Australians moving house

That happens in the USA as well.

Didn't someone move a lighthouse back from a crumbling cliff edge here in the UK? There you are:

So they moved it 17m, and by the sounds of it the cliff has moved 11m since then ...

Houses in this country are usually built of brick. In the USA, they are usually timber. That makes them far easier to transport.

Didn't Donald Trump's grandfather float his brothel down a river?

Also done with one of the smaller temples in that were going to be flooded by the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

But that is an historical building not your run-of-the-mill Queensland "high-set".

But that is an historical building not your run-of-the-mill Queensland "high-set".

Impressive though

Lots on Youtube eg -

Also used to be quite commonplace in NZ.

The first time I saw a used house lot I was a little bemused.

Also, for larger houses they chain saw them into chunks to make them easier to move, then stitch them back together at the new location.

Mind you, the ones I saw were pretty crap, and you would have to be desperate to buy one instead of building new.

I think that sometimes/often they buy a plot with an old house and then ship it to the used house lot before building new.

Cheers

Dave R

There is no limit to human ambition.

This is what it looks like, when you lift a smaller one.

When Ceausescu decided to flatten huge parts of Bucharest to make room for that gargantuan folly, a local architect managed to save a couple of historic brick-built buildings by sliding them along some sort of greasy tracks with lots of RSJ's taking the strain, to a new location.