The Story

This is what the house looked like when we bought it.

It all started back in 2005...Larry and I purchased 3 acres and a house with a few outbuildings next to the Uwharrie National Forest in central North Carolina for an escape from the winter weather in NE Ohio. We had a place for our horses and lots of trails we could ride to from our pasture. We met our neighbors, Bill and Betty and purchased hay from them. At the top of a hill in their pasture was an old house that wasn't occupied and was used for storage. It always had caught our eye and we asked if we could look inside it. Bill said sure, but you'd better hurry up and look at it because we're going to tear it down soon....After looking at it and seeing that it was in really good condition considering it had been built in 1912, Larry asked if we could buy it! The only way they would sell it is if we would move it from their property... and the saga began!

Before we could even think of moving the house, we had a lot of work to do...
Larry spent many hours (months actually, as we were running a topsoil and mulch business all during the warm months) designing the equipment, acquiring the dollys that the house would roll on, and the hydraulics that would lift and drive the house. After two years of planning and constructing, tearing out chimneys and a ceiling, cribbing the house up, installing the metal framework that would support the house, reinforcing the porch, and installing the dollys, the house was ready to move!