:::RHMT::: Real Home Made Turbo
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: schim187 on June 21, 2010, 02:18:34 AM
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Got a call for a motorclub winchout. Guy was driving his 08 Dodge 2500 HD down the side of the Absarokee Mountain Range when he dropped the front right wheel off the side of the road. He got a ride down the mountain to his Dad's house and got a ride back up to where the truck was with his dad and truck hoping to pull the truck back on the road...
Truck was gone when they showed up
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Unfortunately, the truck went over the edge 300 feet below while he was gone...truck could have easily gone another 1000 feet down but stopped rolling after taking out a couple of trees and digging into the dirt.
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We brought our 1980 chevy winch truck with a Holmes 440 for the pull and our Ford F-650 for added support and the tow back
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Hooked a winch line up to me, and i carried two straps and chains down to the casualty for rigging. Legs were definitely beat the next day after 6-7 times up and down the hill.
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Little bit of a hard pull trying to get over the trees and boulders
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Rigging
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Almost there after a couple of hours of slow, careful winching
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Once up to the top, we hooked a winch line from the 650 to the front and lifted the truck up and swung it around
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The truck fired right up, and the frame was completely straight, so we dropped the shaft and hooked up for the 140 mile tow back to the shop.
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Weather was great long enough for us to get the job done...beautiful area
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Interesting how the guys lease was up on the truck and he owed overmileage on the truck...
Sorry about the huge pictures, just trying to give some detail
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holy shit, a holmes 440.
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how much did you charge them? 50 bucks ;)
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so whats he doing with the turbo? :P
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that had to be some $$$$ for that tow.
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usually ~$3 per foot of cable on a wichout, not sure what your company charges... 2 trucks, one being a class-b... i figure at least $900. am i close?
as for this:
1/2 crazy, 1/2 American bad-ass
either way, balls of steel. Atta-boy
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I would have just reported it stolen when i realized it fell off a cliff
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I would have just reported it stolen when i realized it fell off a cliff
This!
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I would have just reported it stolen when i realized it fell off a cliff
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I think he hints at insurance scam at the end...
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nice...seems like a fun day at work .. but he did that shit on purpose
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Yeah that wasn't an accident. Look how wide that road is. If it was an accident then the world would have been much better off with the driver going along with it. Even if it is an insurance scam hope he realizes that insurance will probably not pay out full on it and he is still stuck with a nice chunk. Unless he had gap coverage, but I don't know if they offer that to leases.
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usually ~$3 per foot of cable on a wichout, not sure what your company charges... 2 trucks, one being a class-b... i figure at least $900. am i close?
Riiight, it's a motor club so they probably got like 75 bucks for the call. Fuck this winter we had a boat fly off a trailer and a 1 ton dodge on its top in a ditch 60 miles away and we got paid $200 from cross country to do it. Though we did charge the people $300 extra.
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Wow didn't realize we had so many towers on here...ya, it thats a homes 440 on the chev. Was a cross country call, happened saturday night, they told us to use whatever equipment it took to get it out. Just the mileage up there was 140 miles at $4.25/mi for each truck. The bill stands at just over $5200 right now with $35/day storage, we told XC that we were putting it through insurance. Guy had a pretty convincing story that it was an accident, so I think ins is going to be completely covered.
We generally get paid for these jobs up here, suprisingly.
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The bill stands at just over $5200
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i hate club calls, but that one was $$$ i hope you were getting comission on that call
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I bet someone was behind on a few truck payments :P
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Wow didn't realize we had so many towers on here...
wreckmaster 6/7 here. certs expired by 2 years, but yeah.
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i hate club calls, but that one was $$$ i hope you were getting comission on that call
ya, me n my boss did it, so i get 25% of half that...not bad for an afternoon