Warne neighborhood

[phiferpharm]

I decided to purchase a new modular home. It is scheduled to be completed and delivered mid-January. My concern is that it will be a real traffic-stopper for everyone who lives out in my area of the neighborhood. I am the last property about 1.8 miles out a single lane access road and for a 1/2 mile of the access, no one will be able to get in or out while the pieces are traveling down the access road. If they don't have any problems, my guess is it could take 30 minutes or so to get through that one stretch.

This will affect about a dozen families, so my thinking is to post up notices around the neighborhood and the community mail box area with my contact information. I have asked the company that is making the modular to give me at least a week's notice and also told them that they can't come down the road at work time or school time. I've also arranged to have a small crew ready with pole saws, chain saws, and a dozer just in case. We are already clearing overhead branches and have made arrangements to drop some fences that may hang us up. Also I will have the Missus and someone else on each end of the road to keep anyone from turning into the road once the transit starts.

So, anyone have any other suggestions that I'm missing?

 

[dave1949]

Any chance of making a turn-out or passing layover? With a couple of handheld walkie-talkies you could hold traffic if needed at those points.

 

[Soundguy]

if rural.. i bet your county sheriff might even help out if you give them the courtesy to let them know a rolling roadblock is coming.

thay'd probably thank you for it!

 

[phiferpharm]

Not on the one area of the road Dave. There is only 1-2' of clearance between the fences/trees and the width of the modular pieces. It is really gonna be a tight fit.

 

[phiferpharm]

Well, that is going to happen by default - one of the neighbors is a County Sheriff.

 

[tractchores]

Sounds reasonable. We have used an email list and picked off times (mid morning) when doing similar things on our road with no issues. Be sure to check low hanging wires and have an insulated pole to lift if needed... Also may help to ask folks to not park on or near the road that day. Is it a public road, or just the residents? On a public road they could force you to hire a police detail, which is costly

 

[Western]

I'm sure you checked and/or made provisions for overhead utility lines. If you like your neighbors, a small get together for their patience may pay dividends later.

Got luck and congratulations on the home.

 

[phiferpharm]

Sounds reasonable. We have used an email list and picked off times (mid morning) when doing similar things on our road with no issues. Be sure to check low hanging wires and have an insulated pole to lift if needed... Also may help to ask folks to not park on or near the road that day. Is it a public road, or just the residents? On a public road they could force you to hire a police detail, which is costly

The mid-morning sounds like the best time I think. Parking on the road is not a problem here - you can't get two vehicles side by side on most of the road, so no one leaves their cars by the road. It is only residents out here unless the power company is coming to read the meter. I am one of the two residents out here who grades the road and bush hogs the side growth, so I know most of the neighbors at least by sight.

I think the delivery guy told me they would have what they needed for the power lines if needed, but I'll check again with them.

 

[tractchores]

Don't forget to take some pics for us

 

[user.69169]

Well a little house on maybe 4 axles is a bit small to my experience, but I got about 40 years of hauling things down the road that supposedly didn't fit the road. Best thing you can do is stay out of the process of moving them chunks of house, and let the driver and his crew do their jobs.
Get yourself one of them folding lawn chairs, sit in it and take pictures if that makes you happy, and see how people who move them house chunks every day get it done.

 

[user.69169]

Well a little house on maybe 4 axles is a bit small to my experience, but I got about 40 years of hauling things down the road that supposedly didn't fit the road. Best thing you can do is stay out of the process of moving them chunks of house, and let the driver and his crew do their jobs.
Get yourself one of them folding lawn chairs, sit in it and take pictures if that makes you happy, and see how people who move them house chunks every day get it done.

 

[Stimw]

Best advice, stay out of their way and let them do it. BUT keep an eye on them.
After all they do this for a living or at least should.
Not sure why it's taking so long to build. I bought a custom designed Manufactured home (Jacobsen) two years ago and it only took a couple days to get it into the build schedule and finished after I paid the deposit.
My unit was finished and sitting on a lot in Clearwater while I had to wait 4 weeks on County Permitting to play their games! (I was replacing a 24' X 60' MH with a 28' X 56' Manufactured)
I got my Permit documents at 2pm on a thursday, made a phone call and they had the new home delivered on friday by 2pm!!!

 

[Stimw]

Two more pics it wouldn't let me load in other post.

 

[phiferpharm]

Best advice, stay out of their way and let them do it. BUT keep an eye on them.
After all they do this for a living or at least should.
Not sure why it's taking so long to build. I bought a custom designed Manufactured home (Jacobsen) two years ago and it only took a couple days to get it into the build schedule and finished after I paid the deposit.
My unit was finished and sitting on a lot in Clearwater while I had to wait 4 weeks on County Permitting to play their games! (I was replacing a 24' X 60' MH with a 28' X 56' Manufactured)
I got my Permit documents at 2pm on a thursday, made a phone call and they had the new home delivered on friday by 2pm!!!

I'm not sure why the date is what it is, they could have brought it in the first week of January, but I am going out of the country for a week, so that delayed things until mid-January as I didn't want it delivered while I am not there. Frankly, I'm glad for a little of the delay- it allowed us to clear two trees that were definitely going to be a problem, and secure permission from a neighbor to take down her fence, go diagonally across her property (cutting off two major turn problems), and do some road work that I have been unable to do after my Heart Surgery. I got mine from Skyline, and actually went to the Factory, which is located in Ocala, to see the home.

BTW, I like your screen porch..

 

[Stimw]

Thanks, I took the screen room down from my old home in 3 wall sections.
I poured an extra 3' wide on the old slab and bought new roof panels, the room is 13' X 36'.
I also posted a pic of the front of the home.
I REALLY LOVE the new home!! It is so well made and I paid $1200. for the upgraded insulation package. The highest electric bill I have gotten in 2 years was $96. for a month! That includes a hot tub in the screen room and a 2000 sq ft shop where I have my fabrication/repair business.
The home has 2" X 6" exterior walls and a vaulted ceiling. My biggest complaint? Jacobsen has never contacted me for a testimonial?
It came out to about $40. a sq. ft. and well worth it!