80,000 lb Concrete Mixer Leaner
Vložit
- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- After we got the rotator positioned this job wasn't too difficult. Getting to it was definitely the hard part. This mixer was very top heavy and when they tried to turn the drum they said they almost lost it. Enjoy!
Country Repair- Thanks so much-- that's our property you saved. This was the 2nd driver to do this. First one recovered 3 times before managing to back a 1/2 mile to the road. Will there be a third one that makes it in the ditch or rolling over on us????? Could be more to come for your dedicated viewers.
Maybe the trucks will quit trying to negotiate your road until you fix it up so they do not have to back up that road, and don't have to negotiate the soft spots. just sayin...
@@deernutOO the thing is that's the ditch company's road and right of way that gets damaged. Maybe they would think more into signing their access ways to keep people off the ditch bank.
@@lucasglenn5775 Gotcha.. makes good sense.
You guys use your Rotator SO much more efficiently than some of the other companies I watch on CZcams. I based my construction career on a "get there, assess the problem, and get it DONE" philosophy. Great to watch your approach to these situations!
WOWZERS! I've been in situations with trucks where they SHOULDN'T have been when I was driving log truck, but that concrete truck really had no business being on that road!
Hah! Just two weeks ago I was delivering concrete in my mixer here in Alaska to the middke if a sewage treatment pond on a levee.
enjoyed the truck mounted view, gives a better idea of whats going on than the body cam. A drone view would be awesome.
This is where a dedicated set of two-way radioes would come in mighty handy and not having to repeat or holler to each. My opinion.👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
bohhica1 well the bad thing is we have really nice and expensive headsets but left them at the shop lol woops
Cool recovery. That truck is built to work. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you!
When I drove a six axle Terex front discharge most of the time when we left the roadway the contractor/ customer had to sign the back of the delivery ticket that states there responsible for all damages and if needing a wrecker it was on there dime. I had the misfortune of rolling that mixer end over end at 90,000lbs due to the spotter on the site forgot that they buried huge concrete pipe and as I was backing he put me on that loose ground and over I went into a 12 ft deep hole. Things go silent when you think your going to be crushed to death but I got out abit banged up. Held on so tight I bent the steering wheel in half , my nuckles were touching. Didn't loose my job cause they knew the spotter screwed up. Took 4 heavy wreckers to get it out and over. Got it started and the mechanic brought a wheel from another truck, got the 10 or so yards of concrete out and drove it back to the yard. Glad I am here to tell the story. Greg
Oh my God. That ground was dry . Back that damn truck up
Used to live out that way. Near half way from Happy Valley Road and Robinson on East Lewis lane back around 1955/57
Yep, good job. Looks like there needs to be a ball slingshot on each piece of equipment instead of waiting for someone to bring one. It doesn't take up much room.
Nice job getting him out and yourselves too.
Guess it's not every day you rescue a truck from the other side of a canal . . . nicely done in challenging conditions for access.
Thanks!
Did it need a new drum? With that heat, I would think set up.
No sugar to kill the load ?
Probably had a few sacks but it adds to the drama if you don't mention the easy way out. LOL
You guys are crazy ! 👍😊
Sorry my ignorance, but I'd thought using that 3.rd rear axle would've help spread the ground load from the tator.
If it’s the same as Ron Pratt’s rotator, the lift axle automatically goes up when the truck is in reverse.
I can't remember if you guys have radios for when you are working recovery, but this would have been a good place for radios with VOX, Voice Operated Transmit. That way you guys wouldn't need to yell to be heard.
Great rigging plan. Executed very well
You can take the risk of getting the rotator mired down, as long as you have a back-up plan to pull the rotator out.
Hello from Miami Fl good job very crazy get the rotator there off road tator
Mig 1979 thanks!
Take your time and do it right👍
Great job! Keep the videos coming 👌👍🏻
Guess that’s why some guys refer to the cable pulled as swamper. Lol
Great off road pic! 😁👌🏼👌🏼
Why is a big loader cement truck on a road like that ?? Was he lost ??
George Davidson yep, gps took him down the wrong road
@@CountryEquipmentRentals The GPS didn't have hands on the steering wheel!
@@CountryEquipmentRentals It's truly sad how people depend on GPS and don't use their brain. He should have been able to see that was not his road.
