We Moved The Sauna Down The Lake On The Ice This Week

The sauna had to be dismantled and then reassembled at the new location

Last summer when we moved from our old Stoney Lake cottage to our new one (about 1/2 mile west on the north shore), we didn’t move our sauna building. The thought was we’d leave it and sell it with the cottage. However, since the old cottage hasn’t sold yet , we decided to dismantle it and move it down the lake.

Our lake neighbour Elwyn Cartwright took on the project and, with the help of a couple of other neighbours, removed the roof and the walls down to about three feet above the sauna floor.

Then he had to prepare it so it wouldn’t ‘fall apart’ on the move… he reinforced the bottom framing with joist hangars and added a couple of logs under the platform for it to slide on. The plan was to roll the platform up over a deck, around a tree, down a hill and onto the ice for its final trip down the lake to the new cottage lot.

I used my Kubota tractor to do some of the heavy lifting and pulling and Elwyn, Jim and Ian used their muscles to keep levering the platform until we had it in place (I had the better job handling the tractor controls).

As you’ll see in the video below, it was quite the exercise. Now that it’s on our new lot, after the frost disappears we’ll prepare a site for it and put in its final resting spot.

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