Moving an Entire Village | Mega Transports | Free Documentary

Mega Transports: Villagemove | Engineering Documentary Moving an entire village in Sweden – a true mega transport! Everyone knows it: Housemoving is a lot of work, requires excellent planning and costs time and money. Just imagine how it must be if you are moving an entire village – as a whole. Impossible? The dutch logistic and heavy transport company Mammoet says: Not for us! And that’s what they do: the Swedish city of Malmberget has to make room for a mine and therefore move to nearby Koskullskulle. Because many of the houses in Malmberget are of high cultural value, the governmental mining company LKAB wants to move them in one piece. Preparations for this mammoth-project take several months. First, the team has to dig out the soil from underneath the houses and then fortify it properly. Beams are put underneath the house to make it ready to be positioned on Mammoet’s special transportation equipment. The houses vary in size, with a weight ranging between 45 and 210 ton