'The god of the lamp

After successfully relocating more than 250 manual pulley construction works, Truong Van Dung, owner of Private Spirit Lamp in Ben Tre City, launched a home-moving machine. Thanks to this self-made hydraulic machine, the relocation time was reduced by 7 times, while the number of labor was reduced by 10 times.

The 'lamp god' came to the job by chance. At that time, the house of his family in My An B hamlet, My Thanh An commune, Ben Tre City, Ben Tre province, was in danger of breaking up to widen the plastic road ahead. He talked with his family about trying to move. If it fails, it will build a new house, while it will be successful, it will save hundreds of million dong.

'Lamp' Truong Van Dung on a homemade hydraulic machine worth 300 million dong.

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He is a poor child, he can only go to the fourth grade and must take time off to work to support his parents. With practical knowledge from the craftsmen's craft, he rushed to learn the process of moving the house firmly. Finally, he found a way to move by cutting all the legs of the house, using a round roller and a large H-shaped steel bar supporting the whole house. After that, he used the pulley cable to pull the house slowly to the new location. After his first success in 2003, he decided to work as a displacement worker.

The first project that 'god of lights' Truong Van Dung received for a relocation was the home of Mr. Nguyen Van Xuan in Chau Thanh district. At that time, the landlord forced him to make a pledge of compensation if the relocation failed. The distance to move to the new location is 40m and must go through 5 garden ditches.

In the process of moving the house, he broke out in cold sweat when he saw that the team was sunk due to the weak ground, the house was tilted, and collapsed. But with caution, perseverance, he and his crew also brought the house to a new location safely. After that, many families have houses to clear the road to build the national highway 60 bypass in Ben Tre City and Thanh Phu district thanks to the 'lamp god' Truong Van Dung and he successfully moved all cases.

Making a house moving machine

After moving over 250 large and small houses, Mr. Dung came up with the idea of ​​moving houses with hydraulic pulling machines, pushing them both fast and safely and with little labor. Crushing on the night, he finally built a hydraulic machine from individual parts such as explosion, hydraulic pump, boom, etc. The machine has the ability to pump into teams to lift, pull or push. the house runs on the track to the intended location.

The device was recently applied to the transfer of Mr. Huynh Sanh Phuc's two-storey house in Ben Tre City to a new location 10 meters away from the old platform and 1.5m rise. On November 8, he opened the machine, attracted a lot of people to see. When the machine operates, the house moves slowly on the track and then translates to the specified location.

Dung said that the machine only needs one operator, can pull and push, move a house weighing 3,000 tons on a flat rail. Relocation of a house with an area of ​​about 100 m ² to a new location 50m away takes only two days. If moving such a house by manual labor, it would take 10 people to pull the pulley in two weeks.