Mistakes Were Made And Bumpers Were Ruined!
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I lost it when Paul grinned and said "at 40 it smooths out, though!" lol never change, Paul.
Hahaha same here :D
Same here, cracked me up, I've been there try doing it in L.A. LOL
Paul seems like a good quality man. Omg his answer to when he will be happy the nugget is done so he can stop lying to Ed.. spoke allot to me about his character.
Why is that funny? Sound pretty typical?
Paul is an optimistic, git er done and it was easy type guy. I love it too. Eternal optimist
Lol, reminds me of a time in the late 80’s! I towed my 63 nova from Huntington Beach to Santa Ana, Ca. I’m in the nova, no brakes, no motor, it’s midnight and my buddy stops at a red light(no traffic), he’s got my stereo cranked up and can’t hear anything else as I’m screaming GO GO GO………..KaBLAM right into the the back of my el camino! Luckily no damage to either of MY cars…….we still laugh at that today!
"But we're not on fire....we got that going for us" 😆
I like how Paul always find the positive in any situation.
You guys should build a solid tow rod with an absorber in it for your next tow
Tractor and truck pullers call those "OH Shit" bars.
Most towing I've seen in the UK they use solid tow bars so only steering is required. Usually a fold up one that fits in the van, a ratchet strap holds it straight, also means the towed vehicle is only about 4' or 5' behind.
Yup, a chunk of 3" pipe and you have a great tow bar. They can tow anything with that. and, more importantly, stop it.
With the biased weight being on the end of the towed vehicle (it was w-a-y heavier than the Taco) I believe a solid tow bar would have simply pushed the little Tacoma's rear end passed it's front end when attempting to slow/ stop.
As mentioned, run a chain through a piece of pipe and you have a tow bar. 👍
At least we're not on fire ...
That's the exact same mentality my Dad raised me with 50 years ago!!!
Don't ever change!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
I love it when Mr. Paul said "If it won't start it won't run" Sound advice.
Randall totally gets a pass-he was just along for the ride in that goat rodeo🤣😉
as soon as i saw the colors on the truck i knew its was an old Bell truck, looks like it used to be what we called a digger-derrick truck, which used to dig holes and set telephone poles. it probably had a crane arm on it with a hydraulic auger and jaws to hold onto the pole, which was controlled from that seat behind the cab.👍
Get un 8 ft or so pipe ,run a chain through it and attach to each vehicle ...vuala instant tow bar ,works phenomenal...
Ol Randal was like “hey Paul, brake check”. Lol I’ve been on that ride before it’s nerve racking! Love you guys and your content
"But at least we are not on fire!"
You just gotta love Paul's optimism... 😂😁😇
No guts no glory, love this video. Done this a few times myself, makes you a little nervous when you can't stop. Always made it to where I was going, and glad when I got there
those are good times. reminds me of my childhood. dragging an old Mopar home with my dad pulling a car home. love the videos, they take me back sometimes to some great memories.
Ya know, when we were kids many moons ago we did some sketchy towing of each others cars, but never this sketchy!
Good job! ❤️
Yeah I’ve definitely done this scetchy before lol😂
@@06lbzduramax3500 me too. Good times
That was some adventure Paul! A friend and I have done something similar years ago. Towed one home from 90 miles away. We got lucky and found two identical pipes to run our log chains through to keep the towed car from running over the one pulling. Had a highway patrol cruise next to us for about 10 min. on I-40 trying to decide to pull us over then went on. Keep on making the great content, but please be safe!
Nothing like a white knuckle ride to get it home! Love it!
Paul, you are the king of sketchy tows! I love it, great job!
Definitely needed somebody else in the tow vehicle. I know it's difficult but you got to be smarter than what you're working with. Can't wait to see this project go🤙
Kinda obvious that not much intelligent thinking went in to this mess.
Omg, this may be my favorite episode! No one died!!
Randle should get more credit, he’s a funny dude 😂🤣. I was snort laughing!
