Tow truck driver screws up and ends up in the hospital 

I was a tire changer for 11 years and learned early on you never pick up on the breaker bar ALWAYS set it up to push down less injures that way

Hey Casey, I have a colostomy. It is herniated about the size of a softball, I’m retired so I just live with it. I’m wishing you a speedy recovery, and please take care of yourself I really enjoy your videos!

Wishing the best of luck to you in your recovery, and hopefully good news from the surgeon.

Please be careful, Casey, there's too few good people like you to go around. Hope you have a good prognosis and quick recovery.

Casey, you’ve just dodged a bullet, and now you’re dancing in the target area... ‘cos “you’re ok”. I’ve lost 3 good friends from simple appendicitis. ‘Yeah, it’s painful, but I’m a man and can’t let the family down” they all said it, and the all perished from peritonitis. Take it easy, do as you’re told, and find another way to keep some money coming in. Hire a strong guy and stay in the wings supervising. Yeah, I know you lose out… paying an extra wage, but at least you’ll keep some income on the books, even if it’s down on the usual. You need to be around to fight another day. Rant over, and God bless you. ❤️🇬🇧🇷🇴👍🏻

Thanks for being so open about this man. I had no idea how many people have ostomys. I hope you heal up quickly and now I have even more appreciation not only for this channel but how much you do to help others through rescue and education.

Hey Casey I am a new subscriber but I think what you do is great not many people like you left in this world I don't know if you read all you comments but if you do by chance I would love to help you get any equipment you might need if so respond back and give me a wish list might be able to help you out thanks for all you do and happy new year!!

There is a very handy torque multiplier that is for removing stuck wheel nuts, it multiplies four times the torque one applies to the breaker bar. Saves many hernias and strained muscles.

I wear my hernia belt to support my stoma every day due to multiple hernias. Wearing the belt isn't the most comfy but hernias are far worse. I've had 5 in total.....My rule is simple, I just do not lift heavy stuff using my core any more. Good luck with your surgery!

Casey, I hope that you have a good prognosis and a speedy recovery.

Am wondering if you aired the tyres down completely before getting the nuts/rims red hot ? Was very very nervous watching you do that.

a long time ago I work in a welding/ag repair shop and a gentleman who had been working for the better half of 50 years saw me trying to break some 1-1/2 bolts lose on a planter he stopped he from pulling up on a 48” breaker bar and told me that you always push instead of pull you get more leverage pushing down and if need to slide a piece of pipe on it and you can move almost anything I did and it worked I still use his advice to this day

Casey please keep us updated I can’t find the video where you finish telling us what the surgeon said we all care about you and we just want you to be safe thank you sweetie ❤️ I can’t believe I’m a woman and I am watching all of your shows you guys are terrific I’m learning a lot obviously Covid has got me stuck in the house and I’m just watching anything and everything I can on RU-vid and you guys are awesome.. also my last boyfriend that passed away he had the colostomy bag and I wish he could have watched your videos he was never comfortable with that and He always hoped and prayed that he could have it reversed but he passed away before that happened

Having an ileostomy myself for over 25 years I know its easy to get complacent and over-do it. There are a lot of ostomy support belts out there that can help. Sometimes I will double up with an ileostomy belt, special appliance, and a standard back belt. My doc simply said to "take my foot off the gas". Cudos for showing people you can live a normal life with an ostomy with some care.

Happened to me after my illeostomy reversal in '19. Had hernia operation in March this year, my hernia had ended up the size of a football lol. I was very self conscious of its size....day of the hernia op I weighed in at 126kg, next day after op I was 119kg, the 7 kg was fluid the body created to protect the bowel outside of muscles....I'm now at 110kg (self imposed weight loss, my height is 6ft2, I'm aiming for 100kg) Biggest issue was I carried around 2 drain bottles for just over a week, draining the blood and fluid still in the area. Returned to work after 2 weeks on light duties for 6 weeks. Still careful even now about ripping the hernia repair..... Casey, I just say be careful for a while after the op and don't be the hero thinking "I'm ok"

Casey, I hope your prognosis is good and not to drastic. Pushing oneself is something that drive’s people when you want the best for your family and loved ones. It is hard to slow down and from what I see you are an over achiever. Take care and be careful.

Early last spring I bought a magnetic induction heater ahead of working on an old tractor. It works really well for something like that, applying extreme localized heat to a fastener.

Im 49 and have had a bag for over half my life and also have had a few hernias repaired. My intestines did whats called prolapsing into my bag. It was scary to have it take up the whole bag. I lived with it for years carefully. It happened twice until they had to make my colostomy an ileostomy and move it to the other side and get a Barbie Butt they call it ! lol Take it easy until you know whats up !

