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   EricPaulson | Apr 01, 2009 07:54pm | #1

   Handsome building. It's interesting their use of clamps and the lack of trust in gravity!

   Are they going to move the building?

    

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   EricPaulson | Apr 01, 2009 07:55pm | #2

   On second thought it looks like it was moved to where it is sitting. 

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   FatRoman | Apr 01, 2009 08:31pm | #3

   Here's a pic of it underway

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   Think that's Piffin in the front row?'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb

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   EricPaulson | Apr 01, 2009 08:44pm | #5

   DW and I did a bike tour of Amish country (Lancaster area) last summer.

   It was very interesting being around the culture for a week. Had dinner one night in an Amish house. 42 yo woman ans 7 kids. She looked awesome!

   These people have some work ethic, let me tell you.

   If you ever go you will want to try to avoid riding on the rainy days. The rain creates this soup on the road from the horse poop. Gets all over and in everything. Can't remember a shower feeling so nice! Or it taking so long to clean up two bikes! 

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   theslateman | Apr 01, 2009 10:27pm | #8

   I thought someone might recycle that picture I'd seen here before.

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   theslateman | Apr 01, 2009 10:26pm | #7

   Eric,

   It's been real close to a major route from Bangor to Acadia Nat. Park since the road had horses on it when it was built in the 1870's.

   A new store being built next door did a land swap to enable it to be moved back from the highway  - making their entrance safer as well.

   The town intends to refurbish it and create some uses for it.

   Walter

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   stevent1 | Apr 01, 2009 08:43pm | #4

   Walter,

   That's quite an undertaking. Thanx for sharing.

   Chuck S

   live, work, build, ...better with wood
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   theslateman | Apr 01, 2009 10:28pm | #9

   Chuck,

   I have nothing to do with the project  - just had the camera with me and a few minutes to look around.

   Figured some folks may have never seen one up on steel.

   Best regards ,   Walter

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   DavidxDoud | Apr 01, 2009 10:17pm | #6

   Italiante? - looks gothic to me -

   but in any case, thanks for the photos -

   they moved a big queen anne a few years ago locally - porches, additions and all - we drove into town and gawked as they trundled it down the street - unfortunately the photos didn't turn out for whatever reason -

   skill and strength on display -

   D

   "there's enough for everyone"
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   theslateman | Apr 01, 2009 10:31pm | #10

   David ,

   I agree the hoods on the windows and door looks like a Gothic influence , but the bracketed gables led me to call it Italianate.  That was popular here when this was built in the 1870's.

   Lets call it a hybrid and we'll both be correct !

   Walter

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   theslateman | Apr 02, 2009 12:30am | #11

   David,

   Thought you might enjoy this article from the BDN.

   Walter

   http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/102306.html

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   JohnT8 | Apr 15, 2009 12:39am | #12

   nice to see someone going to the expense and trouble of moving it.  And I am NOT going to volunteer to scrape all that paint.

    

    

   jt8

   "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

   -- Robert Frost

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   theslateman | Apr 15, 2009 12:58am | #15

   How about $ 5 an hour then !!!

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   splintergroupie | Apr 15, 2009 12:52am | #13

   Interesting how they criss-crossed all those metal beams so many times, all those clamps. My house was raised on cribs with only two beams picking up the floor joints, then hauled down the road with only gravity holding it on the big flatbed.

   When they rolled it on my walk-out basement foundation, they built cribs nearly 8' tall inside the basement. I did incantations over my slab before they set up, but the guys finally set it down on the perimeter without leaving any cracks behind. I'm still in awe of the guys who do this.

   Thanks for taking the photos. I'm going with Gothic, too. <G>

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   theslateman | Apr 15, 2009 12:57am | #14

   Call it whatever you want to . I'm sticking with Italianate.

   I think this structure weighs considerably more than the house you moved though.

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   kate | Apr 15, 2009 01:03am | #16

   Vernacular carpenter gothic...

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   theslateman | Apr 15, 2009 01:08am | #17

   I'll ask my friend who was in Prudential  , who is a famous Architectural Historian who has written several books on Bangors History.

   Then we'll have an answer that will hold up.

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   kate | Apr 15, 2009 01:43am | #19

   Way to go!  I love how old houses, many of them the workers' or tract houses of their day, were built in such varied & detailed styles - compare & contrast to your average Mcmansion...

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   splintergroupie | Apr 15, 2009 01:09am | #18

   They say 105-tons in the article, which was a hoot, btw! No mention as to the footprint or how they got the weight.

   The question of location caused a feud between residents on each side of the town’s center.

   “Capt. Russell Hart supposedly gave away salt pork to win followers for the Hart’s Corner location; and thus that group was dubbed ‘Pork Eaters,’” the town history says. “Since the other faction gave no such bribery, they were rather inelegantly designated as ‘Pinch Guts.’”

