“Yeah, we finally got our modular home in place and steady, thank goodness! The only thing is now, none of the doors in the whole place will shut properly.”

@wallystewart1979

3 жыл бұрын

@@Crowbar44 the guys moving this one only job was to get them unstuck they do recovery but i know what you mean i sen what your talking about done also some of them dont care

@stephenpowell6001

3 жыл бұрын

Probably a lot of cracks in the drywall too.

@DMPB-fi2ir

3 жыл бұрын

@@Crowbar44 ya wouldn't be this guy at fault listen close about what they got stuck earlier trying to move it from original mover, and watch close as the go to get the first section moving one axle is seized up probably from the looks when the mover got it stuck it had an issue with axle already either bent it when they tried to go in the muck or when they tried to pull, so it was messed up before this video. plus the movers most times are hired by the seller of the home so they are to fault with how they move stuff

@davidkettell5726

3 жыл бұрын

you get what you pay for?

@tobydozier9030

3 жыл бұрын

Tell me one thing that’s square in a modular home anyways lol?? I’ll wait. They pull em at 70 mph on the interstate they got flex a little.

Hats off to the guy who welded that trailer hitch!

@letsdig18

4 жыл бұрын

he passed the 105K lbs pull test lol

@formhubfar

4 жыл бұрын

@@letsdig18 Just by a tad! .., lmao.., least we know what an upcoming project will be, to put a road in there.

@jimmywhite7856

4 жыл бұрын

They are bolted on

@randytravis3998

4 жыл бұрын

@@formhubfar why they did they not do the road first ? that has to be the most expensive house move ever lol. thought they would have looked at the driveway before they dropped off the house

@that.schamp

4 жыл бұрын

​@@randytravis3998 I had that very thought before building our home, but the builder recommended against it. The road you need for construction costs much more to build than the road you need for your daily commute - and any road will be destroyed during construction, so you end up building it twice. What our builder understood is that the key for delivering fill, concrete, steel, and lumber to the site was to wait for the right weather - a long dry spell - instead of trying to schedule it. The steel delivery put a dimple in our 36" culvert pipe where it has only 8" of top cover, so we can bet he was well over 10k on the axle. No delivery had trouble on the site because the ground was dry and packed when they arrived.

30 minutes in, and I am worn out from gritting my teeth and mentally trying to help ......

@TheAlpine49

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. That's funny! I felt the same thing.

@sheepdogsneeded5171

4 жыл бұрын

it's the strangest damn thing, isn't it? I have the same reaction often when I watch a video like this or see something similar in person.

@rogerdavies6226

3 жыл бұрын

Ya my teeth hurt too, one hell of an operator. seen him on and anther job

@jerrydaugherty9987

3 жыл бұрын

DITTO!!! Glad I wasn't the only one!

@kevfaherty123

3 жыл бұрын

lol somehow i'm exhausted mentally as well watching it haha

I was waiting for the trailer axles to snap, agreed, hats off to the welders..

@jimmurphy6095

3 жыл бұрын

You can see that one did on the first trailer.

@clivehorridge

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmurphy6095 Yeah, looks like the front axle got torn off at least on one side.

You really needed a few low overhead lines and 6" of snow to get the full "value" out of this job..... Good grief. I hope they paid up quick. Least they could do for saving their asses.

@wynwilliams6977

4 жыл бұрын

If it was that cold the ground would not of been so soft, the people delivering it screwed up not the homeowners

Honestly, real star of this show? *Those chains!* Holy crap they were taking a lot of load, especially originally, and not even over a rounded surface. That only one of 'em went is pretty crazy!

@pnwRC.

4 жыл бұрын

agreed

@MrGrumblier

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't the chain that let go, it was the hook - it got straightened.

@richardhoare6957

3 жыл бұрын

With those logs why didn't they use one to make a whipple tree for both diggers to pull evenly

My dad owed his life to a good dragline operator who knew where and how to dig out a collapsed tile line with my dad burred in the trench. Yes, my first thought too is why no mats.😁

@brandonmangla3987

3 жыл бұрын

Tt[ffccgyyy66666 is a great place to work for and

You know you’ve watched too many of these when your first thought is, Why no mats?

