Neighbor asked me to come pick up tree-house/stand with my FEL. Didn't go as planned

[pclausen]

So I'm over at mom's next door clearing and chipping some brush when my neighbor stops by and ask if I would mind putting the forks on my FEL and come over and pull his tree-house out of the ground and sit it on his trailer so that he can take it over to his new property. I was like sure.

The structure was sitting on 4 6x6 posts, what we didn't know, was that the 6x6 were set in concrete back about 20 years ago.

So was I able to pull the house and the 4 posts out of the ground? Watch the below video and you'll find out.

http://www.cstone.net/~dk/IMG_5215.MOV

 

[Thomas]

Seems the post settle into ground than thought for.

 

[LD1]

I'd say it "was" built pretty darn well.

 

[Sodo]

Doesn't it seem like four 80 lb lumps of concrete would just pull out of the ground too? I have been VERY amazed how even steel T-posts lock into the soil over time, almost enough to break the post just pulling it out.

Hope the little house survived the tumble. A lot of stuff is overbuilt these days, people have more money, more knowledge more time, so why not? Great that you had it on video & thanks for posting!

 

[Garandman]

"That will buff right out."

 

[Sodo]

Yikes think how easily someone could have been standing where it fell, expecting it would just lift out of the ground.

 

[PhysAssist]

So I'm over at mom's next door clearing and chipping some brush when my neighbor stops by and ask if I would mind putting the forks on my FEL and come over and pull his tree-house out of the ground and sit it on his trailer so that he can take it over to his new property. I was like sure.

The structure was sitting on 4 6x6 posts, what we didn't know, was that the 6x6 were set in concrete back about 20 years ago.

You need to send that to America's Funniest Home Videos!

I thought that maybe if you had applied the up pressure and jiggled your 3-point hitch up and down, they might just have wiggled out.

 

[k0ua]

"Thats going to leave a mark":laughing:

 

[farmer2009]

Yelp that's a "no charge" job.

I figured your forks were just going to break the floor joists.

 

[hcallaway]

That is a big boy tractor!