The Polk County Historical Society is in the process of moving one of its log cabins. Don Moyer, owner of Don Moyer House Moving, hopes the project can be completed by the end of next week.
There were some foundational issues with the ground the log cabin was initially sitting on. “It’s compromised. You can see the cracks on the floor and it feels like it’s running downhill here,” said Moyer. “Looking at it from a distance, you can tell it’s leaning.”
Due to this, the log cabin will be picked up and placed on a new concrete slab on the eastern side of the Historical Society complex next to the church. “I knocked a hole in the end there right now to get a house jack in and lift it up. Then I’ll knock out a little more of that cement; then there’ll be a beam coming through here, and it’ll be a dolly coming behind the house and a bunk on the front. It’ll look like a trailer house here before long,” said Moyer. “Then the idea is to hook my semi on. We’ll be hooking that onto the front, driving it over, putting it on there/rolling it onto the new slab over there, and putting it back down.”
The move is planned to be completed by the end of next week.
