Moving a pole shed

[Kirk Affeldt]

The elderly next door neighbor has an approximate 36' wide x60' long pole shed that has sat idle for years. I have been thinking about buying from her and moving it about 1000 feet to my building site. However I do have a few questions that I would like to get advice on.
1) What is the best way to move a pole shed with one open side? Can it be done?
2) If it can be moved, what is the best way to secure it to the ground, assuming I cut the poles at ground level?
3) How much would a pole shed, one open side, be worth?

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and ideas.

 

[fixerupper]

A neighbor moved one about that size. He had a building mover do it. It was set down on a tall cement footing but I never did notice how it was fastened down.

 

[504]

You can sink poles next to the cut offs, and bolt them together. I would get a bid on having it moved.

 

[teddy52food]

If it is that close, why not just rent it?

 

[JMS/.MN]

In 1999 I had a 40x75 moved for $4500. Mover hyd jacked the building up, poles coming out of the ground. Did not cut poles. Open front or closed- same system of support. Moved one mile from one of my farms to the home place. Took one day to lift, one day to set. Mover had acres of I beams to pick from- just brought what he needed for that size building.

 

[JEH]

If you would time and help why not tear it down and rebuild it.
Would be cheaper than having it moved

 

[Nebraska Cowman]

yes, my thoughts too. Make some kind of arrangements to use it where is. Maybe you could help maintain all her buildings in exchange for it's use?

 

[mkirsch]

The only shortcoming of the "rent" idea is the elderly neighbor could sell the place or pass away, and then you lose access to the building.

Buying it and moving it means the building belongs to you and is on your property. Then if you die or sell the place, you don't care.

 

[Phil9N3667]

Back in the '80's, my boss of that time had a pole shed moved to add a section to his shop. They tied tied together with 2x 10 boards and used 2 old cranes to move it after digging out around the poles to get them out.

 

[RodinNS]

Either rent it where it's at or tear it down and rebuild it... I don't think there's much else you're going to do with it that will retain much strength in the walls if you cut it off at ground level.
I suppose you could fab some metal brackets on rebar and set them in sono tubes and then bolt the brackets to the 6x6 or whatever is used for posts... but I doubt it would have the ssame strength..

Rod

 

[Leroy]

Amish friend just built a large building on order of polw barn with poles cut off at ground level but he put it on slab floor, every place he wanted a pole he put in bolts in cement and then took 90* bent steel plates, look like a capatial L (he has a big metal break in his machine shop) and bolted the posts to them. Thought when he started it was going to be standard framing, not with poles. That would be a way to ancor cut off poles. that you could use with either a slab floor or poured foundation if you would want to go that way and by using the foundation by varring the height you could make the building taller if you wanted to.

 

[Alvin Dick]

We moved a 48 by 81 foot Morton shed with no problem. It had a door on one end from where the truck pulled it.

 

[GeneMO]

How many power lines would have to be taken down?

Gene