THE NIGHTMARE JOB!!!! ROTATOR V.S. MATERIAL HANDLER!!!@
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Hello Ladies & Gentlemen and as always, thank you for watching!! I hope my viewers are enjoying the new 4K videos!!! Today is just one of those days.... Some jobs just want to fight you every step of the way. In this video, we definitely had a fighter.... A material handler truck was at a new construction site after some heavy rains when it became bottomed-out and buried in soft mud and clay. What at first looked like a simple job for our Peterbilt 389, Miller Industries, Century 1150R rotator, turned into a nightmare. We couldn't get off the road to get into the truck without risking sinking ourselves and we outweighed him by a lot. We are on a two lane road with no shoulder, around a blind curve on one side, and a blind hill on the other, so we try to keep traffic flowing. With no shoulder and soft ground beside the road, we have very little stability to build a decent platform for the rotator to be able to lift and winch off the side. Has the Rotator met its match on this job or will "closure be the ONLY option"??? Watch as Ethan, Gavon, and I battle this behemoth in a giant game of tug-of-war. I hope you all enjoy this video!!! Thanks for watching and God bless!!!
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Me at work being productive
Sees Ron uploaded a new video. I'm no longer being productive 😂
Nice!🤣
Me, trying to get to sleep (in Brisbane, Australia). Ron Pratt video drops. No chance of sleep until it's over.
At least, now you know how long you can linger on the toilet before your legs go numb.
Productive enough.
@@jameslovitt994 nah. I'll just sit comfortably at my desk. No toilet required, and no legs falling asleep 😂
It's a training video. Doesn't matter if it pertains to your job or not it's still training.
I thought you might like to know: I do watch all of your videos as soon as they post completely to the end no matter how long they are. But sometimes I have to record the time-stamp location in notepad and resume later in the day or after sleep on long ones. But your longer videos do get watched completely. I just wanted to say: Thank you for sharing this with us and taking the time involved in the (I'm sure lengthy) upload process and all the long editing for this.
Longer the better its my Friday chill-out time
I watch with the CZcams app on my Android tablet and it normally remembers where I stopped each video, so when I go back in through the History, it picks up where I left off. Same thing if I'm logged-in on my desktop (the only thing I use Chrome for).
@@bovnet Today is my Friday too, but I like to call it my first Saturday….. I work 4 days at ten hours each, except in mid spring through to early fall, where those days and hours are five ten hour days, depending on workload, used to it now, but it wasn’t easy in the beginning….took me about two weeks to get use to getting up at 4:30am to start at 6am.
Agreed, always redred how enjoy the videos, I wondered how long this actually took ,I always enjoy them myself, start to finish
I watch every 1 I can and thumbs up during the intro ..
To those that might have wondered, the grooves in a tire are called sipes. This process was the result of a man finding the leather or hard rubber on his shoes too slippery at the slaughterhouse he was employed at back in the 1920's. He made grooves in the soles to improve the traction, and the process was named for the developer, John Sipe, who went on to procure a patent on this.
That is awesome and very neat, thank you for sharing this.
Now I can send that to my brother in law to use at one of the community dinners/get togethers. My sister told me that the men try to outdo each other with their bits of arcane trivia.
Incorrect Farm_fab...the groves are not called sipes. Sipes are the tiny lines which are most easily visable on winter tires which strictly improve traction on wet or icy hard surfaces...they do nothing at all in mud. What gets traction in mud is the actual tread pattern and the only thing that would have helped here is an off road or a combination tread pattern.
I no hi o hiu 51:11
Amazing what a difference a little stability does. Incidentally, I don't know if you ever have a customer be "shocked" when you hand them an invoice, but just have them watch your video of the job and they can see why the charge is what it is. 😁
Ron, experience is a good teacher, if one can afford the tuition. We've all crossed that bridge, but some of us don't even learn from other's mistakes.
Good recovery!
I remember that icy recovery. It is the only one of your videos my wife has ever seen part of. She walked into the room about the time your rollback started to slide. She was concerned for your safety.
I watched you all the way! I had the hardest job!🥴86 years old sittin' in my recliner. But "WE" got'er done!!😁 Enjoyed watching younger guys work! Wish I could have been there with you guys, you work so good together.