@wallystewart1979

3 жыл бұрын

my first thought was wheres the mats lol

@MrGrumblier

3 жыл бұрын

26:29 He did ask about mats at this point. He's a prophet.

@FreemanVashier

3 жыл бұрын

THIS!!!!!!!

@CrazyAmazingDesigns

3 жыл бұрын

HA HA HA! True

@nikhilpatel9663

3 жыл бұрын

Fucking hell that's exactly what I was thinking!!!!

They only want to camp for the weekend so Monday morning he’ll be back to pull it out.

It'll move or we will rip the front off trying 🤣😂🤣. I laughed so loud my wife was startled.

@MrGaryGG48

3 жыл бұрын

The other half of that comment should be, "We'll either drag it out of here or just disassemble it with the excavator and deliver the pieces where ever you'd like them!" The good part is that Chris is really good at taking stuff apart with that excavator! ;^)

@deenasmusicbox

2 жыл бұрын

Good to see your comment, thought I was the only one who busted out laughing 🤣!!

Been having a few dizzy spells here lately. The world started tipping forward and I thought I was going down!😂

“We have good news and bad news. Good news, your double wide is delivered. Bad news, it’s also a double long.”

@ltsgarage7780

3 жыл бұрын

Good news. It’s been delivered. Bad news. It’s been delivered. Oh. By the way. It rained ALOT YESTERDAY!!!!

@HappilyHomicidalHooligan

3 жыл бұрын

@@ltsgarage7780 And the other good news is you no longer need stairs to get to any of the exterior doors...

@ltsgarage7780

3 жыл бұрын

@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan I don’t understand what you are trying to say??

@HappilyHomicidalHooligan

3 жыл бұрын

@@ltsgarage7780 The trailers sunk into the ground, thus the doors are now level with the surface so stairs aren't needed anymore is what I was implying and at 1 point during the pull, that was very close to true...

@ltsgarage7780

3 жыл бұрын

@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan ok I get it now.

I think they should've rented some of those mats by the sawmill. 🤔

afterward, the homeowner called to complain there were cracks in the drywall lol

@gordoncorey8023

4 жыл бұрын

That can fix ezzy

@maryannanderson7517

4 жыл бұрын

I would hate to be that homeowner. I bet he is finding cracks and structural damage for months if not years down the line. I have to ask. Does this have options and add-ons that make it a lot heavier than normal or do all these things weigh this much? And if it weighs a lot more than normal, what the heck sort of options were included that added this much additional weight? Watching this made me so tense I sort of wished I hadn't quit smoking!

@michaeltrahan9705

3 жыл бұрын

@@maryannanderson7517 p

@arthilliker3721

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking that too. She was swishin' an swashin' purdy gud !! Just get anuther bucket of mud and some new floorin', she;'ll be fine !!

@doristate4586

3 жыл бұрын

ArtisanTony )

When i was a kid, we had a RV trailer, depending on where we went took the 18"x18" x1" marine wood jack platforms, or the 24" x 24" by 1" jack platforms so the trailer would never get suck in a mess like this. Large or small, once a mobile anything is off balance on unstable ground it becomes a mess to move.

26:26 famous last words... I kept thinking matts would have made life so much easier from the start!

That right there is why I no longer move mobile homes and modular homes

@MikeFL2TX

3 жыл бұрын

I had to get a 40' conex on our Landoll 455 one day. Once I finally got back to it and loaded, getting out turned out to be just as fun (as figured). The property owner told me, "they delivered my home here!" I said yes, their trailers are better designed for this and at the same time I don't know how they did it, but they must have bigger balls then me too. I don't want to try and get this steel conex out, but I have no choice!

@blueoval250

3 жыл бұрын

It’s rough work. If they would have used some matts it probably would have been fine.

And on this weeks house movers watch us drag a modular home thru a swamp

That wasn’t the best planning They are lucky there’s folks like you around to clean up their mistakes

I wonder why they didn’t put down matts. I use to move mobile homes and we had big metal plates and wood matts that we laid down crossing ditches and soft ground like that

@Jasonyohon

4 жыл бұрын

They probably do now.

