I have been absent for a couple weeks here, but I took on a new project. Those that know me hear will understand.
All names are fictitious but a true story.
I have an Amish friend that lives about 8 to 10 miles from my farm (No they do not know about my Willa side at all). But his Amish neighbor "Pete" bought a home built by "Pete's" own brother-in-law "Ed". Ed built the home and could not sell it for quite some time on the open market, and he sold it to his Brther in law "Pete" Hopefully for a greatly reduced price. Because Ed never poured and footers under the home and it was sinking into the ground on the backside Nine Inches lower than the front. Pete once he bought the home had to jack it up off of the partially exposed block wall then knock down the entire block wall basement and saw out the concrete floor and dig footers and pour gravel and concrete into them tp be able to make proper footers to be able to build a new block wall basement under the home.
I saw the mountainous pile of concrete and broken block and asked if I could remove it to fill in several hundreds of yards of washed-out logging road on my farm. Pete gladly accepted my clean up offer for free both ways saving him disposal costs. I have moved 28 pickup truck loads in the past 10 days to a tune of 28,000 plus pounds of concrete and block moved, I figure I have another 30 to 40 truck loads to go. This is all hand load and unloading as well.
Pictures of the Amish house where all my concrete and block has come from. I will add road pictures later once completed. I call this a serious fat burner project for me, LOL!
@Heartlander They jacked it up off of the foundation and knocked the entire block basement walls down and cut out the concrete floor to dig down to place gravel and a proper footer, then they will build new block walls upon the proper footer. And et the house back on the block walls all level using a transit to make sure the home is level.
So, they are saving the upper structure to lower back onto a properly down foundation and basement.
@WillaKissing Sounds like a fortune in either $$ or blood-sweat -tears.
Our kids as well as half our families are planning, construction, architecture, etc. and a sort-of funny story about a similar home built on a slope situation. I’ll leave the location out. About a very expensive house built on a landfill, steep slope.
A day long rain and at some point the manmade hill surrendered to Mother Nature, and the next morning front page story with pictures was the front half of the house still up on the hill and the back half 30 feet below in a big pile at the bottom of the hill.
The next morning at work, the kids gathered around the newspaper, sipping coffee, trying to outdo one another with comments about “what kind of idiot would …”. Then their boss arrived. Guess who that idiot was …
@Heartlander Great share. Bless your children for following your career path. Being a builder as you have seen on the Post and Beam home, I have been building I appreciate the architects and proper site location like you mentioned.
A lot of hard work getting the house rebuilt with proper support, you moving all that concrete, be safe. There is a reason for code and inspection, done right so everyone is safe for years to come
@Kstrong It falls back to a person's scruples, and mine are extremely sound, but I will not account for other's scruples.
Codes and code enforcement did not come into play for me on this project, because I stopped in to ask the owner of the home pictured for all of the Concrete and concrete block Debree to use as fill on an old washed-out logging road on my property. I snapped the pics of the home when no one was around to show where the Debrees came from only. Their home their mess and their fix to the mess.
i don't quite know what to say about Ed. thank goodness you were able to benefit from his mistake. i am getting my book this week btw...if you rememb er what i am talking ab out.
@ninalanyon As do I, but not being my home or a purchase of mine all I can do is hope and stick to my own project at hand (Concrete and block removal to be used as fill on my logging road).
@cd4259 Maybe aching, but OMG what a life saver and money saver for me for the free fill, fat burning, and great workout that I get daily. It helps to keep fit and shapely.
@Longpatrol Thank you I will. I went from six loads a day moved to two to three loads slowing down and making sure I do not hurt myself. I started out gang buster to let the Amish know I wanted all the fill and would damn sure move it in a timely manner. Impressions are big with the Amish when you tell them you will do something for them, and you do it quickly. Now I can slow down the move and do it at my pace.