Dang bro! I'm a little too far... im in eugene or I'd offer some help with stuff like that. Keep safe man, I know what it's like when trying to get something done

I’m so sorry Casey. Will be praying for the doctors to have wisdom and that you get better quickly.

Casey, I'm 72 and like you only quite a bit bigger... I did wear size 36 jeans cause the were comfortable an making the 34's fit restricted some movement as my shoulders were 52 inches tight with a seventeen inch collar... six foot even and 250... up and down five pounds with seventeen inch guns. In other words a lot of iron was jacked in the military an was entered into army olympics. Yes too big for having normal fun. I started getting hernias and tried to bargain.. and it nearly cost me my life twice so think hard about how serious that you take them. I worked real hard and hard labor jobs as a mechanic. Heavy equipment mech. I lost so much weight when I broke most of my back and neck in a serious accident. I was placed in a coma and later when brought too this world again skin just hung on me, I looked like a freak and it did tear me up in my head too thinking about my future. That was seventeen years ago almost. I had layers of skin removed from my arms and some corrective stuff done on the neck area. Once you loose it, it just doesn't come back at a older age. Now I look like a damn foot ball for a physical body shape and hope for better times. I can appreciate the work done on that ten and a half sterling rear end as they can be real nasty to get apart. In fact "watch wes work" did one here recent an it was a bear. Just think before you do something you can't undo

Thanks for the info! I had the same ileostomy 37 years ago with NO problems since...I now know to be mindful of hurries. THANKS FOR POSTING!

Just a suggestion before doing any heating involving tires remove the valve core. The heating can cause overpressure of the tire and an explosion. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HiLeji8bLOk.html

Casey, I enjoy your Channel and your contents, you really go to great lengths to explain what you are doing and why! It’s probably why I could never start a RU-vid channel, I’m sure you get absolutely picked apart by the arm chair quarterbacks! The way I figure, you are in the business of towing and doing repairs, you do what is right for you and what you know best! I am amazed at what you do with your physical issues! Keep up the great work! You don’t have to explain anything to me, just keep giving us great content and enjoy your family and life. PS the tracks on the Cherokee are the best!!!

LOL, its a U haul, you know that thing has been loaded down at least once at 2-3 times its "capacity". At least its just a hernia, I saw the torch and the wheel and tire combo. All I could think was what happens when you weld on a wheel with the tire on and pressure in the tire.... That would be much worse, hope you heal quickly, good luck!

It's too bad that you can't select the time when you want to have an injury sideline you. Mu dearly departed father had 3 double hernia surgeries over the years. The year before he died, he had one of the mesh patches blow out doubling him up in pain. The surgeon this time was an extremely good surgeon that probably does 7-10 hernias a week and pain management has come a long way. He received a Pain Ball with a narcotic inside that slowly dispensed to alleviate pain, and it worked. The surgery was a success. Casey, the military use to issue with the M35 and 809 series trucks a torque multiplier that was geared and used 2 bars for leverage. I've used it on a couple of occasions to break loose the lugs on my M923. Once loose, the Milwaukee impact spins them off with no issues. I've got a one inch torque wrench that is close to 7 feet long and works well for torquing the lugs back to spec or 1050 ft/lbs.

Bad news, but your wife and daughter need you fit. There are no pockets in a shroud. I was concerned about the torch on the wheels though. Tyres (That's the way I was taught to spell it) don't like being around heat. The damage isn't always visible, and I hope you'd let the air out first.

JESUS! I was thinking the tire exploded. I hope well and on the mend. God Bless and BE FREAKING CAREFUL

Man, so sorry to hear this. Brother, I'm twice your age and paying for all this kind of stuff I did when I was younger. Be good to yourself.

Been there done that 2 times. (Robot) fixed it and abdominal hernia same setting. Crazy, Doc on one side of the room looking at a screen and hand controls and I was on a table on the other side of the room? You know the recovery routine, no fun .

It was lunchtime and we all decided to take my truck to the restaurant but we needed to unload a crate engine from the back. I said I would pop the top if one of the other guys would get the engine hoist. He wanted to manhandle the crate to the ground and I asked him if he had ever had a hernia. He said, "Yes." I said I haven't and don't want one, so we'll use the engine hoist to hoist the engine. I had no doubt that we might have been able to get the engine to the ground by hand, but if someone's foot slips or they lose grip, the dynamics change, and all of a sudden someone gets hurt.

Casey, Keep the Big Picture in Mind, Your Family, They need you more than we need to see another video right away, Take it easy, Listen to the Doctors and get well soon.

