Moving a tool shed

[dclymer]

I need to move a 20 by 12 tool shed about 12 feet in a straight line , the shed now rests on cement blocks . Has anyone ever done this any Idea's .
dclymer

 

[gsganzer]

Drop it down on a skid constructed with some 4 x 4 runners (angle cut on the leading edge) and drag it with a truck or tractor.

 

[gsganzer]

One more thought. If the bottom of the building permits, you can "pipe roll" it on some telephone poles.

 

[ScottAR]

What size are the floor joists? Do they run in the direction you want to move it?

When I took carpentry in high school one of our projects was to build an 8 or 10 X 14 garden shed. We took two 6x6s and chamfered the ends. We nailed the 2x4 floor joists into the 6x6s' with 60 penny bridge spikes.

 

[JJT]

Here's what I did when I needed to move my 16x16 shed ~16 feet.

I jacked it up and put a pair of oiled 6x6's under it for runners, let the jacks down and hooked up the L3710. I pilled it about 5 feet and 1 of the 6x6's broke. So I jacked it back up and swapped out the 6x6's with 6 4x6's. I pulled it another 5 feet, at this point I have the shed about 2/3's on the nice concrete pad I poured. Now the tractor is off the concrete and I run out of traction really quick.... I tried several times to pull and to push it the final 5 feet, to no avail. I break down and call my neighbor, 5 minutes and a push from his big cat loader and the job's done. I could have saved myself hours of jacking and pulling by simply making the call for help from the get go......

Bottom line - unless you've got a bigger tractor than mine, (6000# and 37 horses), you aren't going to move it with the tractor or the truck, if you're putting it on skids. You may have luck with some rollers, but this wouldn't work with my floor joists.

I'm guessing my building weighs around 10,000#'s, (+/- 2K).

Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[Inspector507]

The shed could be rolled on rigid pipes if the ground is hard enough and depending on how the "floor joists" run. You'd need a dozen or so and keep putting them in front as the backside clears them.

 

[ScottAR]

Come to think of it, When I was young, we moved a building a little bigger than that with the 1050. We rented "machine rollers". They are for moving factory machines weighing many tons. We built runners with plywood and with the tractor inside, (it didn't have a floor) pulled it onto a slab. We used a cross bar on the 3point as the hookup. If we needed more traction, we raised the hitch a little. Obivously, we were in the lowest gear at a low throttle.

 

[SPIKER]

SCOTT:

that must have been a pretty sight, watchign the shead move across the yard on it's own! lol.

Mark M

 

[Golfgar4]

Here's another way someone moved a similar sized shed.

 

[Inspector507]

Yep, the little TC24D had to help those 2 GM products along.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
But he did it