Moving a tool shed

surfran · Feb 21, 2004

It might be possible to use some air bearings or air casters with plywood sheets that you keep moving? Just a thought, and they probably can be rented.

I know we used to move very heavy machinery with these, but that was on concrete floors, so I don't know if they would work using plywood or not.

http://www.solvinginc.com/rig_set_modular_air_bearing_syst.htm

http://www.hovairproducts.com/air-bearings-products.htm

surfran · Feb 21, 2004

Just remembered one other potential option an old rigger used on a heavy enclosure of ours once. He sent one of his guys over to the local grocery store for some FAT BACK (this was when I was in NC, and I had never heard of it). It is pig hyde with fat on it.

He put the fat back under each of the four corners and slid the thing along just as easy as pie. Made a mess on the tile floor that had to be cleaned up, but work like a charm.

For this option you would need some very smooth surface probably, but may be another idea and it was very cheap............... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Lazy · Feb 21, 2004

Hi
2 tractors would do it, 1 on each end one moving forward and one moving in reverse we have moved heavy machines like that using forklifts.
good luck
charlie

keeney · Feb 23, 2004

A buddy of mine moved his very large garden shed using pizza and beer.

The pizza and beer was used to get about 20 guys from the office to stop by his house after work.

He had disconnected the shed from the floor. We all went inside the shed and attempted lifting it using 2x4's he had nailed across the wall studs. On the first try, we discovered that he had missed a few nails and it was still attached to the floor.

After the last few nails were removed, 20 guys were able to barely lift this large structure up. I esitmate that it must have weighed about 2500 to 3000 lbs.

The not-so-funny part was coordinating the 20 guys to all move the same way. Especially confusing were the directions shouted to guide us from his wife. Directions like "Go that way" don't work so well when you cannot see where you are going!

It must have been quite the sight to see a building with 40 human legs sticking out the bottom moving across the lawn.

- Rick

em14 · Feb 23, 2004

That reminds of a story told me by a Korean War Vet ... They needed to move a Quanset Hut and had no equipment available. They just got a lot of Korean Laborers, lifted it from thew inside and moved it down the road ... he said it work great but from a distance it looked like a large centipede moving down the road!
Leo

PineRidge · Feb 23, 2004

<font color="blue"> It must have been quite the sight to see a building with 40 human legs sticking out the bottom moving across the lawn.
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Keeney that picture would have qualified for the grand prize here at TBN. It's too bad you missed that one. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Good story though!

rambler · Feb 23, 2004

That is how they used to move barns in the old days. Get 100 people or more together. I saw pics of it in a magazine several years ago - can't remember which one. The turned a barn 90 degrees & moved it 100 feet or so.

--->Paul

AV8R62 · Feb 23, 2004

I moved a one car garage with a 175 Allis Chalmers tractor
by backing in and geting the bail forks under the rear wall
and the loader under the door header ,raised it off of the fondation drove out on the street around the trafic light and four miles out of town and set it down on 4 x 6 barn post I used for skids. I wish I would have goten a picture of it going down the road. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

PineRidge · Feb 23, 2004

<font color="blue">I moved a one car garage with a 175 Allis Chalmers tractor
by backing in and geting the bail forks under the rear wall
and the loader under the door header ,raised it off of the fondation drove out on the street around the trafic light and four miles out of town and set it down on 4 x 6 barn post I used for skids. I wish I would have goten a picture of it going down the road.
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I can just imagine the traffic ticket handed out for a move like that here in Ohio. Lets see: Excessive speed for a one car garage & Improper or no lighting on said garage. Maybe even inciting panic on a public thoroughfare. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Plus they would want to impound the tractor. Hey maybe the fact that it was already in the garage, technically it was already impounded. I need to quit this raving.....