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Last reply by gaylock1, -
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Last reply by TowForce, -
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Was looking for a body for a customers truck and Eric @ Bigwheel had what I exactly what I needed... He loaded it on a friend of mine's trailer to transport it down from Mass... We set it on skids until we are ready to do the refurbish job. The other day they said it was going to be "windy" but I wasn't expecting this... I looked it up on our cameras to watch it happen... The kid was washing one of the wreckers with his Ear Buds on & never realized what happened...never skipped a beat! Eddie was getting info out of a wreck in the impound fenc…
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We’ve had the call..... The Suez should be open again soon!
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Lifted a dropped container yesterday... The leg somehow fell out? I thought they must of had it pretty high for that? No one could tell me a weight so I ran blocks in the lines. Installed jacks under both sides, packed up my toys & rolled.
Last reply by EdsTowing, -
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Pretty simple just ran a two part line to the front of the trailer and winched him back to the road. The street he was turning on had been plowed for a while and the wind had drifted it back in.
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Well this guy made it less then 2 miles before his tie downs proved to be unsubstantial. OUCH !!! A tractor trailer turned left in front of the car hauler... The tractor trailer wouldn’t have had any substantial speed at all since the odds are he just left the Petro and would have only had 100 yards to accelerate.
Last reply by SURRYTOWER, -
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Got a call from one of our customers that had a plow truck with the brakes locked up. Didn't have too many particulars so I took the big truck just in case... On the way back, the shop radioed that they had a TT winch out in a lot that we were going to be passing in about 30 seconds... Had them secure the payment & we drug the guy a few feet to get off the ice... Simple job...took longer to write the invoice...but a nice "cherry" on top...LoL
Last reply by Stuart Wagner, -
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Eddie had 1 where an engineer doing testing on a cell tower got stuck about a mile back a woods road. He went to where the guy was but was having difficulty getting back far enough so he called for reinforcements. I went down to open the road with the plow truck... I had a hell of time getting through it. The trucks were wider then the banks and it was a sheet of ice under the snow. Eddie backed in behind me & stayed near in case I got stuck... Which I did...LoL Once out, He hooked him up backwards & towed him back to the roadway... I plowed on the way out to open it up some mor…
Last reply by EdsTowing, -
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We are still running at "999" every day.... It's snows in some form or other, every day.... Had this plow truck get too far towards the edge & got sucked in... It had a good jag of material in the box that blew out when it went over... A heavy single axle can be unpredictable. They aren't very stable to start with. I under estimated my 1st "bite" since we were working in a tight quarters. Set up with a high line to the low side to lift out of the ditch and a lower pull to a rim sling to roll it back over & control... Coming up she started to tilt my truck off the gro…
Last reply by EdsTowing, -
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Well the last week we have been in "Storm Mode" which is a mixture of long hours, cold coffee, wet gloves & Hershey bars....the substance of life...LoL Most of the recoveries required moving snow prior to doing them because there just isn't anywhere to go... We only plow our own properties and billed along with some recoveries. We did do a customer of our this storm do to their guy bailing out on them. They are neighbors and an excellent shop customer for many years so we try to help... I'm stuck waiting for the Calvary to arrive... The Calvary...LoL Service call for our Post Office...they asked …
Last reply by mushspeed, -
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Today's misadventure. This is on a steep one lane road at the top of the mountain. No snow or ice on the road, just drove straight into the ditch. They have to be trying to do something on their cell phones to keep doing stuff like this See all the trees to work with, one line to bring it back on it's feet, one to drag it back, pretty quick and simply. Air bags deployed Two lines and it was out pretty quickly but then I see this. Broke the ball joint off at the end of the control arm, pulled the axle out of the transmission. no way to get the wheel lift under it and lift it without doing more d…
Last reply by EdsTowing, -
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We got about 4 inches of heavy wet snow on my first night back from a well needed rest. Got a call from a delivery company who had a van stuck. Had to chain up the wrecker to get out on the roads to where he was, an hour later I find him. He had traveled down an old township road that dead ended and went on to an old road that has no maintenance whatsoever. He made it about 3/4 of a mile down hill through a thick tree cover only to come out into the open where he proceeded to get stuck. A neighbor was kind enough to run me down to it in his side by side so I could get a look. There was no way I was getting in there without tearing every light and mirror off my t…
Last reply by mooresbp, -
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Thought I would post a couple jobs from this week... Trailer with 38k in the box slid off the switcher & folded the landing gear leg... Simple job, 2 Two Part lines & foundry hooks in the pockets... Once up I got a trailer stand to stick under it, packed up my toys & head to the next. Couple nights ago, Had a TriAxle dump blast a car in an intersection... Big mess, we had the Power Broom, Skid Steer & Dump to clean up the mess...
