And this is my problem with class A RVs. Johnny pencil pusher can drive his Honda Civic to his desk job and back every day for 50 years. When Johnny pencil pusher retires, he can sell his house and buy a class A RV without any training or licensure and drive it on the public roadway.
there is only one thing missing in this video. the wife standing there with her arms crossed and a sour look on her face saying; I TOLD HIM NOT TO PULL IN THERE.
We all make mistakes, a lot of rv owners would have tried to get it out with a 4x4 pickup and done more damage. This guy was smart enough to call someone with the prober equipment and knowledge to do it right. Better have that receiver hitch inspected for damage.
If ya don't have enough common sense to not pull this bus onto a wet lawn, what kind of confidence do you think the rest of us should have when you're churning up the road?
I seen an RV get stuck and he had his own chain to pull it out with, I assumed he had that happen before. He flagged down dump truck and asked him if he would try to pull him out. The driver said, only if you promise I won't be responsible for any damages. The RV guy said I promise any damages will be on me. The dump truck driver turned around hooked up the chain and the dump truck pulled the guy out smooth and easy. The dump truck was loaded a tri axle straight dump. The RV guy gave the truck driver a hundred dollars. The driver said, sir I didn't stop to take your money. The RV guy said young man you just saved me over $1000 , you earned it. They both went away happy.
At what point did he realize he was stuck, when the drawbar was on the cement, lol. I think owners of those under estimate the weight of them at times.
As big as those things are he was off the pavement for a while and didn't know because they are rear wheel drive so for the duration those rear wheels were on the pavement those front wheels could be anywhere and it wouldn't matter
We appreciate how knowledgeable you are in safety protocols and your gentle way of teaching others how to avoid this from happening when you said "We've had so much rain that you don't get off any solid surface" was indeed respectful and yet clear.
"I almost made it!" This customer is too funny.....his FRONT wheel was sunk about eight feet in, just look at the track ! And as soon as those rears(where all the weight is on a pusher) rolled off the pad there was so coming back, sunk and spinning!
No, no, no! It is the moment you realize that you are not qualified to drive this RV. And when you deny it, you pay for it! I'm glad it didn't put anyone's life in danger.
The owner made a bad judgment call in driving his RV off of his driveway into the lawn of his property. No damages was done to anything except to property that is his own. The owner certainly proved he is qualified to handle this rig by backing it onto the roadway and then backing it into his driveway. Granted he should have done that to begin with and I am sure he instantly wished he had done the same once he felt the tires sink beneath him. Most owners of class A's would have needed multiple attempts to do what he did in one shot. To mention being glad that it didn't put anyones life in danger is ridiculous.
Tator is getting some use on the RV's lately, Both you and Tallon know exactly how to handle them beautifully. Its been a crap start to the year this year, 2018 has been nothing but wet and cold so far.
I have always been interested in rigging and watched all your videos at least once. Rigging is a mix of physics and art and you, sir, are a master of both.
It's what you call cheating Missouri out of their taxes, half of the high end Rv's in California are bought and licensed in Montana. We love out of state tax cheats.
Good Afternoon Ron, A nice and gentle pull getz r done! I gotta say that gentlemen wheeled that rig around pretty darn fast and accurate once he was outta the muck. A rig that straight and long is like trying to back a 2000 sq foot house with no windows down a one way alley!....it takes some practice...lol
A few winters ago my boss asked me to drive a 60' manlift into his beautiful grassy side yard so i could work on the side of his house. I said thats a bad idea because it will sink! He screamed at me that its been a cold winter and the ground is frozen and to drive it in or go home so i did and smush it sunk right in leaving two huge ruts! All that came out of his mouth the rest of the day was EF EEF EEEF LOL!
I would have chosen the 'go home' option,keep my equipment safe, and let someone else mess up his yard. I hope he is not charging you for the repairs to his lawn as you did warn.
Try it in a 4x4 telehandler; turns out it could actually manage to throw red clay rooster tails over the cab. After that, they trusted me when I said "I can do it, but you won't like it."
LOVE your channel! Educational, respectful, and motivational. We just lost a known man of the towing industry in my local area to health complications from Minichs towing and recovery here in Oil City Pa. He will be missed greatly, I have great respect for all of you. I've helped chain down my own truck in -9 degree weather on a flatbed before, that's all it took for me to understand the work, stress, determination, and sacrifice that you guys have to deal with on a daily basis. Keep on keepin' on! Stay safe and God bless!
Man you did a great job getting the RV back on the pavement! Getting it out was never the issue. Doing it without damage was the concern. Your patience was the key. You did not take shortcuts and it was the road to success. Times have changed since I was a puck kid driving a 48 Chevy with a Holmes Wrecker on the back. Your rig is a quite a piece and you are a real Pro!
Once his drive tires made contact with the pavement was is still necessary for the tow truck to continue pulling him out the mud. I would assume he had traction once reconnected with the pavement? Just curious not bashing
I’m watching this video two years later. Hubby and I recently had a similar situation at our TIGHT storage facility. We were buried half way up our tires.. Ants undermined the ground under our MH. Contacted the owner, he had access to a skid loader. With a tow strap he, hubby and I was able to finally back it out of our space. Yes.... I have quite a few more gray hairs from that.
