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NutmegCT

NutmegCT

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Pub is *much* too quiet. No posts since yesterday afternoon.

So ...

I have a 12x12 wooden workshop (shed) sitting on 4x4 timbers on the ground.

I want to move it 25 feet across the lawn.

How would you guys do this?

I'm thinking: gradually jacking it up, sliding 12" pvc pipe or sonotube under the frame, then slowly rolling it across the flat lawn, removing/replacing the tubes, until in place. Something like the pharoahs used:

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Any thoughts, suggestions, or improvements on the idea?

Thanks.
Tom
 
That sounds like a plan. The good thing is that the ground should be sufficiently hard at this time of year so it should roll easy.
 
We are gonna need pictures of this when it happens!
 
Sonotube will crush and pvc may shatter in this cold weather. I have 20 ft of 2 inch EMT and assorted other steel pipe you are welcome to. If you want to take a trip across the border PM me. Otherwise it's an easy move. We did it when I was about 12 years old with straight trees we cut down and a block and tackle.
 
We did that 50 years ago when my parents bought the house across the street and my Dad was too cheap to leave his old shed behind. We used about 4 or 5 straight pine tree with the limbs cut off. To move, we used a "pinch bar" that was really just a long piece of pipe. Luckily, we lived on a quiet street so didn't create any traffic jams.

I always wished we'd taken photos.
 
" ... my Dad was too cheap to leave his old shed behind"

I think your Dad and I were very closely related ...


 
2 4X4s or 6X6s one on each side put on bottom like sleds, pull with ATV or truck.
 
Well Tom, you didn't mention whether you wanted to use the shed after the move... So I'll suggest a Trebucket. Guaranteed viral video.
 
I'm sendin' ol' boy with his 4X4. All you need is'a 12 pak and a semi-clear path.:thirsty: :glee: YeeeeeeeHAAAAAAAAAW!:driving:
 
GregW said:
Well Tom, you didn't mention whether you wanted to use the shed after the move... So I'll suggest a Trebucket. Guaranteed viral video.
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I'm guessing that he wants to keep it in the same zip code.
 
As Edgar Montrose, (look him up if you don't know), might say, pack some dynamite under it and "KaBoom!!" you can move it where ever you want...
 
Hey, put your sprinkler on the ground in the path you want to move it and push/drag/pull it across with a come-a-long once it freezes.

Or mebbe attach a buncha big bottle rockets onna other side.
 
Step one: buy an old pick-up with an eight foot bed. Step two: remove said eight foot bed. Step three: build a ten by ten frame for the shed to ride on. Step four: mount shed on pick-up. Then you can move your shed whenever you need to.
 
waltesefalcon said:
Step one: buy an old pick-up with an eight foot bed. Step two: remove said eight foot bed. Step three: build a ten by ten frame for the shed to ride on. Step four: mount shed on pick-up. Then you can move your shed whenever you need to.
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Ahhh, "The Crystal Ship" :jester:
 
Trebuchet ... hmmm ...

 
Years ago we moved some 6X10 foot by 4 inch thick concrete pads with rollers and a wire cable hooked to my dad's LTD wagon - worked well.

More recently, we moved a shed approximately that size by laying out 2X6's as runners and sliding the shed along the 2X6's on melamine squares (Pieces of shelving) - amazing how slick they were. we used a comealong to move the thing. Once it got going, it moved very easily.
 
J-P - great idea. I've been having problems locating sturdy tube/pipe with a minimum six inch diameter.

The idea of just laying more timbers, then maybe greasing them, and using sliders on the timbers sounds more do-able. Where'd you hook up the come-along? I assume to a chain or rope that wrapped around the lowest level of the frame?

Stay tuned. This may turn up on America's Funniest Home Videos.

Tom
 
NutmegCT said:
J-P - great idea. I've been having problems locating sturdy tube/pipe with a minimum six inch diameter.

The idea of just laying more timbers, then maybe greasing them, and using sliders on the timbers sounds more do-able. Where'd you hook up the come-along? I assume to a chain or rope that wrapped around the lowest level of the frame?

Stay tuned. This may turn up on America's Funniest Home Videos.

Tom
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rope around the shed - BTW if you do go with rollers, even rollers on top of something like 2X6's, you don't need 6" - get a bunch of used chain link fence posts - they will roll just fine.
 
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