HUGE MISTAKE - I Have To Move My Brand New Boardwalk!!! 

We need more of Mrs Samurai's making fun of her hubby. Had me in stiches that part.

Just take it apart and move it. Way easier. Unless there is a floating crane around you can hire

Take it apart, you are a man of skilled perfection. And it won’t be perfect unless you pull it apart and rebuild/relocate it. Otherwise it will make you crazy every time you look at it. Been there done that, both ways and I’m not even a skilled perfectionist, drove me crazy like kids leaving the front door open.

6-10 strong guys all doing a day trip out the lake is likely the least back breaking, most viable option for moving the dock in one piece. Plenty of volunteers, 3-5 guys on each side, walk it over. Many hands makes for light work 💪👍

That would be hilarious if after you move it, the survey guy comes back and says, "whoops I made a mistake, it was fine where it was". Cheers mate. Enjoyable content.

I had the pleasure of helping move an old, one room school house to another location years ago. It was a great learning experience. Two H- beams placed parallel to each other under the house, supporting it. Then, two H-beams placed perpendicular and under the first two. Before the bottom two beams were jacked up, a bar of ivory soap was put at contact point of each intersection. Raised em up and the soap squished and provided lubrication to slide along onto the flat bed trailer. Reversed the process to place on new foundation. A couple of hand crank come-alongs were all that were needed to tug it along. It was quite amazing. Of course, several hydraulic jacks played a roll as well. Simply put: up, over, down. Repeat. I don't know if this helps for your situation. Good luck!

By the time you've figured out a clever way to lift, drag or roll the whole thing and built a contraption to do it, you could have the whole thing apart, moved and reassembled. Sometimes the brute force method is best.

The Vikings used to move their boats on logs and use rope for mechanical leverage whenever they encountered an obstacle in the rivers. You could do the same, tension a rope against a tree push on the side of the rope for mechanical leverage and repeat until you have gotten the boardwalk to the right horizontal coordinates. Then use Hugh Jackman aka a car jack to achieve the vertical position. Don't hesitate to use a ratchet strap and some love taps. Best of luck!

Look at old logging setups with rigging strung from nearby trees. They used to haul heavy logs over rough terrain using block and tackle.

+1 the vote for getting a barge crane to drop by for the lift and move if you a dead set on not taking the whole thing apart. Although, building a manual crane rig would make for a great series of episodes. If/When it works you could keep it in place after the lift/move and use the boom to support an umbrella/roof over the boardwalk... or convert to a rope-swing for the kiddos to launch themselves into the lake!

Jesse, I agree with a few of the other posters, it would be way easier in the long run to disassemble it and re-build it. Good luck.........

By the time you figure out how to move it, you could have it apart.

That time lapse was awesome!

Hats off to you, your energy' patience and enthusiasm.. I am amazed at how you make the time to take on all this work and how you can face into correcting a mistake with such a light heart.

Your family is so lucky to have you and vice versa.

I’d use a couple timber runners. Put them at the correct height in the new location and use a bottle Jack to lift the existing end to as near level as possible (or higher if possible) and support that end of the timber’s with vertical lumber and some cross bracing. Then I’d find a tree to secure to with a come along or electric winch and skid the boardwalk to it’s new location.

Man… the irony of building off the grid, and being too close to a property line..

Jessie, you no need concrete. Try gabione technology with stainless web. Need just gather stones for. I see a lot of stones are there. I have a piece of river shore in property and happy to thet somebody invent it

I agree with the previous comment. Lighten the load and put a boom on a nearby tree. A chainsaw winch to lift,with a block & tackle to raise & lower the boom. You could get extra lift if you have an air compressor and some empty barrels.

To move boat lifts we would use large inner tubes in the water to lift it up just enough. Might be able to use some _really_ large inner tubes to lift it up and move it to where you want it.

I have the same sense of humor as you do 😂 and it's got me in a lot of trouble especially when I was in boot camp 😂. Keep up the humor it will keep you young at heart.

Hi from Manitoba, Remove the railing. Next attach the Decking tow long boards 2x6, then remove the decking. Next remove the platform frame, joists with the beam, from the wood piers. Than will likely be the best way. I think that would be the best in parts.

If you can rent a crane boat they could lift and move it in no time once there. We've used them for lumber packages a lot in Seattle and that would probably be light work for them if ones around

im with DR put front posts on floating pontoons for dock and than somehow walk it over to new location sounds good from a arm chair quarterback thousands of miles away. have fun can't wait for footage...

