Down with the mouse house: Demolishing a single-wide trailer - Part I

Rancho Status Quo is actually made up of two parcels.  The first we purchased in 1999, the second in 2007.  Each parcel is 36 acres and the second has an old single-wide manufactured home on it.  We think the manufactured home is useless, and an eye sore, and a harborage for rodents - hence it has acquired the name "mouse house."  

When we purchased it we always intended to dispose of it - but obviously it has taken us some time to figure out how to do this.  Today, after many phone calls and arranging, we had two large dumpsters delivered.  In the next week a man with a backhoe (or some sort of machine) will come and do the demolition!  Recently, my dad helped us take down quite a bit of the barbed wire fencing around it so that the trucks could get back to it. 

 

Unfortunately, when Husband was leading the trucks back to our land our truck got a flat tire.  As a result he had the adventure of riding in one of the big trucks today.  

Since this is the first and (hopefully) only time we will engage in this sort of demolition we had to ask a lot of questions - even now I hope that what we have will hold the remains of the house.  We have two "roll off" dumpsters which are each around 50' long.  We think this single-wide is 70' long and hope that when destroyed it will fit into these two.  We were charged $250 to bring the dumpsters to the property and we will be charged $60/ton to dispose of the remnants in the landfill.  We think it will cost around $1500 total in landfill charges.  The machine operator charges $95/hour and he said it should take about a day.  So we are hoping to get rid of this abomination for under $3000.  

So, it is ready for demolition and we look forward to seeing that happen this week!