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[@lorchid23]

“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]

@@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]

Probably a lot of cracks in the drywall too.

[@DMPB-fi2ir]

@@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]

you get what you pay for?

[@tobydozier9030]

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.

[@ogreatmaster8334]

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

[@TheAlpine49]

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

[@sheepdogsneeded5171]

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]

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

[@jerrydaugherty9987]

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

[@kevfaherty123]

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

[@formhubfar]

Hats off to the guy who welded that trailer hitch!

[@letsdig18]

he passed the 105K lbs pull test lol

[@formhubfar]

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

[@jimmywhite7856]

They are bolted on

[@randytravis3998]

@@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]

​@@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.

[@komitadjie]

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.]

agreed

[@MrGrumblier]

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

[@richardhoare6957]

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

[@MRIsomewhaereguy]

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

[@MrGaryGG48]

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]

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

[@lathamarea1437]

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

[@jimmurphy6095]

You can see that one did on the first trailer.

[@clivehorridge]

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

[@craigspakowski7398]

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]

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

[@leannewacker589]

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]

Tt[ffccgyyy66666 is a great place to work for and

[@robert9961]

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!

[@whtelephant1]

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

[@hootiebubbabuddhabelly]

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...

[@toscatattertail9813]

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.

[@WVdavidB]

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

[@andidevlin3361]

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!!

[@89nissancrawler]

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

[@ltsgarage7780]

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

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

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

[@ltsgarage7780]

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

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

@@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]

@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan ok I get it now.

[@michaelb1478]

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

[@wallystewart1979]

my first thought was wheres the mats lol

[@MrGrumblier]

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

[@FreemanVashier]

THIS!!!!!!!

[@CrazyAmazingDesigns]

HA HA HA! True

[@nikhilpatel9663]

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

[@guitarsnguns]

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

[@stevecorcoran9869]

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).

[@justgonnagetbetter1037]

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

[@mrtowmonster]

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

[@michaelmcclure8673]

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

[@misenplace8442]

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

[@ArtisanTony]

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

[@gordoncorey8023]

That can fix ezzy

[@maryannanderson7517]

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]

@@maryannanderson7517 p

[@arthilliker3721]

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]

ArtisanTony )

[@spuriouseffect]

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

[@deerhunterodsifvh]

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

[@MonsterOFTR]

Hank Hill: What happened to my dang grass Bobby?

[@jamezelle1]

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

[@myownthoughts969]

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]

They probably do now.

[@cameronberry4382]

Same...need a gravel driveway

[@dennissastini3312]

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

[@stansigstadable]

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

[@kubotaman9947]

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

[@MikeFL2TX]

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]

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

[@billy19461]

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

[@perhearkko4255]

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

[@digdrivediy]

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.

[@kevinb9327]

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

[@crandonborth]

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

[@bobgrier3103]

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

[@loganjohnson3589]

You know the old saying go BIG or go home

[@jimdomoradzki483]

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.

[@Graveltrucking]

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.

[@chrissheathewoodguy]

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.

[@stumpjumper1dc]

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.

[@tomrogers9467]

“You scratched my bin!”

[@aforman1951]

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.

[@rodneywroten2994]

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

[@mchelena1]

Rodney, we need to party together.

[@philbohrman3918]

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

[@kingfisher9553]

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

[@Rem1061]

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]

@@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!

[@LM-sc8lu]

It's easy to be an armchair quarterback from my computer, but I can't help but wonder why the homeowner, or the "buiilders" weren't aware of the soil conditions. However, in their defense, years ago needed to back our 45' Fifth wheel camper onto my lawn for some driveway repair. Before doing so I checked my lawn for firmness, and decided it hold the camper. I backed up five feet, and the trailer sank so deep it destroyed the skirting! Wish I would have been my own armchair quaterback!! Luckily, the driveway contractor was able to drag get the trailer out without tearing the back wall off.

[@kevinpoore5626]

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

[@kevinpoore5626]

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

[@mattywho8485]

Two things... First off, @14:50 you shoulda put a couple of them pine logs under the frame at the road for rollers, set the tongue down a little and let the weight of the front of the house pick the axles up a bit out of the mud. And secondly, holy shit is that guy in the gray sweatshirt too close to those chains while you're pulling with those machines !!!

[@briangardiner1015]

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

[@Moose_338]

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

[@TheJimbob1603]

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

[@zsedor]

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

[@scottmcquarrie7295]

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

[@cameronberry4382]

Beam slide kit with rollers...

[@gartan8449]

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.

[@MortenBulskov]

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]

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

[@noworriesmate8287]

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

[@Todd.Roberts]

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

[@frankoldman5255]

I learned to jack up a stuck vehicle and build a road of rocks and heavy timbers underneath the wheels clear to firmer ground.

[@msnpassjan2004]

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

[@rayhindle642]

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. )

[@brianmcbride99]

I could feel the stress and consternation early on through the video. I kept putting myself in your shoes and trying to figure out what I would do next. Nice job to you both. I wonder how much $$ that home mover lost on this job.

[@mchelena1]

Question for an operator. How much is this O shit?

