My apologies for the delayed release on this video. Normally I release them at 7 a.m. CST on Friday. I'm on vacation with the family and haven't had access to a computer until tonight. Hope it has been worth your wait!! Thanks and God bless
Ron Pratt Hope you enjoyed your vacation and got some rest...glad you are back, I have been checking on you all week just to see if you release one.. God Bless
Anytime is fine, Mr. P. I didn't know you were on vacation, I thought things were too busy for a video this week, and was pleasantly surprised to see it pop up.
Things don't aleays go as planned as is obvious here. So you adjust and try again. You & your crew did a great job Ron. No one got hurt, everyone goes home & the coustomer is back on the road. God bless everyone at Midwest Truck. Stay safe out there.
What I think is cool about his videos is it’s jus like watching a network trucking show without all the annoying drama edits and suspenseful music cues , this is as real as it gets ! No network cliffhangers necessary...
The one thing I notice with all of your videos. No matter how easy or how tough, or even how boring a job is. You and your employees always seem stay cool and remain positive. Not many people can keep a positive attitude.
Hey Ron I wanna commend you. Even with the obvious frustration, you don't "lose your cool" when something was overlooked or not done properly. You don't exasperate your workers over a mistake. You make it known what should have been done, but you don't do it in a belittling way. It's very nice to see and I'm sure your guys all appreciate that fact. Stay safe and God Bless!
I'm up past midnight Sunday night watching a video for tips on how to remove a trailer from a sub frame. This will surely come in handy tomorrow Monday morning at my corporate marketing job. 😄👍
Great content Ron I've had that done several times as a company driver what I couldn't believe was we had some drivers pulling bad (sub frames / sliders ) down the road with rusted out boxes or rails at that time I was a relay driver so I was not going to pull a bad trailer or pass off a bad trailer to another driver. Great work it's great to show drivers it can be done, there is no reason to jeopardize the public or yourself over bad equipment.
I really enjoyed being a journeyman diesel mechanic / wrecker operator back in the 80's. I sincerely miss it. But these days I am too old, fat and broke to be on my knees under a trailer, or upside down under the dash panel. Thanks for the video, and the memories!
Ron , interesting video . I was right there with you all . I was training to be a HGV mechanic years ago and the firm collapsed , that stopped me . I still like engineering though .
I have wondered about prep work that needs to be done before you can start a job. This video really shows what needs to be done before your other trucks can perform their magic!
Ron you are such a cool head , I watched alot of these be vids. And you all ways seem in control. Ever have a panic moment anymore? God bless you and everyone who do what you do. You all are truly unsung heros. Thanks for taking us along.
Ron, Thanks for raising my awareness of the hazards emergency personnel face. I only encounter a situation where I need to give way a couple of times a year. I would be to or past before I could react. Today I was giving way in plenty of time. Thanks again.
Just started watching your channel Ron, I am enjoying watching and listening to your commentary. I think you skill level is %100 and I also like your way of dealing with your clients with respect and good manners. Keep up the good work and be safe. God bless you and your family. Tom. U.K.
Love your tow truck....makes lifting that trailer much easier. We had to use a lift jack then put side jacks under each side of the trailer, then pull the lift jack out and pull the tandem out.
I have watched 15 or 20 or your videos. I simply wanted to THANK YOU for your calm nature, kindness to others, and total respect to other officials. Your direction to others working with you is outstanding in that you do not berate them or talk down to them. Finally, your request for prayers or good thoughts speaks to the man that YOU are and your relation to God. THANK YOU. Keep up the good work, and be safe.
I used to work at Monon Trailer in Monon, Indiana. I was a welder. Main job was a welder. I did dollies mounting and welding. I also did bumpers and slide rails and upper coupler. And done bogies. I have also worked at Talbert trailer in Pleasantridge, Indiana. You have done a great job. I know what you have went through.
Great job ! What you refer to as the "sub frame", I call the bogie. Helped swap a lot of spring-ride bogies for air-ride bogies back in the 90's as our company slowly turned over the trailer fleet. At the time, they bought a LOT of lightly-used, off-lease reefers, and with the blessing of the trailer sales company they dealt with, they kept air-ride bogies and put spring-ride bogies under older trailers that were being traded back on newer ones. Our company liked (at the time) Utility, so they only bought that brand, and chose carefully to always end up with a compatible slide set-up. The technique of airing up the bogie and pinching off the valve so that it holds air (and the spring brakes stay released) is an old railroad trick that was often used during shunting operations. Every rail car has an anglecock at either end where the trainline joins and supplies the air. They would charge up the car or string of cars, then close the supply anglecock, andeffectively "bottle" the air in the string so that the brakes would stay released. The technique was called "bottling" and was only supposed to be used in low-speed short moves. Unfortunately, over the years, lots of accidents did happen where cars got away out of control and no way to release the air to have the brakes come on, unless a human can open an anglecock and let it rush out. The practice of "bottling" is frowned upon now officially, but may still be used, although it's not something that would be spoken of if management were nearby or listening.
You had a great excuse for being late in posting, as did I in viewing this video Ron, My Wife and I celebrated our 40th (Ruby) Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, so we had a bit of a celebration with Family and Friends AS to your video, a very interesting one, thoroughly enjoyed watching, I see you've been having just a little rain, as did we over here, so much so, the river very nearly burst it's banks, but thankfully today, Monday, it was a nice dry sunny day, but as always, I also notice like me, you are very particular about keeping you tools in the proper place, I just wish my Sons would put things back as they find them.... Thank You for another great video Ron, God Bless, Stay Safe
A tip for you: A medium size screwdriver is used to pop those spring clips off the crossbeams. Just slip it under the clip and crossbeam and work it off. I've done this a few time to move the springs around to the proper position to hold the hose up and not deform from over stretching when tandems are slid all the way back for loading and unloading at docks. Some places requires the tandems slid all the way back.