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   theslateman | Apr 15, 2009 01:45am | #20

   I'll take some more pictures Thursday morning of  how it sits now .

   I've got a couple errands about 5 miles away.

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   splintergroupie | Apr 15, 2009 01:58am | #21

   I certainly have more interest in house moves now. I was dickering on another two-storey Victorian with attic, all original trim, chandeliers and stained-glass windows, that another woman scooped from under me, on impulse. I heard that was all the money she had, nothing left to do the actual move. I'm not sure how that ended, but the house got moved and saved from the excavator bucket, the main thing. It would have been a lot more interesting project than my rancher, too.I'll be looking for more pics.

   Edited 4/14/2009 6:58 pm by splintergroupie

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   theslateman | Apr 15, 2009 01:59am | #22

   I'll post more this time on Thursday.

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   theslateman | Apr 15, 2009 02:00am | #23

   Have you been looking at " The mighty Penobscot " thread ?

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   splintergroupie | Apr 15, 2009 02:06am | #24

   I'll catch up this evening. The wind just stopped and i'm going to fit in some mechanicking before dark.

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   theslateman | Apr 17, 2009 01:21am | #25

   Splints ,

   Heres some more shots of this structure still up on steel.

   Foudation is in   -- not sure when they'll slide it aboard.

   Gonna have to click 'em  - I've got to embed a bunch on the Penobby thread.

   
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   Snort | Apr 17, 2009 02:44am | #26

   Great shots, Walter. That's some serious support, compared to some of the rigging I've seen.http://www.tvwsolar.com

   I went down to the lobby

   To make a small call out.

   A pretty dancing girl was there,

   And she began to shout,

   "Go on back to see the gypsy.

   He can move you from the rear,

   Drive you from your fear,

   Bring you through the mirror.

   He did it in Las Vegas,

   And he can do it here."

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   theslateman | Apr 17, 2009 02:46am | #27

   It looked really first class to me too.

   Thanks for looking in .

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   splintergroupie | Apr 17, 2009 06:23am | #29

   If you can manage to be around when they slide it on...pretty impressive maneuvering. Those triple rollers are interesting. My guys did it low-tech with sections of well casing. The jacks they used were the most interesting part: four hydraulics jacks up on a manifold, so any combo could be used from a central location. They could let one down, shim it a quarter inch, pick it up again and move the house over a smidgeon or even 'twirl' it.Once i found that out, i had them there for another hour getting it juuuuust right. <g>Thanks for taking the trouble to get those shots. I'm really enjoying it.

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   theslateman | Apr 17, 2009 11:55am | #31

   Colleen,

   Doubt I'll be able to be around for that  - you've seen I've got a decent sized roof I'm working on  and it's 10 miles from this site .

   I'm glad that you and others got a charge out of seeing these.

   Hope your new truck is all you'd hoped for and then some !

   Best ,   Walter

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    splintergroupie | Apr 17, 2009 08:30pm | #32

    A photo thread takes about as long t shepherd as the job, so i understand and will get my vicarious thrills along the banks of the Pennobby. New truck is great! I was on CL last night trying to gin up some buyer's remorse and simply couldn't, and now i'm working on the rest of the fleet to sell them all. Normal practice in my part of the world is to park them in a the field and use them as mini-storage, but i'm try to set a tone. ;^)

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    cargin | Apr 17, 2009 06:23am | #30

    Walter

    Looks like a good time for a hijack.

    Whenever I see house moving pics here at BT then I have to get out my Round barn pics.

    Rich

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   [email protected] | Apr 17, 2009 09:09pm | #33

   How you set up the steel depends on how the original strucutre was supported. 

   If the orignal foundation was basically a variation on post and beam you have to build a lattice to replace all the supports. 

   If the original load paths go to two preimter wall, you have to support them. 

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   splintergroupie | Apr 17, 2009 09:55pm | #34

   I wondered about that the longitudinal beams look to be going parallel to the floor joists, as in the last photo.

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   theslateman | Apr 30, 2009 12:04am | #35

   Colleen ,

   This building has been moved back over the foundation and will be set down soon .

   Had errands early this morning and drove by to scope it out.

   Walter

   
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   theslateman | Apr 30, 2009 12:06am | #36

   Last batch of 5

   
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   splintergroupie | Apr 30, 2009 01:15am | #37

   It looks like they're ready to roll the long beams out. If those are sill plates, they don't look treated...? Right on concrete? What's the last pic? Those stones, broken concrete, or whatever they are..?

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   theslateman | Apr 30, 2009 02:01am | #38

   Foundation granite cap stones .

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   Ted W. | Apr 17, 2009 03:24am | #28

   Slate, that's Awesome!!

   Thanks

   ~ Ted W ~

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