What Makes The Recovery Trailer 

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And experience is the father of reinvention.

The arrangement with the trailer wheels is typical of how Rory thinks, and pure genius. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen the trailer's front tyre collapse when scaling an obstacle and worrying it was flat. I have never dared mention it in the comments before though, because I have absolute faith that Rory knows what he is doing. I have also seen Rory do his end of video debrief to the camera, while one of the trailer wheels never stops spinning in the background. There must be a bunch of stored energy in those big wheels and tires.

A smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from other's mistakes.

No ‘Necessity’ is a Mother! Until you invent something!

Is this something that Matt of MORR started? Matt seems to look at RU-vid as a business model and invest in it accordingly. Before I retired, If I needed something like a new clutch fitted to my car, I would rather do a Saturday morning overtime at my own workplace, and pay a mechanic to change the clutch. I'd stay warm, and not get covered in dirty oil, and still have some change after paying the expert from my overtime pay.

@@TrevorDennis100 I think it's a pretty common business model to have workers in small companies that can do and have many different types of skills. You can hand almost anyone a GoPro and within a few days they're getting pretty good footage that can be edited into a channel. That's ahow most channel start out. As RU-vid channels get bigger they tend to hire camera people and editors so their personal work load is less. Employees cost money, so that has to be a monetary decision to be made at the appropriate time. As far as the RU-vid business model, once a channel hits a certain threshold of subscribers RU-vid and Google will do everything it can to help you grow. More viewers means more ads sold. Google makes money and the RU-vid channel makes money. If channel is one of the few RU-vid channels that really takes off the monetary income is significant. Definitely not a unique business model, but a basic drive of a small business owner making it big. Matt @MORR has stated in episodes that his off-road recovering section of his business makes a very small amount of money compared to his tow truck wrecker company. However now that his RU-vid channel has hit it big it's anyone's guess which makes more money his towing company or is RU-vid channel. He now has an editing team of up to four people. When Matt first started out MORR it was just him and Ed and Matt's iPhone. It's a common growth model seen on many successful RU-vid channels since their inception through to their success. I actually find it all quite interesting and I wish I was a successful RU-vidr! But no. I'm just a professional still photographer. Video scares me. 😆🙂 It seems like the business of working hard and being smart is the classic business model.

@Trevor Dennis But most Mechanics/shops charge more than most make an hour even on OT...so you're ALWAYS negative paying them

@@mrmotofy the hourly rate doesn't go to the mechanic. It goes to the shop and the business that supports the shop, including labor, utilities and tools. Not to mention taxes, accountants and everything else. Now if you want to complain about hourly work just take a look at attorneys! Lol

I know, lots of videos recently! Always a good thing when I see the notification pop up. Agreed. Those, "your doing it all wrong" comments get on my nerves on RU-vid. Especially with fabrication. It reminds me of what an old supervisor of mine said to me when I was much younger, "There are at least five right ways to do something correctly, and there are thousands of ways to do something wrong. Then there's my way because I'm the boss."

Thank you for the info

Trial and error and generational iterations.. The scientific method at work.

I don't know what device you're watching the vid on but a browser is the best option. For a specific spot just pause it then tap and hold and the drop down menu should be link at the current time. Don't use apps

All has been said,you have a great set up,Thumbs up all the way

Rory has his own way of doing alot of stuff so many congratulations and critics put in their comments, I'm impressed with his whole program

I bet it's at least 800 lbs. There's a lot of 1/4" steel on this thing.. It's probably closer to 1400 lbs. I re-decked a regular 16' utility trailer with that same "cat walk" style grate-- with the 1" strips on edge. It really is an upgrade over a wood deck. It's a lot lighter, and quite a bit stronger at the same time... Plus when we have dirty quads or lawn mowers on it--- all the mud falls through at the car wash. Good stuff... and the scarp yards are usually full of it where I live--- because of all the oil field works around here.

Not bad for two weeks on the job

Hell yah ! Citiiits , I thought I was the only one to use that word .

@@davestevens4263 I think it takes a special kind of stupid to want to exist in the city. Random question, did you happen to work for a guy named Cecil?

Rory.

@@trailmater oops, the “c” and “r” are so f-king close together on the keyboard… do you buy that?😉

I took off the magnet lights cuz they were driving me crazy.

@@trailmater haha didn’t know I was just suggesting to use them only when needed on public roads to be legal. Not too many places to mount them even with a cage where they wouldn’t be in the way or ripped off. That strip light looks great maybe will last. Time will tell