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Orcas Tow

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  1. A bugger getting under modern cars with little room under the plastic bumpers but look at all that oil pan clearance on the crossbar!
  2. Can you imagine the reliability of our day to day operations & savings in repair/emission failure costs that we would have if you could still buy a truck like this 2001 F550 with the 7.3 Diesel & 6 speed manual transmission? I have bounced the idea around about selling this for a newer truck but have always came back to the simplicity & reliability in this 23 year old truck & how solid it has been.
  3. Well planned, laid out & executed. Proud Father in Law!
  4. Agreed, I like to see others techniques/approaches to complex jobs so this one was peaking my interest. Nice planning as always Ed.
  5. I use the Miller short tapered forks 75% of the time & Irish Iron chain forks secondly on my 12 ton https://zips.com/parts-detail/miller-short-tapered-axle-fork-2-wid-mil-tapered?optionlabel_quantity=pair&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx4C52_aXggMVygGtBh253wmKEAQYASABEgLdz_D_BwE https://irishironwrecker.com/products/chain-forks
  6. I remember the days when you couldn't do recoveries with an autoloader!
  7. Dang Ed as I was going through the story & pictures my excitement was building to see how you were going to recover this without a rotator then you went & ruined my day;) Nice work as always & rotators was probably the best equipment for the job:)
  8. Thanks Ed, I expected it to come down a bit harder than that too but we had pretty good leverage at the line at the excavator boom & having the blade dug in helped keep things controlled too. Hindsight I should have rigged the recovery chains tighter (I was thinking veer angle when leaving them long) or put a sister hook in the chain to keep them from jumping as the angles changed.
  9. Thanks, I think I was able to link the video
  10. 28,000 lbs on a slope, 4 lines to the load for control, catch truck lines went to trees on far side & back to excavator for landing control, no wheel chocks or scotch blocks for catch truck as plan was to have catch truck drag backwards if needed to keep all rigging in WLL & no shock load or overload surprises, came down nice & soft. 2 hrs from initial call to back at yard with equipment put away. Excavator started & moved under its own power once rolled over. Heres a video:
  11. Yes thanks that's what we sill do if needed. I hesitate to do that as the rust holes are not only on the sides but coming up around the corner in the controls area too. From my experience theres double underneath compared to whats visible.
  12. Ed, I have called all over the West Coast to Chevron dealers & they do not want to sell just the back end/wrecker bed, they will only sell it mounted one a new chassis & I prefer my 7.3 non emission diesel for reliability & ease of maintenance/repair.
  13. Im looking for a Chevron 408 wrecker bed, just need the bed but would consider the whole rear wrecker bed/boom, my bed sides are rotten. 2001 independent. Thanks.
  14. Im 54 & been in business for 33 years. Used to be that Id get excited for snow, now I cringe, too many dummies out there unprepared putting us & others at risk, I find myself shaking my head in unbelief much through the snow/ice events.
  15. Looks good, they are $500 plus now from what I found for the MPL 40, Ill build something stouter for $500
  16. Im a creature of habit I guess, I like all my trucks equipped the same way, tool boxes set up the same, dollies, same rigging configurations, etc. In my area we hook a snatchblock to the tailboard often.
  17. Looking to add a good strong mount for a snatchblock, I see the underlift has holes that may look like similar holes as in the boom for snatchblocks but am unsure of what a hard side pull would do to the underlift. All my other trucks have D rings at the rear of the tailboard where the bed mounts to the end of the truck frame, seems like the strongest point for a snatchblock mount for a hard side pull which we do often on our narrow mountainous roads.
  18. Does anyone have a set of bolt on D rings that would fit this 1210D at the 4 bolts mounting the bed to the frame right below where the truck bar mounts are before I build a set? Thanks
  19. We have had an influx of wealthy people moving here escaping the city since Covid, my new frequent flyer is the Tesla S in the snow. They wonder why their Tesla doesnt handle well in the snow when on steep snow or ice covered roads, "But its all wheel drive". Well its 5,000lbs which makes gravity take over on a steep grade, has low rolling resistance EV tires which are hard as rocks & work similar to sled rails in the snow when sliding down a snow/ice covered hill, low ground clearance for riding up on the snow drifts...Perfect!
  20. When I look at them I cant stop seeing a 85 Ford Escort with a lift kit.
  21. Lol, My Son in law Trent was taking care of the towing while my wife & I were out galavanting across the country. Im thinking maybe I work 3 weeks & vacation the rest of the year, the towing was in good hands while we were away.
  22. Lol, Ed's trying to take over my territory, guess I should have patented my technique;). Nice work Ed!
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