Paul missed his calling, instead of "Houston we have a problem", it would have been "you cant stop like that! and it smooths out a 40!" Classic! Reminds me of my Uncle Paul and his shop, only that was back in the 60s. Still got a smile. Thanks for letting me get away for 15 minutes!
That second time stopping paul looked a little upset at randal. Lol
And exactly WHOS fault it that???
Understandably….
radios would have been helpful.
I would definitely not let Randall tow ya ever again 🤦🏼♂️🤣
These are the types of adventures that will stay with you for a lifetime and will be the basis of many funny stories for future generations. That was great...lol...laughed my butt off. Thanks!
This should be interesting. Can't wait to see what Paul's got planned for the old Binder.
That boy ain’t playing with a full deck
Randall did a heck of a job! This was definitely entertaining!
Nice looking small block 🧐😁 you had you was holding up in the intro. That tow job was hilarious. “Well at least we’re not on fire” people can say whatever they want it takes a lot of practice to pull it off smoothly.
That's not a small block. It's the 454 that was in Landon's truck, cousin Merlin just rebuilt it and now it's gonna go in Grampa Sherm's tow truck.
It was a joke. I never miss a episode.
My buddy and I towed his old Comet from Bountiful to Sheridan Montana, with a logging chain in the 80's. Coming off Monad Hill, I lost the brakes and started to pass him going down. The look on his face as I started to pull along was priceless.Just south of Blackfoot, a wheel bearing on his 56 Chevy pickup gave out. A guy let us use a bay, but we could not get the race off. I used some emery cloth to smooth it out. About 390 miles later we made it. Talk about sketchy!
Good to see Jace getting some one on one time with Dad!
Take a long pipe and run a chain throw the pipe to hook to the two trucks that way the toed truck can't run into the pull truck ...
Have done this a few times myself , works GREAT. 😉
Brought back a bunch of good old memories watching this recovery and still chuckling!
Gotta love those nylon tires! You could drive 5 miles before they were round on a cold morning.
“That coulda gone worse…” When you hear that up front, you know you’re in for an adventure.
Next video- “fixing the spare tire carrier on the yota” lol, good times
Oh how this brings back memories of sketchy tows I made with my Dad as we drug home MoPars, Simca cars, and old trucks. At night was always a blast…
I have a feeling that radiator would have leaked anyway and you know your going to make a much cooler front bumper that one just did not hold up to a challenge grate video as always awesome new toy just like the sticker says the one with the most toys in the end is the winner 😀
Said it once, I’ll say it again, this channel is a hoot and a half!!!!!
God bless y’all!
Between Fab Rats, MORR, Trail Mater and Robby Layton, it's starting to feel like they have a near infinite number of projects. They make for great videos though, so a win win for us.
Wow Randal, way to suddenly stop whike towing a vehicle with no brakes....good job staying positive Paul, cant say I would have been as understanding.
Michelle looking out the window "what did he drag home now?" lol The folks in town, "Yup that's the Cox boys dragging home another project". Boys and their toys. It's not fun if it's not sketchy. Loved the camera action of the look on everyone's face, lol lol. Great adventure, guys glad everyone is safe. Stay safe and GOD bless
With the manual trans, why didn't you pop start the engine??
Oh I'm jealous on this one used to have one like it with a 6v53, compressor, welder, crane. Ran it for years untill someone stole and stripped it never found another that wasn't rotting out and I don't do sheet metal work
Don't think I could grit my teeth or clinch my butt any more than I did for this video! When we were kids if one of us ran out of gas we would sit in the trunk and somebody would pull up behind us we could put our feet on the front bumper and push the guy down to the gas station LOL that brought back memories Thanks for the content!
I screamed with you Paul, "What are you doing!?"😲 I laughed the entire video!
Hoping for a glimpse of the GN
It's always an adventure with fab rats. I tell you the smile on Paul's face every time he gets a new toy is priceless. Great video folks.
You guys are always absorbing new projects. I love it.