@@CountryEquipmentRentals i worked for sears service over 13 years ran into that a lot in PA .. who ever marked the roads for gps marked every path then seen ,,4 wheel trails hunting paths gas well trails ..i took a gas well trail looked to be a road for 4 miles then got tight could not turn around i just made it threw , pure luck ,, you did a great job pulling the truck out ,, you worked with what you had ,, if you would have got the wrecker stuck then it might have been a bad call ,, we all can arm chair quarter back because we were not there ,, keep up the great videos ,,
@@iamReddington
You would be surprised about how many jobs people working , don't know how to get there, and tell the driver just use the GPS
Good job. The Rotator is just a piece of equipment to your job with. If you cain't take it where you need it you only have a big hunk of scrap iron. That driver needs to leave his cell phone off while driving. Save everybody a lot of grief, of course if he does that you lose money.
Kinda interesting that Mike relied on a non-company guy (?) to guide him back over rough terrain rather than you. Wonder who would have been responsible if a mistake was made causing damage? Otherwise, great video!
Don’t like responsibility - it shows every time. Might be the son but take responsibility- never!
No I was guiding him through, hard to tell cause I had to cut some footage
What? I was the one that guided the truck back
I think I would have thrown a strap over drum by rear ring and hooked to frame on left side
Worst place to geab a mixer is the rear oart of the drum, it just sits on rollers. The front pedestal is a strong point.
@@danielramsey1959 not true . strap goes over top of drum .force is downward . rollers carry 20 tons of weight for years .I have done this myself at least 10 times and seen it done 20 more and by most tow companies never a roller issue.
You are the best
Thanks Roy!
Muddyfeet concrete pumping should have called you guys! They have an awesome video of a mixer truck going over as the tow company was trying to recover it from a piss poor pulling point! Happened 5 or 6 weeks ago. Check out how not to try to recover a top heavy loaded mixer!
Love hearing the winches work
I would not say your crazy. You know where to get backup so it is only a risk to get stuck
Dang right 👍🏻
Do y'all drag a lot of knife river's stuff out?
Ed Shangreau no not a lot, they’re good drivers
If you had a drone, you could fly those small lines instead of trying to throw them.
Now how does someone ease that far onto the " shoulder" ???? Yeah sorta maybe narrow. But still plenty of room to drive safely on that
Great video Thanks
Perfect job for the head sets...🤔🇱🇷
Dale Lewis absolutely! We couldn’t believe we forgot them! Lol
Never seen a red bass. How big was it. Would look good mounted.
Man that's a shame to loose a whole load of concrete... the company will have a mess trying to get it out of the drum the only way to get it done is with a jackhammer
Been there done that and it sucks.
You guys certainly seem to come up with a really wide and interesting collection of recoveries! I can't think of any other channel I watch that has divers on staff, and only Ron Pratt ends up working around levees and water. Good job guys!
l wilton thank you! That’s what I like to hear!
I would be a little nervous about driving on soft dirt
Hello guys, how are you? Watching from the city of São Paulo - Brazil, do you know? Yes, a small town of 20,000,000 inhabitants. rsrsrs I follow the good and safe work developed by CountryRepair23. Fraternal embrace to all.
Never ever seen it done like that
Very risky to say the least. Now you can go pick the drum off. It’s junk
What was risky?
Hooking low on a loaded truck!! strap the drum and pull it forward at least you have control of the weight and you would have been able to spin the drum
Not telling how to do you job at all most important thing is always to spin the drum asap
Rick Underdahl We couldn’t spin the drum. When they tried it tried to tip over. It was way too top heavy and when they tried they almost lost it in the canal
Rick Underdahl once we got it out they were able to turn the drum
It's a ditch bank not a road. Use some common sense and look up from the gps before turning down a road no bigger than the truck. Great job Country Repair .
You must have huge tomales to back half a million rotator off road.
Tim Idema lol I wish it was only half a million
Cool 😎😎😎
Where are you guys located ? I've watched a couple of your videos and I like what I see and I follow a few towing company, I am located in NE Georgia .
Bates Bates Nampa Idaho 👍🏻
@@CountryEquipmentRentals Thanks, I am making some tater salad from Idaho taters, I'm 74 single disabled veteran and I spent about 30 years running a 250 ton Loraine motor crane mostly bridge work, be safe and enjoy the videos.
