Even though it's been 23 years, this is still pretty amazing to watch.
In 1981, Herman Ostry and his wife, Donna, bought a farm a half mile
outside of Bruno, Nebraska, a small community sixty miles west of Omaha.
The property had a creek and came with a barn built in the 1920's.
The barn floor was always wet and muddy. When the creek flooded in 1988,
the barn ended up with 29 inches of water covering the floor.
That was the last straw. Ostry needed to move it to higher ground.
He contacted a building moving company and was discouraged by the bid.
One night around the table, Ostry commented that if they had enough people
they could pick the barn up and move it to higher ground.. Everyone laughed.
A few days later, Ostry's son Mike showed his father some calculations.
He had counted the individual boards and timbers in the barn and estimated
that the barn weighed approximately 16,640 pounds. He also estimated that
a steel grid needed to move the barn would add another 3,150 pounds,
bringing the total weight to just under 10 tons. He figured it would take
around 350 people with each person lifting 56 lbs. to move the barn.
The town of Bruno, Nebraska was planning its centennial celebration in late
July of 1988. Herman and Mike presented their barn moving idea to the committee.
The committee decided to make it part of their celebration. So, on July 30, 1988,
shortly before 11 a.m., a quick test lift was successfully made.Then, as local
television cameras and 4,000 people from eleven states watched,350 people
participated and moved the barn 115 feet south to a gentle slope
(six feet higher up) and set it on its new foundation.
That is amazing. In Washington state they used to move houses by barge across the Puget Sound. I heard costs were 50k+/- for a small one, just hear say. The cost could be different, but very expensive.
Awesome! I hear it is possible to move state lines too, if you get enough surveyors under it! (And, of course, if Richard Schaut signs the plat!) You see, it would be the fault of those that failed to know where their lines were!
N
> Awesome! I hear it is possible to move state lines too, if you get enough surveyors under it!
> N
Dang, Nate...
Do you know that parts of the East line of your State are currently moving? It is not the 'Surveyor' that is doing it...it is Nature...and Riparian Law...
DDSM
(sorry for the Hijack...)
> (sorry for the Hijack...)
Where would the line be if the river dried up?
😉
:beer: Cheers,
Radar
> > (sorry for the Hijack...)
>
> Where would the line be if the river dried up?
>
> 😉
>
> :beer: Cheers,
>
> Radar
😉
Reliction?...Evaporation?
I would bet "On the line last covered by water"...but the contrary may be shown...
😉
DDSM:beer: with a :rain: chaser...
I somehow think that if we all were surveyors, that it could result in even MORE opinions, of where "The True Line Is!"
🙂
Thanks Dan.
N