So glad you didn't get what I was afraid of which was that tire blowing up in your face. Anyway you are probably right about the locktight. That flair up is exactly they way locktight does. Someone did that because that wheel wasn't staying tight I'll bet. Couldn't figure out what was causing the problem and took that short cut. I'm betting the wheel seal problem will become clearer as this progresses. Hope you get better soon.

Rule of thumb when trying to loosen any hardware always use your body weight in pushing down on your wrench not pulling up as it strains your every muscle and cause issues.

Thank you for sharing your condition. We all hope for the best. Take care.

Good luck with the surgeon on Tues. Take care of yourself or your wife will lay a beatin" on ya.

Casey, I've had two hernias repaired. #1 I had from childhood, wore a truss for many years, finally had surgery at 25. #2 I didn't know I had it until CAT required an intensive physical before I changed assignments and had surgery on it. Recovery after the surgery was not a long process but recovery immediately after the surgery nearly killed me. I thought I was gonna die 3 wks after the first, so went to the doc's off. and the nurse pulled the stitches===immediate relief. Second surgery, doc wanted me up immediately after (first doc did too). Well, getting up immediately after having a "spinal block" instead of a local or general anesth. is a no-no. The fluid for a spinal is lighter than the spinal fluid, so it goes up to your brain and hello MONSTER HEADACHE!!!! i HAD 20 hrs of horror. But after three weeks I could go to work. I realize by now you've probably had the surgery but if not beware.....

Facing surgery myself later this month and wondering how my business will fare during (they say) a long recovery period. We have done it before, usually all works out pretty well. Best wishes.

Years ago I was given a free convertible couch. To make a long story short, while getting it in to my house I lifted wrong and tore one of the two parts of my right biceps off at the elbow. It sounded like a muffled gun shot to me, my buddy asked why I dropped the couch, then saw that I was in pain and asked "did you hurt your back?". It took me a few seconds to catch my breath and figure out what just happened, then I said "I think I tore something in my right arm, you didn't hear it ?" he said no. Anyway three days later I had surgery to reattach what had pulled away from the bone. They had to cut both the inside and the outside of my elbow, effectively going all the way through to pull the torn end of the muscle back to the outside of my elbow to reattach it where it belonged, right where your elbow would contact a table if you were sitting with your hands down on it. I couldn't use my right arm for three months. Luckily I haven't had any major problems with it since.

If the truck has a rear drum brake and a failed axle seal, it's possible to remove the axle shaft and then the nut and bearings with the wheel jacked up just enough. You put a plate or sheet of heavy material down on a reasonably level surface. You soap the plate. Thick soap or tire butter. With the height right and no load upon the tires, you remove the bearing by pulling the assembled dual rear wheels. You just slide them and use a long bar. With the drum exposed by turning it around, you change the seal etc. Remove your flat plate floor material. Clean up, do brakes and or hydraulics accordingly. You are ready to assemble with good axle seal installed. Put your floor plate back down, lube. Position the dually and slide it back in looking through the center and around behind to get it lined up. Once it's home with the seal engaging properly at your preset height and centered, you put in the outer bearing and nut. You put a new axle shaft o'ring on if required. You assemble the axle shaft. You get your floor material out. You're able to finish by lifting one side, then the other, and topping up the diff. You've bled wheel cylinder after setting the pedal pressure as required for a final check. You adjust the shoes to the drum accordingly during the process. You never touched the lugnuts. This works, and it doesn't matter how big the dually is because it's weight is on that floor skid. Bob's your uncle. No hernia. No medical issues. Don't tell anyone. It's your secret. Hope you get well soon but ask about complications for hernia surgery because there are some issues that make their methods questionable. At least there were. Hope they solved them now. Remember to fill the Dot 3.

Know your strive. Three months ago I was told I possibly had "A" hernia. Well my primary care provider said. Got checked out by the surgeon and he said the same. I recall the clock on the was at 10ish in the am. Next thing I'm hearing, Mr Sandoval wake-up. I was in the recovery room. It was after one pm. Being under some crazy medication I didn't pay much attention. When I was told I had double hernias and a 4 to 5 inch incision... I'm like what happened.

Casey, I'm sorry to hear you have hurt yourself. Whoever put those wheels on last should be sought out and taught a lesson. I hope your issue is easily remedied and healing goes much quicker than expected. I really enjoy your videos. I spent a couple weeks with friends in Bend a decade ago and you show some of the places I was shown when I was able to be there. Your attention to detail and your ability to explain what you're doing and why is really appreciated.

