We started at about 9am to move the caravan. The plan was to use the tractor to tow it up the road, and it would have to be turned at the junction with the main road, so that the doors would be on the correct side.

The first task was to put the wheels on. The original tyres were all in bad shape - 2 were burst, the other 2 had big slits/defects. I didnt trust them to take the weight of the caravan at all. I had priced new tyres for them - about £55 each. At that rate it would have been cheaper to bring professional movers in, pay £200 and have it moved for us.

We had a plan, we hoped to re-bore the split rims and bolt on the wheels from the flat trailer. This was carefully measured, and drilled. I got some bolts from a hardware store, and we set about bolting the wheels on. They fitted well, and when we lowered the caravan onto them they took the weight well. We estimated about 4 tonnes of weight in the caravan, judging by the deflation of the tyres.

Now that the caravan was on wheels the next task was to get it out of the yard. Although there is a very wide gate on the yard the caravan is 40 feet long, and 20 feet hanging over the back of the axles.

On only the second attempt we got it out, inredibly slow, its so hard to see - from inside the tractor you can see nothing - not even people outside trying to direct you!

After lunch we started the 300 yard journey up the road. Slowly. The next concern was the bend in the road, where the ditch was quite high. We had figured that it would be tight - especially with the length. When we got there we thought we could be tighter to one side, and reversed a bit to take a second swing at it. This time the side of the caravan was tight to the inside of the corner, and the other side stayed a good distance away from the hedge at that side.

Then a sqeak developed in one of the wheels, so we stopped to tighten the bolts. This was tricky, below a caravan on a wet road. We got them tightened, and proceeded on to the end of the road. This bit was straight, so not too difficult.

When we got to the end we had no trouble turning, and fortunately no cars came along the main road while it was blocked.

The next tricky bit was getting onto the site. We had left a sizable entrance, hoping to drive the caravan in at a shallow angle to the road (it has to end up parallel with the road). After a couple of trys we got it in, and setup parallel to the road.

The next few hours was spent putting the blocks below all the support points, and levelling. And at 9pm all was finished, and in place.

The next task was to bring the shed up, this was not so time consuming, and we got it in place pretty quickly. Wa had to get a digger in to clear a flat area for the shed to sit in, and also level out some of the filling to the rear of the caravan.

With this complete we set the hut onto a trailer, and brought it to the site. The slope of the site made it difficult, we had to be careful not to slope the shed or it would slide off the forks. After some gentle maneuvering we got it into place.

The next stage is to get the water connected, that will require the road to be opened as the water main is at the other side.