Last reply by Stuart Wagner, -
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Had this one the other day that hit a low railroad underpass. We get a few trucks here a year...this was the second Penske here this year... Made it through bought caught a reinforcement plate on the other side... Had to cut off a few pieces to prevent further damage with a SawzAll... In her defence...it wasn't very specific...LoL Exhausted the air suspension & deflated the steer tires. Then we removed the car trailer and hooked it up to my pick up for transport. Backed it out to a lot where we could repair it all... …
Last reply by Kjband13oc, -
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Nice Job Guys!! Just another day! We glad to get it pick up and contained snow was a big factor.
Last reply by GRUMPS The Towman, -
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So the other night after our company Christmas party, we got a call to winch out a TT that was turning around in a parking lot. They believed it was empty & it was unclear what he was doing there anyway. Eddie said he was just going to run down with his little truck to take care of it... Well it turned up the guy had like 35k in the box and wasn't completely in the parking lot anymore either, The steer axle was sunk & rutted in to the grass. This is an "over flow" lot for a local outlet mall and they plowed the entrance but not the entire lot for some reason. No idea what the driver was doing since the DC he was heading to is like 3/4 of a…
Last reply by Stubborn66, -
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I got a call Saturday night for a stuck delivery van on a private road going up the side of a mountain to three homes. There are two switch backs to this road to lessen the grade. The driver did not make it to the first switch back. I was able to back up the hill to get to him without chaining up. Took a little to get the wrecker to sit still but I was able to spin him around so he was able to drive right out. As usual, I forgot to take pictures. Sunday afternoon, just before dark, I got called to go back to the same road to get another van that had gotten stuck on the same road. This guy made up to the second switch back and got stuck on the turn, slid d…
Last reply by Stubborn66, -
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Had a Rolled over salt water tanker this morning that had very limited access. So we squeezed the little 4x4 through the cattle gap and got it done... Yes the unloaded the trailer before the upright.... the frame was just a little bent I noticed the “twin steer tracks” after backing the trailer into the line to drop it.
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Team work makes the dream work
Last reply by TowBot, -
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I recently had to tow a loaded sanitation truck . Question is can you tow Over weight trucks with all wheels on ground . My truck is a 35 ton and wheel lift handled it OK . Problem was I was over weight by my scales . Had good weight steers . Just wondered if there is an acceptable option to flat tow using the wheel lift .
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Another one way into the woods into someone's back yard . Thank you Tech for the call to assist nothing like Tower's working together...
Last reply by GRUMPS The Towman, -
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Topic Originally Created by Blkwill in June of 2006: This is one of those calls where the customer calls everybody. A fellow tow company was called for it as a tow and this what he found and when I got there in the wrecker we both worked and used both truck so no one had a wasted trip. How You do that!!!!!!!! Ed Barker said: Nice job. letsplay2 said: Nice job... How in the world can anyone think that with your truck leaning so hard that all they need is a tow? Yikes... Deivn sweiljr said: Nice team work. Steven Weil jr …
Last reply by Tow411, -
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Man oh man! This Jerr-Dan is spoiling me with the reach. We didn’t spin but we got it, old school.
Last reply by GRUMPS The Towman, -
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Now that i have some time I am gonna try to get some job pics posted. This is one we did back in January. Around 11:30 pm on a saturday I got a call from one of the local farmers that he had a truck " stuck" Across from the entrance of one of his barns. Being just a mile or so from my partners house, I called him and asked him to go pull him out. About 20 mins later My partner called me back and asked me to come down there with my backup wrecker. This is what the customer claims is "stuck" It is a 1993 International 4x4 that had a load of 6 round bales in it. All but 1 of the bales fell out and rolled down the ravine when the truck rolled over. Using my partners 201…
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Last reply by ESC, -
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I can still hear Dad saying that,,,this lexus jumped the bridge hitting a tree in mid air,,,Thank the Lord the driver survived,,, We had to bring it up and over do to drainage pipes coming out of the banks,,,BARKER"S TOWING put it in the books. I love these type of jobs.
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