“Yeah, we finally got our modular home in place and steady, thank goodness! The only thing is now, none of the doors in the whole place will shut properly.”
@@Crowbar44 the guys moving this one only job was to get them unstuck they do recovery but i know what you mean i sen what your talking about done also some of them dont care
@@Crowbar44 ya wouldn't be this guy at fault listen close about what they got stuck earlier trying to move it from original mover, and watch close as the go to get the first section moving one axle is seized up probably from the looks when the mover got it stuck it had an issue with axle already either bent it when they tried to go in the muck or when they tried to pull, so it was messed up before this video. plus the movers most times are hired by the seller of the home so they are to fault with how they move stuff
@@formhubfar why they did they not do the road first ? that has to be the most expensive house move ever lol. thought they would have looked at the driveway before they dropped off the house
@@randytravis3998 I had that very thought before building our home, but the builder recommended against it. The road you need for construction costs much more to build than the road you need for your daily commute - and any road will be destroyed during construction, so you end up building it twice. What our builder understood is that the key for delivering fill, concrete, steel, and lumber to the site was to wait for the right weather - a long dry spell - instead of trying to schedule it. The steel delivery put a dimple in our 36" culvert pipe where it has only 8" of top cover, so we can bet he was well over 10k on the axle. No delivery had trouble on the site because the ground was dry and packed when they arrived.
When i was a kid, we had a RV trailer, depending on where we went took the 18"x18" x1" marine wood jack platforms, or the 24" x 24" by 1" jack platforms so the trailer would never get suck in a mess like this. Large or small, once a mobile anything is off balance on unstable ground it becomes a mess to move.
I wonder why they didn’t put down matts. I use to move mobile homes and we had big metal plates and wood matts that we laid down crossing ditches and soft ground like that
Man - respect for house movers. The road I lived on was blocked for 3 days when a mover got one corner of an Amish house stuck in the ditch at an intersection. It was really interesting. Super narrow road, tight corner - and, even though it took a couple of days, they got 'er done! I talked to the guy after, wondering if he regretted taking the job but he just said there are worse roads and that it's part of the business. When you move houses, there are going to be issues. That's what they pay you for. No big deal. Awesome attitude. And, strangely, they're not as heavy as I would have thought. The problem was that the driver was in training and got into a tight spot and rather than keeping everything in consideration at the same time, he got focused on NOT taking out a stop sign. Which, apparently, was a "mistake" as fixing and replacing signs on county roads was also part of the job which the kid had to learn. The guy had everything he needed to restore and/or report damaged signs in the lead vehicle. It was very interesting, logical and actually quite brilliant. Nobody gets upset and a tough job gets done. Plus, when you live in the country, that's what they call entertainment! People brought lawn chairs, sandwiches, pie and big jugs of root beer and ice tea and even made ice cream, right there on the spot! It was early in the summer but already over 90F in the afternoons and too windy, hot and dry to barbecue...
You really needed a few low overhead lines and 6" of snow to get the full "value" out of this job..... Good grief. I hope they paid up quick. Least they could do for saving their asses.
Congratulations . . . . your new Deer Valley modular is in place where you wanted it. The bad news is that we racked it so badly to get it through the mud that nothing is square or plumb any longer (not that any of the walls were to start with since Deer Valley HB builds straight up junk anyway).
I had to get a 40' conex on our Landoll 455 one day. Once I finally got back to it and loaded, getting out turned out to be just as fun (as figured). The property owner told me, "they delivered my home here!" I said yes, their trailers are better designed for this and at the same time I don't know how they did it, but they must have bigger balls then me too. I don't want to try and get this steel conex out, but I have no choice!
My dad owed his life to a good dragline operator who knew where and how to dig out a collapsed tile line with my dad burred in the trench. Yes, my first thought too is why no mats.😁
Honestly, real star of this show? *Those chains!* Holy crap they were taking a lot of load, especially originally, and not even over a rounded surface. That only one of 'em went is pretty crazy!
