> Did the plop down jacks at the corners of the house to raise it high
> enough to get the trailer underneath? How fast did they travel? Did it
> seem like the self leveling could compensate for high rates of travel?

Yeah they jacked the whole house up and backed the trailer
underneath. The trailer goes down pretty low though, maybe 1m or so,
and up to maybe 2m or so The first bit was interesting as the house
had to come down a fairly steep slope to the road. As the truck unit
turned to line up with the street the house kind of wobbled left and
right a bit as the trailer silently adjusted itself. The trailer had
3 sets of small wheels near the back, on a fairly narrow wheelbase.
The wheels came down to match the slope. I guess it must use load
sensors on each wheel and the control system aims to keep the load
balanced. I was a little surprised how quick they drove down the
slope, their only concern the back corner of the house scraping the
bank when the wheels got down onto the flat.

My guess is the self levelling is designed to be realtively slow,
perhaps even switching off above a certain speed considering it's
use. Got up to probably 30kmh down a 4 lane piece of road with no
obstacles. They had 80km to travel and said it would take 5 or 6
hours (avg = 15kmh). Quite fast considering the house previously had
only moved an inch or two in 80 years!

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