Log Cabin Move

Well, everyone, it's finally happening. Dad's dream dark room made from the old log cabin is beginning to look like it might come to pass. As you may remember last Summer we poured a foundation. Dad's plan was to lift up that old little one room log cabin and move it to the pad 100 feet or so from the garage. I wasn't so sure it could be done. But Dad spent a long time thinking about it, and he got some house jacks and jacked up the house off the flooring. It wasn't attached. Then he got a tractor and pushed the flooring out from under the house as far as he could, and then hooked a chain to the extended edge and pulled it the rest of the way out. Then he hoisted the floor straight up. Check it out. I took pictures.

You should have seen him driving the tractor backwards down the road at 2 miles an hour, the floor bumping along as it dragged. Once at the site he lowered it onto the slab. Isn't that amazing? After we figure out the floor insulation, we are going to go back and lift up the house and set it on a trailer and drive it down to the foundation. Sounds impossible, doesn't it? Aren't tractors great? You can do such impossible stuff with them.
Moving the house is just the beginning...there is so much other work to do on it, like the roofing and flooring, the plumbing and the electrical outlet installation. It is a big project...but we are getting closer....slowly.