@cameronberry4382

3 жыл бұрын

Same...need a gravel driveway

I sure am glad that modular home doesn’t belong to me!

Man, I found myself clinching my teeth and holding my breath on a couple of those pulls!

My Dad owned a Mobile Home Park from 1962-1984. Started w/ 8x 32'... biggest I did was a 14'x 72'. We used WWII aircraft landing mats salvaged. This was very interesting for me.

That was a cool project! Seems like some big road matts like they use on the big powerline projects would be a good investment for that type of operation. Neat video.

We had to use our D 9 to move stuff like that and it still was hell in soft ground like that. More power to ya.

"His strobe is on so dope shits going down" 👌👌

12:03 watching you guys work in sync moving that house is incredable

I have a whole new respect for my Uncle and his 1979 F250. He pulled his 14x70 mobile home across our field with mud just a flyin'. LOL

This, boys and girls is what's called teamwork. Let's say that all together now...teamwork.

All those guys there, and nobody spotting behind you, that grinds my gears.

thats a testament to how well they are built that after all that pulling dragging that the frame is so well put together, that the windows didnt break from any movement and that tow hitch must be strong enought to contain Superman itself!!

I'm super impressed what you can do with your skills and that big piece of equipment.

Hank Hill: What happened to my dang grass Bobby?

Got to love it the things people get you into including the mud pit all I can say is more power

@kevinpoore5626

4 жыл бұрын

And on that note I left about the things people get you into my guy got me into pouring concrete on my birthday which is tomorrow 4:28 those fools to be politically nice

Looks like a job for using the mats. I used to be on a setup crew and we've had to crib them across ditches and wet ground just to get them on the lot.

Excellent job getting those modular trailers out.

I can see it now - in 10 years, Chris will be back to knock it down for a big house!

@pneumatic00

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@als8518

4 жыл бұрын

@@pneumatic00 no i think hell be back tomorrow when the crane to set em gets stuck

At one e point when you started moving with the first trailer I was using my computer mouse to help move it. INTENCE

@mchelena1

3 жыл бұрын

Rodney, we need to party together.

This reminds me when me and my dad moved one with a single cat 336. It was everything that shovel had in it to move that house. Unbelievably heavy those things.

Nice job guys,I love this stuff, I also have a Link-Belt, and could do this if I wanted to, but I like watching you operate the Volvo 220 did you say , nice thanks BigAl California.

So I guess you are going to start a second side business moving modulars with the excavator lol

you can really see how big that bucket is when it covers the whole front of the dumpster. never looks that big on camera

@michaeldowns2389

3 жыл бұрын

that's what she said!!!

I'm always amazed at the spots they manage to get those mobile mansions in.

Those guys need some Alturnamats. They're awesome. We've used them for years for everything from setting mobile homes to getting in and out of cemeteries. Great teamwork! Reminds of doing this with my dad using a backhoe and bulldozer. Always worried about the friggin trailer slingshotting ahead and hitting the machine. Keeps your attention! Great job Chris!

When you are truly stuck for a solution, bring in The Big Guins!

@loganjohnson3589

3 жыл бұрын

You know the old saying go BIG or go home

@jimdomoradzki483

3 жыл бұрын

Should of built a telephone pole skid with an angled leading edge under the wheels and slid her to the new location. The wheels and axles sank making the trailer a wide ass plow perpendicular to the direction of travel and nowhere for the plowed dirt to go except into the dirt ahead if it. In the old days of horses, farmers skidded sleds full of logs.

35:55 Seeing the shovel? against a 30 yard dumpster gives perspective to just how big it is.

Awesome channel. You are a wizard in those machines! This channel should be played in every high school. You’re a guy that truly does something for a living! At that something is awesome. Sure you spent some years honing your craft. Well done and thanks for posting.

