Shed Moving Day

Saturday, April 23, 2016
We were up and out side emptying the shed in the back yard (that was going to be moved to the Cook's home) by 7:00 this morning.  Most of the stuff in it was Dale and Emma Jean's but we had been storing things like our bikes and gardening materials in it.

Just as we were finishing up, Dale Cook, Bob Hinton, and Dan Mouliasson showed up to begin the major task of the day.  Remove one shed and get it to a home at the other end of the park and then bring ours in and set it in place.

Ken had already removed the lattice around the base and the anchors along with pushing the cement step out of the way.  It was set back into a small hill with lots of dirt and stones along with a cement block wall to protect it from water damage.  We had spent the previous days removing all of that so it was ready to go up the hill and on to a flat bed towed by a tractor.  Here the guys were prying it up with 2 X 4's to get it on to rollers and pieces of wood to slide it up the hill.

Chains were attached to the tractor to help drag it up

Once it was up the hill they needed to get it on a flatbed trailer to move it to Dale's home.

PVC pipe and lots of physical labor helped them roll it up onto the trailer that then had to be attached to the tractor.

But finally it was off 

While the guys were busy getting it to its new home and picking up our shed which was bigger (Dale's was 6 X 8 while ours is 8 X 10 and taller), I was busy shoveling dirt up the hill and helping make a bigger foot print area where we could lay move 20 inch square cement blocks for our shed to sit on.  I threw alot of dirt!!!!!

But soon this is what I saw coming back our way

After much discussion it was decided there was no way it could be put in the same way the other one was taken out because of its size and height.  So back Dale went to the storage are where he could get on to our street and bring in to the spot between our house and George and Marilyn's next to us.

It was a tight fit especially once they got it off the trailer and tried putting it on the PVC pipe to roll it around the corner and into place.

My camera battery died so I couldn't snap pictures of all the work necessary to get the shed into place and pushed into the hill.  Stones had to be laid, more dirt shoveled and lots of man power was needed first to get it back and then slide it over.  But it finally made it!

But as can be seen here and there was still much to do as the patio next door was high and a retaining wall needed to be built and stones laid to keep the dirt from sliding down the hill.  Lattice can be seen around the shed - that Ken did on his own after everyone left.  Items had to be moved back into the shed and the furniture back on the patio before calling it a day. 

The front room of our house is filled with stuff that needs to go into the shed, much was left at the motorhome that needs to be brought over, electricity has to be put in (Bob Hinton came over a couple days later to help Ken with that), a gutter has to be put on the back side to force heavy rains and water away from the shed and down the hill, and all of the dirt and stone left over has to be cleaned up.  But that is in the future.  Today we have the shed!!!!!!!

At six o'clock all of the guys and their wives joined us at our place for pizza and salad and lots of story telling!!  The deed had been done!!