
himself.

In article ,
aemeijers wrote:

See page 2 of this site:

http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/newpage1

Wherein the guy says:

"my son needed a pole barn moved, due to a desired property split. I
decided to put my technique to the test. The wood building was a 30 ft.
by 40 ft. and 16 ft. tall. It weighed over 10 tons."

PC Tools Spyware Doctor says the website is evil, and wouldn't let me go
there. Can you summarize?

Hard to summarize, the site is extensive. As Stormy says, he's marketing
a DVD, but there is a lot that's on the site. Page one says:

__________

"How It All Began

I am a retired carpenter with 35 years experience in construction. In
my work experience, over the years, many times I had to improvise on
tools that were not at hand in order to get the job done.

At one of these times, about 12 years ago, I had to remove some 1200 lb.
saw cut concrete blocks from an existing floor. The problem was that we
did not have a machine that could reach some of the blocks. The only
obvious answer was to break the blocks into smaller pieces with a
sledgehammer and load them into a wheelbarrow. To me, this seemed to be
too much labor at the time, so I improvised.

Using a few rocks and leverage, I removed the blocks from below the
floor to an area that the machine could reach them for removal. After
doing this several times, the technique became very easy and quick. This
experience had me consider the possibility that people may have used
this technique before modern day equipment was available."

Page two continues:


"Nine years later, after retiring, I decided to explore this on my own.
I brought home a one ton block of concrete from a job. Once I got home,
I realized that I had to use my techniques to get the block off the
truck. After unloading, I found that my technique allowed me to move the
block around the yard with very little effort. At that time, my family
became very interested in what their "crazy dad" was up to " this time".

In a few days time, I decided my one ton block was no longer
challenging, so I made some bigger blocks to play with. Within a few
months time, I was moving, rolling, standing on end, and stacking them
on top of each other.

I found that I, working alone, could easily move a 2400 lb. block 300
ft. per hour with little effort, and a 10,000 lb. block at 70 ft. per
hour. I also stood two 8 ft. 2400 lb. blocks on end and placed another
2400 lb. block on top. This took about two hours per block. I found that
one man, working by himself, without the use of wheels, rollers,
pulleys, or any type of hoisting equipment could perform the task."

__________

He believes that he understands how the pyramids, etc. were built, using
far less labor and time than most would suspect, and goes into some
detail about it. Interesting way to spend a little time, and I don't
know why your Spyware detector flagged it.

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:39:54 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?
Take the roof off. Take a sawsall and cut down all 4 corners in a
miter. Mova all 4 walls separately and re-assemble. A good friend just
did the same with a 11X12 2 weeks ago. Same situation - neighbour
needed it gone. Loaded the 4 peices and the floor on flatbed trailer
and moved it from Cambridge to Sauble beach to re-assemble at the
cottage as a "bunkie"

I'm with you, the factory isn't likely to open until about a
year from now, figuring the Reps can cut back on the Obama
march to socialism. Reduce taxes, and cut bureaucratic
regulation.

He's spending a lot of time on the computer, and taking care
of his grand kids. Not a beer drinker, or smoker. But, your
point is well taken. I'm going to let him do most of the
work on this one. He's supposed to be checking with a couple
other folks to ask for ideas.

I've suggested a few things, such as he can open a handman
business. He doesn't seem interested. Some people are
unmotivated, and are followers.

I'm gong to sit back a bit, on this job. See what he comes
up with, other than asking people to help.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Smitty Two"
wrote in message
news
The factory isn't going to reopen. I assume your friend is
spending 40
hrs. per week seeking other employment and / or training or
schooling
for another career? If he's just sitting on his ass drinking
beer,
watching I Love Lucy reruns and moaning, tell him to move
the shed
himself.

That's excellent idea. The floor continues to be heavy. But,
the floor ought to be possible to move that, some how.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


wrote in message
...


Take the roof off. Take a sawsall and cut down all 4
corners in a
miter. Mova all 4 walls separately and re-assemble. A good
friend just
did the same with a 11X12 2 weeks ago. Same situation -
neighbour
needed it gone. Loaded the 4 peices and the floor on flatbed
trailer
and moved it from Cambridge to Sauble beach to re-assemble
at the
cottage as a "bunkie"

On 1/4/2011 10:39 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
I may finally have found a problem that I can't solve. Sigh.
A good friend of mnem asked me today about movin ga hsed If
ehe can move it about 50 feet, from the neighbors lot, he
can have the shed. Else, it will be torn down and scrapped

Shed is about 12 x 8 feet. About 8 feet tall. As I quipped,
you could move in family of 8 immigrants, and they would fit
fine. It's seriously large enough to live in, and call it a
studio apartment.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedfront.jpg
Here is the front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayoung01/shedside.jpg
This is the side of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...sfrontshed.jpg
http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...frontshed2.jpg
These are pictures of the shed with a 250 pound Mormon
standing in front of the shed.

http://www.fotolode.com/images/cayou...estination.jpg
This shows the path the shed needs to move. Towards the
photographer.

The roof is slightly pitched, maybe 2-12. The roof is badly
rotted and can be sacrificed. The walls are flake board, and
2 x 2 studs. The floor feels like 3/4 plywood on 6 x 6
beams. Or maybe two by six, nailed together. There is vinyl
siding. I leaned against the building, and it didn't move a
bit. The floor beams and all, are on cinder blocks.

There are a couple phone poles near the destination which
might be strong enough to put a cable hoist. There may be
enough room to fit a small four by four truck. We discussed
pulling, carrying, and rolling on pipes or tubes.

I'm really not coming up with any good ideas. What do you
all suggest?

The shed I moved with ??? pounds of weight in it had the two skids under
it. The terain was not good for rolling it on pipes. I got 3 4x4's,
jacked up the shed and put them under as if rolling it on pipes.
(forgot, I GREASED the 4x4's!) Pulled the shed easy and like rolling on
tubes, kept replacing the 4x4 from one end to the other. When I was
close I had to move the van to push the shed instead of pulling it. A
couple of tires on rims between the shed and the van bumper made sure
the bumper wouldn't get scratched. I would think the two missing skids
could easily be added. Jack it up and screw them onto the floor joists.