May GOD Bless You All Always 😇
Sorry country repair one idiot made a comment that set me off. That if someone was your boss you would have been fired. You lol at them. As a heavy equip operator and hauling very oversize loads, and a true concrete guy, and the time that mixer sitting waiting for the tow, ,,the cement would have bern setting up depending. Often quads get buried. They must dump their load or if offset dump their load. Ill guarantee it would have costed less money or close dumping 900 in cement , a dump truck or another ready mix truck pulling it out backwards on the road probably would have cost less. Not to mention tying but that ready mix truck up. Land owner to whom they were delivering to wouldn't have objected to having a free concrete embankment . Bla bla bla right or wrong. That truck was stuck and not even close to tipping over. Curious. How much did that pull cost.
For what that rotator cost and where you put it--if I was your boss--you'd be looking for a job !
Lol
@@CountryEquipmentRentals I agree. Very much laughing out loud
Harry King must be some old fart or super trucker. I wouldn't work for someone like you in the first place. Therefor I wouldn't be looking for a job. Should they have called the army Corp of engineering or flew a helicopter lift in. This whole video is retarded because the ground was dryer than a popcorn fart... Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. And my fact is not an opinion. I have to deal with super truckers and retarded bosses daily that constantly make a mountain out of a mole hill. Lets stop talking about it and just do. They put a man on the moon. The Egyptians built the pyramids, im pretty sure that truck will be just fine as shown by the video. I could have watched an oak tree grow 20 years faster than how long it took just to get that truck in. Harry, you're an old out of date part time farmer I'm willing to bet. If you we're a boss in this field, im pretty sure you'd have other things to do other than comment on you tube ,,,,, ,,in such a dumb. Way. If that truck is that important , were you paying the" operator""not truck driver" 50 plus bucks an hour with benefits and overtime to operate it. In the Wisconsin Midwest winters, the shit a tow operator has to put up with is beyond comprehension. 10 below zero, rip a truck down, be a mechanic, deal with traffic, interstates being shut down. Freezing to death, getting the truck unhooked at night in a blizzard, etc..etc.... And you're going to make a stupid comment on this easy haul. Thats why the other commenter from a towing company site said lol. Im a heavy equipment operator and equally haul massive oversize loads. This video and sunny dry day would have been a cake walk to me. Lmao truly
👏🏼
Hey how come u guys are not using ur new headsets
Ricardo Alvira we totally should have 😢
U guys do have lots of fun on ur recoveries
Ricardo Alvira Yes we do! I love my job!
Why was the mixer out there in the first place, 80k lbs.
You say this has happened before.
You did an awesome job. Good old American ingenuity. Give it your best shot.
Bet the bill wasnt cheap either.
👍😊From the UK
Truck driver doesn't understand the plan.. and a few hand signals would help.. I'd think.
Put air bags under the drivers side frame? Just thought of that. I have driven mixer trucks for 25 years in Alaska, also as the mechanic I have had to righten several. And..I have nearly lost several trucks myself from surprise events like a roadway collapse. Or..let out the air on the passenger side and rotate drum to discharge, that moves the mud over to the other side of the drum. Throw some timbers in front of the driver tires on the low side. Just get truck level.
Need a DM 800 back it out’
Game standing in front of the cable have seen them fly when snaped
Alan Langhorn what?
Yep thought the same, guy with the remote, didn't look to have much weight on though.
Peter Ranger As tow truck operators most of the time you stand by your truck by the controls and winch someone stuck towards you, unfortunately it’s the risk operators have to take. But that is why it’s very important to know your numbers, need to know how much resistance you need to overcome, need to know how much you need to weigh to anchor, and you need to know how much weight is on each line
Very dangerous, if either of those cables were to break there would be a couple of dead guys on the job.
WARREN VOEGELIN how so? We were standing in front of the truck? If the wire ropes break they would go towards the water
@@CountryEquipmentRentals not in my view. One fellow controlling the rotator is standing between the rotator and water. Cameraman is also in a dangerous place. I had a friend who had his leg amputated by a broken cable while in the navy. If cable breaks somewhere towards mid span cable is going to fly in both directions.
WARREN VOEGELIN We are always very aware of our surroundings and very aware of not exceeding the working load limit of our lines. Also, most wreckers don’t even have remotes and are forced to work right by the truck.
Right around the 13:37 mark I couldn't believe the rotator was sliding back, did I see that correctly? I was watching the weeds on the ground disappear out of view on the rhr. Crazy job for big toys!
😎👍 〽️
The 〽 B1g House experience a little bit yeah lol 80,000 lbs and leaning, big winch for sure
🙏👏👏👍☑️👌