Portable buildings - update
Well, after working Monday and Tuesday and plotting and scheming and watching the rain fall for three days, the sky more or less cleared up today and I got a chance to go over to the lot and survey the scene. The lot for the most part is on high ground so the ground was in pretty good shape but there were several mud holes right at the front of the lot at the entrance and the two buildings were both sitting in about an inch of water so it is definitely too wet to get a truck in anytime soon. That was the bad news. The good news is that the skids on both buildings have holes near the end where an eyebolt can go and that I don't forsee any big obstacles which might keep me from pulling the buildings to the front of the lot. So the gameplan for today was to get the buildings ready to move and pull them to the front of the lot with my tractor and call the truck owner to come by tomorrow or Friday to pick them up.
So I came back to town, stopped by Lowes and spent $42 in shackles, eyebolts and 6" nails and came home and up some 4x4s to length to use as end supports between the skids. I was ready to go pick up my tractor (parked at a friend's house in town the last few days to make it unavailable for a mooching neighbor - but that's another story!) and I needed to make one last stop at my neighbor's house to pick up a length of chain.
I knocked on his door, he answered and I told him what I needed and why. He gave me a funny look and told me (uh, oh - more bad news) that he did not know if I could still take possession of the buildings. I said "Say what?" To make a long story short I misunderstood when was the deadline to get the buildings moved. I thought I had until the end of this week but he informed me that his agreement with the new property owner was that he would have everything that he wanted to keep moved out by the 15th, which was last Sunday. Now, technically the buildings belong to the new owner because they were not removed by the deadline.
Well, crap! Between the rain, work and being misinformed about the deadline the best laid plan of this particular mouse have come to a grinding halt. My neighbor got on the phone and tried to call the guy to see if I could still get the buildings. Of course the fellow was not there and of course he did not return my neighbor's call at all today. So, here I sit fretting and stewing and not knowing if I even own the one building anymore.
Hopefully I wil find something out tomorrow or at least this week. Gonna be a bummer if a bad set of circumstances keeps me from getting a free 10x20 portable building.
I will keep you all posted. Hopefully my next post will have better news.