A while ago, I posted this clip of the 100-year-old Trinity Lutheran Church being moved on a hydraulic platform trailer 12 miles to its new location in the town of Manning, Iowa. The effect is decidedly surreal; sort of Fellini meets Gilliam:
The relocation of entire buildings, usually wooden ones, happens more often than I’d imagined. Via Oobject, here’s another radical move in Providence, Rhode Island:
And another, at Harvard Law School:
“The relocation of entire buildings, usually wooden ones, happens more often than I’d imagined.”
But you still don’t see it every day.
The church clip is lovely.
You miss a couple of mortgage payments and see what happens…
I love the church clip. ESPECIALLY the choir.
Reminds me of this: “For failure to pay back taxes, signed, HMR Blockhead…”
From about 4.40 onwards. The rest of it ain’t bad, either.
Bollocks. Forgot about the HTML restrictions – here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ais3C28O-mA
These clips are from a documentary series on the Discovery Channel called Mega Moves http://www.windfallfilms.com/monstermoves/index.html the town they floated to Vancouver Island was impressive
One night way back in the summer of 1965 while in college at LSU in Baton Rouge La., USA, I had dropped off my date at her home in a sub-division in the wee hours of the morn (around 3am) and was returning back to my apt rounding a bend down a hill, approaching a major intersection when I realized that I was rapidly heading directly towards a, a, a HOUSE! (house movers intelligently figuring 3am was a time of minimal traffic to move) Because of my “clouded” mental “state” at the time, combined with the mind’s inability to at first comprehend the supposedly incomprehensible (i.e., 2-story houses are not supposed to be in situated on the road in the middle of a major intersection)I continued towards it until I realized that in fact the road I was on was connected to the house–at which point I applied the breaks–running into a house not being one of those items of distinction one naturally crows about or puts on one’s resume. All in all, a very surreal experience at the time.