DeVooght House & Building Movers

Winner of the 2004 IASM Award for “Heaviest Structure Moved on Dollies, Under $30,000”

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Menominee Falls, Wisconsin

I n 2004 this house was moved in Menominee Falls, Wisconsin (Milwaukee suburb) to a new site located directly across the street on an adjacent corner lot.

We were contacted by the owners to move a house that, due to a new condominium project, was going to be razed. We believe the house was constructed in the 1930s, based on old newspapers discovered in the foundation walls.

When we agreed to take the project, the client said that they would clear out all of the trees located around the house, which was a necessity in order to move the house off the lot. However, soon after we started the project, the developer would not allow all the trees to be cleared.

Because of this, we would have to rotate the house 180 degrees with a five-foot window to maneuver around the trees. We did this by drawing up a plan that would pre-determine the positioning of the all the wheels under the house, including the angle of the prime mover within a half-inch tolerance.

This was an all-brick, 152-ton house, measured approximately 36 feet by 46 feet. It was moved using two W24 sixty-foot main beams and eleven W12 forty-foot cross beams. All of the steel was C-clamped using Armstrong-brand clamps (the best) provided by JSJS. The building was lifted using 2002 a six-jack, ball-valve unified jacking machine. The building was moved using four hydraulic dollies and one of our prime mover trucks.

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