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I drove these drywall trucks for years! If they had put there outriggers down and turned the air pressure up in the tag axle they could have raised the whole truck up and stacked stuff under the front tires and the back axles! It would’ve probably came out on it’s own or at least not have been such a hard pull for Ron! I’ve literally got myself unstuck probably 20-30 times over the yrs! But I was the best that ever got a truck stuck when I first started driving! Lol
Ron, I do appreciate how well you treat the law enforcement and first responders that you show in your videos. As a former law enforcement office it was always refreshing to treated with the respect that you and your team show.
Noice
Nice to see you have a great working relationship with the local PD.
Ron you have a knack for controlling the scene in a professional manner and keeping all safe and informed.
I love when people tell me how to do my job that don't do my job
You might want to consider using excavator pads for this kind of recovery. They'll do the sinking into the mud and leave your wreckers/rotator high and dry. You can get them in any length. They work real well.
It’s always Impressive to watch the power this truck has
Nothing tore up is great job well done.
Talk about a right 'stick in the mud' job. This one gave it a 'hole' new meaning!!! Great job, as usual, Ron, Ethan and Gavon. Greetings from the UK. God bless.
I know that 1 guy was just trying to help but dang it pisses me off when the customer try’s to take control of the situation. You have the patience of a saint.
Another masterclass by Mr. Pratt and Crew! I enjoyed watching the video.
What ? No snow ? You fellas are taking a well deserved break from ice and snow !! Ron, you and crew are right on again with another job ! GOD bless and take care !!
People who wonder about all the time consuming traffic safety protocols don't realize legal liability and insurance issues when things go wrong which happens often. Personal injury or death can't be taken back after the fact. Ron Pratt's emphasis on safety being number one is very commendable.
Having won mutual respect with emergency services helps to ask for a favour or two.
After that job I bet you feel like you've been through a triathlon....what a workout!!! GREAT JOB everyone.
Ron has his hands full on this recovery
hears the description of the night time recovery and says "OH! I remember that one!"
That was a heck of a job. Well done, Ron, Ethan, and Gavin.
Just wanted to say, Thank You Gavin for showing support for Breast Cancer Awareness. This July will be my one year anniversary of being free.
Actually the pink hard hat is normally used to indicate a new worker who’s in training or similar but he liked it so is keeping it even though he now could have the standard yellow one. I don’t believe there’s ever been any connection with pink for that cause with hard hats as worn by males.
There’s different colors for different types/professions of workers so they can be identified on job site.
Great job Ron and crew. Bad area to have to work with but you did it and made it look easy. Take care and God bless.
Get some 2x12x 8’ boards on your truck and you can slide the DOT bumper on those to keep them from digging. I’ve done that before and it worked on my flatbed trailer. I did have to stack them 2 high tho. Fortunately I had them as dunnage.
Ron, great recovery. Thank you for taking us along.
I know I've mentioned this on a few vids before, but it really concerned me to see Gavin standing where he was when you connected the line to the front and started to spin the truck around toward the road. From my watching perspective he was 1/2 way between the 2 trucks and within about 15 ft of the line. If that cable had let loose unexpectedly....
I shudder to think what could have happened.
I know you know about these things and I'm sincerely not trying to tell you how to do your job, but I've seen the injuries and fatalities that can happen when wire cables let loose. I hope you'll go back and look at that part of the video. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
There's alot going on at most scenes and I know you can't be everywhere watching everything, but Gavin is a young man, gaining experience, and with a long life ahead of him hopefully.
Best wishes!
There's good reason I carry around an off-road forklift for this type of job. Weighs the same as the crane without this hassle.
I guess this turned out to be a real expensive job that can't be passed onto the client.
Thanks for the video Ron.
How can it no be passed onto the client and more to the point an off road forklift wouldn’t have touched this
@@gregshearer423 I think he was refering to the original delivery. If they had left the truck on the road and used a forklift the truck would have not gotten stuck.
The resident should not have to pay for that truck that should not have been there. Drop the bricks or whatever it was road side and carry them in on foot.
hard job but good result ,congratulations for you and your team .
I thank you for all your videos long and short. I learn so much from them. I grew up in an logging, construction family helping mt dad and grand father with rigging. Now I work for Montana Dept. Of Transportation as a designer building roads.
Thanks again for your great videos.
“Traffic”? I love Ron’s videos and admire his work ethic💪 very fortunate to workin Missouri!! Here in NJ, no chance of shutting a road down to pull a vehicle out of a mud pit for 5 vehicles to get by.
