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 on February 22.
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.
They are still used today, especially in rural areas.
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
Footage shows the men lining up underneath the house and balancing the wooden stilts on their shoulders as they walk to the new location.
Villager Jerian Santillan said the family’s movable house was taken to another street 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.’
Footage shows the men lining up underneath the house and balancing the wooden stilts on their shoulders as they walk to the new location
Bayanihan is a rare but enduring tradition mostly in the rural Philippines where a family asks for help from neighbours when they want to move their home into another location.
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.
Houses are usually made from light materials like coconut lumber but would still require at least 15 men to carry.
And back in 2020 similar footage 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.
When viewing the spectacle from afar, 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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