Antique Family Home Moved Through A Storm | Huge Moves | Spark
Two teams of building movers race against time to relocate two huge Historic Homes. In St Louis, Missouri we follow Expert House Movers who are relocating an entire farm complex of historic structures - including a 500 tonne stone farmhouse - for Rose Heet’s family who are being forced off their land to make way for a shopping complex. Can the team move and save the whole farmstead before the developers move in?
In New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, we follow father and son move team Phil and Jason Leil slice and dice a huge period home into four pieces to move twenty miles across town for the owner who wants to eliminate her daily commute and live closer to her workplace. Can they dismantle, move and re-assemble the whole structure before bad weather strikes?
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I cant even IMAGINE the insurance that is involved! The workers, the road trip, the assembly and after its put together that there is no errors. Its insane a company would even THINK about doing this!!!!
I'm not sure its worth it, seems a lot of hassle
My father in law, may he rest in peace moved houses with his father all over the Galveston Texas area. I am totally amazed by this and have MAD respect for the guy's that do this kind of work! It is a tough job!!!
Hmm, pretty cool. But... What about showing how they repair the house once it's in position and what it looks like afterward???
Usually just small minor cracking on interior drywall/lathing. Not usually anything hard to deal with or worth including in a tv show.
Unless you’re talking about the house they abs destroyed in order to remove the upper floor. I just got to that part of the video. That... will be a good bit of work to fix. Lots of scabbing on that one.
That was some amazing work to move those massive homes ! It was breathtaking watching 👀 it being moved on video and craming it all in this short video , a small town i lived in and working for the county we had hired a similar company to move a 2 story building that was over 150 years old (it was a train station saloon and motel) .it was even more amazing being so close to it . Me and 3 others built the new foundation for it's final resting spot .
This is INSANE!!!!!
Well the crane operator most likely lost his job..😂 what a ride..
Astonishing precision and craftmanship. New subscriber!
I remember seeing that crane incident footage way back like 2 years ago. I thought they were using footage that had no relevance to the project, but I'm surprised to see it is relevant.
Wow! Imagine going through this amazing, almost impossible process …just for the brakes to fail on your crane and end up wrecking the whole place! 😳
Oh, and what about that run away train? SHEESH! That was nutz.
Wow, It is just amazing! well done everyone
How do they replicate the basement!?!?
Oh, they just did a whole, that’s the easy bit 🙃
This are real monster movers! Even in the age of laser and GPS technologies the good old trusty plumb and water lines prove themselves always right! Bravo fellas!
I wish they had done one house per show. I'm sure they cut out so much good footage.
Did you see that woman wanted to move that big old tree....
Why not? She’s not paying!
There is many women like that.. That us men need to stay away from..lol
What hurricane are they talking about? I Google it and I can't find it
I wanna see the final product
39:38 "The living room and the dining room just went over the top of the roof." (laughter)
I'm curious ...who puts the houses back together when they arrive at their destination? I got my answer...just needed to watch a little longer....👍
You do realize that entire homes were moved by hand on logs and put on wooden barges then floated to the mainland of Newfoundland from small islands during the sixties and even earlier. No trucks, no cranes and no heavy machines. Just pick it up and go. Amazing history to watch.
i am taking a stand against people that say "YOU DO REALIZE"" I hate this phrase. Its arrogant and incorrect. You are actually asking "Do you realize that...?" that is a friendly way to speak to people. "YOU DO REALIZE" this sounds like you are a know it all and think everyone should know what you know. This shit pissed me off! You do realize..NO I dont or I would have mentioned it.. dingbat!
Might be a good time to upgrade the mechanicals.
Bloody hell. $$$$$$$$$$
The driver couldn't check the crane. It caused some power lines to rupture, so households could lose power. Living in darkness for a few days even when the hurricane arrives.
When it's moved it won't be the same?! Either say yes and move on or say no!
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Where is this at 1:02
What do you mean things you don't think about . They are movers , ?
Shouldn't that crane have air brakes?
Why do they never show how the story ends? Okay, so ya moved the thing, now how do you get it set back up?
Wait a minute did she sells the farmland or did they just build on their That is a legal
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Thid crazy women it's going to be different anyway in a DIFFERENT LOCATION lmao
Y'know, only one of them wanted the house moved like that (the other home owner tried to sell it but couldn't (I assume she meant at a reasonable price for what the house is worth) and she was okay having it cut up in pieces). But considering a mall developer was paying for EVERY thing, I think good on her being insanely specific. I hope it cost an absolute fortune and the moving company made a huge amount of money from it. If someone was pressuring me to sell my house like that (just to make money from the land), I'd make them pay for every small thing I could think of, knowing that if the developer had to pay for it, someone else was making money from them at least. ....I'd certainly make sure that a film crew from a major tv station was there to make the bastards too scared of a PR nightmare to screw me over. Funny that.
What a b*tch! Probably inherited it all anyway.
And this one 1:20
Bad news for the lady, if they destroy her house. They don't build you a new one, their insurance wrights her a check.
It would have been better to just build an identical house instead of gutting and cutting up that house.
Just imagine being married to these women.. No thank you..
Notice there are no husbands in the video LMAO
can you do JFK
These guys that are doing these documentaries are driving me crazy!! They're doing great job documenting the whole move but they fail each time to show the finished product!!
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