The other half of that comment should be, "We'll either drag it out of here or just disassemble it with the excavator and deliver the pieces where ever you'd like them!" The good part is that Chris is really good at taking stuff apart with that excavator! ;^)
thats a testament to how well they are built that after all that pulling dragging that the frame is so well put together, that the windows didnt break from any movement and that tow hitch must be strong enought to contain Superman itself!!
It's easy to be an armchair quarterback from my computer, but I can't help but wonder why the homeowner, or the "buiilders" weren't aware of the soil conditions. However, in their defense, years ago needed to back our 45' Fifth wheel camper onto my lawn for some driveway repair. Before doing so I checked my lawn for firmness, and decided it hold the camper. I backed up five feet, and the trailer sank so deep it destroyed the skirting! Wish I would have been my own armchair quaterback!! Luckily, the driveway contractor was able to drag get the trailer out without tearing the back wall off.
I used to pick up trailers full of blueberries at various farms. One trailer was buried in the mud like this. Three forklifts lifted up the trailer while workers put lots of wood blocks under the frame until it was up high enough for me to couple in
Here in America they are expensive. Yes they are available but the problem I'd see in this situation is the fact steel is heavy and will fall or fet completely covered and be difficult to track. Wooden mats are more floaty and have a better tendency to stay somewhat more visible. I was thinking use the logs to roll the trailer. Set them underneath the frame
My Dad owned a Mobile Home Park from 1962-1984. Started w/ 8x 32'... biggest I did was a 14'x 72'. We used WWII aircraft landing mats salvaged. This was very interesting for me.
You can either use walk mats or crib blocks and lay them in front of the first axle and keep laying but if you bury the tires might as well get the jacks out and raise the home back up put mats or crib blocks under the wheels.......another secret one jack in front of the first axle and one behind the last axle cause I dont care what kind of equipment you bring in it want move it without tearing something up .......I could have saved you guys a lot of work .....
Not surprised, helped with many modular home moves, they are heavy don't look like it but they are, the worst part pulling them with an excavator is there is a good chance of punching the bucket through the wall lol.
Around here you cannot put modular homes on dirt at least a gravel pad I had to upgrade my electric service just to change my mobile home from a slightly newer one
Looks like a job for using the mats. I used to be on a setup crew and we've had to crib them across ditches and wet ground just to get them on the lot.
It's like in snow, you must clear off the path for wheels, and than put some wood under them to be able to move over. At that weight, it's just dragging in
That was a cool project! Seems like some big road matts like they use on the big powerline projects would be a good investment for that type of operation. Neat video.
I would hate to be that homeowner. I bet he is finding cracks and structural damage for months if not years down the line. I have to ask. Does this have options and add-ons that make it a lot heavier than normal or do all these things weigh this much? And if it weighs a lot more than normal, what the heck sort of options were included that added this much additional weight? Watching this made me so tense I sort of wished I hadn't quit smoking!
Seems like you need a mirror like the long haul trucks have on them, then you would not be craning your head backward. Even if you could attach in when you knew you would be backing up any distance. Notice I did not say a pair or a backup camera.
@@ltsgarage7780 The trailers sunk into the ground, thus the doors are now level with the surface so stairs aren't needed anymore is what I was implying and at 1 point during the pull, that was very close to true...
simple solution. Get a 1" steel cable and hook it up to the dozer , loop it thru a snatch block and over to your Volvo and than you use your volvo to pull and the arm to hold the pintel hitch up. You do have round log's there use 2 of them to push them under the pintel hitch so they roll while been pulled they the mud they will distribute the weight a lot better on the ground.
what the bleep were they thinking parking it there?! and they couldn't wait 3 months for things to dry out? what is the cost benefit to move it during the hardest time to do it?
Looks like a very expensive and complicated method to till the soil using a house as a plow, but with right equipment and skills everything is doable !
