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That looks like it'll keep you quiet & outta trouble for quite some time!

When/if it comes time to move it, would it stay on the same property or have to go on the highway? If you're just going to shift it "locally," seems like you could devise some steel skids and incorporate a hitch point on one end.
 
That looks like it'll keep you quiet & outta trouble for quite some time!

When/if it comes time to move it, would it stay on the same property or have to go on the highway? If you're just going to shift it "locally," seems like you could devise some steel skids and incorporate a hitch point on one end.
It wouldn't have to move via hwy unless something terrible happened but I would like it to be able to go that route if it had to. I think it easily will be smaller than the law allows.

It does have already steel tow points on the frame being a bulk barn. Some 4x4s bolted on the bottom would make handy skids I suppose. I even thought about a mobile home axle and trailer tongue that could be bolted on. Chances are it might never be moved but we are trying to buy the piece of property next to the one it will be on so it could end up traveling.
 
It wouldn't have to move via hwy unless something terrible happened but I would like it to be able to go that route if it had to. I think it easily will be smaller than the law allows.

It does have already steel tow points on the frame being a bulk barn. Some 4x4s bolted on the bottom would make handy skids I suppose. I even thought about a mobile home axle and trailer tongue that could be bolted on. Chances are it might never be moved but we are trying to buy the piece of property next to the one it will be on so it could end up traveling.
give me a holler and I'll come help work on it. Surry ain't that far away.
 
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Looks pretty good.

One thing that you might want to consider is locating some log tobacco barns that you can take apart for the logs. Usually they are anywhere between 16' - 18' square, and they would provide you with an aged look from the git-go.
 
This frame was 10'5" wide

102" is the legal width. You can move this on the highway but it would be a permit haul....unless you did it on the QT and didn't go far.
 
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102" is the legal width. You can move this on the highway but it would be a permit haul....unless you did it on the QT and didn't go far.
How do all these companies move these 12' wide barns all over? Some kind of special tag?
 
Aww hell you don't need no stinking permits. Just do what my friend and I did once. He wanted to move a 16x20 foot deck. We got it ready to go on Saturday evening, jacked it up and back the trailer under it. Sunday morning we went and got it at daybreak and hauled it 15 miles :D
 
Aww hell you don't need no stinking permits. Just do what my friend and I did once. He wanted to move a 16x20 foot deck. We got it ready to go on Saturday evening, jacked it up and back the trailer under it. Sunday morning we went and got it at daybreak and hauled it 15 miles :D

Daddy and I did the same thing several times while he was alive. We moved the moble home I bought about 5 miles one Saturday morning. Just ran the back roads...
 
Aww hell you don't need no stinking permits. Just do what my friend and I did once. He wanted to move a 16x20 foot deck. We got it ready to go on Saturday evening, jacked it up and back the trailer under it. Sunday morning we went and got it at daybreak and hauled it 15 miles :D

Daddy and I did the same thing several times while he was alive. We moved the mobile home I bought about 5 miles one Saturday morning. Just ran the back roads...

Many times you can just act like everything is ok and keep on trucking. I confess to the same down here in the southeastern end of the state.
 
Daddy and I did the same thing several times while he was alive. We moved the moble home I bought about 5 miles one Saturday morning. Just ran the back roads...
I went straight down Alamance Ch Rd from near Greensboro to Kimesville haha
 
I hired a group of redneck home movers from another county to move a two story barn about 8 miles once. We removed the roofing, folded in the rafters to drop the height, jacked it up, and put it on the highway. No permits, nothing. Just a laughing gang of guys that intended to earn the money I promised them if they could move it. They staged two guys on top of the building with pvc poles to push up power lines so they could get under them. They pulled up quite a few road signs and mailboxes.....(and some they didn't move.......they just kept driving. lol) They had to cross about three bridges on highways and had to jack the building up higher just to clear the bridge rails and each time that happened traffic was backed up for miles with irate drivers having to wait long periods of time.

It was chaos and something you would expect to see on a comedy movie . I waited for days after that happened for the DOT or residents that owned some of the mailboxes to show up at my door asking questions about damaged road signs and mailboxes but it didn't happen.

