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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.153.24] on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 02:43:34 :
In Reply to: OT - House Move posted by Todd Wilson [69.151.186.190] on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 00:09:54 :
It's a pleasure to watch a real old-time professional house-mover at work. They really know what they're doing and it's amazing how quickly they can get a house jacked up and onto a pair of I-beams using nothing but rollers, a small winch, 4 jacks and a lot of cribbing. As an aside, powerwagons seem overrepresented in old-time house moving pictures, even after the trucks were "obsolete" for most uses. The movers liked the fact that they could go real slow.
When I was a kid the Port of Seattle bought up all the houses under the flight path at SeaTac airport so the people would stop complaining about the noise. A lot got torn down, but a lot also got jacked up, moved down to Redondo Beach, loaded on barges, and installed as beach houses in the San Juan Islands.
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