Transporting a Shed

Charlesaf3 · May 15, 2008

D'oh!

Of course. Now why didn't I think of that? I was thinking over height, how do you chain a shed, etc...

firemanpat2910 · May 15, 2008

had a buddy that lost his hunting rights on family farm, had to have all his stuff gone on a sunday morning. We picked up his 10x 15? shed/cabin/poker room with a escavator, set it on a 20' trailer behind my 250 and hauled it 10 miles down the road. unloaded by draging it off with a backhoe. even left the tables, chairs and beer fridge in it the whole time

Bird · May 15, 2008

how do you chain a shed

Very carefully.

It was (still is) a pretty well built shed and I think they had both chains and ratchet straps.

EastTexFrank · May 16, 2008

Bird said:
Charles, the only thing illegal about it was the fact that it was 10' wide, so to be legal you'd need to get an oversize permit, which they did not do.

A minor detail. As an ex-cop Bird, you know that it's only illegal if you get caught.

Bird · May 16, 2008

That's right, Frank, and one of my brothers is a ex-cop, too, but he only did about 3 years on the Anchorage Police Department instead of making a career of it like I did.

Rara Avis · May 17, 2008

firemanpat2910 said:
even left the tables, chairs and beer fridge in it the whole time

Of course you did, you had to have some place to relax after all that work, didn't you?...

RayCo · Mar 14, 2011

This is an old thread, that I realized I never updated. I wound up transporting a 10x10 shed about 30 miles on my 5.5x10 landscape trailer. Feel free to scold me!

With the siding stripped off:

Pulling it on with the help of a couple of highlift jacks and a Craftsman FF20

Pulled it around to the driveway on the other side of the house, and the shed fell off. Oops. We needed a car (a cool Impala SS) to pull it back on.

Structurally braced it and secured it to the trailer.

After a 30 mile, uneventful trip.

timswi · Mar 14, 2011

Congrats...I don't believe I would have tried that one though.

Diamondpilot · Mar 14, 2011

I bet the weight was not all that bad once you got the siding off. Maybe 1,500#?

Only ooops I see is were you tried to move it before securing it fully.

Good job.

Chris

RayCo · Mar 14, 2011

Hey, thanks. Yeah, weight wise, it wasn't bad, although probably technically over the limit of my 1500# trailer, which is not a massless trailer. It was light enough for my tractor to lift half of it, so it had to be under 1500#, actually. Last photo: