Post your Wrecker Pics

blowerman · Mar 19, 2009

25c said:
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.

You're right, those rotators can do some nice work.. Shifted the front of the truck sideways, then backed behind me stabilized the truck as I drove forward. Kenny was out himself, instructed me to drive slow, as too much speed and I'd probably pull the wrecker over since he was boomed out over the side for the back side of the recovery.

td25c · Mar 19, 2009

The rotating wreckers are awesome.Its like a crane married a wrecker,they had a baby and named it"rotator".Truly impressive trucks.

td25c · Mar 19, 2009

25c said:
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.

Sorry guys I should have included a pic with the boom extended.Here it is.

Tryin' · Mar 20, 2009

Recovery job for our company.

For more pictures of this recovery, see: http://heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=3609

06bowtie_guy · Mar 20, 2009

Tryin' said:
Recovery job for our company.

For more pictures of this recovery, see: http://heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=3609

Link is the wrong one I'm going to have to say.

Looks like a mini excavator issue.

dirt digger · Mar 21, 2009

nothing too special but here is one that happened on a job i was on this summer

Tryin' · Mar 21, 2009

06bowtie_guy said:
Link is the wrong one I'm going to have to say.

Looks like a mini excavator issue.

I may be confused on the term recovery. Does it only apply to trucks? :beatsme

My link also seems to have quit working. I'll try again. https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=11765

td25c · Mar 21, 2009

Tryin' said:
I may be confused on the term recovery. Does it only apply to trucks? :beatsme

My link also seems to have quit working. I'll try again. https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=11765

Recovery could be anything from a riding lawn mower to spacecraft.good pics Tryin.

td25c · Mar 22, 2009

Hear is a truck that I am working on in spare time.Its a 1969 FWD 6x6.powerd by 6-V 53 detroit,5 speed tranny,3 speed auxiliary tranny.I plan to set it up with an oil field bed & fithwheel plate.I will use it for rigging and recovery.The winch is a 60,000 lb garwood that is driven by a tulsa 2 speed reversing pto mounted on the main tranny.It holds 350 feet of 3/4 cable.I like the old mechanical winches,on the hard pulls you can hear the cable talking as its wrapping on the drum.Stay in the cab an hang on for the ride.

334 lawn co · Mar 22, 2009

nothing special- but here is my flatbed from when i was in recovery---well- at least it looks like the one i used to use- found this one on google. the second pic is of a small tug that i saw one of our neighboring fire departments using to recover some stuck equipment- they have now sold it to the kerens volunteer district- (not sure where that is?).

thejdman04 · Mar 23, 2009

nice pics

-NICK- · Mar 23, 2009

Here are a couple of Pepe's towing (Los Angeles CA) helping us load some machines heading to the scrapyard in Riverside,CA

td25c · Mar 23, 2009

Thats a nice looking pete.They can do alot with a rotator.Good pics.

-NICK- · Apr 2, 2009

Yeah nice truck wish we could keep our trucks that clean Here are a couple of old ones they help us upright a 330 someone flipped in Santa Monica CA

Dualie · Apr 3, 2009

Turbo21835 said:
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 cardinal sin of recovery. NEVER EVER Tie the front of your wrecker off when winching. IM amazed that winch line didnt snap and kill someone. That guy is a fatality waiting to happen.

your dozer would have been much better served as a dead man. 3+ parts of line one terminated at your dozer would have been much smarter.

Also most people don't know if you dump a 5 LB bag of sugar in a mixer drum it will keep the concrete from setting up and saving the drum. I have heard that 4 liters of coke will do the same thing also. But i know the sugar works as a fact i have seen with my own eyes.

LonestarCobra · Apr 3, 2009

:slomo

Dualie said:
thats a cardinal sin of recovery. NEVER EVER Tie the front of your wrecker off when winching. IM amazed that winch line didnt snap and kill someone. That guy is a fatality waiting to happen.

your dozer would have been much better served as a dead man. 3+ parts of line one terminated at your dozer would have been much smarter.

Also most people don't know if you dump a 5 LB bag of sugar in a mixer drum it will keep the concrete from setting up and saving the drum. I have heard that 4 liters of coke will do the same thing also. But i know the sugar works as a fact i have seen with my own eyes.

I agree not to tie off the front of the truck. I have seen the winch line on a oilfield tandem break due to that and it got western real quick. The sugar trick works very good. We use it when we cement surface casing to retard the cement. A 50 lb sack will treat 50-60 bbls of cement. They suck it up and haul it off in a tank truck.:slomo

td25c · Apr 3, 2009

Dualie said:
thats a cardinal sin of recovery. NEVER EVER Tie the front of your wrecker off when winching. IM amazed that winch line didnt snap and kill someone. That guy is a fatality waiting to happen.

your dozer would have been much better served as a dead man. 3+ parts of line one terminated at your dozer would have been much smarter.

Also most people don't know if you dump a 5 LB bag of sugar in a mixer drum it will keep the concrete from setting up and saving the drum. I have heard that 4 liters of coke will do the same thing also. But i know the sugar works as a fact i have seen with my own eyes.

I thought the same thing.All the heavy equipment sitting around with no use of "dead men".I wont Tie off my kenworth,But sometimes I tie off the gmc wrecker in some winch outs.The gmc has the factory tripple frame and heavy push bumper to tie off to.You still have to use judgment on any job.I'll keep the coke & sugar trick in mined on the concrete.I never herd of that before.

AtlasRob · Apr 4, 2009

Dualie said:
thats a cardinal sin of recovery. NEVER EVER Tie the front of your wrecker off when winching....................
your dozer would have been much better served as a dead man. 3+ parts of line one terminated at your dozer would have been much smarter.

I have heard that 4 liters of coke will do the same thing also. But i know the sugar works as a fact i have seen with my own eyes.

Dumb question just to be sure I understand

By tie-ing the front of the winch truck to something you do not know how much strain you are putting on your winch? You expect your truck to move before your line breaks?

Why is it better to use another machine as a dead man?

Good to know somebody has witnessed the sugar trick, I have heard of it but was not sure if it was fact or urban myth

Dualie · Apr 4, 2009

well the trucks chassis was never meant to take the strain like that. by tieing off both ends your now trying to pull the truck apart in ways it was never designed to be pulled. If a winch line breaks and doesn't kill someone thats a best case scenario.

Heres the TEXT BOOK example what of can happen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqCy7ZxVdgI&feature=related

By using Multiple parts of line you can get MUCH greater pull on the stuck vehicle without overloading your winch cable. IT is much easier to overload your rigging so you have to make sure your using a chain and attachment rated for load being placed on it.

using multiple parts of line with one anchored to a "dead man" allows the force of winching to be spread out over two anchors and letting the wrecker stand still while all the winching force is being put into the stuck vehicle.

Heres a fascinating read on vehicle recovery

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9572722/us-army-driving-manual-vehicle-recovery-ch22

AtlasRob · Apr 4, 2009

DOH! I didnt think about the possibility of snapping the tow truck in half :Banghead

Thanks for the links, very informative. :drinkup

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