A Moving Experience

Barn Moving in Nebraska

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News report from Bruno, NE

In 1981, Herman Ostry and his wife, Donna, bought a farm a half mile outside of Bruno, Nebraska, a small community sixty miles west of Omaha.

The property had a creek and came with a barn built in the 1920's. The barn floor was always wet and muddy. When the creek flooded in 1988, the barn ended up with 29 inches of water covering the floor. That was the last straw.

Ostry needed to move it to higher ground. He contacted a building moving company and was discouraged by the bid.

One night around the table, Ostry commented that if they had enough people they could pick the barn up and move it to higher ground. Everyone laughed. A few days later, Ostry's son Mike showed his father some calculations. He had counted the individual boards and timbers in the barn and estimated that the barn weighed approximately 16,640 pounds. He also estimated that a steel grid needed to move the barn would add another 3,150 pounds, bringing the total weight to just under 10 tons. He figured it would take around 350 people with each person lifting 56 lbs. to move the barn.

The town of Bruno, Nebraska was planning its centennial celebration in late July of 1988. Herman and Mike presented their barn moving idea to the committee. The committee decided to make it part of their celebration.

So, on July 30, 1988, shortly before 11 a.m., a quick test lift was successfully made. Then, as local television cameras and 4,000 people from eleven states watched, 350 people moved the barn 115 feet south and 6 feet higher up a gentle slope and set it on its new foundation.

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Tennessee Granddaddy Says:
Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.
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Don’t worry, be happy.

The best way to be happy is to help someone who needs help. Think about others, not yourself.
Easy to say, harder to do.

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Quote of the Day

Charm is the quality in others
that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
~Henri Frédéric Amiel

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Joke of the Day

Art Robbery in France Foiled by High Gas Prices
After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings, and made it safely to his van.  However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied, 'Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings.'

I had no Monet

To buy Degas

To make the Van Gogh.'

See if you have De Gaulle to tell someone else this joke.... I told it to you because I figured I had nothing Toulouse.

(Chuckle, chuckle)

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