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Masspectacle 11-19-2009 18:50:25 98.16.179.14 457363 Report to Moderator	I've been needing to move a small 10x16 garage/shed out of the way to make room for a new pole-barn building. I was thinking I would need to jack it up and use a trailer to move it. But a friend of mine suggested I try using the tractor, loader, and 3pt hitch with blade. I backed the tractor in, and it just fit. The loader bucket could grab ahold of the front door header just fine. For the back of the building, I built 2 "headers" of 2x6"s with a 2x4 on top, and some 2x4"s up to the "joist" above. The headers were lag-bolted onto wall studs. I also put in an extra diagonal brace on the side walls. I had just enough rear hydraulic power to get the shed off the ground with enough clearance to move it. The building had 3 layers of shingles on it. Also, it was built with old dimensional lumber (likely recycled from some other older buildings) with two layers of siding. So it was heavier than it looks. I moved the building about 100 yards - I'm planning on making it a little shed for gardening equipment next to a new garden plot. Didn't need the trailer after all. The tractor is a 1964 Ford 2000. Video of the process is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cFwiPhEeFo [Reply]   [No Email]
Masspectacle 11-24-2009 04:56:14 98.16.161.190 457647 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to RodInNS, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   Texas Blues said: (quoted from post at 15:24:36 11/23/09) I thought it was going to tip over 3 or 4 times the way the guy kept tipping the camera lol. I was thinking BE CAREFULL! lol. Nice job, good idea. TB I was surprised I didn't worry during the transit process. Once I got going and broke the building out of its original position, I didn't feel like anything would go wrong. The building was still very solid - so no worries about it coming apart. And the wide base was enough to negate any worries about stability. The only problem I had was that the back end of the building acted kind of like a big box scraper since it didn't have great clearance over some sections. I've got some nice tracks and a trail of gravel showing the path I took in some of the places.   [Reply]   [No Email]
Texas Blues 11-23-2009 14:24:36 75.148.160.221 457618 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   I thought it was going to tip over 3 or 4 times the way the guy kept tipping the camera lol. I was thinking BE CAREFULL! lol. Nice job, good idea. TB   [Reply]   [No Email]
Oliver in SC 11-21-2009 04:10:37 66.153.236.191 457438 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   Fantastic. I have a stick built 10 X 10 shop I need to move. Never thought about this. I have a Ford 1500 with great rear hydraulics but no front loader. Think I'll try jacking the front up and securing it to the front bumper and use the blade to raise the back part. Worth trying. Was going to drag it but will try this first. Thanks for the idea.   [Reply]   [No Email]
Michaels Dad 11-20-2009 17:02:08 209.173.68.135 457414 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a building with a Ford 2000 in reply to Jim Yancey, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   Good job. Back in the early 50's my day moved a one car garage (with lumber in the rafters) about 50 feet using our 49 Willys sedan, a chain and some pipe. Where there's a will, there's a way.   [Reply]   [No Email]
sparepartsTN 11-20-2009 16:48:48 68.19.255.179 457413 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a building with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   I couldn"t get your video to work, but your description reminded me of a garage that my Father moved for a man back in the late 50"s. It was a single car garage, so he backed his two-ton Ford truck into it, jacked it up, put blocking on the flat bed body to hold it up and chained it to the truck. I have a picture somewhere of the truck sitting in our driveway with the garage on it waiting to be delivered. He moved it about 30 miles, 12 (+/-) feet wide, no permits or any hassles, times have changed.   [Reply]   [Send Email]
Ultradog MN 11-20-2009 08:12:58 71.34.13.162 457392 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   Great video! Thanks for posting it. That's using the old noggin for more more than a hat rack - or helmet rack as the case may be.   [Reply]   [No Email]
Ford 335 11-20-2009 06:51:15 168.16.209.39 457388 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   Impressive   [Reply]   [No Email]
Dean 11-20-2009 06:36:35 67.172.13.37 457387 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   Some folks cabs have more windows and more amenities than other folks cabs but it looks like it kept you dry. Now if it just had a wood stove for those cold winter days plowing snow.... Very resourceful. Dean   [Reply]   [No Email]
steve n carol 11-20-2009 06:01:19 71.110.81.86 457382 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   The dog liked it too :D What's next? The big barn? Looks like a nice place to live...sl   [Reply]   [No Email]
john in la 11-19-2009 20:44:12 66.157.51.227 457374 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   And the purpose of wearing the hard hat was ............... I really do not think it would have helped if you had gotten into a situation where you needed it. While my wife would never let me attempt such a idea; I think it was pretty good.   [Reply]   [No Email]
forddoc 11-19-2009 18:54:16 75.170.238.218 457364 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to Masspectacle, 11-19-2009 18:50:25   now you know that you can always shed the tractor where ever you go, just carry it with you.   [Reply]   [No Email]
rustyj14 11-20-2009 09:36:02 173.75.31.48 457397 Report to Moderator	Re: moving a builidng with a Ford 2000 in reply to forddoc, 11-19-2009 18:54:16   A feller in Eastern PA. built a gazebo out of an old TV antenna, one of the big, round, ones, and then had to move it a distance from his garage, to his picnic grounds! He used his garden tractor to get it off the ground, then just kept it raised up, and trundled off with it, to where he wanted to put it.   [Reply]   [No Email]