You had one smart viewer suggest starting with a large shore based davit crane. Spend a week designing something with reach and lift that can pluck things from the water and lift them high ashore. A nearby tree could act as the mast. You can use block and tackle or electric winch. Learning the principles is fascinating.

I wanted to add my 5cents but after reading some of the comments all will say is good luck, hope it works out well for you!! Enjoy as will I watching you move it!

Samurai: I doubt you can get the footings with the upright rebar exactly as in the original, angles and all that sort of things. You may well be strong but to elevate the whole dock high enough to clear the rebar rods, lower it slowly, and still maintain control of the dock is asking quite a bit considering you will be working in or around the water and the slippery bank. Add to that the ever present danger of large heavy objects to a guy who needs all his limbs to work, I say take it apart and enjoy the exercise.

I’ve moved a 8 by 12 shed by hand. Lifted the each side of the shed one side at a time and installing 2 4x4 perpendicular to where i wanted to move to its new location. Used a 12 foot 4x4 to pry up the shed. To make the sliding easier, i put 1 inch black iron pipe lengthwise on top of the 4x4 to create less friction as i slide the shed over. Kind of like creating a rail system. a little white grease on the pipes makes it even easier. Then just pushed it by hand.

There are videos of crafty old geezers skidding heavy logs through the woods single handed. They often use an X shaped lifting brace. Cudos for your good humor processing this discouraging situation. Glad you're smart enough to know it makes for good content and drama. Go Samurai!

You'd be amazed what you can move with some leverage for lift, and come along for pull. I've moved hot tubs, jeeps, sheds with those 2 simple tools.

Mate, well done, it can't be easy. Please keep doing what you're doing. What an amazing location too!

Tracks and rollers - put two beams underneath with some maybe 1x1" strips on them straddling the old and new foundations, make yourself small dollies that can cradle the beams of the dock, and have wheels that straddle the rails on the beams, jack the dock up onto the dollies, and then use a come-along to winch the dock to the left - this would let you move it left so the end of it lines up with the wall foundation. Then, for the pivot, you'll need to support it on a point on your wall foundation that would let it pivot while you use like a jack post to lift the other end a few inches, then tip that over towards the new piers. Will take a bunch of reps since you'd only be moving it a few inches at a time.

back in the day i had to move a built shed. calculate the weight. i bolted a 2x12 to each side of the super structure with overhang for lifting . i hired around 8 day laborers and picked it up and walked into new location. another thought would be skidding the unit with a winch along a ramp? investigate cost of barge lift. there must be folks there that build docks and/or drive piles. good luck.

Stay strong samurai. Love the "you don't have to get to exact with the scribing" and then execute it with flawlessness. 😆😍

Samurai has more than enough energy to keep up with his kids.

Great looking columns‼️ Absolutely Love It‼️‼️‼️ Vinny 🇺🇸

Take the time to build a timber frame crane system. Move the dock with it. Bulk up and make dock larger. Install newly built crane to the dock. Then you would have a nicer larger dock with a crane to unload future supplies from your boats.

I have moved a couple of manufactured homes with just 2x10 screwed together to make a monster saw horse, put some visqueen plastic over it, make a skid/ski with a flat 2x6 and some grease, moved a whole house with just a come-along by myself. Could move your deck no problem.

Enjoy the day, relax, take it apart, move it… while Ms. Samurai kicks your ass.

Facing the water, leave the right side of the new supports long enough to slide the dock over on to it. Use a comealong to drag the dock onto the new supports and once it's in the correct position, trim the new support to length. If you have to go down, it's not a big deal, the boardwalk is sturdy enough to survive a little wracking as it drops down to the new level. if the new spot is a little higher, you just have to cut some oversized shims to 'ramp' the boardwalk up to the new level. I moved an entire cabin with a pair of comealongs. TBH, a couple of you could probably just push it over onto the new supports once you pull out the lag screws holding it in place.

Ropes, rigging, planks, & jacks... I pulled a new jacuzzi up a very steep hill with it wrapped in toe straps and rigging tied to a tree 🌳🙃. Worked like 👍a dream!!!!!

Yesssss samurai. More content like this. Vlog building.

A couple of come alongs and some wood under for sliders. Move it easy and safely one foot at a time.

Not sure how to move that in one piece, but the old concrete would be a good place for a flag pole or something and just tell everyone it was planned that way.

Use some come along's and compound pulleys (block & tackle) are your best and strongest friends when it comes to moving heavy stuff.

Samurai! Your videos have been such an inspiration to me. I just got my wood shop set up with wood lathe, and am starting to tackle bigger and better wood work projects. Thank you for the many vids and inspiring beautiful work!

