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MOVING HOME IS never an easy thing to do, but this lighthouse is taking things to a whole other level.
Locals are going to extremes to save an old lighthouse in Massachusetts before coastal erosion wears away the cliff its standing on.
The 159-year-old Gay Head Lighthouse is now being moved 50 metres away from the crumbling clay.
The Vineyard Gazette explains how the move is taking place:
The brick-and-mortar lighthouse stands within an enormous excavation, balanced on a 100-ton steel frame and rolling almost imperceptibly along two massive steel beams toward a large concrete pad 129 feet to the east.
Soap is being rubbed on the beams to ensure a smooth movement
The mammoth task reportedly requires just three workers.
You can watch the progress live here, although as you can probably imagine it’s not a speed process.
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