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Need to lift a 12x8 foot porch up 15 feet.
I'm trying to think of a way to raise a 12x8 foot porch up 15 feet. Let
me explain: The trailer house was moved to a new location. The porch came with the trailer house. The porch was free standing, only connected to the trailer by a few screws and some flashing to join the roofs. (This is a porch with walls and a roof, which has six 4x4 legs). The former location of the trailer house was flat, the trailer and porch both sat about 30 inches off the ground. The new location of the trailer house is on a hill. The front of the trailer is 14 inches off the ground, the rear of the trailer is seven feet off the ground. This porch goes where the trailer is about 6 feet off the ground. If it was just a matter of raising the porch up six feet, some jacks and railroad tie cribbing would work. However, there is a catch. The side of the trailer where the porch needs to go, is another hill and a rather steep one. The side of the trailer where the porch must go, is right on the edge of that steep hill. Thus, the porch which now sits at the bottom of that steep hill, needs to first be raised up the hill, which is about 8 to 9 feet up. Then raised the six feet to be level with the door. In other words, when standing at the base of the steep hill, the door on the trailer is about 15 feet up. I should note that the trailer was put on this hillside in order to build a large deck over the hill. However, this porch was supposed to also be put there and a deck built out from the porch. This porch is supposed to be placed by the trailer door, and those short 4x4 posts under it be replaced by long 6x6 posts, which will be 8 foot next to the trailer and 12 foot on the hillside (including portion dug into the ground). Someone suggested hiring a crane operator, which I'm sure would work, but the cost is prohibitive. However, available are a farm tractor with a loader, and a skid loader, plus chain hoist and come-alongs. So far, I can only think of trying to slide the porch on it's side up some boards laid against the hillside, using the chain hoist and comealongs, but then to tip it upright onto the posts (placed in the ground after the porch is at the top of the hill), seems near impossible. This wooden porch is fairly heavy, which adds to the problem. I've moved a lot of buildings, but this has me puzzled. Any ideas???????? |
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Need to lift a 12x8 foot porch up 15 feet.
Gunn,
So why don't you disassemble this porch and use it's parts to build the needed porch? Dave M. |
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On 11/7/2013 8:35 AM, David L. Martel wrote:
Gunn, So why don't you disassemble this porch and use it's parts to build the needed porch? Dave M. Beat me to it. Fastest Usenet in the west. -- .. Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus www.lds.org .. |
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Need to lift a 12x8 foot porch up 15 feet.
I'm trying to think of a way to raise a 12x8 foot porch up 15 feet.
The trailer house was moved to a new location. The porch came with the trailer house. The porch was free standing, only connected to the trailer by a few screws and some flashing to join the roofs. (This is a porch with walls and a roof, which has six 4x4 legs). The former location of the trailer house was flat, the trailer and porch both sat about 30 inches off the ground. The new location of the trailer house is on a hill. The front of the trailer is 14 inches off the ground, the rear of the trailer is seven feet off the ground. This porch goes where the trailer is about 6 feet off the ground. If it was just a matter of raising the porch up six feet, some jacks and railroad tie cribbing would work. However, there is a catch. The side of the trailer where the porch needs to go, is another hill and a rather steep one. The side of the trailer where the porch must go, is right on the edge of that steep hill. Thus, the porch which now sits at the bottom of that steep hill, needs to first be raised up the hill, which is about 8 to 9 feet up. Then raised the six feet to be level with the door. In other words, when standing at the base of the steep hill, the door on the trailer is about 15 feet up. As other posters have mentioned, I would disassemble the old porch and use the materials to build a new porch. You're going to need new footings, new longer posts, diagonal bracing, etc. In other words, you'll need a whole new structure for the steep slope than you needed for a flat area. By the time you fussed around with all the modifications to make the old porch work on the slope, you could have simply built a new one. If it were me, I would make the posts one piece from the footing up to the roof. I've moved a lot of buildings, but this has me puzzled. I used a Bobcat to move our old 8x12 shed: http://www.watsondiy.com/2005shed.htm Of course, this was all level ground. Your slope sounds too steep to be driving a bobcat up, or even sideways across for that matter. The only other option I can think of would be to cut a mostly level road into the slope that you could pull the structure along. But again, that's more work than just building a new porch. Anthony Watson www.mountainsoftware.com www.watsondiy.com |
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How about an insurance fire? Seriously, just take it apart the best you can and then rebuild. Although, even after rebuilding, it sounds like a dangerous situation for using the porch with the height above the ground level.
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On Thursday, November 7, 2013 12:54:29 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
On Thu, 07 Nov 2013 04:56:10 -0600, wrote: I'm trying to think of a way to raise a 12x8 foot porch up 15 feet. Let me explain: The trailer house was moved to a new location. The porch came with the trailer house. The porch was free standing, only connected to the trailer by a few screws and some flashing to join the roofs. (This is a porch with walls and a roof, which has six 4x4 legs). I only read the description once, and I'm not sure I'm picturing it, but How about moving the trailer out of the way for a while, putting the porch at the top of the hill, and lowering it into place? This might be safer for the trailer too, out of the way so the porch can't fall on it. Think I'll throw my vote in for the tear down rebuild group. |
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wrote in message ... How about an insurance fire? Seriously, just take it apart the best you can and then rebuild. Although, even after rebuilding, it sounds like a dangerous situation for using the porch with the height above the ground level. Why? I built our 13 x 42 deck 12 feet above ground level as we live on a hillside. WW |
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Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 11/7/13 4:56 AM, wrote: I'm trying to think of a way to raise a 12x8 foot porch up 15 feet. Let me explain: The trailer house was moved to a new location. The porch came with the trailer house. The porch was free standing, only connected to the trailer by a few screws and some flashing to join the roofs. (This is a porch with walls and a roof, which has six 4x4 legs). The former location of the trailer house was flat, the trailer and porch both sat about 30 inches off the ground. The new location of the trailer house is on a hill. The front of the trailer is 14 inches off the ground, the rear of the trailer is seven feet off the ground. This porch goes where the trailer is about 6 feet off the ground. A bunch snipped. Would it be practical to set some old telephone/power line poles temporarily? Attach pulleys to the top of the poles and use rope or cable to lift the porch? Remember the old rope fence stretchers? No chance of renting a crane, even sky crane? They charge by the hour. |
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