Move shed with tractor

[bones1]

I have a 12x24 shed sitting where my garage is going to go.It has a 3/4 plywood floor on 2x4's at 1 ft on center.The 2x4's sit on 4x4's that run the length of the building.It is on blocks in the rear since it is on a good slope. They are all tied together and it is Amish built.I do not know how much it weighs but it needs to be moved about 100ft up a small incline and turned 90 deg.
Has anyone here done something like this with a tractor and if so how?
Thanks for any input.

 

[JJT]

I moved a very heavy/well built 16x16 with a 40 horse 4wd tractor. It was on 6x6 skids, and it pulled hard for the first 20 feet. As soon as I was in loose material I ran out of traction and the job had to be finished with a much larger tractor, (only needed to move it another 4 feet). My shed has 2x6 pressure treated floor and floor joists. It also had at least 2000 board ft of wood inside, I'm guessing it easily weighed 12k #'s. I tried to push it, but that didn't work, I had to wrap a chain around the base and pull. The larger FEL simply pushed it into place without breaking a sweat.

Unless you have a bigger tractor than mine, I'm betting you're in for a fight to get this moving uphill and turned.

 

[Spark_man]

I have a friend that has some Amish built pigeon coops about the same size and they are moved every other month or so to clean out the droppings that accumulate under neath (they have wire floors).

I also saw a guy cut the posts on a pole building at ground level, jack up each side, slide some cut trees under, chain the whole mess together and move the building about 1/2 a mile to a new location. How 'bout that?

 

[Paddy]

Sure it can be done if it's not to; fragil or heavy. After you are sure it's braced well and you have good sled runners, wet the ground the runners sit. Not where the tractor tires are. Static friction is considerably more than dynamic friction. So once you get it moving go as far as you can in one pull.

Owner to the North of me has a simple pole shed that sits across my line by 10-15 ft. He has claimed there is nothing he can do short of tearing down. I have offered to help him move it!!

 

[ScottAR]

Cut a door in your side and put some junk in there and I bet it gets moved...


We moved a shed once with a 30hp JD. The trick is to load the tractor tires for traction... We used a cross bar draw bar mounted on the lift links and lifted the shed slightly. Be careful and go slow as your pulling above the centerline of the axle. Might load some weight in the bucket too.

As was said, after you get moving, don't stop till your done.

 

[billfires]

Try to pull it as others have suggested but if it won't move, use some pipe as rollers. It will be slow going and you will need a couple of helpers but it will allow you to move it with your tractor, Bill C

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I have a 12 X 24 shed and the builders told me how to move it.

Place chains thru chainbrace down low on one end short enough so that as you pull it, the chains actually lift up and pull. Try to angle the chains up to 45 degrees. They told me a 4X4 truck would pull it.

 

[Timber]

This is something I have done a lot with my Dad as a kid. Big tip Rollers, rollers Rollers. If you can lift the building with a floor jack and slide some 2X10s or what ever under the length and set them down on rollers. The bigger the roller the better. Telephone polls make the best rollers. 5 work real well cut about 8 to 10 feet long so you can handle them. Just pick up the ones that roll out the back and move them to the front

 

[RickS]

We just hook up the little Allis Chalmers D5 dozer and pull things all over the county. I guess that is cheating.

 

[Skaning]

Timber has the best method. You might pull it off dragging it by youself with a tractor, but a crew of three or four to do the grunt work of moving rollers will make the job a bunch easier, particularly if you have to drag it up a slope. The phone poles are a good idea for moving it on dirt. Another approach would be to go with 2x8, 2x10. as long as you have them under each of the skids. With them as the base you could get away with 2 or 3 inch pipe as rollers between the skids and the 2xs. More stuff to move as it progresses, just a case of what you have on hand to work with.