Great content as always from Ron!!!
I have driven a truck with a similar axle set up to the truck you pulled out... whenever you get into a situation where the non powered axle will take the powered axles off the ground you're done, because there is no way to move at that point... between the soft ground and rear lift axle, the driver was in a difficult to impossible situation at best... all the makings of a bad day.... another great assist!
Another great job Ron - this was a good example how access to the site/vehicle can make what looks to be a simple pull into a challenge. Thanks for the effort to bring this fantastic content to us.
Thanks!
Great job Ron and your helpers keep up the good work I love to see more of your videos God Bless you and your family and friends
All the years experience you have ,I really believe you looked at that situation & knew right away that the first set up wasn't gonna work, u knew u need those outriggers to have solid ground based on how deep he was, once again I've been watching your for years & I knew the first setup wasn't gonna work😅
When I used to drive wrecker I'd get the old RR ties they replaced from the RR to build platforms & they make the best mats. Seems like overkill but any buddy who says that hasn't had to pull a piece of heavy equipment out of a bog or mud hole on a construction site or the farm.
Thanks for the content cheers 🍻 have a wonderful weekend!
Safety first seems to be the rule with you and yours. Taking care of your equipment and your client. No one like you. Blessings. 🙏👠👠
I like how correct and careful you are. You're a surgeon.
Hey Ron, I watched one of your older videos that I hadn't seen before (Rollover - The Slide) and I'm glad you found the cat in all that mess! Great job!
ONE THING THAT I HAVE REALIZE ON ALL OF UR VEDIO. U DON'T GIVE UP OR GIVE IN. UR CREW OF GENTALMEN IS PHENOMENAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. OTHER TOWING COMPANY WOULD HAVE CALL SOMEONE ELSE. CONGRATULATIONS HERO &PHENOMENAL GREAT TOWING FAMILY MEMBER HERO.
Got one for you, Ron. I spent 10 years driving those same type of trucks. Had a driver try to cross a muddy rain soaked farmer's field in order to get to the backside of some new apartments in Lafayette Indiana. He buried the loaded truck to the frame. Got a second truck, empty, to pull the first one out. Buried that one to frame also. This was on Monday. Several companies came and tried ,or flat out refused to try, to recover both trucks. On Friday, the farmer was threatening to press charges for trespassing and damages along with putting a lien on the vehicles. Finally one company managed to get them out on mid-friday. One truck was roughly 500ft from the road and the other was closer to 700-800ft. Cost the company nearly $7000 in tow fees, fines from the city for mud in the road, and the company owner gave the farmer a thousand in cash if he didn't press charges. Plus, the load of drywall was completely destroyed. Yeah, they fired the driver and helper.
Love you videos. You're a true professional.
Glad to see you guys doing the impossible, but you seem to win every successful moment you guys do a job , keep up the great work and video's, May God watch over you everyday
You know you've watched to many Ron Pratt videos when you can basically retell how Ron is going to set up while he still talks about it with other people lol, 10:12 I was sitting here eating my dinner as he was getting the 20fter and the O ring from the Rotator and as he was looking at the back of the truck, I noticed the tow hooks and was like "Yep, put the O ring in the middle of the 20fter and put each end of the strap around each tow hook" lol man you know you've watched too many videos when you start thinking like a tow truck driver lol. Thank you for the entertainment and the education nonetheless lol
Respect 👍👍👍👍
Ron, no problem with going to plans B, C, D, E.... It is when you find yourself using double letters that you are beyond trouble! Good job to you and your crew. Another sticky situation solved!
We were called out on the same exact type of material handler here in Florida, he was fully loaded with double-stacked pallets of roofing shingles, and 25% of the load was dropped at that job site and the rest was for another job, but he backed down into some sand and unloaded what went there and he started spinning and sinking when he tried to leave. And instead of using his brain and stopping as soon as he started sinking down, he just kept trying until it was framed out from front to back. Gotta love non-drivers that do that. Long story short, our 75-ton rotator couldn't budge him. he was off the road about 200ft, I hooked to him, and I put all the pressure I felt safe putting on it, A LOT of pressure and it did not budge at all, so I was done. lol. I told them they needed to get a machine out there to unload it, and they needed to start digging it out and call me back when they have all the sand dug out from around and under it and a few feet in front of it so that we could put boards down and make a ramp to pull it up. And he was like, You don't dig them out? I was like, NOPE! lol. I was just 10 minutes down the road but I never heard from them again so I have no clue how they got out. I know it took A LOT of digging, like two days worth for two guys going 24/7 with shovels. lol. I did tell the driver that any time he starts to spin and sink, to just stop right then and call someone to come help him out.