Put up two temporary beams spanning between where the dock is and where is has to go and slide it over if it's possible.

Using barrels, say 6-8 to float the entire dock over. Partially fill the barrels with air, sink them under the dock ends, when secured to the dock inflate them to the desired floatation level-then move the dock. Barrels are cheap, and reusable for various projects! The barrels when filled with gravel/concrete can be used to firmly anchor the dock, or to make a floating/anchored dock. And yeah, you’ve joined the ranks of us who’ve figured out the upfront cost of a survey…

You could also wait until Winter and use the solid surface and jacks or lots of viewers!

Beams across, air bags underneath. Big temporary airbag under the middle for some extra force to get it out.

Another idea... Use a bottle jack to raise the dock off each footer enough to span a truss between the old and new footers. Then use a come along to pull it across the truss to the new footers.

Finally somebody that hand mixes to the right consistency

on the olt posts, build two lanterns :D moving it: dissassemble and reassamble on the new spot, much faster then thinking how to move it and then build something to move it ..

I feel for ya brother. Always enjoy your videos!!!

I love your AWESOME scenery! Them city folk don't know what they're missing :)

Dude my whole week was like that Keep it up adds to the satisfaction at the end

Scaffolding is easy to set up and tear down and pretty easy to make if you have a sheep load of 2x4's laying around that you could then use on other needed projects. ;-) Also you got that nice Truck of a boat so you could rent some Temporary scaffolding with adjustable feet. Place a couple long 2X's on top as sliders then spin the scaffolding feet up on the platform side to lift it. Then slide it over to the new home dill new holes and spin the scaffolding feet down to lower the platform into position. We rent the stuff all the time to move stones, think several hundred-pound granite stones out of a wall.

Kids having a blast !

Pulley blocks and winches for sure, either skid frame work or over head gantry beam.

Lots of friends with beer and pizza afterwards!!!

Easiest way is to remove the railing and floor, and do an amish-style lift of the whole frame. Or, build some sort of timber crane from a nearby tree? If such a thing is possible, you are the man to do it.

Build a Samaurai joinery crane, use later for loading and unloading boat!

I agree with the camera person. We love work. We could watch it all day. Use the trees and a large block and tackle. You only need to clear a few inches at a time on either end. Lift, move a few inches, set, rinse and repeat. Front and back alternately. or ….WALK IT OVER. don’t slide it. Too much friction. Same method using one less jack than legs on the dock. Jack the legs a few inches except for the pivot leg. Hand ratchet the weight in the proper direction. The jacks “fail” and drop the legs only a few inches vertically but a few more horizontally. Exactly like pivoting a heavy piece of furniture across a floor using leverage. We have all done that at some time in our lives.

I feel so sorry that you have to move your board walk, I suggest a large blow up air bag then inflate and move if it sinks to much float a piece of ply with air bag on the top of the ply. Good luck look forward to see the result. We used this Idea to move a grounded house boat on the river Murray. > Neil from South Australia.

Waiting for kids to cry. Awesome, we also had 3 boys always someone is crying or bleeding. Good times! Love seeing your family help. Also lost a few tools in the lake. LOL

Sad but enjoyable content. It’s like measure twice, cut once but we’ve all been there. Well done on the effort.

Timber rails under each end of the deck, with grease to help it slide. Also:- dynamic/adjustable leveling feet, possibly from a scaffolding system..?

Use the barge boat to move it! Seems realistic. Unhook it from piers and jack it up on to the boat

The views are just spectacular, good luck moving the boardwalk 👍🏻

For moving large heavy objects if you can get any thing rolly under them and basically make a conveyor belt that would work. like 2" roundbar ? You don't even need that many. As you roll over the objects you pick up the last one and move it to the front, leap frog style.

2x4 rails, 1" pvc pipe rollers, a couple of come-alongs, and some pry bars. That, or a "pair a pliers and a blow torch, to go to work on the homes here"

Jack it up, build two stretchers underneath it that span the distance, roll it on some 1” round steel stock. I’m sure you have some beams that will carry it.

Is there a floating crane anywhere on that massive lake you could hire out for a couple of hours? Seems the lowest risk and most expedient.

Cribbing up to the height you need. At least two rails/planks/timber’s as rails. Roll the deck on metal pipes. Just keep pushing it along and rotating the pipes back to in front of the deck.

I’ve moved heavy structures before by putting down steel beams or pipes and then dragging so it was steel on steel. They slide pretty well. Screw some L profile to the bottom and go. Not easy but it has worked with a 10’ container with 4 tons in it.

