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Light Duty & Carrier Recoveries
Discussions relating to Light Duty, Tow Truck & Carrier Recoveries.
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Nice one today, Subaru lost control because of a puddle and crashed through the woods... Cut a few trees & limbs to access it. It was a huge rock & boulder garden that destroyed the undercarriage of this puppy.... Had to "direct" it under the guide cables but it came out... Once on the road, Rob got there with a Carrier to transport it back to the shop...
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We had a call recently for a stuck car "in the parking lot" behind a local supermarket. Well, right behind the supermarket is the Susquehanna river and a good local fishing spot. I send my cousin who helps me out pretty regularly anymore. He decides it is a good idea to back the wrecker down in the mud to get the car.....wrong. He gets to the car, gets it out, then proceeds to get the wrecker stuck. Well, I taught him how to use the winch lines to get himself out when stuck so he tries, and tries, and tries. In his mind, there was no way he was going to call me.............except he had too. LOL. In this first picture he is explaining to me how this mud snuck up o…
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Nothing like multi-car crashes to fill your impound yard up with...
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Received a call from city dispatch for a 2 car accident with one vehicle "wedged" into a building. On arrival, I found this Lincoln Town Car stuffed into the side porch of a house. The second vehicle involved had blown through a stop sign at this intersection, striking the Lincoln in the left front and sending it careening over the sidewalk and into the porch. Luckily, there were no injuries other than some scrapes and bumps suffered by the Town Car driver. After F.D. verified the structure was safe, I was able to winch the Lincoln from the house, between the trees and bushes it went through and back to the road with relative ease. All the automotive debris were cleaned u…
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Winching out Amazon van trend
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We had this one the other day. Some guy with the Mazda SUV drove off the road, and down through 2 people's yards and ran into the driveway and hit this guys 2 pick up trucks.Thankfully he just so missed the nice blue VW Golf that was in the driveway as well. We were called to pick up the Mazda SUV. We cleaned up the pieces and all the oil dry in the driveway. The guy with the pickup trucks did not want them towed, so we only got the SUV.
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Couple of rollovers we got the other morning... Control Center called on the 1st one and said "It's 196 and....Oh...well it looks like it's in your driveway?" Snapped a pole off in the yard of one of our rental properties... Yep that was right.... After flipping it, it laid on the ground like a lobster... Eddie picked it up with the skid steer & put it in the fence... Then 2 hrs later another by the State Park... Guy said he swerved to miss a dear.... Lost control, ran over pine cones rocks & boulders...then barrel rolled multiple times. Thank God…
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One of the wrecks we brought in today was a Texas Edition? a 20 Silverado got hit in the rear and then ran off the road in to a tree...
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Had this one come in yesterday. kid was traveling from Tennessee to Allentown Pa...I picked this up about 8 miles above our shop, 50 miles north of Allentown & heading North so it's fair to say he was lost... He said that the trailer came off & hit the tree.... But I'm pretty confident that he hit the tree & ripped the trailer off. His Mountaineer had a RF flat so I asked him what he hit & he said nothing. He didn't need a tow, was going to change the tire himself... Broke both safety chains & tripped the brakes. The coupler was still closed... Hit the red car that was parked th…
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Had a car fire job yesterday. BMW 328xi became "fully involved" to say the least... Two Departments responded which is common during the day, they used foam due to it being a gas fire... We lifted the car to check for "Hot Spots" prior to loading it...It started smoking again by the rear tire so they blasted it again... Lots of debris and parts melted in to the asphalt that we couldn't budge. I called back for reinforcements to assist in the clean up and Eddie was already getting ready. The Calvary arrives... We were ab…
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New to him car (2 days) backed out of his driveway just a little too far. Just brought it up to street with no damage.
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Rotisserie?
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Got a call about running this chevelle out to BFE. Had no idea what a rotisserie was other than chicken dinner. Well I tied it all down and delivered.
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Had a car in the woods call the other day. The lady stopped at a sign and then said she blacked out for an unknown reason. The car took off through a field and crashed in to a wooded area. Eddie dispatched for the excavator and an additional rollback to transport the vehicle... You can just see the back of the car here. It went in on an angle with enough speed that when it hit a tree, it spun the car at an counter clockwise in between some other trees... Cut out some branches & brush to access the rear of the car... Drug it in the road & loade…
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The other morning we got a call for one into a barn. When we got there it was resting on a concrete retaining wall, and was resting partly on the fuel tank. So we backed our rollback at an angle, so we could lift up on the rear tire, before we started winching. Once we had it lifted high enough, we slid the rear of the SUV over and pulled it onto our bed. All in all it went pretty good. Sorry I don't have any pictures in action, since the police were holding traffic for us. And this is after it is out
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Got a call that a customer's Moffett fork lift had the tire fall off about 30 miles from us. My driver arrives on scene to find this machine in the middle of the road, with the hydraulic outrigger legs down, the drive wheel snapped off and no keys! We had to drive back to the store to get the keys & then return to load this "lobster" on to the truck... I didn't want to drag it off & scratch up the bed or damage anything else so we set up to lift it off the truck with the heavy... Snapped this huge shaft right off... Set it on some cribbing for now until we…
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City P.D. called late last night for a vehicle into a pole. Upon arrival, I was informed the driver was heavily intoxicated, and ran from P.D. when they attempted to stop him a few blocks back. The intersection he flew through just prior to crashing has a very deep and off angled approach ramp and when he struck it, the Volvo went airborne, Up over the center median, Onto the curb and struck the pole. The impact sent debris including the entire left front wheel / hub and half the strut assembly 150' further down the road where it struck another responding P.D. vehicle. After verifying with the utility company that the pole was intact, I rigged the casualty up, rotated it…
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Multiple calls for the same ditch recently, me & the Maple tree have a good working relationship.