Hey Ron! Maybe I missed this detail in the comments. What did that cost Sonny? Also curious as to what the blue wrapped strap is made of? You made that extraction look easy!! Well done!
Ron, I only have one question for you young man. In all the time I have been following you I have never heard one f-bomb, s-word, d-word....nothing! With no "vocabulary, how on earth do you talk? Many men, and sadly women, too, can't get three words out without adding at least an "f" or "s" to what they are saying. You, young man, are a very refreshing change on RU-vid! That is one beautiful coach and must have cost him pretty close to what your rig did for you.
+Richard Cline My apologies for the long delay in responding to you. The channel has grown to the point that I can't respond to every comment as I once did. Thank you very much for the kind words. I haven't always been the person I am today. I've learned some hard lessons, but they have made me a better person, at least I believe they have. My wife and I were also Blessed with children and I decided a long time ago that I wanted to set a good example for them. I'm not perfect. Bad words still slip occasionally, but I try very hard to good parent and role model for my children. Thanks for watching and God bless.
I imagine Sonny knows that he just had a temporary mind fart. Sometimes you take risks and it bites you in the ass. Theres no way Sonny does that on the regular with that big beautiful bus.
This is what scares me about being on the road, I am a retired Truck Driver. You have people with a lot of MONEY and no common sense. This guy is driving this coach on the road with no apparent qualifications. Going to kill someone some day, I fear. Many like him out there.
I thought the same thing he could of drove straight from left to right and backed into the driveway would of been way easier that wouldn’t have cause his rv to get stuck but accidents happen
Your expertise is really inspirational! Thanks for sharing and making such well done videos. I'm amazed by the truck with all it's components but more impressed by how well you have mastered it's use. Unbelievable. A constant source of informative enjoyment, thank you.
Great job!!!! Only thing I seen that I wouldn't do is when you are discounting the toe rope I would have the drive get out, Don't trust anyone when you body is that close between 2 trucks.... Great job and you seem to be a very kind person!!!
I"m very sorry about the loss of your father, you two were very close and he taught you well, you are a true professional God bless you and my prayers go up for you and your family.
Lay off of the RV owner. He obviously knows how to drive it. He backed it out of the drive and back in better than a lot of people do with their car. He obviously drives over the grass every time he comes back home with that thing as it is to long to use the roundabout. It is much safer than stopping and backing up on the highway. Since he had been out of town he probably did not know how soft the lawn was. To the guy who thinks a CDL should be required to drive one of those having a CDL does not keep you from making poor decisions. Look back to Ron's videos of pulling the same trucker out of the same mud hole at the casino twice in the same week.
Can't agree that he knows how to drive it. He is lucky he didn't put it in the ditch backing it back in. He should have pulled up farther and into the other lane before backing in so he would have had left rear, which is a lot easier to see, close to inside of turn. He would have had much more room on the far side of the driveway and the whole other lane to swing the front end.
@@timb8373 I was going to say the same thing about using the On-coming Lane. Since he had traffic stopped, it would have been much easier to swing the front end around while staying on Pavement.
Thanks for sharing. Thanks also to Sonny for allowing the rest of us to benefit from his not-going-to-do-it-that-way-again experience. The price of that journey just went up.
One great solution Stephen is if he goes with Stabiligrid or something similar, keep the concrete concrete and add this to the mud grass area to keep it grassy but provide more than enough stability to keep the rv from sinking just in case when turning in the driveway.
no amount of grass is going to stop a coach from sinking in a wet yard i don't care how good the grass is ..once the ground water logged like that it takes 2 or 3 days for the ground to dry out enough to run a heavy vehicle on..and beings it is in missouri where i was born and raised i can tell you that it's more like a week to dry up..take it from a trucker with many many years on a farm in the fields with grain trucks and tractors..the problem is the water logged ground under what the eyes sees on top
My grandfather's RV was in a similar situation. We went to move it back to our house from the place we're staying at and as soon as we went to go it just sunk... The Jack's helped we were able to get planks under the tires, and I pulled it with my Jeep while he went forward and we got it. Unfortunately this poor sucker isn't getting anything under his.
"Does it have its own satellite dish, sir?" "You can tell your son it has its own satellite. The VanStar One, launched last February, just for this thing, that's all."
A easy mistake lake of judgement.It clear the driver may of been driving over the grass for the extra space to manouver the coatch .I wouldn't feel too silly many of us watching this vedio would of done the same thing !The vedio dose point a obvious thing heavy coatch and soft ground ... With the amount of big motorhomes on market and driven l would say this has happened many times to other people .That not your standared tow truck either , that quit a truck l say that would be able to tow a tank ! Pardon my ignorance here l do not know much aboit motorhome .If someone was away traveling , what is the situation if the coach stoped working engine ?