I loved the commentary of Paul driving with no brakes he seemed to be having fun. To me my favorite line was if we blow a tire hang on we are going for a ride. I think Paul would rather tow something with no brakes because that seems to be more fun for him. I am looking forward to what you guys are going to do with that
nicely done removal from tree though MORR will dock points for running over the towstrap love seeing old trucks come to life
except nothing came to life, more like drug out of its old age home to a grave yard where it is going to get cut up
I could hear Matt yelling " don't run over the rope"
Luckily it was a strap
Even though the towed vehicle was hurting for brakes it should have been slowing both vehicles down. In a normal situation it should be stopping both vehicles. You both know where you are going and can prepare way ahead of time with what little slowing down help you have. Live and learn
Very true but then good old Randle isn’t just slow when it comes to talking 🤣
Yeah he deft didn’t seem to know how to slow Paul down correctly. You don’t slam on brakes. Yoh slow down let him bump you and slow both trucks down.
@@Truckee18 Brandon should have been aware of how to tow (and not tow) a vehicle... No sudden stopping.
That said, It's really the one that blew it by not staying on top of the clutch and not keeping that emergency brake in his hand at all times.
I would have kept that truck in third or fourth gear and just kept the clutch in and let it out gently to slow.
@@randallsmerna384 who the hell is Brandon? You mean Joe Biden?
@@Bill-xc8le you’re mama
Well . . . now you know what you should have done. That old binder will buff out and the radiator probably needed a redo anyway. You just made some great content - that's all.
Towed home a 56 international s120 on 42 inch super swampers that hadn't been moved in 15 years smoked a 12 volt air compressor and a gas station compressor trying to air up the tires and with no power steering and only the engine for brakes 20 was about top speed good times good times
You guys give me a good laugh. It’s nice to see other people doing sketchy stuff like my friends and I do. 😁
I've been eyeing similar trucks for a crawler hauler. Nice rig.
I love the "drag this jewel home on a tow strap" videos. It's a regular occurrence in my world too.
Paul, You need to make a spring loaded tow bar. A pipe that slides in a pipe with a couple springs set to slow the compression. A hitch on one end and chain to the frame on the towed vehicle. The towed vehicle can maneuver side to side.
You last few uploads have been just getting or receiving stuff/vehicles. Watching Paul do work and build vehicles is much more enjoyable than just seeing him go collect a truck for restoration.
More enjoyable for you, perhaps 😁
I don't know about towing with a strap, but with a chain, run the chain through a long piece of pipe and when the tow vehicle slows down the chain will keep the towed vehicle from hitting the tow vehicle from hitting the tow. But if course this wouldn't make a video of you damaging a vehicle then having to repair it
My thoughts exactly. That's what we used to do. And you can't really make those pipes straight again after using them a time or two. ⛓🎺Couldn't find a pipe, so I used a "coronet".
A strap works the same, just a lot smoother. 👍
However, using a pipe would mean you're either going to bend the pipe with that much weight behind it or you're going to turn the pipe into a lance.
Seems like if He had just had the transmission in third or fourth and kept the clutch in he could quickly engage it if he needed to slow.
I also would never have taken my hand off that emergency brake the whole time.
And to be quite honest I would have just had it towed because:
1) Towing it that way is illegal.
2) You put people's lives at risk. Something could have gone wrong and you could have pushed him into an intersection or pulled him off the road if things went awry with the big truck.
3) Much better time management.
4) Would have avoided having to do the repair which saves time and money. I bet that repair is going to cost WAY MORE then what a tow bill would have been...
It's the same concept behind "You only drive with an unsecured load once".
IDK, I just don't like unnecessary damage and expense.
@@randallsmerna384 The towing vehicle was going too fast. Yes, a decent towbar would be a good idea, but maybe a bigger towing vehicle too. Paul must be a very good driver though.
Well, Randall just finished his lesson in "who's the brakes?" when tow strapping.
