Recycling

[xoxoxoBruce]

Recycling on a big scale... house big.

My Grandfather was born in 1880, and as a boy lived with the family that owned this house.



I don't know offhand when the house was built, but it was built is the typical New England manner of the main structure toward the road with attached kitchen & woodshed, with misc sheds, and barn behind. As new fangled ideas like indoor plumbing came along, the kitchen wing was redesigned and rebuilt several times.

Being on the main road into town and surrounded by a fair piece open ground (read farm), it's going to be sacrificed to "progress".

It turns out the woman that now lives in my Grandfathers farmhouse, where he lived and raised his family from 1913 to 1953, is recycling that old house. She bought it, and is having it moved to a spot next door to the farmhouse. Most people would spot in in the pasture, but she wants it on the knoll behind the pasture.
Rumor has it, this is all to lure the kids to move close to her, but that's strictly gossip.



They blasted rock for a solid week to make room for the house... with a cellar.
Only the older main structure will be moved, so a kitchen and bathrooms will have to be built, too.

The move should be interesting. The first mile or so is straight, flat, and lots of headroom, but some utility lines.
A left turn brings about two miles winding along the river, through the center of town, with lots of trees/utility lines, and a hump in the middle of maybe 100 ft elevation change.
Then a right turn, over a brand new bridge, but I heard they'll put down steel plates to distribute the load.
The next two miles consists of a rising eighth mile, short steep hill, short flat, long very steep hill, third to half mile flattish, long steep hill, and quarter mile flat. All this was made by a paving machine, following a cow up the hill, through the woods. Twists and turns, with almost solid trees on both sides, and utility lines.
Oh, and an elevation rise of about 500 feet.

That's some serious recycling.