MOTOR-HOUSE REMOVER
NINE-BOOMED HOUSE TOWED
FOUR BLOCKS,
A vine-roomed house, estimated tv waigh 7S tons, was recently towed four city blocks along the streets of Los Aiigeles by a five-Ujn truck carrying eight tons of pigiron ballast to give traction, says the writer of an account in the "Engineering News Record" (New York). Occasional stops were necessary to raise wires or to cut the limbs of trees, but where there were no obstructions progress was rapid. One continuous pull of 400 feet was made at a speed of about two miles per hour. This rapid rate of travel was made possible by tho fact that no block and tackle was used, the truck pulling directly on tho timbers carrying the weight of the house. The house was first jacked up with 10----ton jacks and supported on 12in by 12in beams extending for its full length and width. The two lowest beams wero transverse—that is, at right angles to the direction in which the house was to be moved. A single four-wheel dolley was put under the centre of ■the forward transverse beam, and two dolleys were placed under the rear beam, one near either end. This arrangement gave sufficient stability, and afforded tho necessary flexibility in "steering." The dolley wheels were about 14in in diameter, and had 14in tires. The direct pull from the truck' was transmitted to tho house by a 1-^in steel drilling cable. The midpoint of the cable was passed through a pintle hook on the truck, and at cither end the cable terminated in chains that were passed undor the lowest oi- traverse timber, and thence around tho forward cuds of the longitudinal timbers. The moving job was I'omplet-(-■d without any • serious damage to plastering or plumbing, tho actual moving Unie being about two hou-s. One- homof Hi is time, during the afternoon, brought the house to the point beyond which tiio permit, did not allow U to wovs in the daytime.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 104, 3 May 1924, Page 16
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326MOTOR-HOUSE REMOVER Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 104, 3 May 1924, Page 16
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