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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jul 26, 2017 4:07:17 GMT
Cool article! Can't imagine all of the planning/work that goes into moving a house such as that one - Wow!
These days you just don't see much of that anymore... I do remember as a kid seeing a few "houses moved"... Am I showing my age now??
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Post by Use Less on Jul 26, 2017 11:45:43 GMT
I've watched a few minutes of two houses being moved. The big one that went down a busy commuter road through a village was interesting They had to have some of the power and phone lines disconnected briefly, then quickly rehooked. That house was "free", but who knows what the moving, the preparation and the insurance must have cost.
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Post by here to stay on Jul 26, 2017 12:48:54 GMT
Years ago I looked up from doing dishes at the sink to see the whole kitchen window view filled with a giant 4 story Victorian rolling slowly by. The street was a 3 lane, long straight one way so a prime choice for house moving.
There had been no notice that this was going to happen so was rather a shock. But a pleasant one. There were two untility crews one a block ahead of the house and one behind. At each intersection, the first crew raised the utility lines and stop lights, the house passed under them and the following crew replaced them. It was all slow, stately and incredibly quiet.
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Post by Cabin Fever on Jul 26, 2017 16:29:53 GMT
That's a neat article. What is really cool is watching semi trucks move a house to an island or off an island over a frozen lake.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 27, 2017 14:23:37 GMT
We have one long block of large old 2-story houses in this city which seem so out-of-place. That's because they weren't built there. I know where some of them originally were. Where I live, the house across the street was a farmhouse from several miles away. There's also a story like Cabin's. In the 1950s, I fished in a place where there used to be a mill and a house beside Lake Wisconsin north of Merrimac. Remains of the mill were there but only the house foundation existed. No sign of ashes or any scrap so I always wondered what happened to it. 50 years later, I signed up for Internet with a company based there and I commented that I used to fish at Stoner's Bay many years ago. The person responded that he lives in that house in Merrimac. It had been moved in the winter and horses were used to pull it on the frozen lake.
Martin
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Post by Cabin Fever on Jul 27, 2017 17:47:05 GMT
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