Thanks Ron for bringing us along with you
Wow! That was a bit more than a challenge. Very nice teamwork and another job very well done. At least you didn't need the tire chains 😉. Please stay safe, and God bless.
Good morning Mr Ron prayers and well wishes glad nobody was involved. Prayers for you and your family and all the employees and their families. Have a blessed weekend
I like your family videos keep up the good work stay safe
Ron very tough all the way through trying to go about so many situations in a heartbeat 💓 . I'm glad you did what you had to to get leverage
Great training video step by step
Me and my boss one evening had a call about a box truck buried up to the
Hubs, when we got to the call i took one look and him there's no way to get it out of there. He looked at me laughed and said watch and learn. We
Had a small recovery truck. It took about 45 minutes or so, but it came
Out of there like goose snot in December. When we got it up on solid
Ground i unhooked the tow line and he said what'd i tell you? And i just shook my head and said well you learn
Something new every day
Getting big trucks out of deep Missouri mud is always entertaining. And a good business too.
Ron. You are to kind with people telling you how to do your job
You are my Friday night Entertainment it’s nice to see a professional
. Thank You
Years of f experience paid awesome job to you and your crew. This video was really awesome well worth the time. Denis from Santa Rosa CA
Ron I am a big fan. I would want to work for you, but I'm living to far from you. You do good work. And work well with your help. God bless you all.
Great recovery and video!
40 minutes of 'plans A&B' then about 20 for closing road & going home!
NOT questioning you decisions- I get the "Road MUST stay open" thing, but sometimes everybody's got to bite the bullet, get in, and get DONE!
It lessens your (and crew's) exposure !
Good, (tough!) Job!
Another great day watching your video and how much of a good job you all did, amazing how you get it done.Stay safe and blessed 🙏❤️
I have learned to love the straight tread in the mud on my dump truck. When you spin and try to get out, atleast it doesn't dig you down the axle in a revolution or two of the tires.
Thank you for your service and your videos. God bless you and your family and friends.
Nice Job Ron, Ethan and Gavin...! I bet you all have good blood pressure numbers with all that physical work you guys do... ! ❤❤❤💪💪💪
Great work Ron! Love the videos and content. Keep up the good work cause you're helping a lot of people and God Bless!
Get better soon. if you 3 that are sick by Wednesday, please go get checked out.
That was a pull and a half! Tator almost met its match with this one! 😃
FINALLY... a good challenging recovery!! Great Work!!!
Loved your narrative, when you hand the keys to the toy store to Ethan you can be an author.😊
Hello Ron, what a job you and the boys did an amazing job. We enjoyed watching how you operate the rotator we learn something new each time we watch your videos. Thank you so much God Bless you and the crew. Vince & Rosemary
Hey ron as a fellow traffic flagger here in Australia I love the setup U have going but here in Australia we have two guys on each side of the road. Anyways god bless U Ron and the crew and be safe out there
Mud creates suction… a lot of suction… you could be pulling 2-3 times the weight of the vechile. Maybe more depending how stuck you are
@@mtfenley Anyone who has gotten their boot stuck understands how much clay soils can get your foot and boot stuck. Wait I, I think there is a video on this one, where the driver was gone but the boots were left behind.
With no insult intended, listening to you lose your breath,I am reminded of a line from a movie...(I'm getting too old for this stuff) 😁 well done as usual, thank you for sharing your time and talents with us.
Another award winning recovery! And no Pratt falls!
THREE CHEERS FOR THE ENGINEER!
Love the way you have multiple ways to winch that truck out.
Awesome workout and ethics
Ron ,
I enjoy watching your videos. You know your business very well.
