Yup, it was a D9. I'm guessing they went down 30 some feet at a minimum


The house was lifted about 10' to 15' above the original foundation. No idea of the cost, but this was a pretty high end house, so I guess it made sense to do it.


Insurance was covering it.

How did they keep the house suspended without posts? Did they use large steel beams to carry the whole structure? A D-9 is 15' wide, 26' long, and 13' tall. It takes a huge area to even be worth bringing a dozer that size in. I would have loved to see that

Several large steel beams that spanned the entire crawl, so the entire structure, minus the garage that was removed, was supported on blocking.

Couldn't get too close but I would guess the beams went out 10' past the house walls, if not a little more.

When they filled it back in, they used a smaller dozer, compacted and built a new foundation. Afterwards the house had a basement instead of a crawl space.

This house was in Elon.

The other house was in Winston Salem, and it too was lifted. But in that case they moved it laterally, dug out the fill, filled and compacted, then moved the house back to a new foundation.

How it was found to be sinking?

Monday morning a sub called the builder to tell him the entire brick facade had fallen of one end of the house. Seems the brick mason hadn't used any brick ties, so when the house had some movement, the wall fell.

Might have been a D-8, maybe even a 7 or a 6.

Was thinking og picking up a 1 to keep in my systainer.

In Aspen and a couple other ski towns due to various size limits and historical structures/neighborhoods people will buy a small 2 bedroom Victorian house, jack it up and dig down two to three levels.

a d9 would be a huge overkill for that type job. but could make it faster lol.

Talk about overkill....


When I moved to NC, I rented a little house out in the country. One morning I hear all this loud noise in the field next to the house.

Here's this OLD D7 Cat ramming a huge Oak tree.

Turns out the guy we rented the house from had bought the dozer to "play" with.

Old guy was pretty well off, had always wanted to drive a dozer, said no one would ever let him, so he bought one.

Used it that ONE day to knock down a tree, then just left it sitting there.

Told me it hurt his back.

Dislocated my clavicle at "The Canyons" in PC snow boarding while working on a project. Had a lot of fun. If you get bored and thirsty check out the "no Name Saloon". That's one of RadioRhea and I's hangouts when were there. The story goes it was originally named "the Alamo saloon" and some bar in TX (my home state, Yee Haw) threatened to sue them for the naming rights so they just named it No Name. Pretty cool place. Halloween gets pretty crazy up there. Plus there's a really cute waitress named Tia that inst bad to look at all.

Yes, we've been to the No name saloon a few times now. In fact, last thurs night, there were some 1st teamers dancing on the bar top until the bouncers removed them.

Tell you what, I bet during Sundance, they're are some wild times to be had up there!

Attention: the above misuse of "they're", is just for ernie

My grandfather had a heavy construction and paving company when I was growing up. He semi-retired when I was about 22 (I'm 40 now)and sold almost all the equipment off. One of the things he kept was a kamatsu dozer that's their equivalent of a D9. When my wife and I built our house, my uncle agreed to do the grading for free. Our lot is a little over 3/4 acre and the house is 1800sq ft on one level. Talk about over kill, bringing that dozer in to knock out a 30x60 pad. Now, as I've said before, the only thing that grows naturally on our side of the mountain is poison oak and rocks. He kept ripping big rocks out of the ground, making the crawl taller and taller. At one point he pushed one out that was almost the size of a VW bug. My contractor was flipping out because the house was a set price and the crawl space ended up about 4ft high all the way around.

Like this one?

Less armor, but it has a couple more guns mounted on it.

Casey, where is my thumbs up button?

I have an old D7. Adjustable blade (barely). Truly a tank. I have a D5H (high track), its really all i need. 6 way blade, drives like a Cadillac. Love the joystick driving/operation.