Want to move Carport
 

Some years ago I built a free standing carport at the rear of my house.
It's a hefty thing - 24 ft long x 10 ft wide. The frame is built using
wood - 4x4in uprights (10), 5x2in cross members (5) and 3x2in (6) 24 ft long
supports for the plastic coated steel sheeted roof!! Two sides are also
sheeted. The legs have Metpost bolt-down fixings on 18in square concrete
bases.

I want to move it LOL!!! Yes, I'm serious ............. Now my brain tells
me it will have to be dismantled, but before I take it apart has anyone got
any ideas how I could move it intact, or even partially intact? I want to
move it sideways approx 10 feet.

Thanks,
Tony

Want to move Carport
 

"Tony Hayes" wrote in message
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Some years ago I built a free standing carport at the rear of my house.
It's a hefty thing - 24 ft long x 10 ft wide. The frame is built using
wood - 4x4in uprights (10), 5x2in cross members (5) and 3x2in (6) 24 ft
long
supports for the plastic coated steel sheeted roof!! Two sides are also
sheeted. The legs have Metpost bolt-down fixings on 18in square concrete
bases.

I want to move it LOL!!! Yes, I'm serious ............. Now my brain
tells
me it will have to be dismantled, but before I take it apart has anyone
got
any ideas how I could move it intact, or even partially intact? I want to
move it sideways approx 10 feet.

Thanks,
Tony

Nine strong mates
Baz

Want to move Carport
 

"Tony Hayes" wrote in message
t...
Some years ago I built a free standing carport at the rear of my house.
It's a hefty thing - 24 ft long x 10 ft wide. The frame is built using
wood - 4x4in uprights (10), 5x2in cross members (5) and 3x2in (6) 24 ft
long
supports for the plastic coated steel sheeted roof!! Two sides are also
sheeted. The legs have Metpost bolt-down fixings on 18in square concrete
bases.

I want to move it LOL!!! Yes, I'm serious ............. Now my brain
tells
me it will have to be dismantled, but before I take it apart has anyone
got
any ideas how I could move it intact, or even partially intact? I want to
move it sideways approx 10 feet.

You could try getting nine friends round on the pretext of giving them beer
and take a leg each. You could fix handles to each leg first and unbolt the
fixings


--
Bob Mannix
(anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)

Want to move Carport
 

I want to move it LOL!!! Yes, I'm serious ............. Now my brain
tells me it will have to be dismantled, but before I take it apart
has anyone got any ideas how I could move it intact, or even
partially intact?

You can get those hovercraft things, like they move spacecraft and power
station generating equipment on.

Christian.

P.S. why 4in x 4in uprights? Were you planning to keep the cars ON the
carport, rather than under it?!?

Want to move Carport
 

"Tony Hayes" wrote in message
t...
Some years ago I built a free standing carport at the rear of my house.
It's a hefty thing - 24 ft long x 10 ft wide. The frame is built using
wood - 4x4in uprights (10), 5x2in cross members (5) and 3x2in (6) 24 ft
long
supports for the plastic coated steel sheeted roof!! Two sides are also
sheeted. The legs have Metpost bolt-down fixings on 18in square concrete
bases.

I want to move it LOL!!! Yes, I'm serious ............. Now my brain
tells
me it will have to be dismantled, but before I take it apart has anyone
got
any ideas how I could move it intact, or even partially intact? I want to
move it sideways approx 10 feet.

Thanks,
Tony

Lay 'tracks' of scaffold poles from where the carport is to where you want
it. Make up a structure that clamps to your 4x4s and has scaffold poles as
its base running at 90 degrees to your tracks. Transfer the weight of the
carport to the structure that you have made by jacking up each leg in turn
before clamping to your structure. Sliding the 'structure' over the tracks
should be perfectly feasible by one or two large adults, but failing that
winch it across using short poles driven into the ground as ground anchors.

If you are local I'll give you a hand.

Andrew Mawson
(Bromley, Kent)

Want to move Carport
 

"Tony Hayes" wrote in message
t...
Some years ago I built a free standing carport at the rear of my house.
It's a hefty thing - 24 ft long x 10 ft wide. The frame is built using
wood - 4x4in uprights (10), 5x2in cross members (5) and 3x2in (6) 24 ft long
supports for the plastic coated steel sheeted roof!! Two sides are also
sheeted. The legs have Metpost bolt-down fixings on 18in square concrete
bases.

I want to move it LOL!!! Yes, I'm serious ............. Now my brain tells
me it will have to be dismantled, but before I take it apart has anyone got
any ideas how I could move it intact, or even partially intact? I want to
move it sideways approx 10 feet.

Exactly 10 feet, so that one set of posts could stay in place?
A frosty weekend might be useful

Want to move Carport
 

Good bin liners--lots of rope--and a large cylinder of helium should do it.

Want to move Carport
 

Christian McArdle wrote:
I want to move it LOL!!! Yes, I'm serious ............. Now my brain
tells me it will have to be dismantled, but before I take it apart
has anyone got any ideas how I could move it intact, or even
partially intact?

You can get those hovercraft things, like they move spacecraft and
power station generating equipment on.

Christian.

P.S. why 4in x 4in uprights? Were you planning to keep the cars ON the
carport, rather than under it?!?

They're to hold up that weighty roof :-)

Want to move Carport
 

Thanks for the replies all. Finding nine friends willing to do a bit of
hard graft will be impossible, since most are older than my 60 years ;-)

I like the idea of a hovercraft or helium filled bin bags :-)

Andrew - your idea sounds feasible, so will try and work something out along
those lines. Thanks for the offer of help, but I'm in deepest South Wales.

Thans again,
Tony

Want to move Carport
 

BillR wrote:

Christian McArdle wrote:
I want to move it LOL!!! Yes, I'm serious ............. Now my brain
tells me it will have to be dismantled, but before I take it apart
has anyone got any ideas how I could move it intact, or even
partially intact?

You can get those hovercraft things, like they move spacecraft and
power station generating equipment on.

Christian.

P.S. why 4in x 4in uprights? Were you planning to keep the cars ON the
carport, rather than under it?!?

They're to hold up that weighty roof :-)



Yes, the roofing sheets are quite heavy - at least 8 of them together are!
And 4x4s aren't that much more expensive than 3x3s, so I thought i would err
on the safe side. I thought the plastic type roofing sheets seemed pretty
flimsy. It is the most solid carport I've ever seen though ;-) It's
painted green and the sheets are green and blends in OK with a background of
trees in the field behind.

Tony