Moving a shed

[Hay Dude]

Pulling the forms was the biggest PITA lol

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I never did a concrete slab myself. Did lay some block and bricks when I added the garage to my house.

 

[ovrszd]

I never did a concrete slab myself. Did lay some block and bricks when I added the garage to my house.

I did a 30x50 with the help of my Sons several years ago. No one experienced involved. I'd never do that again. My abilities did not meet my expectations. I'll stick to broom finished sidewalks.....

 

[Hay Dude]

I never did a concrete slab myself. Did lay some block and bricks when I added the garage to my house.

Rent a mini ex and Ill come help ya. I will be out visiting my little girl at OU a few times this spring….
Get the grill fired up, too.
Gotta be before the middle of April-thats when I get REAL busy.

 

[Rustyiron]

I did a 30x50 with the help of my Sons several years ago. No one experienced involved. I'd never do that again. My abilities did not meet my expectations. I'll stick to broom finished sidewalks.....

I've told everyone that knows me that if you EVER see me with a trowel, concrete or drywall to immediate subdue me.

 

[ovrszd]

I've told everyone that knows me that if you EVER see me with a trowel, concrete or drywall to immediate subdue me.

Absolutely!!!!

 

[jjeff]

wife told me the same thing when I grab a caulk gun or paintbrush.

 

[Jstpssng]

I never did a concrete slab myself. Did lay some block and bricks when I added the garage to my house.

I did a 16x24 about 12 years ago, with a 5 foot mixer which would only run backwards. It came out OK, not real smooth as all that I did was run a 2x4 across the top to level, but it hasn’t cracked yet.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I think some of the old firewood was elm, it’s rotted. Old locust is good. Got a burn going for the bad stuff. Not going to get nearly as much done as I want.

 

[Jimmy Joe]

In another thread, I spoke of wanting to move my shed to another location on my property.
Thought I’d start my own thread to update in case I actually move it.
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I consider the front the 16 ft eve side facing the tractor, it has 8 ft wide double door. The gable end is 12 ft.

Shed was started in late 1996 as I was waiting for my building permit for my house.
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Unfortunately, I did not put skids under it. It has pt 4x4s floor joists running every 2 ft apart in the 12 ft direction. Those sit on blocks in the front. In the middle and back there are two 8 ft pt 4x6s running the 16 ft direction, on blocks to support the floor joists. If I had used a solid 16 ft here, it would be a skid. I believe I can push or pull a 16 ft 6x6 skid under the back side, and lift the front side to put a skid under it.

As seen in the first picture, I added a 16 ft long by 10ft? Wide lean to off the back of the shed. To move the shed, the lean to has to be unattached.
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Before I built my barn, I dug enough dirt out from under the lean to so I could park my former L3130 tractor under it.
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I used to park my little Massey tractor in the shed, and might again.

From the looks of the way you have the original floor blocked up I would think you could work some 6x6 or so skids underneath and cut a few holes in the floor above the skids and lag some angle iron brackets from the joists to the skids. I would install some cross bracing inside remove the leanto and should be good to go.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Got the front row of wood about done, filled about half of a tote basket to save. Woods all frozen together, had to beat it apart.

Only got to 30° today, but no wind.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Maybe I should have kept some of this.

 

[ovrszd]

We had a Sunny, no wind, mid 30s day. No complaints.

We have a campground in the timber with a shelter and primitive privvy. I keep a rick of "junk" wood there just for the spontaneous campfire.

A fire brings out the primitive man in me.

 

[civilian]

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Maybe I should have kept some of this.

Not sure which is better, the fire or the sunset. Enjoy both. Jon

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Rent a mini ex and Ill come help ya. I will be out visiting my little girl at OU a few times this spring….
Get the grill fired up, too.
Gotta be before the middle of April-thats when I get REAL busy.

Why rent a a mini?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Did get to burn a little more junk wood tonight. Still got half the woodshed to clear out, the wood is frozen together. Doesn’t look like it will get much above freezing for a week.
Need to come up with a place to store some of the stuff that has to come out of the lean to and shed.

 

[jjeff]

Tarp it on pallets?

 

[DieselBound]

Moved this shed this past summer. 12'x16'. I struggled because it weighed a lot more than I'd calculated: came with the property; had a bunch of EPS foam board insulation and couldn't see the actual construction. It had plywood sheathing PLUS T1-11 over that. My Kioti struggled to lift as needed. Used equipment rollers on boards (which mostly all got demolished by the time I was done- some sort of metal channel tracks would have been best). Move was "up hill," which made things even harder; uneven ground to boot. Only about 70' move though. Kioti did lifting to reposition rollers and boards. Kubota did a lot of the pushing (big plus with all mechanical linkages is that there's next to zero delay in response, unlike with drive-by-wire which can tend to end up being jerky- many times overran my rollers and had to pick the shed back up to put the rollers back on track).

Boards and logs (or pipes) is something that I'd consider if I had to do this again. I hadn't been thinking boards when I contemplated logs/pipes; ground being uneven and next to the original location VERY soft (I sank boards as it was!) made me discount such. In general, think "tracks" and "wheels."

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Last/first time I moved a shed was over a distance of MANY miles. Broke it down into sections (used my Kubota) and hauled with my utility trailer. I swear the recent move was harder!

 

[Diggin It]

Rent a mini ex

Go big or go home.

 

[TCowner]

Ignore everything you have been told here. This is the only way to move a shed: