| Early day 2, they had a set-back. It turned out the floor joice were notched into the sills, but not nailed. The I-beams were lifting from under the joice, but without nails the joice couldn't hold up the sills. Ken had to dash back to Ellsworth (over 45 minutes each way) for another set of I-beams. Here they are installing the additional I-beams crosswise to first and attaching them with C-clamps rated at 8,000 pounds each. They then blocked the sills from the cross beams. |
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| Look at the almost 20 foot long chain saw Ken has. It was used to trim the trees under which the carriage house is going to hide for a while. Finally they unload the 50 foot I-beams which will be used as the tracks on which the building will slide sideways. |
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They coat the "tracks" with Ivory soap. I heard that they've tried all kinds of greases and other coatings, but nothing works as well. I think Ken buys Ivory soap by the case. Here Ken is just starting to slide the building East -- note that he has a remote control in his hand which controls the boom truck on the other side of the building. A winch on the truck behind him is pulling this side of the building via a pulley attached to the end of the 50 foot I-beam. |
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Note the birch tree disappearing as the building slides to the right.
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And after a long day, there it is sitting in the bushes (probably partly in my neighbors yard) waiting to return home.
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