Fossil Farm
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:laughing: Just trying to save the effort of people suggesting things I will not consider.
Maybe keeping it movable is too much of a negative in this size building. I had figured several screw in anchors would handle any lift/leverage issues, since tiny houses are roughly the same height/width dimensions only scaled down to a 8' wide package.
Screw in anchors, seriously ??? You say you cannot get equipment to the site, so exactly how will this be accomplished ?? Tornadoes and not a problem. Unless it is an F-0, a direct hit will blow just about anything apart. Straight line winds are your main concern. Our 100+ year old timber frame barn was destroyed by straight line winds before the term became common place. The barn went down, but its location probably saved the house from being destroyed. Winds picked it up and moved it a few feet and dropped it. I am sure the barn weight was many, many tons.
You say you cannot get equipment to the site, but want to make the building mobile ?? Think you need to restart your design and spend a few bucks on a construction engineer if you are serious. In hurricane county, many say that round buildings are the way to go, and in hurricane Sandy, some buildings with piers 20 feet deep or deeper and the first floor above normal storm surge withstood the storm.