Gas Truck Workout...w/ LD Wrecker

[EdsTowing]

Well this one was a learning lesson/refresher for recovery. 1st lesson...never believe a driver...LoL Said this was "front wheel off the edge a little but doesn't want to chance it"...

 

Was a little more then that...

 

 

I wasn't at the shop yet so Eddie thought he would go take it out with his truck. When on scene, he figured he could use some help & it was only a couple miles from my house...

 

 

So I decided to run a line to a tree up front & double it back to the truck for forward motion. Then I wanted to run a high line from the tank to the right side. Figured if I could unload some weight it would help with the resistance substantially. 

 

 

Now this is where I made a flaw in my judgement. The second tree was covered in picker bushes & I had a hard time getting to it. I never properly checked the tree to see that the creek had undermined it. When all the rigging was set up, we started to pull and I watched the top of that tree move 4'! Bad decision on my part....and now it was going to be even more difficult.

 

 

So we ran a 4 part line to the rear frame of the truck to slide it up the bank. It was tricky because with a liquid load, the thing was beggin to roll over...

 

 

Once up, we pulled the front over out of the hole & on to the driveway.

 

 

I was relieved to see it out. Told the driver to go do his delivery & we would pack up all this rope & rigging. 2 min later he comes walking down the hill that he was stuck again!

 

 

Had to maneuver the wrecker around a barn to access him.

 

 

Got him out and he was just leaving in frustration...never did fill the tank up

 

 

My girls....LoL

[Orcas Tow]

Nice rigging, love the trees, sometimes there is a casualty though as there's no WLL on those darn things...

[mooresbp]

Trees don't have tags one them!!

[EdsTowing]

Yea but I should of looked closer....In my mind it was pretty much the only solution so I guess I didn't follow it thorough in my mind? Who knows....we got it but it got a little hairy for a moment...LoL