Anybody ever try moving a garage?

[puckgrinder85]

We've done the same as Thorholt. Brace each stud or every other depending on weight, jack up and block every other and move every other brace down, rinse and repeat until at needed height, transport and reverse the process. If going down roads may need escort and check your heights!!!!!!

 

[Roehm Farms]

How many friends and neighbors can you roundup? 40-50 people could pick it up and carry it. Search you tube quite a few videos.

 

[GPintheMitten]

I moved a 14' x 22' garage a few years ago, but I did not take it off-site. I braced it and put a couple of beams under it after I jacked it up. Then moved it off the foundation into the backyard with boards on the yard and 4" pipe for rolling it. I moved it with a come-along. After tearing out the foundation and concrete driveway I poured a new foundation deeper into the lot, and poured a new concrete drive way then rolled it back the same way. My neighbors thought I was crazy. (in the city at the time).

But I made believers out of them.

I saw a youtube video of about a 100 or so people who picked up a large barn and moved it a few hundred feet. Now that was amazing.

 

[RDrancher]

There's a guy over on HEF that moved a pole barn by removing the air from the tires of a rental van, backing it in, stacking some beams on top and then inflating the tires.

 

[jerrybob]

Bruno barn move.........


Bruno Barn Move - YouTube

 

[GPintheMitten]

Bruno barn move.........


Bruno Barn Move - YouTube

Yes! That's it, but it was over 300 people. Like an army of ants.

 

[ajmaxham]

I moved a 14' x 14' building by jacking it up and put 6'' x 6'' skids under the building. Pulled it over 500 ft. with my 4x4 truck (the ground was frozen) Moved it sideways with 2 more 6 x 6 skids, 2x12 on the ground with 2'' pipe rollers. Used 2 come-a-longs and it pulled very easy.

 

[deerseeker001]

I would borrow a hay Wagon back it in.jack the building up then brace with 2x4 from back to front.pull it to desire location and lower it down.

 

[BHD]

years ago, there was a small single garage about 12 miles away, I had a 24 foot flat bed, trailer, and I took that and a handy man jack and we got it started up and blocked it back the trailer under or in it, and bolted 2x6 across the walls and across the trailers bed, put one about every 4 foot, every thing was going great, about 15 to 20 mph and were two miles from home and came to a cross road and the crossing road was raised up some, when we went over the cross road the trailer went up and the building did not as fast, about 100 yards down the road I looked back at it and saw the back of it lower and then you could see each 2x6 break and then the building was skidding down the dirt road, and then made a quick left turn and flattened out across the road, I backed up got a chain out and pulled the pieces off on one side, of the road so people could get around it went home came back with the loader tractor, knocked some holes in one of the walls to chain up to, and layed the other wall and roof sections on the wall section I had chained to the tractor and drug it in the ditch the rest of the way home and straight in to the burn pit,
I will say I have had better days, but do wish I had a video of the unloading of the building,
If I would have use a 2x6 on every stud section would have been fine or doubled them up, probably 2x8's would have been better,

live and learn, but I have seen buildings skidded short distances, and
Part of the problem on this building was there were doors on both ends and a very unstable building in the first place, the way I remember it was about 12' wide maybe a little wider possibly 14 foot,

 

[KennyG]

I have moved a similar building by putting it on timbers, cross bracing it well and pulling it with a tractor. However it was in good condition and it was over flat ground. If it was mine (from what I can see)I would tear it down and salvage what I could. Then I would build exactly what I really want.