||On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:37:51 -0700, "SteveB" ||wrote: || || ||>
||>BY MYSELF, I moved an eight foot by eight foot Catalina spa about twenty ||>five feet to its new location. I used levers first, then hydraulic jacks, ||>then got two four wheel dollies under it. Luckily the pool deck and patio ||>were relatively flat. I got it to its new foundation, and used PVC pipes to ||>roll it Egyptian style. ||>
||Juniors former employer had a cast concrete planter sitting on a ||palette out front of the store for about six months until I made the ||comment that if they soon didn't take it off the palette, I would do ||the job myself. The result was that on the next Sunday (cleanup day) ||the shop owner polished the same section of window for half an hour as ||I, assisted by a wrecking bar and a basket of wood scraps, moved the ||planter to it's designated spot and claimed the palette as my outdoor ||work surface. None of the staff had been able to suggest a method to ||accomplish the moving of this 3/4 ton item. ||Gerry :-)} ||London, Canada
When we moved into our present house a few years ago, it came with a nice, nearly new, site-built wooden storage building, 16'x12'. I needed it moved about 30 feet - uphill, and through/around trees. So I called two local guys that advertised moving such things. They estimated $300 to do it, so I said "Come on". They came out, looked at at it, and said "We can't move that!" And wished me luck. Then my wife's employer offered to move it as a favor. this company is a nationally-known for moving difficult items - anything, anywhere. They handled transportation of the King Tut exhibit pieces when it toured the US. They sent out a crew of 3 with a big forklift on an 18-wheeler. Those guys worked about 6 hours, getting the building to a different spot but still 20 feet or so from where it needed to be before crying "uncle" and leaving, with apologies to the wife. They also left a couple of broken tree limbs and one nice smaller tree cut down. I came home and found the building in a totally "not good" place. It was "high-centered" basically at the end of my driveway. It still needed to go uphill about 15 feet, then turn 90 degrees and go downhill another 20 feet. After a few more weeks of looking for someone to finish the job, I went down to HD and bought a heavy-duty come-along and an assortment of chain, cable, and ratcheting straps. Then I went back and cut brush and vines between the building and the oak trees around the stranded building. Using the gear I had to attach to the tree trunks, with the come-along midway, I moved that building over one weekend, inching it over a few sheets of plywod. A little muscle and engenuity makes an impossible job do-able without heavy equipment. Texas Parts Guy