Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

Its been a busy summer, I bought a house awhile back so its cut into my boating time although the boat is running fine. But any way on the new property is a very nice 12 x 24 x 12 carport and i wanted to move it to store my boat during the winter. So the first step was to pull out the 12, 2 foot pins holding it to the ground, i did that by using a 1 ton chain ratchet, the next step was to jack it up using a floor jack then blocking up and putting 2, 16 foot posts under it to act as a skid, and after bolting it to the posts i will drag it about 30 feet with my truck, then move the posts around then drag it into its final place. I will get a few pictures tomorrow.

Sounds like a plan!
They don't have tractors in W Virginia? That sounds like a lot of work. Wish I was closer I could bring my Kubota and pull the stakes and drag the carport.

I'm sure your plan will work, just wish I could help.

Sure lots of tractors around out in the country, i am smack in the middle of a small town, but my truck is a silverado 4 wh drive so i doubt it will even notice its dragging any thing lol. As best i can find out the carport is only 600 to 800 pounds.

I'd love to help you if I could, but the best I can do is grab a lawn chair, a couple beers, and my iPad and enjoy your pictures.

I hope your move goes well.

Sounds like a plan James!

Good luck!

MH Hawker wrote:Sure lots of tractors around out in the country, i am smack in the middle of a small town, but my truck is a silverado 4 wh drive so i doubt it will even notice its dragging any thing lol. As best i can find out the carport is only 600 to 800 pounds.

No doubt the truck will drag it! I was thinking more of pulling those stakes, but I'm sure you are no stranger to hard work.
Good luck and post those pics.

Ok i am recovering today but its 95 % done. The full story behind this is, I bought a house in July this year and one of the many projects was to set up a existing carport for winter boat storage

this is what i started with, the back yard was a good bit of prep work including dropping and sawing up a 60 foot pine tree and removing 2. 8 foot sections of fence then jacking up and moving the carport. This is a first for my in 30 plus years of owning a boat the first ever covered shortage, my boat is at the marina right now but come November it will have a nice place to sit.

I still need to put the stakes in and spread gravel and put up gates and fencing and and and.

Was never any doubt in my mind!

Great job on moving the carport. That will do perfect to cover your boat in the winter. That's still on my "to do" list one of these years.

I'm planning on moving my carport over to the lot I own next to our house. Plans are to build a stick built carport. I'll do the same, but drag it over with the Max. I've moved boats with it without problems, even drag trees with it

I had a 22x26 car port with all sides and back put up last year for almost 3 grand for my 2012 sun tracker. The tongue of trailer sticks out about one foot. I have my new truck parked in it also. I found it was cheaper and quicker than building a garage. Now I bought my wife a new Buick and she was kicking me out of car port for her car . I had the same people put up a 12x21 foot car port for her car last week for 650.00. Six foot poles with no sides or ends and now she's happy. So much quicker and cheaper than lumber. I dug down and used rebar drove in on angles and used long foundation anchors and a 80 pound bag of cement on all corners. The company is out of South Carolina and they travel to different states ounce they get a few orders in. Very pleased. Steel buildings and structures LLC 888-497-8335

pete43906 wrote:I had a 22x26 car port with all sides and back put up last year for almost 3 grand for my 2012 sun tracker. The tongue of trailer sticks out about one foot. I have my new truck parked in it also. I found it was cheaper and quicker than building a garage. Now I bought my wife a new Buick and she was kicking me out of car port for her car . I had the same people put up a 12x21 foot car port for her car last week for 650.00. Six foot poles with no sides or ends and now she's happy. So much quicker and cheaper than lumber. I dug down and used rebar drove in on angles and used long foundation anchors and a 80 pound bag of cement on all corners. The company is out of South Carolina and they travel to different states ounce they get a few orders in. Very pleased. Steel buildings and structures LLC 888-497-8335

sounds stout!

Problem with Carolina and similar carports though, they can't handle much snow load at all. Mine got buckled badly when we had a storm with 22 inches in 2010. It buckled slightly last year with only 11 inches on it. Carolina and Carports.com don't back up their products, lie (in my case I was told it could handle "New England winters"), BS. When I asked about the "40 year" warranty they said it was only for rust through. I'm going lumber so the damn thing doesn't collapse. It was also out of square, something I had to fix myself as they would not come out to fix their mistakes.

I got a bit more done yesterday in between rain storms, got one side staked down and the other ready to stake but i need to do some digging to level it up first.