Moving a storage shed

[clemsonfor]

Yeah that's wife and or neighbor will be the roller recyclers. This is the plan I think I will use. It was my first thought. I am glad the spreader bar was mentioned, as I had not thought about that but seen it done before. My neighbor has some piles of stuff laying around, he may have some old fence posts even.

 

[Thomas]

The roll idea best,if up pull by skid have pull end lumber cut like ski so it doens't dig end when pulling.

 

[HillStreet]

I moved a 8 x 16 she’d 5 miles using a car carrier. He winched it up, drove it to the new site, and lowered it. Then I used bars and jacks to position it.

 

[clemsonfor]

I moved a 8 x 16 she’d 5 miles using a car carrier. He winched it up, drove it to the new site, and lowered it. Then I used bars and jacks to position it.

This would be what I would do as well if I was going farther than the yard right next to me. Plus I don't want a roll back in my yard. I don't think he could easily get back there anyway. I would probably still have to move it a little bit.

 

[oosik]

View attachment 595175 One of my out buildings is a log cabin. 16' x 24'. It was constructed in 1955 down at the far end of my little lake. When we moved down here from AK - we wanted to relocate it up near the house. I tried a skid system like bcp shows in post #2. It would not budge - even using the neighbors big IHCase monster.

Soooo....we took it down - log by log, numbered each one and reassembled it as shown in the picture.

Probably just as well that it went that way. I would have never been able to skid it to its current location anyhow.

 

[clemsonfor]

Anyone have an idea what a 12x16 shed might weigh? Just a low pitch A frame roof she'd, no loft or anything.

 

[oosik]

There were several reasons my log cabin would not "skid". #1 - I was using two LARGE Ponderosa pines under the cabin and with the bark still on - they weren't so very slick. #2 - the cabin weighed more than I thought #3 - even using the neighbors big tractor, simply couldn't get sufficient traction.

The "plan" was to skid and have the ground grind off the bark and expose the slick cambium layer. It never got that far.

Hind sight is still 20/20.

 

[zzvyb6]

What's it weigh (again). Pick it up from the center with your loader bucket. Clamp some steel square tubing on it and pick it up by the rafters. Heck it would fit crossways on a hay wagon or snowmobile trailer. Keep your speed under 30 mph and you will be fine.

 

[Jstpssng]

What's it weigh (again). Pick it up from the center with your loader bucket. Clamp some steel square tubing on it and pick it up by the rafters. Heck it would fit crossways on a hay wagon or snowmobile trailer. Keep your speed under 30 mph and you will be fine.

It's 12x16, it would take a pretty big loader to lift it.

 

[ruffdog]

I remember This Old House moved a dark green garage with a medium sized dump truck. The truck barely fit inside, they built a framework to the dump box, lifted, and drove.