Broke the wrecker in St. George at an event called Trailhero. Came home sunday afternoon, torn into it monday morning, had a recovery Monday evening. Shirts and hats: www.jeepdaddy....
From what I learned in my 12 years as a 91H Recovery Specialist in the Army all rigging is correct if it works and nothing gets broken. Do what works brother. Great video.
First off, thank you for your service. Secondly, I wholeheartedly agree. I've enacted and been a part of a fair bit of sketchy shit, and if it works, it works. But there have been a couple times where things will be done differently next time.
It never fails to amaze/annoy me being told how to do something 'correctly' by someone who doesn't do the job. The stresses on a rigid bar must be very high. Thanks for the explanation. Great truck - in the art world we describe that as form follows function, and that truck is a work of art.
@@jerryb1234 Whimsical indeed. Take a good camera to a power station, if you are allowed in, or a scrap yard and look for close ups of the equipment. After at least 500 photos you might have 10 worth printing, but you will have a new way of looking at things.
@@orchidhouse297 a lot of times in the world of art...you'll take those 10 out of 500 pix and come back a year later and decide only 1 or 2, maybe 3 are still worth printing. 😉
Please read all the way through. I started towing in 1989 using a 1975 Chevy dually with a home built boom and a warn 8000lb winch. then a 1986 Chevy dually with a Holmes 440 (Love those mechanicals). Next Holmes 600 (16ton mechanical), I quickly gained a reputation for being the guy to call when everyone else said it's impossible. I have towed and recovered everything from motorcycles, cars, pick-ups, box trucks, tractor trailers, school buses, touring coaches and motor homes to Mobile homes and earth moving machinery. In 1992 I started performing maintenence and repairs on wrecker/rollback bodies, this progressed to installing the body on the trucks. I spent six years training people how to use their new wrecker/rollback. When I was watching this video I was thinking "Where is the tow bar?" I thought about what the function of a tow bar is. A Tow bar is meant to keep the distance between 2 vehicle constant under acceleration and deceleration. with the speeds you are traveling at, the pendulum effect of the hoisting cable is more than adequate. I am sure there are a few times the boom and a brush guard meet abruptly. But that is kind of why the brush guard is there.
It is nice to see someone who has the “been there, done that” T shirt come forwards and say “you know what that’s doing what it needs to do!” So many wanna-bees out there always saying he’s doing it wrong, I’ve never done this type of recovery (though I did have a spec lift to tow behind my car for shifting my cars around) and I’ve seen the explanations of the reasoning behind the method and you know what I get it too! 👍
It's a good thing that the transmission and transfer case were not damaged, now they can be rebuilt for the next time you need to replace them. 🤔. You do you, it's your truck and if they don't like it they can just move on. 👍🤠
Love atching your videos, you do a awesome job of making it where these people can get back on the trails. Hope you keep on keepin on, would miss your videos and recoverys.
I'm sure he's learning stuff like we all are from seeing Rory doing his thing. Both have mad skills, but the best always keep an open mind & look at other ways to set up & do tasks.
Rory, I really enjoy you and your videos. I realize how much work it takes to do one of these. The filming and particularly the editing require a great deal of time and effort. Just wanted to say "THANK YOU" for making these videos, and to remind everybody to like and subscribe.
Too many armchair critics, you do you, your out there doing your job on a daily basis, trust in yourself and what you know. having run some of the trails in your videos all I can say I am in awe that you can drive and tow on those trails, enough said.
Nice repair job. Going to Matt's page to watch his coverage lol. Another recovery in the books. Nothing pisses a guy off more than being told how to do his job. I've watched all your videos & have seen how your way works well. Thanks for sharing
Actually I have found something that irritates me more. Having someone ASK ME how to do something and having me explain it in fine detail, then they do it another way and blame me when it doesn't turn out right. Now that is irritating, especially when I see the work and start asking questions about how they did it. When you ask an electrician because you don't know yourself, why would you deviate from what the electrician told you?
In 20 years, I've only seen my husband lose his temper ONCE with one of our customers because he tried to tell us how to do our job! Yep...nothing pisses a man off more, lol
Wow....that's a nice transmission set up...and that shirt sure looks familiar...!!!!! I'm sure Matt is wearing one of yours too...!!!! Again great setup
Absolutely the best set up for the tranny!! I also have the 32 spline out put shaft custom made and hooked up to the 203/205 doubler set up!! Absolutely love the set up and Stephen at off road design is the best for sure!! I had a little bit of confusion at first at how and what all would work together and he absolutely talked me threw the whole issue until I understood everything!! And he didn’t even get made at me when he was exsplaining everything to me over and over!! I would definitely argue with anyone that off road design definitely has the best customer service out of anyone for sure!!! Thanks again Stephen Watson for helping me with everything over the years!!!
Love the camaraderie between all y'all recovery folks. It's so neat. A big family! Awesome - Lilly has her own pink grab bar. SO neat dad!!!! kudo's to you that you go ahead and take the time to explain WHY you don't use a straight bar! I admire you for that. You do a good job kiddo! I was going to watch one or two catching up - and then I keep on watching! And then have to hurry to do my work - but it's worth it! Oh yeah!
