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. When he got next to the slab he lowered it onto the slab. Isn't that amazing? In the next few days 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.
We are getting closer to the end of the project. I'll keep you posted.
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