Holmes 750 Split Boom Wrecker In Action

[Music] [Music] hello viewers and appreciate you watching today shane and i are going out to winch out a roloff truck that is stuck in the mud you know the problem with the truck is uh we don't have a good angle from what they're telling us so we're heading out in our oldest truck in the fleet it's a 1985 freightliner with a home 750 on the working end of it not sure if we're gonna have to split the booms apart to uh pull off the side of the truck that's what it's sounding like we're gonna have to do because of the angle the truck's at and what kind of room we got but uh we're headed out there now and hopefully we'll be able to get them out we'll be right back with you in just a minute while we ride and i'll talk a little bit about this truck for you ladies and gentlemen that are in the towing industry y'all know back in the day this was the truck the old home 750 but everything about it is mechanical from the winches to um the booms if you want to raise the booms up down you have a handle you have to turn you split the booms apart you you pull the lever and the boom will swing out to the side the outriggers are all manual it does have two on the uh halfway the truck that you can pull out if you're winching from the side but pretty much everything's on it is mechanical if you want to extend your booms you have to pull a pen and slide them out but in the day that was the truck that was your i reckon you say you're 50 tons today at that time i think they only made one truck bigger and it was the uh holmes 850 and i think jamie davis still has one in his fleet up in canada i'm sure there's a few around the country that's still in service but this truck we care a lot off-road and uh because as you see you can't hardly hurt it but my goal one day is to go through it and refurbish the whole truck and and paint it and but not sure when that's gonna be but it probably won't ever leave our fleet because it's been at the something record for as long as i can remember even before i bought it and uh actually that bed has been on another truck and now it's on this truck which like i said earlier it's a 1985 freightliner and it has a 3406 b cat i think in it still runs good we still use it you know as a spare truck and like i said off-road stuff we'll probably be on scene here in about 20 minutes and we'll be back with you okay viewers we're back with you we must be getting close on scene but um i haven't even seen the unit or pictures of it but um what we're probably gonna do we got a piece of landing mat on the back of this truck and we um probably gonna have to dig out and put it on under the tires to get it to uh walk up real quick that's old farming trick we used to do back when i farmed uh my dad taught me that which speaking of my dad he's taught me a lot about the tow service yet he's never been in the toe service he just taught me how to work hard and uh common sense and some things like that and he's taught me everything taught me how to work hard that's for sure and uh i used to question him when i was a kid but now i really appreciate it you know we on scene now looks like okay let me get out here and see what we got yeah um you don't have any straps on this truck do you think give me those two rim sling shane um me do that yeah if you start we'll start rigging up grab one of them rim swings what i need is that little bit dug out and then i want to kind of taper this paper it up but we're going to need to be under this tire is this lifted up all the way okay probably i want to get that piece of landing mat in there sideways so dig that all the way to the bottom tape it up yeah you need to be underneath that tire and you have space yes sir yep as soft as it is it ain't gonna hurt that tree no i'll have that'll be just be i'll have the outrigger out on the other side and you know we'll we'll watch it here and i tried to call and let him know he was coming he didn't answer pull straight down i had to play with a little bit freewheel it right there i got it is [Applause] [Music] just let it hang right there shane we get ready undo that chain right there so criminal shovel shame bring me another shovel hey we had one last night he said he weighed 96 thousand pounds and he tried to turn around in a broomstick still i never we pulled the whole what was under the truck it come out on sitting on top of all that it pulled it he had a bird so i just need a big enough spot to get that i don't know if it's going to be wide enough deeper than that um main thing to get something for it to start walking up on quick that's the main thing is that wide yes if we don't is that tire all the way up brandon yeah we're gonna have to dig under the corner a bit keep working on that i'll dig the front tire out hey brandon will the tires turn will the tires get straight they still so hey hey brandon will that arm roll back okay now i want this arm to roll back so y'all watch your hands he's out the throat right now yeah roll it back that way i'm gonna hook into the rim here that way his tires can still help pull i really don't want to hook there i'm scared i'll bend that up yeah let me know when that thing starts moving throwing up my suit okay that's the main thing i want to get it out of the way yeah well that's probably good i just need to get that laid under here almost too long i said it's almost too long [Music] so [Music] go ahead and pull what you think's half these tires turn or they don't no those are stationary let's pull it out we just back it out by hand put it in gear how you put it in this one here right there on the dash yep push the clutch in shane let that let his winch out for him right there so so [Music] [Music] [Music] let's taper this edge right here a little bit more right here no just where it was at where it's copped up so high here right here just come back go all the way across with it so tighten on a little bit [Music] go ahead nothing what's it doing sliding up the tree go ahead keep on tightening it you can choke that strap lower yeah manually let's choke it shane yeah it should come back this way i don't want to grab it too high [Music] right away all right yeah just watch me yeah try to get them [Music] straight i'll go ahead shane slowly this is gonna um yeah this is my brake switch for this truck hold on shane let me get some under our titan on it [Music] [Music] it's no exciting is it snug you pulling you're watching that tree right okay all right hold up let's put some dirt back in this hole i could just take that front that bar right there and put it flat right there yeah we could put what dirt we we're gonna put a little bit in the hole let us fill in that hole a little bit i'm putting that landing back right there i reckon you shoot up a little bit and then back up my daddy when we were farming he believed in these things you dig it out like that and as you see it popped right out and it walked right up in those things to support it yep you're gonna try to wiggle and get out of there pull up a little bit more all right we'll watch your front end shane unless i cut loose where he got room to work right now just pull up will [Music] good so [Music] i've been wanting a video i want to do so finally get it i'm telling george i'll sit there and you just put the swing uh the spotter hey do you mind jumping up there and i'll hand you that chain for that outrigger thank you what does it need to do this side slam them together yep let down on that side um problem is i got to go out here and see if i can even get into where i was supposed to go to original okay he had to pass the driveway because he couldn't make the turn he didn't think there right they come back here and it run into all of this so he thought this was his best place right so maybe i can get you to move your truck let me ease down there and see if i can even get into where i'm supposed to get in to start with okay all right we'll hang around to you um whatever you need us to do hey is this our shovel or his [Applause] the one to the right everything else is yours okay [Applause] okay [Music] okay viewers appreciate you watching hope you enjoyed the video that's a truck i've been wanting to get a video of for a while now so we were able to make it happen able to get him out fairly easy but uh once again thanks for watching don't forget to like comment share and if you like our content channel please subscribe as always stay safe out there and we'll catch you on the next one you

Channel: Sumter Wrecker

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Id: XUj7uihD-Sw

Length: 32min 29sec (1949 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 27 2021