Posted on 10/05/2016 6:39:58 AM PDT by bgill
The house in the middle of a South Austin street has been unstuck but is still blocking the road, Wednesday morning. Workers missed their deadline to move the house by 5 a.m., so now they must wait until midnight.
Crews were given a tight window to move the house between midnight and 5 a.m. since it is such a wide load. Some progress was made overnight, the house was moved a little bit away from a person’s driveway and is now only blocking part of the road. Pieces of the roof were sawed off to move the house away from trees and utility poles and onto the open road. The house will then make its way to Lockhart, Texas.
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My son lives next door to where that house was !!! He said it’s a nightmare !
So now the house blocks traffic because they have to wait til midnight because to move it during the day would block traffic?
At some point, the cost of trying to move it will far exceed any value of the home. Seems like this is a lost cause, and they should just cut the house up now. Whoever was in charge of measuring clearances on the route may need to find a new career.
I wouldn’t denigrate home owners just because they don’t want their Live Oak trees cut. For starters, this is a bad time of the year to trim branches. Improper trimming might possibly kill the whole tree. Second, just because someone wants to move a house, doesn’t give them the right to cut my, or anyone else’s property. Just because I have cut down my own Live Oak trees in the back to get a better view of the sunset, doesn’t give someone else the right to trim my trees on the front side.
That’s a lede you don’t see every day.
Any part of a tree that encroaches on the road right of way can be cut. The tree huggers can pound sand.
He has a permit to move the load, and it was approved by the state DOT based on the size of the road right of ways. The power company will take down the poles, if need be, but the mover has to pay for that service.
Has the house made any demands?
Where’s Robert Moses when you need him?
I was in the 10th grade and at school when I noticed a 2-story house being moved up the street towards us. Pretty soon everybody noticed and school practically let out because so many kids were abandoning class to go watch them move the house.
The circumstances were much different with this move because the street was wider and there were no obstructions.
Well, almost no obstructions. Just as they got in front of the school they hit a series of power lines where they had misjudged the height. The (live) lines stretched and then snapped - right in front of us, snaking around as the fell to the ground.
No one was hurt but I bet there were some calls to fetch fresh skivvy’s!
After watching about half the video I stopped it, it was just silly.
Obstacles such as wires and trees stopped the move?
I had a house moved once, about 500 miles. I was advised of every wire that had to be raised or cut by the power company and every obstacle they needed to go around. Before the move they did a complete route survey, physically measuring anything that could be considered a tight spot.
Now tell me, seriously, just why are these stupid fools going through all this when a little preplanning could have saved their day?
I don’t know what a home is worth in Austin, but by looking at the dilapidated siding and windows, and assuming the inside is no better, the home is not worth the move. It looks like a POS better served with 5 gal of diesel and a match.
Knowing how Austin operates, my suspicion is the owner did all the normal due diligence but then the tree huggers got wind of it and blew the whistle, probably went to court for a restraining order, so the trees wouldn’t get knocked about.
A lot of these older houses are free, you just have to pay for the move.
How the heck do you raise a cement block house out of the ground and move it? The cement footer is deep in the ground. I don’t understand.
Anything can be moved. I have seen cement slab houses moved, as well as concrete and block Light Houses at the coast moved.
Austin has some historical Live Oaks here and there but it like Mobile or the Gulf Coast with truly monumental live oaks draped in Spanish moss surviving storm after storm
Or not occasionally
Live Oaks in central Texas are puny by comparison
Btw Live Oak street is boho and not cheap for what you get
LOL!
You should watch the tv show, “Texas Flip n Move.” They buy and move two houses each episode, renovate them and auction them off. It’s a fun little show, especially the sisters. More times than not, there’s a problem with the move. Houses have to cut or lifted off their foundations and usually have to cut into pieces.
That building is in Sopot, Poland.
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