Tonight I am sitting up waiting for my husband to return home from a business trip. Since he is not here I have full access to the remote control. What do I do with it? Watch HGTV with abandon.

I happened upon the show Haulin’ House. I have never heard of this show before. Furthermore, I had no idea that there was enough interest in moving old houses to warrant a television show about it. (Though I have written about this phenomenon twice. Once, about the Harvard Law School moving a house and then about a log cabin that was bargain priced in hopes that someone would want to save it.

It was fascinating to watch. After they had stripped the house down and put the trailers underneath the house they weighed it. And guess what? It was too heavy to safely travel over one small bridge that was necessary to cross in order to get the house to its new foundation. The owner had to go in the house and start knocking plaster off the walls in the hopes of making it weigh a ton less. Yes, literally a ton.

Oh here is a little preview of the show on youtube. That is one huge house to move. As they were winding down the roads it would appear to tip precariously.

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