Sonny ... You look and act like a guy who worked in an office all your life and have had little to no road experience with big vehicles. NEVER drive off the pavement into wet grass! Then you spun your drive axle trying to get out until you dug yourself into the mud. Get a bigger concrete pad for turn-around space. Matter of face, get a whole new place to live and park it. I bet you went to Lazy Days to get the motor coach. Walk in, pay and drive out.
I bet you Sonny pulled through a hundred times with no problems until this one time they had a bunch of rain. The way he backed out onto the road and quickly backed into the driveway shows he can handle that coach.
Wonder how much that rescue maneuver cost? I ask because a friend of mine had a similar motor-home break down, and the tow company charged him $500 a mile for towing to where he could get it fixed! Five miles to the nearest shop cost him cost him over $2500.
I haven't looked at all the comments but as the owner of a big RV, why the heck didn't they make use of the levelling jacks? Just dig a bit of dirt out under them, slide some big planks in and get the unit well off the grass. Then slide planks under the wheels and pull it back.
RV needs a locker, third wheel needs to be raised ( if possible like on a grayhound bus with air ride) and maybe it would have enough power to pull through. Thats how we used to get grayhounds unstuck in snow. Let the air out of the third axle so the drive wheels took the full weight and punch it
Could you have hooked to the trailer hitch? My motorhome has a 20 K tow capacity but a GVRW of 54 K. My rule is if the ground is the least bit soft when you walk, then keep off. I've seen several motorhomes buried to the axles.
I dont think the hitch pin could support all of the weight of the RV that ron would have to lift, better to struggle to strap it up and know its secure than having it be 3 feet or more in the air then come slamming down, for the customer to get angry and expect them to fix it.
Would never have entertained using the Ball Hitch ..The Fixing Pin is the Weak Point , Pulling Weight of the RV against bedded Tyres in the Mud creates alot more Resistance , not worth the Risk
Yea that Hitch would never support near enough, that 20k you talk about is only more around 2000lb of pull before you could and likely snap that pin. If you are ever at a auto parts store look at hitch's like that you will see they have a weight rating then a torque ratings which the 2nd one is what you have to keep an eye on. tip for anyone: NEVER drive anything remotely heavy on a lawn just after winter ends or even month after, its gonna be very soft and ^ that is what will happen with your toy like that.
I was behind a rollback this morning, and it appeared to be using the ever popular "gravity tiedowns." I think the front passenger side tire was the only thing holding the car to the bed. The car got airborne going over a small bump.
You should but the camera on a tripod to avoid camera sickness. Nice job on the RV. It's just sometimes you move the camera around to fast & it can make you get video sickness. It's like a dizzy feeling. Other then that, thanks you sharing & be safe out there.
Both of these units are beautiful rigs. Looking to buy a class A myself in the near future. Hopefully I'll never needs Ron's help but it's a pleasure to know he's out there for us.
😱OMG!!! Every time I see an RV being towing on YT it absolutely terrifies me & gives me pause about actually getting an RV!! 😱 Maybe it’s safer for me to just keep watching YT videos of other people’s RVs. 😁👍 🤗💞🤗
Some great things about an RV: you can carry more of everything and do not need to bring it into the motel each night, you can switch drivers without having to get out into the weather, you can stay far off the beaten path as all modern class A's are fully self contained. Most, if not all the class A's have air bag suspensions which make for a wonderful ride and you sit up high so the only thing that will block you from seeing far ahead is another MH or a big truck. Worrying about driving one is a valid concern and and there are driving schools for RVs.
Jennifer Imagine if that trailer hitch wasn't there, he'd still be spinning until he hit China! 😂 That saved a little on Ron's work. Would have had to remove plastic.
These big expensive motor homes suck for the tow truck guys, everything is in the way, every thing is weak, trying to find a place to pull from is hard, and then when the air suspension goes out, and u can't even get your self under enough to hook up a chain, I guess BUSS BARS, don't even work on these, that's before the underlift days.
You REALLY need to place your camera or camera's away from your head movements. It makes people nauseated with the rapid movement. It ruins the whole experience. Don't you review the video?
Good recovery with no damage. When the guy said,,, ‘’’Well,, I nearly made it’’’’’. The rear wheels are driving, he didn’t make it by a long way. I guess it’s not the first time he’s driven over the grass with no issue, just didn’t realise how sodden the grass was. But I’m jealous of his motorhome.
Amazing, you should get some cheap walkie-talkies from Wallmart or something to give to the customer when dealing with big stuff like this, saves you walking all the way to the front.
De esto he comentado ya de videos anteriore s donde se enseña motorhomes clase A . Su costo esta cerca al millon de dollars y miren esto . SE ATASCA EN UN JARDIN !!!! --. Que sentido tjenr adquierir algo de ese costo y solo poderlo llevar en asfalto frente de tu casa ? !!! Es ridiculo .
I operated a Jerr-Dan 50 Ton wrecker in ND for a few years and always wanted to run a rotator. So much versatility! Mud recoveries are never fun especially when the combination weights over 120k UGH!