A couple of comments. First, you should consider fitting your truck with a self- tailing winch such as those made by Harken or Lewmar. These winches are often known as capstans or gypsy heads. With a snatch block and 200' of 3/8" diameter braided synthetic line such as Samson Spectra much of the muscle work in the pulling the tow wires to the truck. Tie one end of the line to your white or blue hook, run the other to the truck, through the snatch block and back to the rotator. Now, use the winch to pull your wires to the truck. This how salvage tugs move a 3" diameter wire core towing wires to stricken vessels. This also how mooring lines are passed from a ship to the pier.
Early in your video appear to cross your tow line while it is under load. This is a very bad practice. You even call it out later in the video.
Good luck!
Bob
Rescue was difficult,but you are a good professional,god blessyou and your family,thank you for you video,from spain
Thanks for the upload, my Friday is now complete. Have a great week end.
A nice recovery from a very sticky situation. Would rate that as a technical recovery with the rear right digging in. Kudos to Ethan and Gavin, as they are learning the trade well. Liked that Gavin thought about getting the headsets when I was thinking, "where were they?" 👍
Some suggestions:
Suggest to Gavin that he does not obstruct the view of the person operating the remote. That would help to give them a clear view at all times.
Could some of the material from the drive have been placed under the drives to help give them a bit better grip? That would also have helped ease the lifting of that back cornet. Could some cribbing have been used under the drives to help lift the rear end earlier?
Another thought that occurred would have been to move the truck forward and get the tag axle dropped before any pulling was done. It might have helped lift the rear end before it got buried.
Okay, so I'm an armchair towie. Transport is not my trade at all. There might be reasons why my suggestions were not appropriate.
Ron, is that bag of gloves getting bigger?🙂
It would be interesting for those that have never been involved in really muddy and dirty recoveries, to see how much work is involved in cleaning ALL the equipment after such a job.
Thank you for another interesting video. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Gloves multiply, matched socks perish. :-)
@@gorillaau 😄
Ron you couldn’t be more patient. Wow we new you could do it.
Ron you're in great shape. You be running circles around the young guys.. Pulling them cables aren't a joke.
4 years over the road, looking for something local and a wrecker looks like a cool job that I could end up with and liking.
Nice
Ole man beating young buck ....DIG DIG DIG MOVE MOVE MOVE
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Mr Ron That looked like a challenge but as always another awesome recovery. Thanks for sharing and stay safe.
That's a tough one!
many years ago, back in the 80's, I was stuck in a truck stop that had a dirt parking lot in Tulsa, OK., with a flatbed loaded with 45,000 lbs. of steel coils. We had a wild night of tornadoes & thunderstorms with lots of rain. Once the rain started, I tried to move to solid ground, but got stuck behind other trucks that were packing in off the highway because of the weather. I ended up buried in mud & storm run off in the back of the truck stop with about 30 other trucks. Nothing we could do until morning as I was blocked in. One by one trucks were getting winched out by the heavy wrecker service that showed up. Each driver had to hook his own truck up because the tow operator did not want to get muddy. He wasn't having no part of it. The first time ever at about 29 years old I had to drag a winch line. Oh my God. I still remember that pain today.
I cant believe the guy pulled off in that.
Nice.
I wonder if it might have helped on the first attempt if they had pulled in and rotated the boom over the cab. Reducing pressure on the rear. Using their boom as a counterweight.
Don't think so--the left front wheel was alway down in the ground. Rotating that boom while trying to move that truck creates a very/very unstable truck, in muddy unstable ground. Boom should always be in the back cradle nd latched if possible.
What might have helped is pulling 45 degrees up with the help of a truck rim siting on a 4x4 and rolling with it or a similar contraption ,pulling straight needs 3x pulling force as facing dirt needs be displaced while moving in pulling direction .
I've seen these drywall trucks do this same thing time after time. They have the reach but insist on getting as close as possible. Never should have been that close to the retaining wall, just asking for trouble. Nice job getting him out.
I remember the night you were on that icy road. Saw that video. It was handled with care, and absolute perfection under those conditions.
That last pull looked like the railroad engine turnstyle. Great Video. GREAT JOB.
What A Crazy Hard Job, But A Good Job Ron & Crew 👍👍👍
Another Great Recovery by Ron and the Team!
That guy said it right Ron you the man!!!!!!!
Good evenig, some People look at you at you like you're from another planet,you Just wanto help them.
Leverage is Everything when you have it, and Nothing when you don't! Great video! Looks like slimy clay out there.
Yep I have that feeling like Mrs. Pratt because of Ron moving his head back and forth.