"Ken S. Tucker" <dynamics@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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
>> >>>>> 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.
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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
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> 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
It was on PBS, maybe some other shows. Of course the worker bees, the
architects, engineers, and local folks, are never mentioned but it was
pretty good. We went to the relighting party, with the politicos and their
ilk talking. but the food was good and free. BTW lubrication for the rails
was Ivory Snow soap.
EDS
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