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Final Positioning, Leveling, and Site Cleanup

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Moving 2,000 pounds without a Crane

What happens here

After the sauna is on its timbers, minor adjustments are made to ensure it's perfectly centered and aligned. A long Stanley FatMax level is used to check the level both along the length of the sauna's interior benches and across its width. The floor is also checked for levelness. With the sauna properly positioned and leveled, the area is cleaned up, and the heavy equipment (Bobcat, excavator) is removed from the yard. The newly installed sauna, with its thoughtful landscaping and sturdy base, is ready for use.

Goal: Ensure the sauna is perfectly level and clean up the surrounding installation area.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat Skid Steer Loader Bobcat — Removing remaining debris and equipment
  • Kubota Excavator Kubota — Making final minor adjustments to the sauna's position if needed
  • Rake — Final smoothing of the ground
  • Stanley FatMax Level Stanley FatMax — Checking the level of the sauna's benches and floor

What they say

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Okay. Suck it in a little bit. about the same amount of overhang. >> Do we want that pushed forward as far as we can or are we okay with that little >> I'm okay with that cuz it doesn't stick past the deal. So, I can always cut them if I need to. >> All right, let's go inside and see if it rocks. Plus, if it rains, it's going to be even be better cuz it'll wait to kind of push it down and settle everything. >> It's done. I mean, it's it's pretty straightforward, I'd say. Let's put a level on her inside and see how she's doing. >> Yeah, should be pretty close. I don't >> where does it say on the floor? >> The floor comes up. >> So the floor >> you're going. She's pretty damn close to level. I mean tiny bit low in the back. >> I say give it a week of sitting here. you know, >> she'll she'll level out more one way or another way. >> Especially if it rains. >> Yeah, which is going to happen tomorrow and the next day and the next day. So, all right. Well, good. We got that settled. I'll get there. I'll get that out. We got to get the equipment out of the yard, though. All with the building set. That really helps visualize everything cuz now we've moved the stairs. They're going to come straight down here. Almost like you're walking off from the deck to get specifically to the sauna. But now we got to figure out what we're going to do in front of it. So, let's clean that up to see what we're working with. All right, guys. Well, in the very next video, we're going to tie all of the pieces of this puzzle together and show you how we can do a project like this on a next to no budget. I mean, we're talking about thrifty, thrifty, thrifty. But here's the building in its final state. How I've got her resting. Everything came together great. Let's take a look at what I've done around the outside of it. The little retaining wall, which just basically leveled this area out just enough to to uh get the building pad in without really disrupting the actual physical grade, which ran right here. So, we still have good flow. We're not backing any water up into the house. Um, and there she is. We didn't end up cracking that back glass. What would happen if we had dropped that at all? It would have cracked. So, we use those pipes to roll this into place so that we had it all uh pretty much slow and steady won that race. And uh yeah, it was just fun to do. So, I guess that leads me to one question. Do…

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