Um, I'm guessing the house had no basement? The self leveling sounds
interesting. I wonder how much hysterisis is built in to keep from a
rocking house. How much of the travel time do you think was to allow for
the movement of obstacles and such?

Josh
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Brent Brown wrote:
> 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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