From Deseret News archives:
3.5 million pounder is ready to roll in Idaho
"We're always looking for funds to help with the restoration" of the soon-to-be community center, said Don Hampton, vice president of the Oneida Stake Academy Foundation. "So we tossed out a question to one of our local auto dealers here" about working up a contract with Dodge for rights to film what would appear to be a pick-up moving the massive structure.
As of yet, Hampton said he hasn't heard from Dodge corporate types. But he's holding out hope they, or executives from some other truckmaker, will want to sign a contract before the building begins its three-block crawl this week.
While many may expect to see something much larger than a pick-up truck pulling the building along, in reality the 43 motorized and wheeled jacks that it now rests on will move the structure down the street without any kind of "pulling" involved. The controls for rotating the building four different times and moving it along the street are housed on the moving platform itself.
The two-story academy is so tall and wide that to move it down the town's streets will require that Utah Power disconnect electrical lines along the moving route, leaving residents temporarily without power, Hampton said. "And as we go down the road, it will stretch from curb to curb, so people will be temporarily unable to get to the front doors of their homes."
Preston city officials have been concerned that the weight of the structure may find previously unknown weak spots in the asphalt paving along the street, according to Logan architect Joseph Linton, who has volunteered hundreds of hours to support the moving and restoration project.
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