Sorry, I've been MIA for a couple of weeks, but I have some big news.
I just moved my tiny house for the first time in over two years and it was quite
the ordeal.
The house has been parked at Mount hood,
tiny house village in Welch's Oregon for over two years.
It's been a mountain home for three winter seasons. Well,
recently I had the opportunity to park my house on a farm on Whidbey Island in
the Puget sound, so I borrowed a friend's truck and I was on my way.
First stop on my 300 mile Trek to my new parking location was to a trailer
repair shop.
I thought it was a really good idea after not moving my tiny house for over two
years to have my trailer inspected,
especially because I'd had a lot of rain and snow being parked near Mount
Hood, Oregon.
$750 later and two popped what the **** are these?
These two pieces were holding one of my axles on the trailer and as you can see,
one of them had fully rusted through and the other one was well on its way.
Who knows what would've happened had they both busted and I was going down the
highway with my axle now securely in place,
new trailer brake lights and freshly packed wheel bearings.
I was back on the road.
We're getting ready to go onto the ferry. It's only a 30 minute ferry ride.
There's our boat back there.
You shouldn't be afraid to take your tiny house on a ferry.
Other times I've been on a ferry,
which was back in 2015 I got a lot of weird looks and questions from the people
working with ferry lines, but this time it seemed like they,
maybe seen a tiny house or two before.
Tiny houses are just so well known now that they didn't even bat an eye.
Next step was definitely the most difficult of the entire trek.
The driveway to my new parking spot is steep, narrow,
and it also has a lot of loose gravel,
so it was pretty challenging to tow a 10,000 pound tiny house up that road.
First we tried with our borrowed truck that didn't work out. Next,
we tried with a tractor that the farm owners had on the property.
All right, I'm going to try it.
I wouldn't stand behind it be like, the wicked witch of the west.
That also didn't work out. I think because the gravel was so loose,
our wheels were slipping underneath and plus the tiny house is just really,
really heavy. We even tried to counter balance by putting bodies,
literally bodies in the bucket.
Oh God.
Still couldn't get enough traction to get up the Hill.
Finally we decided to give it everything we had.
We actually attached the truck to the tractor and they split the load.
I wasn't the one in the tractor or in the truck.
I was standing by the side worried sick,
imagining my tiny house toppling down the Hill,
possibly crushing somebody or taking the tractor with it to say I was stressed
out would be an understatement. And with both of their powers combined,
we were able to get up the hill,
once up the hill it was easy enough to maneuver into my new spot.
And I'm just now getting settled in and I have big plans for this parking spot,
but for now,
I'm just going to enjoy the fact that I have a tiny home parked on an Island.
Thanks for watching this week's video. Guys,
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