My neighbor has an old rusty steel quonset hut (30 x 40). I would like to move this several hundred feet on to my propery. I think it is just sitting on top of concrete blocks. Anyone out there that has done a similar move? Any information would be appreciated!

-- mark zierk (zierk@milwpc.com), October 08, 2000

Answers

In Iowa, I worked part time for a company that repaired and moved grain bins also a few huts. We always took them down and reassembled them. We just removed all the tech bolts, disgarded them, and used new ones on the re-install. IMHO, this is about the only way, as the building looses its integrity when taken off the foundation. Unless ? You moved it like they do old houses and replace the footers with I beams. I have heard house moversget 10,000.00 for that exercise and a new building is cheaper.

-- Joel Rosen (Joel681@webtv.net), October 08, 2000.

I think this was in Farm Show. A town needed a fairly large barn moved several hundred feet. They put 2"x4s" under the foundation and several hundred guys physically lifted the building up (one inside and one outside) and moved it to its new foundation. What is your high school football team doing next Saturday?

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), October 09, 2000.

My Dad moved a guest house with just my Mom's and my help. I do not know how but, he moved the house off the foundations onto metal pipes. Then we just rolled it about 50 feet. As it came off a pipe, that pipe was placed in front so that it rolled back onto it. There were numerous pipes. Then he jacked it onto the new foundations. He claimed that he had moved alot of buildings in the military that way. The guest house was rock solid. Good luck.

-- Cheryl Cox (bramblecottage@hotmail.com), October 10, 2000.

Perhaps there is a compromise on moving. Take off all of the panels which make up the sides (carefully numbering them). When it is down to the frame, with perhaps the front and back still on, it might be light enough for a group of men to physically lift and carry to a new foundation. Then paint and repair the frame as needed. Then paint and put back on the side panels.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), October 11, 2000.

I moved a small storage building once by a method similar to the guest house move mentioned earlier. I jacked it up and used logs as rollers. It worked out really sweet. I saw Bob Villa move some kind of small storage building on TV once. They jacked it up and put downsome wooden "skis" along the buildings footers, then they put down planks as a sort of rail system for the skis to slide along, then they just pulled it along with a pickup truck. Good luck.

-- Mike Boggs (mysticguy1@yahoo.com), October 11, 2000.