The old Nelson Motors building was transported down Highway 39 in the morning of Feb. 15, as it made its way to its new home south of Hitchcock.
The new owner, a local farmer intends to use the building as a farm shop where equipment and machinery can stay stored indoors and worked on.
Lucyk Building Movers Ltd. moved the building up the highway.
The new Nelson Motors building is much larger than its predecessor and everyone at the company is sad to see the old building go, but they much prefer the new and larger building they are housed in now.
鈥淟ucyk didn鈥檛 show up until 11 a.m. Wednesday and the next day they had it raised up and ready to go,鈥� said Brad Denouden, the parts manager at Nelson Motors.聽
The building was moved from its old spot by inserting steel I-beams in the lower part of the building that was strongest, structurally speaking, and on those same I-beams a series of heavy-duty hydrologic jacks were inserted that got the building up high enough to put it on dollies and take it down the road.
Despite the icy road conditions that day, everything went well.
鈥淭hey go to their destination on time that day despite the road conditions. The RCMP told me it only took them an hour to get the building to its new location,鈥� said Denouden.
The farmer who bought the building was in consultation with Nelson Motors for quite some time before the actual transaction occurred.
Denouden mentioned that he wasn鈥檛 too surprised that someone wanted to buy the old building because new ones are so expensive.聽
