Post your Wrecker Pics

[millertime778]

Wreckers are some of the coolest looking trucks in my opinion. Here are a bunch of pics i found on the internet or took myself at some point. Feel free to post pics of trucks you have seen or found.:usa

 

[millertime778]

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[millertime778]

few more

 

[td25c]

I have a 1974 gmc and a 1984 kenworth w-900.Bothe have holmes 750 wrecker beds.The gmc has a welder and torch on it.I dont do much towing,But I use them for "winch outs",repair work, and rigging.I would feel naked without them.I will get some pictures.Its hard to beat an old 750 holmes.

 

[D4's D5]

Those 750 holmes beds were pretty nice and pulled real well. When I was in high school I worked at a parts store/wrecker service. We had an old Pete, 5+4 and a 750 Holmes. Then got a Holmes 1701 hydraulic, which is basically the same winches as a 750 with hydraulic drivees and boom. I'll see if i can find and scan some of those old pictures I took.

Kirk DeFoor

 

[thejdman04]

Nice pictures

 

[Bobcat s330]

THose are some nice trucks!!

 

[Turbo21835]

How about recovery gone bad? These were taken from a job site I was on years back. The concrete truck was bringing concrete for footings. The truck drove up on to the building pad, but found a soft spot on the way in. The driver shut down the drum because he was afraid it would pull him over. I tried to pull it out with our D7H, but broke the tow hooks off. Thats where we stopped. They called a wrecker service that "knows how to get is out, he does it all the time." We sat back and watched the show. The driver could not get enough stabilizer into the pad to keep from pulling himself around. So, I buried the blade on the 7 and he chained up, the end result is as follows. Btw, the cement mixer only sat for 45 minutes, by the time she hit the ground, no cement came out of the drum. Truck had only been in service for a short time.

 

[td25c]

Those 750 holmes beds were pretty nice and pulled real well. When I was in high school I worked at a parts store/wrecker service. We had an old Pete, 5+4 and a 750 Holmes. Then got a Holmes 1701 hydraulic, which is basically the same winches as a 750 with hydraulic drivees and boom. I'll see if i can find and scan some of those old pictures I took.

Kirk DeFoor

1701 was a great bed,but what holmes wasent.Its amasing what can be done with them.I like the idea of having a wrecker or recovery forum.Maybe we should ask the founder about it.

 

[blowerman]

Ken Webers Rotator out to help stabilize my Quad and assist moving it sideways. BTW, the truck was fully loaded. It wasn't driver error, asphalt just gave out and truck sank sideways.

 

[td25c]

How about recovery gone bad? These were taken from a job site I was on years back. The concrete truck was bringing concrete for footings. The truck drove up on to the building pad, but found a soft spot on the way in. The driver shut down the drum because he was afraid it would pull him over. I tried to pull it out with our D7H, but broke the tow hooks off. Thats where we stopped. They called a wrecker service that "knows how to get is out, he does it all the time." We sat back and watched the show. The driver could not get enough stabilizer into the pad to keep from pulling himself around. So, I buried the blade on the 7 and he chained up, the end result is as follows. Btw, the cement mixer only sat for 45 minutes, by the time she hit the ground, no cement came out of the drum. Truck had only been in service for a short time.

Thats a bad deal with the concrete truck.The tow hooks on the front are only good barely stuck situations.Any more than that you have to pull off the frame rails.I take a 5/8 chain under the steering axil back up to the frame on both sides for a front pull.I am surprised the wrecker driver put the d7h in front of the wrecker .I would put the d7h about 40 feet in front of the mixer and the wrecker to the upper side,run one line over the mixer drum to keep it from tipping and the other line to the front of the mixer truck back to the d7h with snatch blocks"3 part line from wrecker to d7h".But its easy to criticize sitting behind a screen and keyboard. Look's like we have a wrecker and recovery forum started.Great pictures Turbo21835.

 

[td25c]

Here is a picture of my 1974 gmc wrecker moving a grain bin for a farmer.the second picture I am repairing a bent sprayer boom.I never know at the start of the day what we will need the truck for,Chances are By the days end we need it for something.

 

[JDOFMEMI]

Here is a good one

Started out with a stuck box van, then look what happened.

I have been around a lot of ground like this in the spring. It just swallows anything.

http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/6729/t/when-you-think-your-having-a-bad-day.html?page=1

 

[td25c]

Ken Webers Rotator out to help stabilize my Quad and assist moving it sideways. BTW, the truck was fully loaded. It wasn't driver error, asphalt just gave out and truck sank sideways.

The narrow driveway can be bad with little or no sholder.You don the rite thing by calling the wrecker service.Alot of drivers will fight it,rocking back and forth getting stuck worse or turn the truck over.These new rotating wreckers are impresive.good pictures.

 

[AtlasRob]

I have been around a lot of ground like this in the spring. It just swallows anything.

I am pleased to say that ground like that I have never encountered, and long may that continue.

Great pics and link Jerry, many thanks. :notworthy

 

[AtlasRob]

Thats where we stopped. They called a wrecker service that "knows how to get is out, he does it all the time." We sat back and watched the show. .

You just knew that was going to end in tears, I dont trust those darn trucks sat on the level, never mind at that sort of angle.

 

[td25c]

Here is a picture of my 1984 kenworth w-900 750 holmes with Lacrosse lowboy.

 

[td25c]

Hear is a picture of my first wrecker.Its a 1967 chevy C30 with hydraulic bed that I built In 1990.I have used it for towing and alot of recoveries.It has smallblock 350,4 speed,and 5.33 rear end.

 

[Steve Frazier]

What does that thing weigh??? That's quite a boom!

 

[td25c]

What does that thing weigh??? That's quite a boom!

I have never wieghd it.To think after all the years and jobs I have don with it ,and never had it on the scales.I would guess it around 9500 to 10000 LBS.The boom is two 10 inch channel frames welded together.It ends up making a 10x5 rectangle tube for the main boom.It has a I beam manual pullout section in side it.The winch is a 20,000 LB. garwood with hydraulic drive.Its towed Cars,trucks,farm tractors.And recoverd everything under the sun.Its pulled our simi-trucks out of the mud.One time I pulled my fiat-allis 16b out of the mud with the chevy wrecker.Its been a good old truck.