I used to pick up trailers full of blueberries at various farms. One trailer was buried in the mud like this. Three forklifts lifted up the trailer while workers put lots of wood blocks under the frame until it was up high enough for me to couple in

In next week’s episode, he rescues a rental mobile home sunk to the mud windows-deep at the forgotten pond :-)

“You scratched my bin!”

WOWZERS! What a pain in the @55! Good thing they know a feller with a bunch of HEAVY equipment!

Impressive!!! I’m learning a lot, thanks👍

Stopped breathing every time that homeowner was within striking range of a breaking chain.

@Rem1061

3 жыл бұрын

Most people have never had the "pleasure" of seeing a chain, or worse yet a cable part under high strain. Makes a really neat guillotine.

@cleanwillie1307

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rem1061 I sailed on Great Lakes ore freighters when I was a young fellow and the first boat I was on had a bosun with a scar an inch wide and 6-8 inches long down one side of his face from where a parting cable had whipped around sliced him open. He counted himself very fortunate. A few inches to one side and he figured he would have been a dead man. Ever since then I have had a VERY healthy respect for any line, cable, chain, strap, etc that is under strain. Stay well away!

Someone has landscaping to do after that move, that left quite a mess

Congratulations . . . . your new Deer Valley modular is in place where you wanted it. The bad news is that we racked it so badly to get it through the mud that nothing is square or plumb any longer (not that any of the walls were to start with since Deer Valley HB builds straight up junk anyway).

That was fun glad it'll worked out. Love the multicamera editing..

I wanna see them get the crane in there to lift the house sections on the foundation.

@Moose_338

4 жыл бұрын

probably get a crawler crane in there on mats if you had too.

@TheJimbob1603

4 жыл бұрын

Foundation? Who said anything about a foundation? Set it on a couple concrete blocks and level it ...... done.

@zsedor

4 жыл бұрын

TheJimbob1603 the foundation that’s visible at 36:20.

@scottmcquarrie7295

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. The crane is just going to be tough to get in there.

@cameronberry4382

3 жыл бұрын

Beam slide kit with rollers...

Watching this again. It's a wonder the frame just didn't rip off. What a heavy load and mucky ground. You guys are brave and persistent!

Looking at the depth of the ruts from the first half, it must have been dragging the axles on the ground most of the way back there. Very cool video.

A friend of mines father used to move these trailers into desert lots with really deep sand, he used a motor grader with good success.

That brings back a lot of memories, most were good.

"Adapt, improvise, overcome." - Sgt Highway.

The difficult you accomplished immediately. The Impossible took just a little longer. Very, very well done!

Great recovery job lads! 👍

Holy Moly! That was one STUCK trailer!!!

Some jobs call for finesse, and then on the other end of the spectrum, there's bashing logs into the ground.

This is truly amazing and these guys know the meaning of a hard day's work. This latest generation don't even know how to do basic maintenance on vehicles. How are we to continue great work like this when folks don't want to work. I worry for the future.

👍 At the start of the 160 passing the sliding door, all I could think of was drive thru breakfast. Nice break from the every day dig, sling, and burn.

These trailers won't fit together one is 6 inches longer then when they started with and the other is 3 inches longer then when they started with !!!

@arthilliker3721

3 жыл бұрын

They can add a small deck between them !!

7:49 "Summins gonna go" 😆 I laughed so hard

@skitzochik

3 жыл бұрын

7:58

I watched all of your videos. This is one of the best yet. Greetings from Massachusetts

WOW ,! By far the most stressful job Ive seen you do, and barely a scratch, well done to you and your colleagues...... Ray H. ( from england U.K. )

Whew, I need to visit my cardiologist after that!

TIM..MAY.." it's about to get real up in here"he's got the strobe on.lol.

Guess the owner / house mover hadn't heard about the concept of site prep 😣 Great job you did getting them literally unstuck and threading it round all the obstacles 👏👍

Not surprised, helped with many modular home moves, they are heavy don't look like it but they are, the worst part pulling them with an excavator is there is a good chance of punching the bucket through the wall lol.

Moving the just the equipment costs a lot. I can’t imagine what the extra on this setup is costing.