You could flip it over and put plastic inside of the framing cavities and pour two-part expansion foam into the openings and float it. Then use a come along and levers to push it up into position.

I've had to move literal houses before to redo foundations/footings, or shift for one reason or another. We first place wooden or metal bearers under the load, use jacks to take the tension off and cut the anchor bolts/foundations, then fully raise the load off the old foundations. From there we place some sort of roller under the bearer's, such as a trolley, logs or more bearers as a slide or chute. Then lower the load onto the roller and slide to new location using something like a tirfor winch, or ratchet strap in a pinch. Lots of pulleys are your friend. Hope this helps and best of luck.

Remove the decking run a few bits of timber to slide the frame across to the new footings and the use of a few jack to lift it up and on the rod easy done

What about those oyster boats with the lifter on them? Not sure if there’s any close to where you are…but that would be a good option.

When i need to pour concrete on uneven ground i fill gaps between ground and slabs with PU foam. Trim from inside.

Connect two beams from the old dock site to the new dock site . Slide old dock onto the new site

Love the series of videos especially mrs samurai paying homage to mr samurai good times in the samurai household 😉 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

With regards to moving the boardwalk in one piece, given that you will need to lift it and set it onto the rebar coming out of the new piers, I think a crane is required. Since getting a modern crane onto the site isn't feasible, and you have lots of tall straight timber, I would look at roman techniques. There is a great book, "Roman Builders: A study in architectural process" that shows the various crane designs roman architects (who were really generalist engineers of their time) created for lifting heavy objects. I think the ideal design would be a very large tripod of timbers centered between your new and old piers, well braced at the top. Three hoisting points high near the bracing but outside of your starting and ending locations, with that cables running though each to the center of gravity of your boardwalk Together these could be used together to lift it vertically (tensioning the two closest while keeping the further one only taught enough to keep the load from swinging radially), then translating it horizontally(loosening one cable while tightening another), and finally setting it back down(same as step 1). It would take some serious block and tackle to keep the pulling forces reasonable, ideally pulled by a hand crank hoist on each of the tripod leg. Sorry for the wall of text, but it felt appropriate given the magnitude of what you want to do.

Man, I love your videos so much. IWish I could help you move that pier.

Easiest way would be to buy how ever many feet of your neighbors property needed to keep it where it is

All I could think about while you said canvas with a streak was bob Ross and it is a happy mistake and you will come up with something else to put there. Everything can be made better. It's not a mistake

Two of those downed trees lashed into an A frame. Stand it straight up over walkway. Two ropes, one tied to walkway through a carabiner that has a rope to each corner, that goes over top of A frame. The second rope attaches to the top of A frame. Lift walkway up with one rope whilst letting out the rope attached to Aframe to move it over.

Just take it apart and move it! It would be done by the time you wait for that miracle idea in the so remote area you are located. You can Do It!

Use one of those trees with a lift and hoist to help take the load off while moving make a small crane out of one of the trees with just using Rope Block and Tackle

Fell some poles from the property and slide it over using the poles as rails with a winch or come along. That’s my best guess.

I liked how you worked that green concrete, nice finish. What a sad dilemma in all honesty, these mistakes are so frustrating. Then there is the wives rubbing it in of course.

Maybe make some wooden rails of the existing structure to slide the deck over into position.

You know what ? In 25 years of homelessness I've built 8 camps. All on other people's property. Believe me I have had some struggles and stealth with comfort were definite aspects of life. I'm here to see your answers to encountered problems and so are your kids ! So, keep up the good work !

Pivot on one leg at at time to walk it across and build temp slider structure to move it across use soap on slider should have planned new spot using walking arcs starting from back left leg

Maybe a few trees parallel to each other laid on the ground. Then pipes on top to roll on? Might be faster to just disassemble the deck and manhandle the frame over.

I once had to move an outside play house I built for my daughter. I put down a bunch of plywood and rented "press" rollers and rolled it across the yard. Press rollers were used to move large printing presses. No idea why my rental shop had them but it worked perfect.

Run the sander over the shuttering to release air bubbles, works like a poker.

That really sucks… perseverance is key but it doesn’t suck less. Good luck with it 💪

US army has a fantastic team that deals with heavy stuff moving. Call them! Say youre from YT :-)

Maybe....build acouple of rails between new and old position, grease the rails, winch the platform along the rails to new position. For rebar height, cut rebar say 200mm above support, jack up platform, poke rebar back through platform and align and weld back together. Lower platform. The rails could be built using the logs you have cut down.