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- Joined
- Aug 21, 2006
- Location
- Kitchener, on canada
A year or so ago I was trolling forum for ideas about how to go about replacing a rubble stone foundation for a brick farmhouse. The result of the research was that repairing the foundation was not justified as the rest of the house had lots of problems as well. I decided to remove the brick, tear the house down and build a new one sided with the original brick.
After about 100 hours of labour, the bricks are almost all removed cleaned and sitting on pallets. Now its time to get rid of what is left of the house which is a balloon framed 1-1/2 story, 1800sqft, T shaped house, sided from the outside and inside with pine boards. I don't just want to light it on fire as I am pretty sure it would damage the trees around the house so my plan is to get it down on the ground in pieces and burn it piece by piece in the foundation end farthest from the trees.
I am aware of the quickest, safest and probably smartest way to get it down, hire an excavator, but this will probably cost me $400. I am wondering if others on the forum have taken down a building of a similar size and have any tips. I have a Massey MF-30 industrial tractor with a good loader, a smaller Kubota with forks mounted on the loader, a chainsaw, about 100ft of 3/8 inch steel cable and lots of chain.
Here is a picture
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After about 100 hours of labour, the bricks are almost all removed cleaned and sitting on pallets. Now its time to get rid of what is left of the house which is a balloon framed 1-1/2 story, 1800sqft, T shaped house, sided from the outside and inside with pine boards. I don't just want to light it on fire as I am pretty sure it would damage the trees around the house so my plan is to get it down on the ground in pieces and burn it piece by piece in the foundation end farthest from the trees.
I am aware of the quickest, safest and probably smartest way to get it down, hire an excavator, but this will probably cost me $400. I am wondering if others on the forum have taken down a building of a similar size and have any tips. I have a Massey MF-30 industrial tractor with a good loader, a smaller Kubota with forks mounted on the loader, a chainsaw, about 100ft of 3/8 inch steel cable and lots of chain.
Here is a picture
Google Docs