Casey, You obviously know about using a torch around a mounted wheel; because You had a water hose at the job site. But for those who don't know, Be very Careful When using a Torch or Welding on a mounted wheel. In the Military, I saw catastrophe results from the rim being heated. Yes a stuck brake can do this also. The pressure in the tire will get so high it will explode, and also if a Tire Stop Leak was used it may be explosive. Anyhow a Big Bang will result. You did have a water hose to cool the rim.

Hello from Miami Fl I think your wife call you for your full name again and I hope you get well fast

Hernias are no joke. Mine was painful. You are one tough guy. Hope all goes well with surgeon. Maybe easier fix than your thinking.

As Aunt Bea said on the Andy Griffith show, "We ain't spring chickens anymore! ". What we we could get away with in our youth, bites us in the butt as we get older.

Inadvertently you have added to the ostomy series! I sure hope that this will be an easy fix, Casey! You put out great videos and provide excellent tours of places that many of us only read about! Please take care of yourself, I have learned often the hard way that the older you get the easier things break on our one off body. If you are going to do brute work get brute work reducing tools like a 1 inch drive impact wrench or a 4 to 1 torque multiplier. Better yet stick to the scan tools and test light! Stay safe, heal up soon and don't break yourself!

That really sucks. I think we have all done some things like that.

I'm a U Haul technician, those lug nuts are torqued to 475 ft pounds. The only substance on them are copper antisieze. Since you heated them, all the studs and nuts have to be replaced now as that's Uhaul policy, they could fail at any time now that the temper has been changed. Also if you are going to heat any wheel with a tire mounted it should be deflated so it doesn't over pressurize and explode in your face. Work safe and put out a safe product for the customer.

Ever think of stomping down on the breaker bar? My Dad usually used his feet on that type of thing...

Ok Casey, now me and a lot of fans are worried about you, plus Im sure your wife, and family are as well. Do what you can to avoid anymore strain on the abdominal wall as possible, even if it means asking some of your friends to ride along on tows. Im betting surgeon wont let you wait. If you have to be home recovering for 6-8 weeks, Im thinking you can still come up with some content to put on this channel. Take care, see you whenever.

Casey, if you had put the cheater bar on 180 degrees to what you did and step in the bar, it would have put more torque in the bolt and less stress on your gut. Get well soon.

Please tell me you took the valve stem out of the rim before heating it. There have been many injuries and fatalities from the tire exploding from high pressure as the heated air expands inside the tire.

Just a suggestion from experience.. always use a downward motion so you can use your body weight instead of muscles and straining yourself. I have a hyatial hernia from that exact motion you was doing. As the old man told me work smart not hard.. love your vids as always.. God Bless and wishing a speedy recovery

You aren’t getting younger! Gotta take care of that daughter. They aren’t going to want to wait. Can lead to prolapsed intestines. Be careful. It’s not worth it.

Hope you get your surgery goes well and your recovery is good. Thanks for sharing Casey.☺️☺️☺️👍👍👍👍❤️❤️

wow dude I`m a member of the `ostomy club, even had me a reversal but it really doesn`t reduce the risk of a hernia. I`m sorry you have to deal with it. Hang in there friend!

I wish you a speedy recovery. It is exponentially easier to start the nuts moving when you have all the vehicle weight bearing down on the wheel. Back when I did roadside briefly, I would sometimes get ahead of myself and jack up a vehicle before I'd systematically loosened all the nuts. Sometimes I could use brakes to hold the wheel sufficiently still, and proceed to swap out the wheel anyway. Sometimes, not. I'd have to lower it back down completely. Be safe.

Your lucky to be alive,long time ago saw 3 guys trying to remove tires of a 623 water Buffalo, they heated all the lugs on one wheel took 5 hours stoped for lunch came back had 2 nuts to go then, the tire exploded we only found a few teeth,an ear, few fingers out of 3 guys that all we found , after that we use carbide bits to cut the nuts and need be we replace wheel studs

No where you're coming from, I have a double hernia I going to deal with in the coming weeks

Yes Casey. You are right on the money us guys think I got to go need to get work done. But the wife she'll give you heck when she finds out. 😇

It's bad enough, but I was expecting worse. Always deflate a tire before using a torch on wheel area....heat buildup in inflated tire...boom...devastating.

Hi i had a hino bus with left /right threaded wheel nuts i bought a american torque multiplyer from memory 100 turns of the handle to 1 turn of the nut .several times I stopped to assist a trucky with tight wheel nuts never found a nut i couldn't loosen sorry I can't give a brand i had to sell it

Get better soon bud it sucks when you are limited in what you can do

Good luck and all the best for a complete and speedy recovery.

thank god.. i figured tire blew.. you did let the air out right? old dogs know to stand on wrench

That really sucks, Casey! Hope that you will recover fully and soon!

