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We got a call the other day for a skid steer stuck in the mud. This is a brand new machine with about 15 hours on it. He was clearing this lot and was impressed with how good it moved on the tracks so the day after a big rain he is back at digging out the stumps, then he backed into a hole left from a stump that was dug out. woops, it wont come out. It was a greasy mess, I had to winch myself back up as far as I could then chain myself to his dump truck to keep me sitting still. I rigged for about 20K resistance but I am sure it was not that stuck, after the initial movement it walked right out
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Had an accident call the other night about 10:00 on the interstate. A loaded TT hit the guard rail & barrier in a single lane construction zone at the beginning of an off ramp. He kept driving for 2 miles before he came to a stop...not sure if it was the 1st safe place or he ran out of fuel... Filled the damaged tank with absorbent to stop it... Hooked the whole unit, had a load of some sort of contaminated water.... We returned in the day light to clean up the mess on the shoulder... The arrow board helps to keep people moved over.... …
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Had a 4wd Back Hoe that was stuck the other day... I'm pretty confident that I could of drove it out but that's not the machine that I get paid to impress with...LoL Came right out....
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Had this the other day that I had to winch out 3 times... He dropped the can but then couldn't get up the incline so he backed up for a run shot and buried it in the mud... My bumper is right on the edge of the road so I could stay out of traffic... Someone got this relic of a loader started & was going to try to push him out but then the tire went flat?.. Pretty wet...we got 6" of rain from a hurricane the other day... 1st thing I noticed was he backed over a "big piece of concrete' as he described when he went in...I told him that was an old "cess pool" septic and I wou…
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This guy was trying to back up a steep driveway and missed it by 3 or 4 ft....on the driver's side... Tried the typical wood under the tires and what not...can't imagine why it doesn't work... Gate was dug in to the blacktop... Wrapped the door frame using a foundry hook on the lift gate frame. It was plenty sturdy and all I wanted to do was tilt the truck over a bit... Released the brakes and it rolled right out. After a minute or so...do you keep trying? We were prepaid so the job took about 10 min once on scene...
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One of our local Distribution Centers are packed with trailers so they have been parking some in this field. It's probably not a real good idea but has been lucrative to us. This guy said he was just turning around? Probably not a good idea after the 5" of rain we had the other day with the Hurricane that hit us... Pulled it out of the holes but figured he probably wouldn't get out...so I pulled him all the way back to dry ground....
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Semi Goes Off-roading | Gets Stuck!
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This gentleman having a bad day stuck over 200 feet off the pavement!
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Topic Originally Created by Phillip Towing 102 in October of 2006: Phillip (102), Phil (108), and Robert (107), responed with our 60 ton and new 75ton rotators. The mixer was loaded with appox 10yds. From the time they arrived to the time the mixer was hooked up behind the wrecker was 30 mins. Police and NCSHP were very happy. Rotator 60 said: Very impressive indeed. Nice work start to finish Thanks for sharing. Scott Hedgcoth Ed said: Nice job & good luck with the new…
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Topic Originally Created by 1Caleb in September of 2006: Drunk and high this guy drives off the highway and rolls into a local vineyard. With pleanty of room and no traffic to deal with Mike tried his single lane roll-over. As you can see a catch line was added to the other side once the car was on its side. However, when the car was rolled onto its wheels it wanted to roll forward. It bumped into the back of the truck. Opps Good job to Mike (pictured) on the recovery. If anybody has any thoughts as to why the car would roll forward please add. Parking b…
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Topic Originally Create by Wildwood Mike in April of 2006: Recieved a call from one of our customers stating they had a International boom truck on its side in their yard. I responded with our 98 pete 9055 and my uncle responded in his medium duty gmc. I arrived and found the truck tipped over with the boom resting on the reel they were moving. It wasn't all the way on its side because the boom landed on the reel and there she sat. I hooked up to it to upright it with the lines going through snatch blocks off the stiff legs to give it a low pull. My uncle ran a strap around the base of the boom turrit to catch it with the medium duty, with the boom extended we…
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Customer called for a tank truck that tried to turn around and went just a little to far. Didn't take pics of winching since LE closed the road for us and was fairly busy road. Came out with no problems. Only 500 gallon in the tank.
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Got a call the other day from a guy who was a little excited for a Boom Truck that was "Sort of rolled over, or is going to roll over"... There were 3 or 4 workers on the roof when the driver attempted to load a pallet of shingles up there. The left outrigger tube snapped and he saw the truck start to go so he swung the boom to the left and let the load crash on the ground... The truck laid on top of a dump trailer parked in the driveway... Snapped the outrigger right off... The truck had relatively little damage considering the situation and we were…
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I'm going on 40 years doing Heavy Duty work and I can't recall ever having a trailer that the landing gear legs crossed themselves! Side shot the trailer so we could hook a Yard Truck to it... 40,000 in the box... And the "money shot"... I didn't want to use it until it was ready but what are you going to do... She goes down Monday to get a wrap.
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One call does it all with any problems you may have!! Ron, Ben, Matthew Will, Kody.
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Topic Originally Created on Tow411 in June of 2007: 6-21-07 Received a call from one of our customer's that their Paystar 5000 tri-axle had broke the suspension on the left rear side on Old Fall River Road, and it was stuck in the road. This tri-axle had a full load of boulders inside of it. In Order to free up some of the pressure on the already damaged truck, we worked with the customer and unloaded all of the boulders into the bucket on our loader, then into our dump trailer. When the load was emptied, we backed up to the casualty and towed it with our NRC to our Freetown location. …
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Kind of an unusual job the other day. Take an 18,000 septic tank out of the ground and move it to a new home on the other side of the property... It was a bitch to walk with it hanging off the back... The trucks have been pretty busy which is good since I have spent a boat load on new equipment...
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Who Worked It?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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…
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