Love how you show a mix of shop repairs/upgrades & recoveries. I'm no gear head, but can appreciate the thought & process you go through to get stuff done & keep your tool/s like TM running.
I know how to work a clutch. Won't be long before folks will say, Clutch; What's a clutch? I got my daughter a decal for her back window that says, 'Millennial anti theft device' and has a image of a 5 speed shifter knob. She's proud of it and so am I. Great video. You guys rock!
What I believes helps you and your decision making is your full understanding of how your wrecker is put together. It is an awesome machine and I would go with your instincts rather than an armchair warrior anytime. Trail Mater is awesome in every way, your driving skills and wreck recovery skills I believe are second to none. Outstanding work which is what we kind-a expect from your Channel after watching it for a while. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome video! Really enjoyed "hanging out" with you guys in the workshop, I love that kind of environment! Hi Mike! Really enjoyed Mikes camera work and voiceovers! The more I watch the more I fall in love with your rig, it is a beautiful piece of hardware!! :D
A tip that I learned many years ago - Cleaning grease out of clothes is easily done by working waterless hand cleaner into the soiled areas and then putting the garment into the wash (probably by itself or with other similarly soiled garments). If you can get the waterless hand cleaner worked fully into the fabric well enough, the grease will all be gone in the first wash. If not, you can repeat the process. Petroleum oil and water don't mix, but Waterless hand cleaner is a water soluble oil and it mixes with both water and petroleum based oils. I worked on offset printing presses, and could get my uniforms looking like new and far better than the uniform company could get them using this method. A pressman at one of my customers wore old rock concert T-shirts that had printing ink all over them. I told him this and 3 weeks later I went back there. He was wearing the same shirt that he had been wearing the last time that I had been there, but it now looked like new again. He was very happy and he bought me lunch that day. As far as your rigging, what you rescue and the terrain that you work in is different than what others ever see. Do what works for you. Those other "experts" never work in the kind of situations that you face every day.
When I ran single winch truck with gin poles, I painted the chain links different colors for different position of the poles. It helped a lot when I had a swamper ! 🤔
From Lloyd Downunder. Rory !!! You should'nt get caught up in what others are telling you how to do it !!! your very very well seasoned in what you do and if others knew better they'd be doing your job !!! AND THEY ARE NOT !!! So !! Keep on doing what you n the guys do "" And Lilly "" and at least everything I watch you do will at least know it's right !! or in the right direction anyway,, ONCE AGAIN THANKS FOR THE AWSOME CONTENT, Be Safe as you always are n Take Care , As You Always Do. Thanks, Lloyd👍🏁🏁🏁
If I were doing it for the first time I would tow with soft links just like your doing. I might put an old tire in between just fir some added protection of the cables and straps from getting pinched between vehicles. I can’t imagine doing it with a hard link.
You do Great on your Towing. That is Why Your Knowledge is Crucial. Hence, why You get them Out. And why People Call You. Because They Can’t, or Don’t Know How. Great Job, Awesome Videos.😎💪👍✅
No worries on the rigging. That's the way we did it and it never failed to get a vehicle out. TrailMater just wanted a new drivetrain. Spun the clutch hub to get it. Sounds like you're happier with the new set up too.
Hey thanks Rory! Stupid towbar huggers...they only tow on the road, they don`t realize you can`t break the laws of physics but, you can break a towbar And towing the rigs onto the trailer together...genius, mind blown! Legend of Tow M8er
He seem to be such a humble guy, if somebody knows how to build a better off-road wrecker setup for this terrain, cool!, let's see it, just because you think something will work better, doesn't mean shat in the real world, this is some of the toughest terrain there is to recover a vehicle in, and this guy has got to be one of the top off-road recovery experts there is, other channels like BASFYG recovery and the yellow rope guys are novelists in comparison, great video, and thanks for sharing.
I used to work For a clutch Re-builder in SLC. Ripping the hub out of a friction disc was not very common. When It did happen usually you could see a Broken Spring, hub retainer ware a or Clear tattle tail, (from what I could see On my screen) it looked good. Great catch.
I have never rebuilt clutches, but I have replaced a bunch and I can say I have never seen that, and most likely not have caught that, definitely a great catch.
You just need to do what works for you and don't worry about what other's say there way may not work for your situation and there not there to haul it in for you.
Hey, Rory! Thanks again for spotting our group down Moab Rim back in April. I do have one question about the rigging - do you change your setup for going down hill, or is that sufficient for keeping the towed rig from smashing into the back of Trail Mater?
If it's on a trail or steep downhill I always have someone in the towed vehicle to ride the brakes so it helps slow everything down and keeps the vehicle from swinging into the truck.
Rory don't owe us no explanation, he wrote the book on Moab recovery, you can't back up with a tow bar, he goes places that you might have to back up and take another run to get over, everything he does or builds he puts thought into it, like the triple axle double length trailer, and his tandem axle that has no suspension, his Big block with duallie's the Trailmater has no match, for what it was meant to do and where it was meant to go. I want to see him make some doors with half inch square bar and an outer sheet of GM square body aluminum pop riveted on to it with removable windows that would add very little weight and keep the wind off of him when it gets cold, and it gets cold in Utah
I am with you Rori... If it works, IT WORKS.... nothing to create, build neither modify... The terrain you use your truck determines what is the best option....
