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Topic Created on Tow411 in November of 2015:

 

We picked up this Cadillac Limo from a automotive college that donated it to our county vocational school....

 

 

We do a lot for the school including stuff like this. This car was pretty new & only had a few hundred miles on it. Looked like a improper stretch job was done and the roof was breaking apart where it was seemed.

 

Topic Originally Created on Tow411 in November of 2015:

 

When your discussing the classics...you better say it right! Jag-you-ar... LoL

 

 

 

Yea our Techs were happy to see this coming in....

 

Topic Originally Created on Tow411 in November of 2015:

 

This 442 went to the shop for running issues...

 

 

We have done quite a bit of work to this over the summer.

 

 

Topic Originally Created on Tow411 in November of 2015:

 

Joe did a Porsche with a flat the other night for one of our "favorite" clubs...

 

 

 

 

Going to a dealer 50 miles away. We told them a nickel... Then the dispatcher came back on and said her manager needs a break down on the charges. I said I flat rated the call and that's what it would be. She said yea but he needs a break down? So I said Oh...Ok. Well it's a 500 dollar hook up, and no charge for mileage....She said oh...ok. LoL

 

 

Nothing special. The board has been slow so I figured I would post a few jobs...

 

Topic Originally Created In April of 2015:

 

Joseph picked up one of our customer's Maserati this morning for service. These cars have Lust & Passion....something that the German cars just can't duplicate...

 

 

 

 

 

Yea I got it....The rental agent came to the scene and said you're going to have to pack up because you need a bigger truck...so then I had no choice but to do it...LoL

 

11,000 lb machine that they kept at it after they called me (when it was stuck but still moving) and ended up rolling it into a rivien...broke a hydraulic line & no longer ran.

 

 

Now it was just dead weight....

 

 

Here is the only picture I can find of it.

 

I'm pretty sure we built that truck. Last I had heard, it was down in Atlantic City, Point Auto I believe it was. Then lost track from there. It was our 1st hydraulic wrecker at Schlier's. I want to say it is a 1985 Superliner, all white....350 Mack, Reyco suspension, a 25 ton Wrecker's International....they were power up & gravity down.

Nice work. They can be tough because they don't have to many places of integrity to hook to!

Some may think it's overkill but I did a job the other day that I used all 4 blocks & needed a 5th one but got it done. You know you're pulling pretty hard on a car wrecker when you stall 12k winches on 2 part lines...LoL

 

 

Hey that Mack looks familiar to me....where did it come from? Is it an Boniface Interstater?

Nice work!

 

About 30,years ago we had one that rolled over into a stream. Recovered it & took it back to our shop. They secured the building & then opened the side door of the truck.....& the coin flowed out of it like water all over the floor! 

Yea it's factory, but I believe it's an option. It has a stowage bracket on each side of the main body boxes to mount it when not in use...

 

 

The Snatch Block bracket is custom, I fabricated it to keep them off the floor of the box. Then added some modified ITD pieces to sort the area out...

 

Originally Posted on Tow411 in October of 2007:

 

Well I finally picked up a scanner to post some of my old pics. These are from my first tow show but ironically I didn't take them. My friend & part timer Phil took these but I didn't even know him them. A lot of these guys are on here and I assume some of these trucks are still around....
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had a new Super Duty pulling a new 5th wheel stuck at the Pocono Raceway Campground today.The guy was new to the camping world so he wasn't sure how to get the trailer out without doing damage...

 

 

We backed him in to rehook it. He had tried earlier and stabbed the tailgate through the front compartment panel of the trailer....

 

 

Got him all out on the blacktop and he was ecstatic! 

Nice easy pulls are great...they don't all have to be hard...LoL

A sister to John's old truck....

 

 

originally built by Zips...

 

 

A few from it's 1st life....

 

 

I still have it....should sell it. I haven't used it in a few years now. It sits under roof & fires right up....just waiting....LoL

On 5/20/2019 at 9:15 PM, Stuart Wagner said:

I don't know if I am getting too old, but I turn down pusher motorhomes and busses. They suck. Some aren't terrible, but you don't know that till you get there. So many pusher motorhomes are on Freightliner chassis with full round u-joints and that alone is enough for me to turn them down.

I concur......LoL

On 5/20/2019 at 6:27 PM, mooresbp said:

Did you ever use your power broom on the glass in the dirt? Just wondering if that would work or if it would move it to far.

You end up with so much extra "stuff" to dump when you get it in the dirt.

Sorry it moved those last two picks out of order on me & won't allow me to edit it....I love technology.....

The driver made his way through a very tight driveway to fill the propane tank of a customer...and incidentally found the homeowner's septic tank which is never good...

 

You can see where the wrecker was sitting. One look at the driveway and I knew I would never fit back to where he was... If I had known, I would of taken the smaller truck...

 

 

70% on....

It didn't even look like a driveway!

 

 

Not sure if the trees are supposed to be on the inside of the truck?

 

 

Got back as far as I could and pulled rope from there... I needed 1 high line to minimize the resistance & another pulling the unit from the rear out of the hole.

 

 

All that rigging for literally 20 seconds of recovery. Once I rocked the truck to the side, it popped right out of the hole like planned....

 

 

Other then the obvious fragrance of nature...no damage to the truck. The septic tank? Not so much...

 

Overall, a tough situation. the driver had no way of knowing the tank was there with the customer's "Italian Yard".... It's a summer home and they probably don't deliver to it often. if it were me, I would back in to the site so it wouldn't happen but that's me...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eddie grabbed this one this morning....

 

 

Wrapped up in a few minutes...then a beauty shot...LoL

 

 

Eddie had this one the other day. Using their "sling" attachment so it was manageable...

 

 

looks heavy but actually a 4200 w/ a VT365 & it was empty....felt like a typical 1 ton pick up on the back....

 

I don't know about you guys...But I hate towing buses...

 

 

These actually aren't too bad but I guess I just like to hear myself bitch...LoL  This was the second one this week for a coolant leak.

 

I wish I could do them from the rear but they lean terribly... this is 1 I did a few weeks ago and I didn't have a choice (obviously). But their driveway entrance is tough and it's hard enough gowing from the front.

 

Randall it's been all regular customers that we have done and nobody has said anything negative about it. I feel better...not invincible...LoL, but better when I'm working with it.