Pictures of jacking the old house by www.dingeymovers.com.

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Yes, we are really jacking the house up fourteen and one half feet.

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Digging out the crawl space to make room for the beams.

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The two main beams weigh 9500 plus pounds each. Even the ducks stopped by to watch.

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We went 28 inches and then dig all the digging but the footers.

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The jack system lifts all jacks at the same time.

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Now it's going up!

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Eight feet to go at this point!!

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Who would do this?

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Four feet to go at this point!!.

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Two feet to go at this point.

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I must be nuts.

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From here down it's up all the way.

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23 feet 3 inches off the ground.

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We're all nuts!!! Me and the Dingey crew!!!

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Look down the missing stairway.

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It's up there and we're living in it.

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Dingey has his steel out so we can prepare for the concrete floors.

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While Dingey is here with their equipment they put our steel in place. We also had them come back and make the final adjustments after the walls were up.