The yota was the brakes unfortunately 😄 Paul was like 🙄
@@jhawk1985 it had the ability to stop itself. It just needed a more graceful slow down/stop. When you have a dead car hooked to a tow strap the rear vehicle is the one that's supposed to initiate the braking to keep the line taught and you can't brake like you would when you're by yourself since you don't have a lot of room to work with between vehicles.
@@chrisoffutt8968 I know the rear vehicle is the brakes. I have pulled cars and been pulled.
Hey Randall .. ‘momentum’ will keep going for a good bit … next time start slowing 1/4mile out when pulling a truck w no brakes ..
I’ve definitely been there and done that more times than I care to remember .. but - lesson learned the hard way are the ones that stick with you the longest ..
lol …
Paul - wonder why it wouldn’t. ‘Roll off’ and spin the motor over to crank it .. done that too… those old internationals are solid tanks .. it will drive thru most anything within reason ..
keep the videos coming and I’ll keep watching
You've got large cajones Paul and Randall. I'm glad nobody died! Had me holding my breath for a couple of seconds there.
I really appreciate that you weren't throwing Randall under the bus there at the end of the video. Fact of the matter was you were towing a massive truck with no brakes, could have been far far worse.
Excited to see what you end up doing with the rig!
Yea was going to say the same thing - Paul knew the risks when he decided to put 2 of his toys at risk. Personally, there is no shot I would have flat towed a big truck like that without brakes, but I guess you do what you gotta do.
Well most of us know shaking an extended elbow and clenched hand, RUUUDDDYYY!
...oh well, bad things can happen...lol..good one, keep safe...
I like that” we’re not on fire so we’ll keep going.” I tell myself that every day.
You gotta love tows like that! I towed a 1/2 ton truck that lost all power and I didn't have my receiver insert, so I had to use the safety chain mounts. One of them broke during the tow, but that's why I went through both - double security!
Straps run through a piece of pipe might have helped.
love y'all guys.. y'all are hilarious.. thanks for what y'all do..
I love watching you folks work! It's almost like we are part of the team!
We flat towed a old box truck with air ride seats and cab over that wouldn't lock down though it was going to put me face first on the road and the crazy old guy that was pulling it with his pulp wood truck was hammer down ! Lol the tires were way worse but we didn't die did crash it into the 350 crawler it didn't move at all lol good times from Va back woods and we don't have much flat ground .👣
When you were walking up to the truck the first time, you could see where the brake fluid leaked down inside of the front tires.
That was a scary fun ride. Glad you all made it back safely. Too bad bout the bumper, grill and radiator. Should not have stopped completely, a slow rolling stop would have been better. 🤙😎
That will be a good rig when you IRON out the problems, Randell did okay, it's not like you get to practice that sort of driving. I remember doing a tow and the tow vehicle had no brakes so the one being towed was doing the braking for both without booster pressure, bit confusing but we made it.
you guys are wild! What a tow job! Can't wait to see this old international truck running!
But it's gonna have a headache for a week!
Is Randall clear on the basic concepts of towing like this? The first bump was difficult to understand, but that last one was just an amazing lack of awareness.
Can’t blame him though. The rear vehicle should have been the brakes. Randall did just fine for what they had. I wouldn’t even be mad about it because that’s the risk you take and Paul knew that
So funny watching you tow the truck 🤣 when you hit Randal and your face was just perfect 😅 but I do agree with Randal that you are a but of a hoarder 🤣 did Michelle know you bought another one ❤ poor Michelle x
Paul, one of the coolest old trucks I've seen was an early or mid 60's International 1800 with a huge horse box on the back. The interior was almost pristine, and the outside had one repair on the driver's side, but easily repaired. Unfortunately later that day the scrap yard crushed it. Two old truck collectors said that they would have bought the cab and frame without the 30' box. Some people just don't value history.
My dad was always a big fan of using a 10’ length of pipe and running the tow chain through it.
A neighbor had a chain break, or something, recoil caused the pipe to bounce up on the trucks hood, pipe went through the windshield.
