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But where will we put the garden?Entry/Object ID
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But where will we put the garden?
The Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria, Ohio
Wednesday, August 29, 1984, p. 1
By Steve Novak
Photograph by Gus Chan
Photo of the house on the barge with a man walking at the front of the boat.
The Baycrafters three-story home got a change of address Tuesday with some help from two bulldozers, a tractor-trailer rig, one tug boat, a 128 foot-long barge and acrew of a dozen workers...
The 100 ton homes's unusual voyage on Lake Erie began about 2:30 p.m. - five hours later than scheduled. It managed to make the hour long trip from the Cashelmara condominium developement to the Bay Boat Club, near Huntington Park to stay dry as a bone. A very large bone.
...a crowd of more than 400 people stirred to attention about 10 a.m. when Jim Kazak motioned to his tractor driver, Ed Grife, to begin moving the home down a graded hill to the lakeshore.
Grife slipped the 200 horsepowered diesel tractor into gear and the house moved forward on a tractor dolly with all the speed of an arthritic turtle. The crow issued the first of many cheers.
It took only 10 minutes for Grife to tow the home 200 yards to the lakeshore and to awaiting barge and tugboat.
Then things slowed down a bit. The Kazak brothers had to employ a few principles of physics to get the house onto the barge.
A mound of soil graded by a bulldozer leading from the shore to the barge proved to be a bit narrow for the width of Grife's tractor.
Steel cables were secured from the barge to the shore to keep the barge from moving.A steel chain was fastened to the right side of Grife's tractor so it would not slip off the graded mound. Wooden 4-by-8 inch planks were placed under the dolly wheels to keep it on course.
The tractor inched onto the barge, stopping with every foot or so of progress, so employees could insert more planks under the wheels.
Within two hours the home was almost off the graded mound and onto the barge. Jim Kazak motioned Grife to drive forward. Grife pulled the back wheels of the dolly onto the barge.
The crowd gave another cheer. Kazak Brothers employees called for champagne to christen the barge. Jim Kazak waved his arms with joy. The 92-year-old home stood tall, looking as if it was specifically built for sea travel.
Sally Price, director of the Baycrafters, christened the barge with a bottle of champagne. Within a half hour the tube pulled the barge away from the shore. ...Relationships
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