Re: Engineering question of the day

"Don" <one-if-by-land@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Cliff <Clhuprich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>   "How much does a house weigh?"
>>>   http://amazinglyenough.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-much-does-house-wei
>>>   gh .html
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>> New or recycled house?
>> Around here it would have been cut in half or built in two
>> bolt-together pieces. The trailer and house held up ok. Would be
>> interesting to see how they got it off. Nice battery of hydraulic
>> rams I guess. "There is an engineering solution to every problem" as
>> long as someone pays
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> In Cape Coral FL awhile back they built a brand new bridge with
> upramps and all that and in the process moved something like 80 houses
> to new locations. Concrete block houses complete with concrete slabs,
> footings, all of it, in one piece.
> As of 2 years ago some of them were still sitting on trailers in
> vacant lots waiting to be re-planted.
> They would move them down the streets early in the morning, 3 am, and
> yank the overhead power wires, traffic signals, etc.
> These were houses in the 1500-2500 sf range. 

139 - 232m2 ... some scary weight there - any images available?
Heaviest thing that moved around here in recent years was a church, but 
in three pieces (it had moved before so the same cut lines could be 
used).
A fair amount of heritage stuff gets relocated, mostly hardwood framed 
and clad. Too expensive to build with the stuff now, and not PC to 
harvest it. But it stacks up as an example of 'sustainability' in 
practice - most of the embodied energy being retained for the indefinite 
future etc.