Hillgrade:
I thought you might enjoy seeing a few of the pictures of the men working on the house towards the end. They are taking the rails out from under the house in the first picture.
In case you don't know, the rails (the kind used by trains) are inserted under the house just under the sill, from front to back (or whichever way is most convenient). Jacks are then mounted under the rails and the house is jacked up slowly, inch by inch, from front to back, rail to rail. Very slow painstaking work. Simultaneously, 4x4s (or 6x6s? or old railway ties?) are inserted under the house as cribs and will eventually take the weight of the lift. When this is achieved, the rails and jacks are removed. This video will give you some idea what the jacking process and cribs look like in Newfoundland. Watch video here.
Robert Coates, the boss man, is shown left. What a sweetie. Never grumpy. Never has an off day. The minute he opens his mouth to speak, there's a smile chasing every word. As John says, the mark of a man who loves what he does.
The third picture (above, right) shows just what brute strength is required to lift a house. Every man on the crew was as strong as two ox.
In case you don't know, the rails (the kind used by trains) are inserted under the house just under the sill, from front to back (or whichever way is most convenient). Jacks are then mounted under the rails and the house is jacked up slowly, inch by inch, from front to back, rail to rail. Very slow painstaking work. Simultaneously, 4x4s (or 6x6s? or old railway ties?) are inserted under the house as cribs and will eventually take the weight of the lift. When this is achieved, the rails and jacks are removed. This video will give you some idea what the jacking process and cribs look like in Newfoundland. Watch video here.
Robert Coates, the boss man, is shown left. What a sweetie. Never grumpy. Never has an off day. The minute he opens his mouth to speak, there's a smile chasing every word. As John says, the mark of a man who loves what he does.
The third picture (above, right) shows just what brute strength is required to lift a house. Every man on the crew was as strong as two ox.
And finally another view under the house. You see the remains of one of the cribs on the right. We don't get to keep that wood. It gets loaded back on their truck for the next move/lift someplace else. I'm told there's a house move today in Twillingate. We might go up and have a look.
Final result was that our house was lifted 22" on the front, and 38" on the back. We no longer have to ski from the front door back to the kitchen. Yay.
You might have been thinking this post is out of sync since the last post reported that we were back in the house with the lift behind us and concrete foundation under us. In truth, this post was made the same day. I should have just done it first so it at least would not look like we were doing a second lift. Ha.
1 comment:
almost there. good to see things are progressing nicely. don't be foolish and lift too much cement now, hear?
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