@@jlsage4059 yeah, I’m not saying it’s a safe way. It’s just the way he always did it.
You guys are freaking awesome! Totally normal stuffs happening.😂
I had a smile bigger than Paul’s the whole time. Makin stories to tell the grandkids.
Randall is getting some practice on, no sudden stops with no brakes.
Omg this was hilarious! I could picture me doing this! Always a great adventure with you guys.
take Randal's driving privileges away! what the heck
I had a 99 Siverado that sat for 3 years before I bought it and fixed it up. It had bias 38.5 super swampers on it and it was the same way. It would shake your guts out until you got above 40 then it was smooth sailing. Tough break on the radiator though. I'm sure you'll get it fixed up though or should I say Randall will get it fixed up LoL.
My had grandpa a plaque above the door in his RV that said, "He who dies with the most toys wins". He collected quite a few. I got a kick out of seeing that bumper sticker.
without breaks we always use to tow with an old driveshaft instead of a strap
Cool idea!
You should of just got it running and drove it…. But I know you guys like doing things the hard way 🤣
At 4:30 - Paul to Jace - "OK, hold on, crank her again!" Typical Dad directions to a son if I've ever heard any. LOL
Randall was just pissed off at that big white truck for riding his bumper so he figured he would brake check him…😉🤣
that was something special, so nice to get Randles first time towing on video.
Should have strapped a 8ft log to the pumper like those Russian T72's, might have saved the bumper and rad.
Excellent job guys.....now that's a carbon copy situation we've all been in ....only if your a motor-head....great footage and editing !!
A long time ago there were some abandoned railroad tracks that made for a much shorter drive into town than the highway. Much like Paul’s “square tires” the sleepers, or railroad ties would shake out your fillings at slow speed. But, once you got up to 40 or 50 it was a real smooth ride. It was even better on my dirt bike!
You can also use a pipe with a chain through it as a tow bar. Has worked for me many times. Thanks for the videos.
Don't know if they are legal over in Utah but a straight towing bar would have been the tool for the job there!
kyle, legal? huh?
Everyone is ragging on Randall for stopping to quickly but go back and watch Paul. He's looking everywhere except forward.
I get you checking the mirror from time to time, but just before Randall started slowing Paul looked at the side mirror, glanced out front, down to the key, then to the camera, then out front to see Randall had started slowing. That's on Paul.
Just finished saying the same thing elsewhere.
I would have kept tranny in third or fourth with the clutch in so that I could gently engage the clutch to slow.
Also, I would never have taken my hand off the e-brake nor my eyes off the road.
yup, totally could have hand on the e brake like his plan was the whole time
Gotta Love the Tacoma! I use my 05 Tacoma to pull full size ford trucks and broncos from Bagdad AZor Phoenix to Tucson AZ many times.... never misses a beat. Fun Stuff!
Just get some quick clamps and clamp a timber across the front of the bumper for extra cushion. Thanks for Sharing. Be interesting to see what this can do. Stay Safe. Stay Healthy.
Well, Randall sure screwed up on that one! What was he thinking?😂😂 Awesome video guys!
He may have misunderstood the crossing of the fingers.
Paul set Randall up for failure and he did not disappoint! That actually went way better than expected.
Some people just have fewer brain cells than others.
Might be just for content! Lots of CZcams vids aren’t 100% real.
@@paulf.8651
I doubt this was scripted.
Lol! Years ago, 'pull started' a brakeless '49 IH grain truck with a 3/4T GMC p/u. We were able to stop everything without the carnage though. This brought back good memories of working with my uncle!
Farmin'...always a workaround. 🙂
BTW we were 'on the farm'...not a State Rd.
How about building a pull bar. Put a hitch on one end to the tow vehicles and a chain on the other end connected to the towed vehicle. You have more control for stopping. Used one on the farm. Enjoy the videos.
Randall needs to work on the flat towing... lol
What in the world would make Randall stop like that???
For views! All CZcams channels aren’t 100% reality!