[@bigjoesburgers]

And not a broken window. I'm impressed.

[@machinemoverman4614]

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

[@garyanddoris6022]

You can either use walk mats or crib blocks and lay them in front of the first axle and keep laying but if you bury the tires might as well get the jacks out and raise the home back up put mats or crib blocks under the wheels.......another secret one jack in front of the first axle and one behind the last axle cause I dont care what kind of equipment you bring in it want move it without tearing something up .......I could have saved you guys a lot of work .....

[@ostee417]

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]

that's what she said!!!

[@draconightwalker4964]

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

[@lesflynn4455]

9 minutes in and I'm thinking "stand back from those chains!"

[@phxcppdvlazi]

Song near the beginning is El Palomito by Los Cadetes de Linares in case anyone was curious. it is a genre of mexican folk music.

[@BobHannent]

Someone failed to build a temporary road when planning that delivery! PPPPP

[@jasonhansen6632]

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.

[@cs4723]

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

[@ordinarydevin]

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

[@pnwRC.]

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

[@dns938]

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

[@clonkex]

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!

[@VirginiaPrepper]

Why anyone would want to put a house in that swamp is beyond me.

[@rogergibson9529]

I guess they don't want visitors or neighbours

[@phillipsmith4814]

Wow! What an incredible job getting that home pulled out of the muck. No way that they should have ever tried to drag it across that soggy ground. It looked like that when people walked across it that they had to tread lightly to keep from sinking. No way if I owned that house would I have accepted it. The metal I-beams underneath the frame had to have been bent and the flooring where the mud pushed up under had to have pushed the floor up. No to mention any plumbing pipes on the underside had to be busted. Letsdig18 did a terrific job fixing the problem created by others.

[@Graeme408]

Whew, I need to visit my cardiologist after that!

[@cathie9614]

Excellent job getting those modular trailers out.

[@charliehewgley504]

And no one thought to get the ground ready for this,unbelievable.

[@jimmyguenza3767]

Holy shit maybe we should have a good plan before we dive off into the mud ?

[@blueoval250]

Some matts would have been all it would take, they’re only about $200 each from Grainger.

[@michaelmullins1290]

Famous words, never spoken by Chris. " The 250 ain't big enough "! I didn't figure that was part of the vocabulary. Nail-biting no doubt. Great job, minimal damage.

[@regsparkes6507]

I was fully expecting to see those tow bars leave the chassis!

[@trellenrussey6293]

Me too!

[@vayxfulgur3904]

It's like in snow, you must clear off the path for wheels, and than put some wood under them to be able to move over. At that weight, it's just dragging in

[@BillyBob-fd5ht]

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

[@jerrydaugherty9987]

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

[@spitefulwar]

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

[@viva_lafrance9319]

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.

[@eliteearthworksllc]

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

[@piratetaylor29]

That was a Miracle of modern equipment technology.

[@Bellislawns]

“Or rip the front off trying” 🥴🤪🥴🤪

[@danvetor1365]

When I was a kid , I saw them pull a two storey brick house through an empty field with less trouble. But of course they were prepared. It also went over the railroad tracks without incident!

[@WillaHerrera]

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

[@skitzochik]

7:58

[@LocalmotionSpain]

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 👏👍

[@gordonshearston7590]

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]

They can add a small deck between them !!

[@AdventuringwiththeS.G.O.C.C]

I have to say, having watched your video where ya'll pulled the buried backhoe out the pond in 90-minutes. WELL DONE.

[@AffordBindEquipment]

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?

[@jwg19444]

👍 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.

[@jrand2631]

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

[@toast47624]

Can't believe the trailer survived that! i know what my 220 will pull and watching Chris laying into it with a 250...WOW.

[@RockBrigadeCommunityForum]

Best Comment ever by Tim at 22:04 Bahahahahaha

[@ntomnia585]

What did he say? I couldn't make out the last part.

[@neilgates6810]

"He has his strobe light on so you know that shits going down"

[@autiger621]

nTOMnia I heard: “His strobe light’s on so dope shit’s going down”

[@dogit1840]

Around here you cannot put modular homes on dirt at least a gravel pad I had to upgrade my electric service just to change my mobile home from a slightly newer one

[@Della-ih5hj]

You are involved in doing so many different things,..it just amazes me ,..that was a great video,..and I am glad that things went to well,..

[@kenpecora7526]

I love these videos but I find myself holding my breath half the time.

[@jackluminous1684]

Looks like a very expensive and complicated method to till the soil using a house as a plow, but with right equipment and skills everything is doable !

[@bradsmith7106]

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

[@justbe4481]

Its called tribal talking. ..lol...😂

[@lsellclumanetsolarenergyll5071]

simple solution. Get a 1" steel cable and hook it up to the dozer , loop it thru a snatch block and over to your Volvo and than you use your volvo to pull and the arm to hold the pintel hitch up. You do have round log's there use 2 of them to push them under the pintel hitch so they roll while been pulled they the mud they will distribute the weight a lot better on the ground.

[@Malandrin]

poor Timmy doing all the heavy lifting all by himself