Bloomfield CT. The Francis Gillette House. This Greek Revival style home was built in 1834 and is on the national registry of historic places. During the Civil War the home was used as an over night stop for the underground railroad.
The stone walls varied from22"-28" thick. The project required over a 120 tons of temporary steel beams. The main steels were W14x500x72'. Cross steels were W12x87x40', W14x132x50', W14x145x50'
It required 16 hydraulic dollies to support the weight of this building. Because the move path, was alongside a wetlands area, a plank road was laid down of 3"x8"x16' planks in some places up to eight layers thick. In excess of ten tractor trailer loads of planks were used. Excavation in this are was not an option.
The Gillette house moved a total of 5/8 of a mile and weighed in at approximately 800 tons. Because of the varied terrain, move day was actually five days to cover the distance.
Portland Me. Brick carrage house, built 1830.
We rolled the carrage house forward, then centered it on the lot, so that it could be restored and made into a home.
This building, loaded weighed 340 tons. We used "role shoes" ,these shoes are 9' long by 26" wide. Two 100 ton hydraulic cylinders were placed between the shoes and main steels so as to float the building on hydraulic fluids. This is done by zoning or cross flowing the fluid to other cylinders. this compensates for any settlement in the soils as the building is being moved.
Atkinson NH. brick farm house, built around 1824. The building was originally only six feet from the busy paved road but needed to be moved for the road to be widen
The building was rolled back about 110 feet on the lot and then lowered down 14 feet.
