This guy was blasting down the highway at 70Mph on frozen rain when it got away from him.
He said he spun at least eight times before coming to rest on the concrete culvert. Could have been really bad if the pickup was sideways when it hit the bottom...
I drove my flatbed down the embankment and banzai'd around the muddy field until I found a spot to winch from. The pickup came out fairly easily and I drove it back up the the highway. A bumper, brackets, headlamp assy and some clean underwear and the driver will be good to go!
A father and daughter house mover team got a bit stuck in a field.
Apparently another team had driven into this field the day before and dropped their trailers without incident. Of course, the ground was frozen, but the next day when these two arrived it had thawed. OOPS!
The axles of the trailers were in the mud and the resistance was so great, I had to double up my 50k winch line with a block to pull them out.
Yet another travel trailer move. I do at least one of these a day. People are willing to pay 285.00 an hour for me to do a job a 1-ton can do easily, but hey, it's income.
This one was a crude hauler who got buried in the mud at the entrance to the collection facility.
Took an hour to get there, 10 minutes to hook and winch and and hour drive back. I hated to charge the guy 530.00 but that's the way it is.
Ahhh and lastly the Propane tanker with a blown turbo.
He forgot to mention he was fully loaded...a minor detail.
His GVW was 104,000 pounds. My wrecker tips the scales at just under 50,000.
I had to tow the TnT to the 'Nearest Safe Haven' which is usually a scale, repair facility or any safe place to park.
Being out in the empty prairie on a twisty, hilly two-lane county road--I had to take the whole train to Stanley 35 miles away.
Of course it was dark, freezing rain, freezing fog and 40Mph + winds when I got rolling.
This one gave true meaning to the term 'Pucker Factor 10'!
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