That was years ago and people still bring that up in the area that we live in.
 
If you get away with it, that's great. Too many staties around here. I don't know what the fine is but they run 4 figures and up generally. It's not like a speeding ticket. For $25 savings, not worth it IMO... Now if it was literally the next lot over or down the same backroad, sure...
 
I hired a group of redneck home movers from another county to move a two story barn about 8 miles once. We removed the roofing, folded in the rafters to drop the height, jacked it up, and put it on the highway. No permits, nothing. Just a laughing gang of guys that intended to earn the money I promised them if they could move it. They staged two guys on top of the building with pvc poles to push up power lines so they could get under them. They pulled up quite a few road signs and mailboxes.....(and some they didn't move.......they just kept driving. lol) They had to cross about three bridges on highways and had to jack the building up higher just to clear the bridge rails and each time that happened traffic was backed up for miles with irate drivers having to wait long periods of time.

It was chaos and something you would expect to see on a comedy movie . I waited for days after that happened for the DOT or residents that owned some of the mailboxes to show up at my door asking questions about damaged road signs and mailboxes but it didn't happen.

That was years ago and people still bring that up in the area that we live in.
Was that your building moving past Jimmy the Greek's diner in Winston Salem about 1988? :D Broomsticks and plastic pipe to lift the power lines outta the way--I laughed so hard I couldn't eat for ten minutes!
 
Was that your building moving past Jimmy the Greek's diner in Winston Salem about 1988? :D Broomsticks and plastic pipe to lift the power lines outta the way--I laughed so hard I couldn't eat for ten minutes!
I've seen it done too. Definitely a SMH moment. Funny what some guys will do for a case of beer.
 
Found this guide online.
 

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So, after reading the publication above, if I pull it up there on my trailer like it is I have to:
1-get a permit for over width.
2-put 18" red flags on rear corners (due to width and overhang)
3-put 7' x 18" yellow "wideload" signs on the front of my truck and the back of the trailer (because it is wider than 10'1")

Rear overhang can legally be 14' from rear of a trailer or truck, you just have to have red 18" flags on it. My overhang is about 8'.
I could stand the frame up in the trailer on its side, strap it good, put some flags on the back and no permits or anything will be required.
And I wouldn't have to make no goofy signs...
 
So, after reading the publication above, if I pull it up there on my trailer like it is I have to:
1-get a permit for over width.
2-put 18" red flags on rear corners (due to width and overhang)
3-put 7' x 18" yellow "wideload" signs on the front of my truck and the back of the trailer (because it is wider than 10'1")

Rear overhang can legally be 14' from rear of a trailer or truck, you just have to have red 18" flags on it. My overhang is about 8'.
I could stand the frame up in the trailer on its side, strap it good, put some flags on the back and no permits or anything will be required.
And I wouldn't have to make no goofy signs...

As long as the trailer deck is low enough. Have to be under 13'6". That's a much bigger deal than width...
 
Umm... Didn't you see already transport that thing over roads to your house?
 
Well, busy with several projects at once as usual. My rear axle repairs, finishing my long overdue bath renovation and some outdoor and garden things have been a blur over the past couple of weeks. I have a 4 day weekend starting this coming Friday and plan to weld on the end of the frame and tidy it up. Then it's off to Surry with it.
 
OK, today I put the new end on the frame. I notched it to fit and welded it up. I also cut 50+ old rusty bolts off the whole thing where the bulk barn used to be attached. A good start and it's about ready to travel to its new home.


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Lemme know when you head up. I'll bring a high lift jack with me works great for stuff like this.
 
This afternoon I got the frame stood up on its side in the trailer and strapped down. It seems very solidly attached to the trailer and this way I need no permit. It is about 12' 4" high so way under height limit. Rear of frame is hanging out about 8' and while it looks crazy it is legal.

Gonna head up to the retreat tomorrow and drop it off. Hope to get the 6x6s in the ground soon and set this thing in its final resting place.

Getting it stood up was fairly simple and involved a come-along and a tree. Country boys can survive....

Pics tomorrow.
 
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