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Here is the house, ready to go!
This would be the first time Scot saw the house on wheels.
They caught a lucky break with the weather. Over night the temperature went down to about 20 degrees, enough to freeze enough of the mud to give some traction to the dozers. This would help a lot going up the hill.
After hanging around for a while doing the filming, I was getting fairly familiar about how things were working. At least I was willing to answer any questions. So when John Bonneville, a carpenter who would work on the restoring the house came by...
Tom Allen, my next door neighbor -- a half mile down the road -- is the contractor who will handle the job after the move.
And a brief conference.
A lot will have to depend on the weather. A freeze would be very welcome. The house will have to be towed up this hill and mud does not help.
The new site is just about prepared with a bed of gravel for drainage being smoothed in.
It's time! The freeze came as hoped and it was time to move up the hill before it warmed up too much.
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written by Delia , January 26, 2009
Thank you so much for the investment spent recording and posting this incredible event.
These men here are brave and careful indeed!!!
The individual driving it all, my brother Scot, continues to amaze his colleagues, friends and family with these wondrous projects to repair, restore and rejuvenate.
And, when we foolishly ask why? we get this short reply "Well...I just don't want to get bored".
written by Ken Follett , March 06, 2009
I thank you extremely for sharing this sequence of videos. I am in the business on Long Island and NYC of historic preservation of old buildings. I am originally from Upstate NY, Brooktondale, where more than 50 years ago I watched while a house of similar age, slightly larger size was moved to make room for a new bridge. One of my past projects was to move a Thomas Edison barn from Dearborn, MI to West Orange, NJ, to replicate a move that had been made by Henry Ford in 1940… and put the building back to within 10’ of where it had originally stood. In our case we dismantled the structure piece-by-piece, loaded it into a sea container and then re-constructed it back to museum standards. We got to see a whole lot of buildings being moved at Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, while we were there… but nothing as amazingly cool as this move. Though I was not involved I was familiar with the move of the Lyric Theater, a large masonry structure, on 42nd Street in Manhattan, as well as the move of Alexander Hamilton’s house, and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse… these are all moves that I have paid attention to over the years. As to riding on a move, a friend of mine when he worked as an architect for the National Park Service had a job to ride on the Block Island Lighthouse in order to monitor that the masonry structure was not coming apart. So, with all that said, this is the neatest video presentation I have ever seen on a house move. Thank you.
PS: I also enjoyed the video on the marble steps.
written by Rod dav4is , October 02, 2009
Amazing -- and way cool!
