Show Builders Move 1 Whole Houses For or Room For or Road l CENTERVILLE Preliminary work on clearing the way right for lor the new highway which will go goIn goIn goIn In west of o here as a part of U. U U.S. U. S. S 91 has resulted in the moving mo of o a number of or houses and later result in the tho shifting of a mile of o Barr Barn Bam berger bener track t ck One of o the houses which had to tobe tobe be moved was that on the Dunn place directly west of Centerville This work was done by Hutchins and Harris Ogden O den house moving firm linn and probably was the first time a two story tw tOry brick house has been moved mo In Utah together with its The house was built around 1940 W and is a comparatively mod mod- modem era ern structure The state road com corn mission the entire tract t et on which I Ito to get et it out of the way of o the new road It was found lound necessary to move the house JOS feet The Thc Ogden firm was given the job and after making an invest invest- investigation gation gatlon it was decided that the best way to do the work would be to move mo basement and all The Tho con con- concrete concrete crete walls were fairly good and only the thc cement floors and foot loot footings footings ings in had to be bc abandoned The contractors used a power shovel sho to around the house and dig dijt a new basement at the new location They used 14 1 tim tIm- timbers tImbers bers 12 by 12 inches or larger and md 32 ft long Ion to go under the build ing in or around the foundation These were wired together to with ith steel cable with jacks Foundation for track was grad graded ed cd to ensure evenness Any hump or hollow in the track would have caused a stress to develop that would crack the concrete brick brickwork brickwork brickwork work or plastering The Thc track it It- itself Itself self selL consisted of o short of or 6 by 6 inch timbers laid crossways with 6 by 8 inch timbers on top running Use Steel Rollers inch Four Four inch strength double th steel rollers were used with the house being pulled with a one ono and one fourth inch steel cable Twenty Twenty-ft timbers which totaled 20 by 26 inches in size sue were fW sa ft 1 in the ground round for lor an anchor and a winch or stump puller was used to move mo the house A 12 pull pole was used to turn the winch with a truck sup sup- supplying supplying plying the power to wind up the cable leading to the house The building with its timber supports was estimated to weigh tons Del Hutchins one of o tho the part partners ners has been moving houses in Utah for the past 30 years Ho lIe and his partner G G. W. W Harris Hurls and hisson his hisson I son Howard Hutchins are arc doing all I the work |