SHUT DOWN AT THE SCALES!!! TRAILER TOWING 'TATOR TIME!!!

[Music] hello ladies and gentlemen and as always thank you for watching uh today we've got a fairly simple task but a little bit of uh windshield time gonna go on a little trip uh we've got a customer that is called that has a trailer that has been placed out of service at a scale house north of us because the subframe part of the rolling chassis underneath the subframe is broken in half and the scale master has been kind enough to tell them that we could come tow it out uh i'll have to do some securement on it obviously or probably not obviously but probably and get it back here and see what we got to do to fix it here we go [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i can see the red letters on the sign so the scale house is actually closed uh but it appeared as though there were officers still there i hope there are because i'm supposed to go in and speak with them to pick up the trailer so that should be the white trailer should be the one we're going after well go see if they're in there [Music] okay we are good go back here and talk to the drivers and pick up the trailer so hello empty yeah okay uh i know what's wrong with it uh the scale house said that you guys are free to go uh star leasing the the trailer company that owns the trailer want me to take the trailer and the scale house is going to allow me to take it since i'm a tow truck but you guys are free to go just drop you must sign ask him mr police hey you must have come the call this is time if you don't say it you can't move you ask him let's go together no yeah you can't take the trailer but i can't i know you can't understand i can't you can yeah to me asking yes together with him he goes in with the office uh they've already the officer has already given me permission to take it i spoke with him oh okay the officer has spoken with me i'm good to go i cannot sign that i cannot sign that until that trailer gets fixed all i can do is take the trailer to where it's going to be fixed okay but that cannot be signed until the trailer is fixed who fixes this uh we're supposed to fix it at our shop but it's going to be a little while yeah we take a responsibility for the you probably need to talk to your company about that the company your company yeah right now i just need you guys to drop the trailer and from what i understand the uh the gentleman gentleman in there said that you guys are both free to go you there's yeah i know i understand you but you know the problem is he needs high forces who is a political maybe may i see it may i see it okay now see it says i certify that the above violations were corrected this cannot be signed until that has been repaired yeah i know uh which we're going to do but i can't sign it until that's done i mean i will be glad to take this with me or you can follow me and we can make a copy of it whatever but i cannot sign it not until it's fixed is the police okay yeah uh can you be dropping the trailer out thank you thank you [Applause] foreign you guys are good yeah this is just that you're transferring that trailer over to me okay it's now my responsibility that's fine that's all i need uh you guys like i said once you drop out you're free to go officer said same thing you're free to go all right all right thank you guys appreciate it excuse me my name is ron yes nice to meet you the program is a little bit too small yeah it's good for everything for good no complaint really god yeah you're unhooked everything's good good to go yes sir thank you hello yeah i am here uh there's a bit of a language barrier the driver one of them speaks decent english the other one not so much uh but yeah i've already spoken with the officer inside the scale house they just finished dropping out i'm getting ready to inspect it and hook up and roll out okay yep bye that was talon the customer that hired us to do this calling to check in to see what our status was so all right from what i understand subframe is broken on the backside of one of these center hangers oh now it's broken right there right behind the front hanger one of the places anyway let's see yep not good okay yeah it's broken over there too gotcha all right okay that's the pictures that we saw so we're good it's pinned in place up here you may throw an extra chain binder around it just to secure it but other than that it should be good to roll with it being empty verify that it's empty okay it is empty good to go all right i've already got the fifth wheel hookup set up on the truck i did that at the shop before i left all right so i don't know that i've shown the fifth wheel attachment on this truck in a while oop maybe a little bit too close probably am have to unfold it and then come back under it got a smaller version of a fifth wheel plate designed for moving trailers all right everything's still centered pretty good go ahead and get my chains out before i back up [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] yep you're good [Music] uh does your phone have internet yeah you should be able to look them up i do not know what their number is right off hand i'm sorry [Applause] um the axles broke loose on the back [Applause] all right i'm gonna come back watch yourself sir [Applause] okay i got him in the mirror and you can do this several different ways i like to use the under reach to hook it up with the remote myself some people will put the plate all the way up against it and then finish backing under it and good any number of ways i have to let these go until i get my distance set i just chained them up there so i wouldn't get uh get them run under the tires [Applause] yeah off to the side a little bit that's why you leave the chains unhooked locked in and it's mine locked locked everything's pinned pinned pinned basically that big pin goes in behind the kingpin and into the throat of the kingpin just like the fifth wheel normally would the fifth wheel jaws all right so so nothing tremendously difficult about this just had these still tied up from a truck and trailer tow that i did the other day [Applause] and i know i've been asked before when i did a trailer tow why i didn't connect my light cord directly from my truck to the trailer for several weeks reasons on this one it probably wouldn't be a problem but you never know what the especially on a wreck situation what the electrical system is going to be like on a trailer and rather than risk not having operational lights or popping fuses and having to fight with all that it's just quicker and easier to throw the wireless light bar on that we know is going to work which is what i will do here in a minute whenever i get the distance set two links [Applause] and then two links that way the chains are of equal length push it out and what that does what the chains do is it keeps the t-head from pivoting otherwise you would have a double pivot it pivots on the fifth wheel if i were not if i didn't chain the t-head it would pivot on the fifth wheel and the t-head which is very very dangerous it could come up and around and hit the corner of the bed uh anyway chaining the t-head is very very important you've got to keep it solid the only pivot point you want is on the fifth wheel all right so fifth wheel secured t-head secured make sure the wheels are rolling they are and i'll push it back out and lock it put my light bar on and we'll be good to go all right all right all right all right all right all right get the battery that i've had charging for my wireless remote control this is a newer one that we've ordered i had one that i had customized myself that had red and blue lights built into it for those that haven't seen this one yet it has its factory uh or comes this way from tow mate now they've incorporated several cool features and this is not a sales pitch this is just uh we paid for this we paid full price no discounts or anything just showing you the the cool features that it's got because we really like it it has a work light feature of course it has your standard stop tail turn has a strobe light feature also has traffic advisor feature left or right [Applause] but for just towing all i need is the stop tail turns and that is there oh my goodness come on you may have to wait until i get hung up and this short one goes over the battery in case the clips should happen to come undone just a backup to keep the battery in place all right good to go all right time to hit the road okay so make sure right there pull forward and we'll hit the treadle valve where the brakes are locking up so everything's hooked up good we're good to go okay so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] my [Music] um okay we are back at the shop now to drop this thing out and i have another job that i have to go to to help out a friend get this dropped out move on to the next come on you ah darn it get loose there you go that's what i wanted set the brakes on the trailer red valve popped out [Music] tie these back up okay so i need them again here soon get my light bar before i forget it turn it off everything's still secure back here where it should be made it back here safely without incident now we'll see if we can find the parts to fix this trailer which is you can see our lot is getting full we are extremely busy good problem to have i'm not complaining about that at all just extremely busy all right light bar off dolly it down wrong way that looks about right now a little bit too low too low too low to load maybe looks better that looks better okay now this can sometimes be tricky to get the pressure off but i must have been holding my mouth right put the pen back through there that's not designed to carry loaded trailers at least that's what i'm i have been told it's not designed to carry that much weight pull forward just a bit put the chains up and move on to the next job [Applause] so all right well i hope that people enjoyed this we got to help a customer and help a another distressed driver and got a little time out of the office at the same all together anyway there it sits gonna wait on uh wait on us to get some parts probably end up putting a new subframe under it anyway here we go as always thank you for watching and god bless [Music] so [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Ron Pratt

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Id: DFvqH32Kklo

Length: 45min 9sec (2709 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 27 2021