Upping sticks! Moment villagers pick up ENTIRE house and carry it to a new location in the Philippines
- More than 20 men helped family move house in Sarangani province in February
- Bahay kubos are made from light materials and are elevated to avoid flooding
- Footage shows men lining up underneath house and walking to new location
This is the moment villagers picked up an entire house and carried it to a new location in the Philippines.
More than 20 men helped a family transfer the house on stilts, called a bahay kubo, into a new lot in Sarangani province.
Footage shows bamboo poles tied length-wise and cross-wise underneath the house. The men carry the poles on their shoulders to shift the home.
Villager Jerian Santillan said the family’s movable house was taken to another street on February 22 because the lot’s original owner asked them to leave.
He said: ‘They did not own the lot where the house previously stood. Good thing their house could be moved around with the help of some people.
‘I was very excited and happy to take the video because it’s been a very long since the last time I witnessed a Bayanihan.’
Bayanihan is a tradition that mostly endures in the rural Philippines where a family asks for help from neighbours when they want to move their home.
More than 20 men helped a family transfer the house on stilts, called a bahay kubo, into a new lot in Sarangani province on February 22
The word literally translates to ‘being in a nation’ and is mostly used to describe the action of men coming together to help move a neighbour’s house.
Bahay kubos are made mostly from organic materials such as bamboo and coconut lumber and are elevated mainly due to flooding in areas during the wet season and hot dry land during summer.
Even thought they are made from these lightweight materials, they usually require at least 15 men to carry them.
Similar footage filmed in 2020 showed 300 Amish men working in tandem to lift an enormous shed in a rural part of the US.
One man is heard giving directions to the men as they grab the skeleton of the red farmhouse.
The men’s legs are seen sticking out from the bottom as they toil in unison to lift the enormous structure.
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