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Don-Wi

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Brother moved a garage. It's a 16 x 20, we're gonna pour a pad here and transfer everything from our workshop into it so we can either tear that one down or move it, and then build a new 40x60.

I drove, we did the move at around dusk. Had a full police escort for the 2 mile trip, 1 in front, 1 behind, and 1 blocking trouble intersections and such. Was very uneventful once we got out of the alley and onto the street.

He used our 8 x 18' hay wagon, had to cut it down 4" on the sides to squeeze in the garage door. It's got heavy 16" truck tires on it, so the back ones with more weight got pumped up to about 80 PSI and extra planks were laid on the deck to help raise it up some more in the back.







Donovan from Wisconsin
 
When the going gets tough,the tough can come up with some pretty good ideas. Glad to hear that the move was more or less uneventful.
 
Few years ago we moved a single stall garage a half mile to son"s place.... he uses it for a woodburner and wood storage. I used the 3020 loader tractor- went into the garage, raised the loader (had a plank across the bucket to catch the rafters)....bale fork on the tph, with a beam across to hold the back half of the garage (sill). Lifted everything up and drove down the road, couldn"t see squat except out of the left side window of the garage, plus, ....watching the pavement.....worst thing was the diesel exhaust buildup inside the garage!

We"ve done weird, obtuse things. Next project is to take down the old concrete shop, save the roof by backing in a semi flatbed with round bales on it.....shop has a good roof, ten feet off the ground, block walls are ready to fall in....I expect to (gently) drop the roof onto the bales when I pop the walls in with the TLB. Sounds like a plan. Now, all three sons need to get together and decide ...who gets the roof? But I"m blessed- they all get along, just like with their three sisters!
 
We skidded a heavy, double walled 2-car garage 2 miles from Grandma's farm to our farm. Put it on old electric poles and pulled it with the HD7 on gravel roads. It's still in use today.
 
JMS I moved one down the blacktop road that way one time. You're driving this building down the road from a tractor seat looking out the door from the back of the garage with the road going by underneath you. Jim
 
heard a story bout couple old timers moved a 1 stall garage with like a 2 ton chevy truck, it was in town, they hoisted garage up and backed truck in blocked/fastened to the truck some how, cab and hood was inside garage as well so the made a plank to hang off the front of the truck stuck out like 8 to 10 feet one guy drove truck other sat on end of plank. woulda made out just fine but had to cross a bridge and fire dept. and police dept. was doing bridge tranning don't know what kind of trouble they got in but i'm sure it wasn't good
 
Nice...hate to see usable buildings go to waste. I have moved
several over the years.

Almost had another one recently, but the local city requirements
(off duty police escorts, utilities review, permit, etc) would have
cost more to move than to just build new..
 
The best part of this one was the police just did it for free. My brother got the permit and it said to notify local PD. Last year the one he did from another city didn't give any assistance (was a narrower garage so not as big of a deal) but these guys met us there, then had 3 cars running with us.

When we finally have it in place and down, I'll have to snap another picture of it.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
(quoted from post at 23:30:25 07/22/13) Few years ago we moved a single stall garage a half mile to son"s place.... he uses it for a woodburner and wood storage. I used the 3020 loader tractor- went into the garage, raised the loader (had a plank across the bucket to catch the rafters)....bale fork on the tph, with a beam across to hold the back half of the garage (sill). Lifted everything up and drove down the road, couldn"t see squat except out of the left side window of the garage, plus, ....watching the pavement.....worst thing was the diesel exhaust buildup inside the garage!
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I love it!!

I work for a structural moving company that moves houses, barns, sheds and garages. Naturally we have to use professional grade equipment, but I must say I love your ingenuity! As the old saying goes: "necessity is the mother of invention"
 
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