Tricky trailer lets load duck tree limbs

EASY DOES IT: A house is gingerly "tipped" to avoid macrocarpa branches in Underhill Rd in Featherston.

It might look precarious, but a leaning house on an Alpha Specialist Movers trailer is the result of millions of dollars of the latest equipment, remote control, and "a lot of skill".

Alpha Specialist Movers were spotted doing the delivery of two halves of a house from Upper Hutt to Featherston's Underhill Rd on Friday.

The second half was moving slowly up Underhill Rd in Featherston, enduring high winds, at what appeared to be a precarious angle on the truck.

But that's how it was supposed to look, said Alpha director Murray Russell.

The trailers had diesel engines on them that could rotate the trailer to tilt their delivery under power lines or, in this case, under low-hanging branches.

"It's quite state of the art," said Mr Russell.

It was also standard practice, in high winds, to tilt the trailer into the wind, as they were doing.

That was especially the case if the second half of the house was showing an internal side to the wind. "We don't want it to turn inside out," he said.