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I have aquired a Yardmaster metal shed, which is being replaced in January. It's about 7'6 by 9'6 and I'd like to move it so I can work on the base for the larger replacement. Problem is its both heavy and flimsy, so lifting a corner seems tricky.
Any hints/ideas? Hoping I can sell it on and it's useful storage currently so not keen on dismantling yet (which appears to be 1000x self tappers)
Can you jack it up? If so, you can put round posts under it and roll it.
Massive magnet on a crane like they use in the movies to pick up cars..
176kg.
I don't think structurally they are strong enough to be lifted, lifted.
You could lift two corners and put it on a skid, then the other side.
That would move easy enough to wherever you want (and could form part of a temp floor too).
I rolled an Asgard shed of similar proportions. Needed to drop it from a raised patio to a new base about three metres and a foot down away. Just lifted one end with a shovel, placed chocks under, repeated for the other end and then put two rollers under. Rinse and repeat. The drop was the trickiest bit
As they said above, go to you nearest scrapyard and get some minimum 2" dia tubing, 3 or 4 lengths. For instance scaffold tubing.
Lift up one corner and with the help of a friend, insert the tubing underneath.
Get 3 or 4 pieces under and then just push, remembering to keep feeding a loose roller under the front to keep the shed on the rollers.
I moved a 4m x 2m shed this way, just 2 of us.
Remember those chaps, the Egyptians. They moved heavy things using this method.
Fill it with expanding foam. That'll keep it rigid enough to pick up.
We moved a rickety wooden shed, it was incredibly awkward and cumbersome, got it on some round fence posts and one person could push it and move it round easily.