I could feel the stress and consternation early on through the video. I kept putting myself in your shoes and trying to figure out what I would do next. Nice job to you both. I wonder how much $$ that home mover lost on this job.
This reminds me when me and my dad moved one with a single cat 336. It was everything that shovel had in it to move that house. Unbelievably heavy those things.
@@Rem1061 I sailed on Great Lakes ore freighters when I was a young fellow and the first boat I was on had a bosun with a scar an inch wide and 6-8 inches long down one side of his face from where a parting cable had whipped around sliced him open. He counted himself very fortunate. A few inches to one side and he figured he would have been a dead man. Ever since then I have had a VERY healthy respect for any line, cable, chain, strap, etc that is under strain. Stay well away!
I use to do this every day. That trailer company should have had aluminum mats to drive the trailer on. Aviation mats. And they need a translift. To swing the back when need it. It's the width of the home. On tracks. Y'all did a heck of a job with the trackhies
And on that note I left about the things people get you into my guy got me into pouring concrete on my birthday which is tomorrow 4:28 those fools to be politically nice
This is truly amazing and these guys know the meaning of a hard day's work. This latest generation don't even know how to do basic maintenance on vehicles. How are we to continue great work like this when folks don't want to work. I worry for the future.
Should of built a telephone pole skid with an angled leading edge under the wheels and slid her to the new location. The wheels and axles sank making the trailer a wide ass plow perpendicular to the direction of travel and nowhere for the plowed dirt to go except into the dirt ahead if it. In the old days of horses, farmers skidded sleds full of logs.
Guess the owner / house mover hadn't heard about the concept of site prep 😣 Great job you did getting them literally unstuck and threading it round all the obstacles 👏👍
"Get 'er done" was the goal, and they did ... with brute force. Nice use of the logs to give the backhoes leverage without tipping over. After they got it moving, I'm wondering why they didn't shovel off the mud around the tires so it would roll more easily.
Two things... First off, @14:50 you shoulda put a couple of them pine logs under the frame at the road for rollers, set the tongue down a little and let the weight of the front of the house pick the axles up a bit out of the mud. And secondly, holy shit is that guy in the gray sweatshirt too close to those chains while you're pulling with those machines !!!
If you had one inch plywood to put under the wheels it would make the unit move easier when I was moving affordable homes that's what we used because right now the wheels are scotched you have to spread out the weight on the one in plywood
should of brought something that was actually designed to pull. all your traction on the excavators was just on the very tip of the track since you were lifting up the house. Make a Hitch on the under carriage and pull from that, turn boom around and use boom to claw forward as if you were stuck. It would pull with 10 times the force!
I know where I'm at it's the responsibility of the land/homeowner to have a road big enough for the company bringing the modular sections to get them to the job site unaided. The modular company won't even bring the sections without the Roman and landing site for the crane. Great work Chris!!
Awesome channel. You are a wizard in those machines! This channel should be played in every high school. You’re a guy that truly does something for a living! At that something is awesome. Sure you spent some years honing your craft. Well done and thanks for posting.
The part they were pulling on is just a transport chassis. The homes frame sets on it clamped in place. Those chassis are tough. They are like a cargo container chassis but stronger.
I'm dumbfounded as to why mats were not laid down in the hole were the backhoe got stuck with the first section of house. You asked him about putting mats down on the second section so the mats were on site.
My hat is off to ya, I moved a trailer once with a 450 b loader, It was a pain. The one thing that I find most amazing is that you got a haircut yesterday, everything here in Asheville is still closed. I'm starting to look like a 65 year old Hippy.
Wow! What an incredible job getting that home pulled out of the muck. No way that they should have ever tried to drag it across that soggy ground. It looked like that when people walked across it that they had to tread lightly to keep from sinking. No way if I owned that house would I have accepted it. The metal I-beams underneath the frame had to have been bent and the flooring where the mud pushed up under had to have pushed the floor up. No to mention any plumbing pipes on the underside had to be busted. Letsdig18 did a terrific job fixing the problem created by others.