Hoping everything goes well with the surgeon

POR15 will do that. Learned the hard way on some spring bolts. Hope you get to feeling better.

Good luck in Tuesday. I had a multi level cervical fusion dinner this past Tuesday. I originally got injured in the Army and they told me to not do a bunch of things or I would make it worse. Well kinda obvious I didn't listen 😂.

Take care that's a rough surgery.

Had one for four years. Mine didn't hurt to bad but at times it was a bit rough. I had mine fixed in the Navy then had to have it repaired again. Never a fun thing but it's nice to have it gone. Hope all goes well for you.

I would have pulled the whole hub assembly off and sorted the seals that way I have had to do this a few times on the side of the road and left the seized wheel nuts to the companies workshop when the truck got home.

I'm new to your channel and I truly love the videos I've watched so far I'm here to stay

You need to learn from that doctor: stop fixing things, and just charge ten times as much tp tell them it's broken and they shouldn't do stuff anymore.

It takes a good man to admit he cocked up, but no big deal most men woulkd have done the same. Get well soon.

I had a simple "you picked up too much!" Type of hernia. Never tell your acupuncture guy you have a scar that causes you discomfort! He put a bunch of needles in that spot and it lit it up like a lightning bolt! Lots of fun!

Wish you the best brother in surgery

So Sorry about your accident. Take care.-- starting now.

On projects prior to surgery, always wear your hernia belt on rescues.

If I counted every time I did something I shouldn't for my back. Yeah, there would be a bunch. Will look forward to your recovering full wellness.

Be careful out there.

Having worked in health care I learned one thing. If something is wrong take care of it sooner not later when your whole body is hurting. You want to be able to see your daughter grow up and you want to continue doing what you do. Take it easy get the surgery done and get completely well. Please!!!!. Paying for you.

You need various sizes of cheater bar extension on your prybar to avoid hernia.

Wheel seals 101, all the above that you stated plus one other thing. If the vent tube is plugged or blocked and the differential gets hot, the oil will off gas, creating pressure in the bearing hub and blowing out the weakest seal first to releave the pressure. As for your hernia, that sucks man, take it easy and I know the belt sucks, but it prevents you from doing further damage.. Stay Safe and great content, thanks for the share!

Wishing you a speedy recovery .i like the content .just be careful heating up a fully inflated tire that can explode anytime .i know cuz a friend of mine watched watched someone die that way only different was that he was welding the rim .

We use a 4 foot breaker bar for box trucks. The lug nuts never come off

Best of luck for Tuesday Casey, take it easy and rest up until then. 👍

Take care of yourself first. We'll be here when you're back up and at em..

Hope things go good for you I've had two hernia it's pain full for a min but not to bad hope all is well

5:09 oh no Casey!! What the heck! 10:30 like you'd ever need 5 million tries Casey. you are such a proficient backer me upper with a trailer/car whatever. Totally awesome. Fingers crossed you can avoid the surgery until spring Casey!

I know how you feel I also was a mechanic I had to get my gall bladder removed and did not wait long enough for it to heal and ended up tearing a couple stiches got repaired few years later got a hernia at this spot had to get it repaired a couple of times over the next few years after the 3rd time they put the mesh patch to fix it and so far so good. Hope everything goes good for you try and take it as easy as you can.

Prayers sent for a quick recovery!

Casey, have you ever tried using a welder, on DC, connect the two leads at points as close as can be done. Like on the stud end and the other on the nut. Turn on welder at around 80-100:amps. It will get very hot very quick. When it's cherry red remove clamp and let it cool down, cooling slowly will remove the temper so it has to be cooled a little faster but not to fast or it will make the parts brittle.

What happened to the uhaul truck

Well Casey sorry to hear that you have a hernia. Wish you a speedy recovery when and if you need surgery. Your smart enough to protect yourself until then. As everyone including me will tell you that you should be relaxing and not doing strenuous work, but as stubborn as we are we keep doing what we shouldn't be doing. Anyhoo get a helper for all your tasks on the business level side so that you don't hurt yourself any further. Good luck and take care of yourself...

I've had hernia support surgery. Be careful during your recovery.

Darn! I’m sorry to hear about your hernia, especially with the Ostomy complication. That’s a drag especially when you are essentially freelance. Just take it easy so that you heal up sooner.

Sorry you got injured… always take better care of yourself than anything else you do.

Oh man I have had 8of them and I feel for ya hoping and thanking of ya