Question from a European. Don't you have access to steel driving plates. They are used everywhere when driving on soft ground . Usually rented

@13eckerlosmuerte

4 жыл бұрын

Here in America they are expensive. Yes they are available but the problem I'd see in this situation is the fact steel is heavy and will fall or fet completely covered and be difficult to track. Wooden mats are more floaty and have a better tendency to stay somewhat more visible. I was thinking use the logs to roll the trailer. Set them underneath the frame

I say it looks good right there! That’s what I call a not so mobile, mobile home. You scratched my bucket

Superb job thank you for sharing really enjoyed it

just a thought. maybe you should have brought in your crane matting to put over that sink hole to give your selves a better chance at moving those modular home pieces

@17snooker

4 жыл бұрын

That or there boards they have

I'm amazed it didn't leave that axle in the hole

@pnwRC.

4 жыл бұрын

Or the back quarter of the house, LOL! I'd say half, but it's already divided into halves.

@alkennedy1124

4 жыл бұрын

It popped one of axle shackle U bolts, one on side , wow they did a good job though, BigAl

I love watching this kinda stuff. I gotta say though my dad would have moved those all by himself with no heavy equipment. His job for most of his life? School teacher with special interest in science. I have seen him do some crazy stuff all by himself. He built and moved a module by himself and positioned it in some sketchy terrain. He even built the trailer that was used to move it. It wasn't quite that big though. Honestly surprised all those axles didn't get ripped off.

That was intense! I was puckered for half the time. Wow.

Man - respect for house movers. The road I lived on was blocked for 3 days when a mover got one corner of an Amish house stuck in the ditch at an intersection. It was really interesting. Super narrow road, tight corner - and, even though it took a couple of days, they got 'er done! I talked to the guy after, wondering if he regretted taking the job but he just said there are worse roads and that it's part of the business. When you move houses, there are going to be issues. That's what they pay you for. No big deal. Awesome attitude. And, strangely, they're not as heavy as I would have thought. The problem was that the driver was in training and got into a tight spot and rather than keeping everything in consideration at the same time, he got focused on NOT taking out a stop sign. Which, apparently, was a "mistake" as fixing and replacing signs on county roads was also part of the job which the kid had to learn. The guy had everything he needed to restore and/or report damaged signs in the lead vehicle. It was very interesting, logical and actually quite brilliant. Nobody gets upset and a tough job gets done. Plus, when you live in the country, that's what they call entertainment! People brought lawn chairs, sandwiches, pie and big jugs of root beer and ice tea and even made ice cream, right there on the spot! It was early in the summer but already over 90F in the afternoons and too windy, hot and dry to barbecue...

Yep let move one mother of a trailer across a wet field.

@jerrydaugherty9987

3 жыл бұрын

It's all swamp. There is only swampy and slightly-less-swampy...

@spitefulwar

3 жыл бұрын

If they'd hard ordered a house boat instead it'd been easier.

Great video! You pushed that dumpster as fast as you pulled the modular. makes me wonder if the wheels on the modular were helping at all. lol

And not a broken window. I'm impressed.

All I have to say is "damn!" Thanks.

They may need to do a bit of gardening when they move in.

@ordinarydevin

3 жыл бұрын

Well they won’t have to rent a tiller this season! 🤣

That's amazing. I have never seen 17.5 tires under a mobile home.

Thankyou for the outside view. Really gives a much better idea of what's going on. Had no idea it was just sinking straight down!

You always get the fun jobs 🤣 that baby was in there

what the bleep were they thinking parking it there?! and they couldn't wait 3 months for things to dry out? what is the cost benefit to move it during the hardest time to do it?

Simply amazing. I am worn out just watching this.. Whew, finally, good job

Trailer house off-roading... feels like an event down in Alabama on a Friday night. 😆

Haha I've been waiting on this video since I seen the posts about it!!

@justbe4481

4 жыл бұрын

Its called tribal talking. ..lol...😂

3:32 "You're gonna need a bigger machine!"

Nice teamwork! That 290 you had guys would have come in handy for that job😂😂

Wow didn’t realize how big that bucket was till you pushed the dumpster it was about as wide as the dumpster nice job