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Moving the barn...

big tee

big tee

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The brother in-law that sold his welding shop last Summer kept his welding gas business and wants to build a small building to house it but the old barn was in the way. He has a acreage in the heart of Amish country and sold his barn to a Amish guy about 2 miles from his place. They plowed the snow and went across the field. Here are some pics of the move. He said the move cost the Amish guy $6000---Tee
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Sure glad he decided to sell it rather than tearing it down. However, there probably would have been more money in selling the barn lumber. Hard to believe there's that much demand for barn wood, but not for the barns.

Kudos to your BIL.
 
Years ago I helped a friend move a barn that size. We used chain saws to cut the bottom 8' off and kept the haymow floor. It is at his museum site full of displays.
 
My next door neighbor moved a barn at least that size in from some 25 miles away.

They did the move in mid winter when the ground was frozen solid.
 
Very nice. In 1989 I move a house 5 miles from town to my farm. We had no house, and my wife and I, and our two and a half year old son ,lived in a 12x60 trailer that we bought and moved into when we married in 82. The house was pretty much "move in " condition at the time of the move, but it was located on the site of a new strip mall, so it had to go. I bought the house delivered to my farm for $10,000.00. We put a full basement under the house before the beams were removed. We also had to dig a well put in a septic system and a new electric panel , as well as a heat plant. Total cost for every thing including the house, $30,000.00
 
Dave-you and bj are both right, These pics were taken over a month ago. About a mile in the field and another mile on the gravel road. Frost was still in the ground---Tee
 
Did some Googling on the Amish communities. It seems like Canada (Ontario actually) is the only place where Amish live in a community outside the USA. Up here in Western Canada we have a lot of Hutterite and Mennonite colonies but I don't think they practice so many old traditional ways of living. Years ago a friend told me there is only one way to tell the two groups apart from one another ..... and that was the fact that the Hutterites wave to each other while shopping in the liquor store while the Mennonites don't. Maybe that's a politically incorrect story but I thought I'd throw it in. Hope it didn't offend anybody.
 
Big Tee,

I've never seen a full sized barn moved. Knew a guy who talked of moving a small barn across a field - but he never did do it. It was much smaller than your BIL's barn.

Great photos - thanks for posting them.
 
We moved our house in 1999. It was moved about 20 miles. One of the colleges and the hospital in that town were doing major expansions, and several neighborhoods of houses were all sold and moved out. We paid more for moving the house and moving power lines than for the house itself.
We moved it onto 5 acres that we owned in the country. We also had to put the well and septic system in, as there had never been a house on that site before.
We did some remodeling of the house and also added on to it. Also the new basement, etc.
It's not by any means perfect, but we could not have built a comparable house from scratch for what we have in this one.
I have some pictures of the move, but they're not loaded into the computer.

My brother also bought the house two doors down from ours and moved it to his place.
 
I was expecting the barn to be surrounded by Amish men shuffling across the field. What's all this high tech equipment. Glad they saved it and thank you for sharing.
 
Big Tee, Good to see the barn saved. Do you know what they are going to use for the foundation? Here's a picture of my dad moving his house in 1985. Tractor is Oliver 1950 T. 2nd and 3rd picture is a house we dug under and poured foundation. Crew of 4 one being the bosses daughter and completed in about a months time.
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In the last picture the guy with the hoodie and the white beard is my bil. He has Parkinson's but they think they have it under control. He bought a 15 pass. van and hauls Amish around. A lot of the Amish are named Yoder so we call him the YODER TODER.
 
I have seen videos of people moving a barn by hand but this is a pic I found of Amish doing it.---Tee
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I moved a large shed at the start of my career in 1988 that was in the way of the new building we were constructing. Fun experience.
 
My next door moved his barn in at least 10 years ago. It is a full size barn. Dad used to have a picture taken in the 1920's where they sawed a church in two and he was moving it through town with one of his steam engines. They converted it into a house and it is till being used. We have a large Mennonite population near by and they are just like the rest of us so when you talk about the Mennonites what is different about them?
 
Grandpa had a house moving business in the 60's. Used a JD 4020 to tow the houses and the Case 930 to move the basements.
 
I don't know how to link to it but Johnny Morris (owner of Bass Pro) had the Ozark Mill moved over in one piece to build a new flood proof foundation under it. The mill dates from 1833 200 feet long, 60 feet wide, 400 tons.
 
Bruce that was a good deal for you and your wife. Makes getting by with a family easier.

I never moved a house to live in but we remodeled/rebuilt five different house during my first marriage. Most of them we abandoned farm houses that we in good structural shape but outdated electric/plumbing. We would work on them in the evenings after supper and chores. My kids grew up helping remodel those houses. They learned a lot of things doing that. My wife and I doing this allowed us to leverage our selves up to where we could by the home farm when My Grand Mother decided to move to town.
 
I have a friend who thinks MACK TRUCKS are the only truck worth having I told him driving a MACK was like sneaking around with the neighbors wife do it after dark and know one knows about it.
 
Bruce ...... I've found the same thing about city folk, all have been pleasant like your Mennonite neighbors. Whether they hug trees or not is none of my business and if they did, I probably wouldn't give it a second thought.
 
I'll go you one better! I pried and old well out of the ground, cut it into 8' lengths, took it to the sawmill, and had it sawed into post holes. Heck of a lot easier to sell that way, and brought a lot more money, too!
 
That setup looks about identical to the guy I hired in "98 to move a 40x75 pole shed from the other farm, 2 miles away. Cost $4500 then. He didn"t cut poles off, total time for move and setting was 2 days.
 
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