This is the old one car garage that I want to restore into a Fifty's style woodworking shop. It is 12 feet wide 22 feet long and unfortunately 12 feet high, which makes it a problem to move. Some how I have to jack this place up load it on a trailer and move it 35 kilometers, including going up and down some big hills and across a hydroelectric dam, and oh yes the Maximum height a load can be on the road is 13.6 feet leaving only 1.5 feet for trailer height .
There is no floor in the building and the door is 8 feet wide, this may prove to be helpful.
When I worked for a house mover in the mid 1960's they would move a garage by taking the garage door off back a long flat deck truck into the garage put 6X8 timbers across the deck on blocks between the studs in 4 or five spots. Then they would nail a long plank to the studs above the 6X8's. Then put jacks under the 6X8's to lift the garage off of the foundation about 8 to 10 inches (make sure that all bolts holding the walls to the foundation are removed). Then they would block everything between the 6X8 and truck, chain it down and drive it away. Make sure that you get any permits that are required to move a wide load on the roads.
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