Moving Mobile Home across grass

wusty

This is a slightly strange question but I would like to move a 45 foot truck carrying a 5ton caravan across a reasonably flat field (only moving about 150 feet) without having to dig up the field and lay hard core (as it is not mine!!)

I am wondering if it is possible to hire or use equipment like what film/festival crews would use to move across land?? And hence not cause much damage to the original land?

Any ideas very welcome.

Thanks

peasant

I'll send this over to the 4x4, tractor and digger people ...better chance of an informed opinion there, methinks

(moved from motorhomes)

kay 9

Would a 4wd tractor be no use? 5ton to an average tractor aint much. Land is dry this time of year so it shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure a local farmer would help.;)

101sean

Hiring Trakway or similar products will cost an arm and a leg. As Kay9 says, if a field is level and dry it will take a fair weight, I've put 32t 8x4 jetting units across fields before now (had a back up plan though!). Obviously can't comment on your own land but fields around here are a lot harder now than the last 2 years, had a 26t Scammell Crusader ex army breakdown truck on the rally field a couple of weeks ago..

Check out the ground before the weather breaks, you're not putting a huge weight down and as suggested have a decent 4wd tractor on standby.

Builderfromhell

Can't see why a 4x4 tractor wouldn't do it presuming it's not holding water. Ask the nearest farmer witha 4x4 tractor to look at the project and advise. They won't chance it if they think they'll get stuck.

wusty

Ok,

i think I get what you're saying, for sure a 4wd tractor should be able to pull 5ton across it no worries, but the issue is that the mobile is actually a 40 foot portacabin rather than a standard mobile is being delivered by the company and has to be craned off the back of the truck into place...... So Im not sure this will then work?

wusty

peasant wrote: »

I'll send this over to the 4x4, tractor and digger people ...better chance of an informed opinion there, methinks

(moved from motorhomes)

Thanks, new to this!!

me_right_one

A teleporter? I still dont quite understand, why cant the lorry its being delivered on just drive through the field to the spot where you want it?

wusty

A telerporter might work!!

I would be afraid of organising the lorry sinking or the ground not being smooth enough for a 45 foot artic?

me_right_one

It the lorry would sink, a tractor or teleporter probably would aswell, or at least they'd cut up the ground. And why would you put the portacabin in such a wet spot? I reckon you're panicking a bit. Its probably grand, just back the lorry in nice and handy, maybe have a tractor or teleporter on hand just in case. If he gets in ok, when the load is off the trailer, the lorry should have no problems getting out.

bmw535d

i own a caravan park in north donegal. so i move them freqently before you do anything go get some steel plates around 5 foot long and 2 foot wide. lay these in-front of the tires as you go along, otherwise the caravan will sink to the chassis as soon as the surface grass breaks, and it WILL. Before you move it check the center bearings on the wheels. check for rust on the wheels because i've seen hundreds of wheels disintegrate after 2feet. be careful where you attach a chain to the caravan. attach it to a center beam and nothing else. tbh id get a professional in with the knowhow and equipment. if seen people half caravans in two.

embracingLife

wusty wrote: »

A telerporter might work!!

I would be afraid of organising the lorry sinking or the ground not being smooth enough for a 45 foot artic?

i think I get what you're saying, for sure a 4wd tractor should be able to pull 5ton across it no worries, but the issue is that the mobile is actually a 40 foot portacabin rather than a standard mobile is being delivered by the company and has to be craned off the back of the truck into place...... So Im not sure this will then work?

Just phone the driver and ask have they done similiar deliveries on fields before?

Trucks drive onto fields all the time-as long as the ground is fairly dry ie during summer but with the heavy rain we've had over the past week I'd advise you to go and ask a local farmer would he be willing to tow out the truck if he gets stuck-and give him a few bob for the favour!

That being said porto-cabins aren't very heavy only bulky, so a teleporter would be the best option to lift it off truck and bring across field.
Come to think of it I've seen trucks sink down by only a few inches into wet mud and no amount of revs could it get out-wheels spinning as the truck tyre threads can't get a grip in wet mud, so best to keep truck out of wet land or have a powerful tractor to tow it out.

Who suggested 4WD tractor?? You're not a farmer! Specify better by the horse power, you can get a 50 horsepower 4WD tractor that'll pull nuts! To tow out an artic truck stuck in mud you'll need at least 100 horse power tractor and even that wouldn't guarantee to tow it out across 150 ft field or you'd end up ploughing the field up! You'd need stronger tractor and not every farmer has 130/150 horsepower or get two 100hp tractors from two farmers as thats the standard size tractor most farmers have.

I got a pair of mobile homes moved about the same distance out of field but it was during the summer and the trucks were able to drive across the dry land and park beside the mobiles and load them.
The company who are delivering your cabins should be able to organise buggies/wheels that temporarily attach to bottom of cabin. Then tow cabin with tractor/teleporter across field. Thats what the trucker who moved mine did to get mobiles out of corner of field in order to winch them up onto lowloader-he didn't have a hiab crane on his truck and the wheels worked fine.
Just get onto the delivery company and explain the situation fully to them,I'm sure they have come across similiar situations and yours is not unique.

Wonder have you got the job done already?!

me_right_one

Well OP, how'd you get on?

dunsandin

He cant come to the computer just now, too busy digging out a truck .......:D

embracingLife

Sorry to Mods for bringing up an old thread, but I camne across the solution to moving machineheavy loads across fields especially in winter, if anyone would be in same situation.

I came across this company who specialise in laying temporary decks on the ground that'll take the weight of trucks etc. They use them in concerts,Ploughing Championship etc.

They are just the thing!

http://www.eventflooring.ie/index.html

Eric Cartman

embracingLife wrote: »

Sorry to Mods for bringing up an old thread, but I camne across the solution to moving machineheavy loads across fields especially in winter, if anyone would be in same situation.

I came across this company who specialise in laying temporary decks on the ground that'll take the weight of trucks etc. They use them in concerts,Ploughing Championship etc.

They are just the thing!

http://www.eventflooring.ie/index.html

a few sleepers or a rake load of marine ply would suffice aswell