Derlyn Z

Thanks for your replies guys. I went and towed it the other day, it went pretty good considering, and I was also prepared for the worse! But it sure was a pain in the neck to get the shaft pulled, and get air to it. This one had a fairly big Onan Genset set low in between the frame rails up front, so I had to go back fairly far to where there was an empty spot on the frame to lift on. I also had to use the tallest Miller frame forks to reach it. Thankfully there was a crossmember close that I could use to chain it. It did want to slide a few inches on the frame, it wasn't the ideal hookup, but it wasn't too bad either. This one here actually didn't have an axle in the front, it was and air ride independent suspension setup, and one of the control arms was broken, so there was actually no axle to fork on. Which I don't think I would have had enough of reach to get that any way. I was extended far enough the way it was! I was going to take a picture of my hookup to post on here, but totally forgot!

Just wondering if there is usually something to grab onto in the front of these motorhomes? We have a request to tow one of these from Copart. I have towed some already but never a pusher with the axle set so far back. Thanks!

Yea I totally get it! If you are going to respond 30 miles away you definitely want to at least have 2 guys on this call. And if we had a light duty wrecker I am sure we would use it for that as well. We would usually just respond with the rollback with 2 guys on a call like this, we would only call out our heavy if it was something major. With that being said, a call like that would probably be a lot easier to do with a wrecker.

Nice Work! Hopefully he had good insurance! Not bashing, but just curious if you usually send a rollback and wrecker out right away to a call like this? We don't have any light duty wrecker, only a Med/Heavy, and rollbacks.

Yea while I agree with what you said, and I see your point. I might have left the guy off with a discount being I was already out. But you have to make money too, and if he couldn't get anyone out for cheaper than $250 He should have still been ok with that. I am not sure what it is with the snow storms around here, but it seems like when we get called out by the police to clear the roads of people who got stuck and are causing a traffic disruption, people think they shouldn't have to pay!

Yea you said it! Or either they will call you 2 hours after you get back into bed and hang you out to dry, saying you didn't have permission to tow their car and so on! And they want to come pick it up now. You tell them it isn't drivable and they don't believe you until they come the next day and say they are there to pick it up, and you show them the car, and then they are like uhh, yea I guess we won't drive it after all. Yup that's what we were trying to tell you! On this car though, I am not sure how they made out with the owner, I never asked the office.

Had one the other night that was in the woods, and the police said the driver was not around when they showed up. So I drug it out of the briar patch with no keys. He was fortunate that he missed a big tree when he came off the road, the car actually didn't have real heavy damage!

Still here checking in when I have time!

Yeah hopefully it works well for you! I use M-18 tools on our heavy as well, but we don't have a charger on the truck.

Nice work! Is that light bar one of those new ones that run off a Milwaukee tool battery?

Well thought out! Great work!

Nice little job. I think I would have tried something before 6 hours were up! I wonder how many miles they put on trying to get out. LOL!

That looks like quite a mess to clean up. Great work!

Looking great! I like to see some of the jobs you guys get into, and see your equipment at work!

I think it depends on what you are planning to do with the truck. If most of your tows are just vehicles broke down along the highway, and you are not doing many hard recovery pulls I think the Fiber will work great, and it is easier to manage. It seems the steel core ones tend to want to curl back up after you pull them off the winch. That is just my opinion take it as you want!