I appreciated the guy using the ramp as leverage trying to lift the front of the truck out by bouncing up and down. Did he think it was a 50lb sack of potatoes on the other end? He must have slept thru physics that day.
It's called ramp break over angle. If at 8:44 doubt set in and at 9:00 you knew it wasn't going to work CONGRATULATIONS! Your spacial analysis, situational awareness and ability to project are well tuned.
At Devis Lake , North Dakota a different method, built a large cage decades ago, pickup goes thru the ice, bring the cage out to the spot lift the pickup straight up onto the surface and and pull cage and pickup to shore, don't have to cut all that ice or drag pickup along bottom. This method has worked for 50 years and seems to be used every years. There is a lot of ice fishing on Devils Lake.
with a dozen more supervisors, they could have used those fatasses as floatation devices and floated that truck out of the water on all those supervisors
ya can see the frost bite settin into the divers nutz..... dont try this at home kids chortle chortle brilliant bit of video there thanks for the upload
No one's supposed to be around that radius when they're pulling with a cable winch! And the puller is better that he has windshields front and back and windows grilled, or those glasses can go and the cable hit him with no compassion. They're various ways to get nastiest worst to suture wounds. That is one, and is a horrid pain one even for physicians. Is horrid. I once saw a video of a guy that list his lower maxilar..you hardly couldn't stand seeing him how he moves in the hospital bed. And the Doctor was so calmed doing something kind of processing all the trauma of the pain this young man was experiencing..it was nasty bad dad horrid whatever word no one wants to experience..he was making us feel by the desperate way he moved. Was bad. So I reasoned a way to contain such cables if they snap. Maybe one day I get to produce it. Because is hard to acquire the funds.
Rodolfo Plasencia you lay the heaviest blankets you can find on the cable. Wet, several layers, whatever. If the initial momentum can be slowed greatly, the tensioned object won’t have enough speed to do much. We do it all the time pulling cars or tree stumps. A couple of packing blankets have saved many a back window.
Waaaayyyyyy!! to many idiots standing around with no one in charge or making the calls!! That was a hard recovery. When the ramps where stuck they should have left them so the truck could slide easier and not drag. Nice camera work, even though some of those idiots kept getting in your way!
You people are so lucky to have lost your truck in basically ten feet of water. We used to have keg parties on Candlewood lake in Connecticut and one year the ice cracked and a truck sank 90 feet !
your platform should be longer and it should extend down into the water to support the front and back wheels equally and then as you gather up the cable with the winch, not only will the truck come out but the back will lower and the front will be lifted at the same time. you will still need to release the water inside (like you're doing here) as you ease the truck out. the platform should be the length of the truck. moving from place to place may be easier said than down however. maybe a flat bed wrecker could be used to transport it to the recovery site or it could be assembled once there. you have way too many nosey people standing around too. those cables could snap or the ice could give way and all those old coots would be gasping for air in the freezing cold water.
ramps should of been longer,attached to the front of ramp,not loose,.like the other comment a couple air bags on sides woul;d of helped.,or,hire a chinook.
That's what's friends and family is all about. I'm sure or I have a feeling this people have being for each other on other battles even the old ones were there ready to do whatever to pull this beast out of the water. Great job, great example to humanity!
I saw another video where someone had made a rig just for doing this. They rolled it up to the edge and hoisted the pickup right out like nothing. Was a homemade thing that worked incredibly well.
I seen a video of a truck in Rice Lake, Wi. and they had a frame like setup pushed out over the vehicle and raised it straight up and the pulled the whole rig off the ice it was made like a pontoon boat
I feel sorry for the recovery operators, a cable snaps or pulley gives way a person can be cut in half...., Safety is paramount, watch, ask questions when safe to do so, but stay out of the bloody way when a steel cable is pulling tonnes.
I was extremely happy to know you went through all that effort that it wasn't a Ford. I don't think insurance companies like that kind of thing good luck.
Ice on the Chequamegon Bay this year was very poor. Lake Superior had the least amount of ice in many years. This part of the lake should have had 28 - 30 inches of ice at this time of year. There was only about 10 inches and that was of very poor quality. The guy was plowing an area for a snowmobile drag race course and broke through. The water is only 9 feet deep here and the driver was able to escape as the truck was settling to the bottom. The whole process is a real labor intensive job with a diver and support team, guys with chain saws, pike poles, cables, winches and ramps. Lots of people, but lots of work getting it out too. The plow on the front of the one ton pickup made it even harder than usual.
+Edward Monroe Global warming. Who would have thought it could cause so many problems. Wait another 10 years and you won't even need the snow plough! Good to see that you had a win getting it out without any damage. Seats may be a little crusty once it dries out.
"The plow on the front of the one ton pickup made it even harder than usual." That implies people have trucks fall through on a regular basis... Maybe they should learn to properly check the ice out before driving on it.
I've seen crews use large, tough, inflatable airbag/pillows to lift the trailing end out. Sink a plywood sheet so it rests against the bottom frame and its sharp ends, place the airbag under the protective plywood sheet, pump in air, and the efforts shown at 24:55 not only won't be needed, but the result will also be far more effective.
it looks like the truck is in no more than 10 to 15 foot of water how are you gonna get anything under that truck like an airbag, and plywood? wouldn't it be more practical to just hire a big helicopter the lift it out?
@@rogerd4559 I agree that a helicopter would be the fastest means. But it would also be the most expensive, by far. Who's going to pay for that? Also, very few helicopters are capable of lifting ~8000 pounds, let alone do so with a safety margin, such as having a 10,000 pound lifting capacity. As for using airbags, the truck has already been lifted off the bottom by the winch, but at the time I cited (24:55), they're struggling to get it to transition on to the ice surface. A large airbag would lessen the angle at which the truck body rests against the ice, making it easier to get on top. Airbags are commercially available for tow truck and vehicle recovery operators. This is just another place where they could be put to use.
@@rogerd4559 Look at the video I've linked below. Place the airbag they use UNDER the truck to help buoy it up. It will be easier for the wood planks to slide the truck up then have the planks plow into the ice because their angle is too steep. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6ipATKN4A4M.html
I've got a stupid question since I've never lived where you might have to drive across the frozen water. Why don't some companies develop an emergency airbag system to keep light vehicles afloat? Something removable during warmer seasons. At a minimum, it would give passengers a chance to escape before sinking. Like I said perhaps a dumb question.
Also the ramps were acting as excellent skid plates, why did they remove them ? One of the most useful blokes was the one levering the blade up to help lift the front of the truck when it was being winched
Sure could have bought a lot of expensive fish. I really don't understand why you would drive out on the ice now days with all the snowmobiles around. Good thing it wasn't cold that day.