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I had a call for a Mini that had rolled backwards over a small embankment coming to rest on a rock retaining wall/railroad tie steps. This needed a lift & roll forward rather than a drag to prevent any undercarriage/fuel tank damage from the rocks. I was in my F550/Chevron 408 independent, I called my Son in Law to assist in my F450/Chevron 408 Integrated for lift to both sides of the car as I didnt feel I could do this efficiently with 1 truck. We rigged to both rear wheel hubs with straps & a 3rd line from the 550 to a tree/chain/snatchblock then back to the front of the Mini for a forward pull. We left the Mini in park as we lifted the rear then winched it forw…
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Took this call last week from the city P.D. The woman driving this Mini Took a corner a little too hot, Clipped a parked car and rolled over onto its roof. There was significant damage to the Mini's front suspension from the Impact. My rollover stick made quick work of it and had it back on its wheels in no time. Spun it around, Loaded up and cleaned up some debris. The customer wanted the casualty towed to her home where she paid cash for the job. I was back in service within an hour.
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Had one the other night in the pouring rain. This HHR hit water on the road and hydroplaned, spinning backwards into a tree. Then went through a board fence, down into a drainage ditch, and up against a concrete culvert. So I hooked to the back, and pulled it up out of the ditch, and back through the hole in the fence.
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Was called by the local Sheriffs Office for a truck rollover into a building. Arrived to find a Ford Lightning that had lost traction, fishtailed in the rain & went over a retaining wall endo-ing landing on a roof of a local jam & jelly business roof. Only damage to building was gutter & ding in metal roofing. F450/Chevron 408 up on the road with a high line for lift assist off the roof & a low lines to drag away from roof. F550/Chevron 408 behind truck with Cruse Loop through cab doors run under bed for lift & another line to a nearby tree/strap/snatchblock back to the truck drivers rear wheel for spinning truck sideways away from roof once bed was li…
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We got this call for an SUV that ran into the back of another SUV pulling a small trailer. When we got there we found that the Jeep was resting on the trailer, and the front wheels were actually off the ground. So we hooked up to the back, and tried to just pull it off, but we found the that part of the frame of the Jeep was caught on the fender of the trailer. So we slid our bed under the Jeep, and lifted it off the trailer, and had the driver of the SUV and trailer pull out from under it. Then we set it back down and winched it on the rest of the way.
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Another one from Uhaul this afternoon. We got a call about a Corvette that fell off a ramp while attempting to load it onto a Uhaul trailer. The vehicle had been sold and was headed to Virginia. The vehicle had a flat tire and stuck brakes so it was fighting them as they attempted to load the vehicle. We were able to lift the vehicle by using a wrecker on each side. Once it was back on the ramps we were able to winch the vehicle forward. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Very Busy Week. Nice job Koders, Matthew Will.
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Toyota Yaris, automatic with a 'left foot accelerator' conversion. This is the second time that this has happened with this car!! Seems there is some confusion between which pedal does what. Select reverse, floor it, across the grass, through two brick walls. Still flat out, select drive, go forward and stop on top of the brick pillar that you just knocked down! There was surprisingly little damage to the car, considering where it had just been. We lifted it with the knuckle boom to get the bricks out from under........ ........powered out and slewed around..... ......…
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Had a nice 2 car yesterday...New vehicles, clean up with the van...and everything had coverage! We have had a rash of junk vehicles lately without coverage.... It comes in spirts sometimes but when you're spending big coin....you like to see all premium jobs! LoL Had this little rocket the day before with no coverage due to an excluded driver.... Ran in to the back of a moving Wedge Trailer.
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We got this one the other day. The pickup truck and trailer and an old Mercedes were in the turn lane waiting to make a left hand turn. The black Colorado never hit the brakes and slammed into the back of the Mercedes, which then pushed the Mercedes into the trailer. It really hit hard, and there was a lot of debris to clean up.
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This guy dropped his vehicle off his own driveway. His son was around 55-60 years old and was yelling at his father the whole time, "I'm taking your keys away." Sorry I didn't get more shots, I had to take these while working. Dlock13 said: I've used the lumber and jack a few times and it seems to work quite well. People don't really expect that approach for getting their vehicle out, but sometimes that is the best way. Nice job of using more than just the tow truck to solve a problem. Wade200 said: I have a rack above my boxes that hold quite a bit of wood. Along with …
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