Moving house is a logistical nightmare....but imagine the challenge of moving an entire house – fixtures, fittings, brick walls, chimney and roof wholesale, through a major city, over a mountain range or across a frozen lake! That's the kind of impossible feat tackled by teams of movers in the dramatic hit engineering TV series, Monster Moves.
Meet the movers as they slice and dice mansions with chain saws, hoist church spires with helicopters and winch locomotives down highways with bulldozers. This book explores the engineering behind the moves, the epic races against time and tide, rows over red tape and risky routes, and the horror of what happens when it goes catastrophically wrong.
Monster Moves is a major global TV brand, shown in over 170 countries around the world including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, USA, Australia, China and Japan.
It has a diverse audience; young kids and adult men are attracted by the shows feats of engineering; women and families latch onto the aspirational and emotional stories of the families and homeowners. On SBS in Australia, its premiere episodes get 300,000-400,000 viewers. Repeats then increase this. It's one of their top rated shows.