[Closed] Shed shifting new year challenge

I've lifted a 12x8 pent roof shed and moved before. 2 x 5m joists screwed to the sides, just below waist height, one person on each corner, lift a couple of inches off ground and walk it to new location.

Obviously you need two more people though.

Screw some wood across the width extending a couple of feet each side. Grill some bacon, get the kettle on and invite some friends around.

I'll be your friend. 🙂

I've moved mine twice. Similar size. First time was right across the garden so I built a trolley, levered the shed onto it and it rolled ok on the (dry) grass. Second time was 6' sideways so went Egyptian on it and used some short bits off scaffold tube as rollers. Both moves went fine.

Thanks for the ideas, being a thoroughly toxic T4 here I don't think we can offer bacon butties to the good people of STW (as much as I'd love to).

Wondering if some craftiness with levers and bearers might get the job done using a combination of some of those ideas. 🙂

I moved a shed that size with three round fence posts, crow bar and a few shims. On muddy ground so used some old decking boards to run on. Had one helper. Once on rollers moved easily.

Hopefully the joists on the floor of the shed are running the correct way, then some decent bearers on the ground will make life easier.
I'd be tempted by a block and tackle (been looking for an excuse to buy some myself!), securely strapped around the shed and the other end around a tree/fence post at your destination. Should do the job a treat.

Roll it on a couple of fencing rounds. Use a lever to get under the shed first.

I've moved our exact same size shed about 5metres using them.

Well that was worth reading. I've one to move and hadn't even considered not dismantling it...

Thanks, you've all saved me a load of aggro 😉

Lengths of cls screwed into the shed then 4 mates at each corner, lift shed and place where you want.

Doesn’t really work if you have a shed like mine, it lifted very easily then rotting floor fell out

A friend of mine laid out a tarp, pushed the shed onto it, then dragged tarp and shed to the other side of his lawn.

As above.

Get some lengths of scaffolding or round fencing posts, insert one long length under one side and get the rollers underneath it and just push.

How do you think the Egyptians moved heavy things.

I moved an empty 8 yd skip about 20 metres to a better position to load using the same method.

When the driver came to collect he could not believe it.

some decent 3*2 timbers

Enough to make a trebuchet?

How do you think the Egyptians moved heavy things.

Slaves mostly.

You’d need a bloody big trebuchet to move a shed, kinda pointless though as whilst it would be very effective at “movement” I doubt you’d be impressed by the placement.

You’d need a bloody big trebuchet to move a shed, kinda pointless though as whilst it would be very effective at “movement” I doubt you’d be impressed by the placement.

From its current location I'd have to place the trebuchet where it was being moved to so you're right that's going to knacker the placement even without the pine tree within the swing zone. What I don't understand is how you knew that? Spooky.

Lift it one end at a time onto timber logs laid towards the destination.

Reverse someone else's van into the shed so it slides along the timbers logs to where you want it to be.

Lower the shed.

Burn the van

Is it snowy in your garden?

Problem solved. Couple of SLEDGE runners.

Can you attach a rope (ropes?) to the base, and is there anything solid to tie the other end to? https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2018/09/08/the-spanish-windlass/
Careful with how much tension you can build up, might be useful to get things moving if it's bedded in?

Could you flood the area enough so that the shed floats?
You could then simply swim it to its new location.
Perhaps set up a temporary bar in it like them hotels in the Maldives.