My modular home delivery

The delivery of our modular ranch home was an exciting time.  Of course we had to be there!  Buying this modular ranch home was, I guess, the second biggest expenditure of our lives, and in one day we're going to go from a foundation to an installed 27' by 56' house.

High this is a work in progress, I'll be adding more pages and photo's to document aspects of quality.  Hope to finish it soon,
Bob

The day of delivery

Wow what a production.  Unfortunately the first try at modular home section placement was a failure.  We had agreed at purchase, due to our foundation design, that a crane must be used to install the two home modules.  If the foundation had not had a walk in sliding window it was possible the home could have been "rolled" onto the foundation.  In hind site I'm not sure why that could not have been done anyway.  But it's likely they would have had problems with muddy soil trying to park half a modular home next to the foundation.  They decided to pull the crane down the driveway and then swing the home segments from the trailer on the  driveway to the foundation.  The crane had four wheel drive, but half the drive had failed before the crane arrived at our site.  The crane operator / driver got the crane half way down our driveway and then decided it was not a good idea to go further.  In reviewing the photos the driver had missed the center of the driveway and basically was crushing out one side of the stone driveway into somewhat muddy soil adjacent to the driveway.  They pulled the crane back up the driveway with a bulldozer and a loader, as well as the cranes power.

So our house half's were parked in two locations on our property, actually for several weeks.  We're lucky we have a large property.  But I think during that time one or two mice migrated into our home, probably the attic.

The actual day of delivery.

They had prepared a site for the crane

This was a topsoil pad directly in front of the foundation, this was sort of a farce.  It was never used, topsoil is almost always too soft for very heavy equipment.  What they actually did was pull the crane down the driveway and thoroughly blocked it in place the night before the delivery.  It was probably going to rain on delivery day.  It was a little funny with all the heavy equipment coming and going they had trashed the drainage gully at the street so during the day the home was installed water was pouring down the driveway under the crane.  I really wondered whether they'd be able to get the crane out once the house was in place.

There was equipment and trucks lined up for almost one half mile to our house.

Think about it, my wife and I were paying for all those people and all that equipment.

When they picked up the first section of the home, man, did it swing, the trailer and crane were on a slope so it couldn't be avoided.