Re: Engineering question of the day

On Feb 20, 8:56 am, "EDS" <sno...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>>   "How much does a house weigh?"
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http://amazinglyenough.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-much-does-house-wei
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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.
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> >> 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.
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> > No pix.
> > They may not be sitting around anymore.
> > I personally wouldn't buy a house like that.
> > In my opinion concrete houses shouldn't be moved.
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> Why not? Properly moved they should have no damage. About 15 years ago I
was
> the architect for the moving of the Southeast lighthouse on Block Island
RI.
> A brick structure 70' tall with a 2 family brick attached brick
structure.
> Walls of the light were 3' thick at the base. 4' base was granite over
brick
> backup. Originally built in 1870. The 150' bluff it was on had eroded
back
> 200' in 120 years, so we moved it back 250'. We did build a new
foundation.
> It was moved on rails in one piece, with no cracks.Here is the whole
> history:http://lighthouse.cc/blockisoutheast/history.html
> EDS

Wow EDS, I think I saw that on educational TV!
(Discovery or some darn thing), had my eyeballs
glued to the TV. The mission scale is on a par
with straighening the Leaning Tower full of Pizza.
Ken