Three shorts has been a standard for many years, and I don't drive anything bigger than 3 ton box or a school bus. Don't ask... Thank, Ron. Good as always! Edit: Watching you turn the wrench on that air line makes me remember how much I hated changing motor mount bushings on a Jaguar Mark VII. The bolts were three times longer than they needed to be, and were a preassembled drop-in for the assembly line. A nightmare for the tech who has to buy a special wrench and spend 30 minutes taking one-sixth of a turn, flip the wrench and repeat. We always replaced the factory horror with a shorter bolt. It went through a captive nut welded to the motor mount boss and didn't need to be more than three eights long, where the engineer-specified bolt was longer than an inch.
It's my understanding three short blasts was the engineer's way of acknowledging a conductor's instruction to reverse. Two blasts acknowledged a forward instruction and one was for stop.
Thank Ron, I have learned so much from you, great teacher...safety first.....love all of your videos ....I love the way you talk to yourself and I am not alone..LOL ....God Bless and stay safe.....
Hey Ron, I work for a nationally and internationally known manufacturer of semi trailers and we call them "Bogies" I move them around with a big fork truck.
It is great to see someone who can assess the situation and knows how to make everything work. You have changed my perception of all that entails truck works.
I appreciate you doing that mechanical work I sure do miss my mechanical work ever since I had a stroke I haven't been able to get back under working on the truck and I enjoyed every minute of this video thank you sir
Ron, your "please" to the wires is neat. I talk to things just the same way . I am a grandmother. My grands call me "Ama". There is word for me,-----Ama -ism. Meaning it is all mine , an odd thing to do. I will share the ism with you. Judy
That was very interesting Ron, I had no idea that could be done with a trailer. Your videos continue to remind me that I don't know as much as I'd like to think I do. Thank you for another awesome video. God Bless You and Yours and don't forget to be safe out there brother !!!!!!!!!!!
As a truck driver, I was thinking "subframe?" Oh, you mean trailer tandems assembly. Frames on trailer are part of the structure and can't be removed. Cracked frames or crossbars have a good chance of non-repairable and trailer is parted out and scraped. I have pulled a few old trailers with repaired cracks and so on. Properly done, it is safe.
Another good one. I must say you do spoil us on your quality presentations. I enjoy seeing the rotor working so thought I would watch some of the other rotators on youtube. Have not been able to sit thru an entire video on the others. Keep you the great work Ron. God bless
Hey Ron, thanks for showing what it takes to go that extra mile for a customer, always do that in my line of work and it's always appreciated! Also, isn't it amazing how far cordless impacts have come lately? I know I've basically stopped using air tools at my shop because the battery powered stuff just outclasses it and there's no leash!
Greetings, and Blessings once again from Cardington, OH .... Thank you for another great video! Very nicely (and safely) done. Always the right tools, equipment and know-how to get the job done. Very professional in every respect! Thanks again for sharing the many facets of your work. Stay safe and be Blessed.
Ron family time comes first just glad you and the family had a wonderful vacation Another awesome video Ron you and the Midwest crew stay safe out there
Not only are you a good Christian man, and a master tow operator. Now we can add mechanic to you portfolio.. Thanks for sharing your video. And God bless you, your family, and your crew.
This is super dangerous. I will pray for all of you. The valve you made to release the trailer brakes is genius. I suggest a name "Ron's Prompter Valve". RPV for short.
At the company I work at, we use a hoist in the shop. The trailer gets reversed into the shop, we lift the rear of the trailer up, and then pull the old sub frame out and the connect a new one. We only do that so that we could move the trailers. The trailers then get sent back to customers. We do have our own trailers but they are for parts tires, junk, etc. they are old, but we don’t move them. The sub frame on those are probably really rotted
Good Day Mr Ron look like you are busy under neath the Trailer and also see that the combination spanners n tools etc are so important. God bless you. Stay Safe.Thanks From Malaysia.
I figured that the wheel chase could be removed and Instaled that way. Great job. Plane on bringing your shop some work in the next few weeks. Hope to meet you while I am there.
Hehe..............I saw that coming when he backed up to the trailer. Videos are great for hindsight and review. Great training video's for your crew. If you have a rotater, your always on vacation, even while on a job. :-) I've had to do the jobs your doing with one truck, 2 lines and a truck bar, no wheel lift. What really makes you shine, ( along with being able to think and some common sense ) is the tools and equipment you have on that truck. Too many times I've seen guys buy 600, 000 dollar piece of equipment, and only spend a 1000 or less on tools to do the job. Empty tool box's and a barbecue, and a couple of chains.
Nice video Ron no matter when you release them glad your on vacation you do deserve one but we need more videos and remember be safe Ron you need gravel in your lot
Hope that you are enjoying your vacation, you deserve it with all your hard work. One comment though, should it not have been ‘out with the old’ and ‘in with the less old’.
Enjoy your holiday, first and foremost, you earned it..... Totally agree about not working under a suspended load, but would have thought throwing a chain onto the sub-frame before you lifted it would have made that simpler.. Just back up the rollback and drag the wheels out.
I always love to learn new things and a few things got me off the side of the road and to a truck stop and safety lol like the time the lower stud on my airbag sheared out in downtown Phoenix 😂 two 7/16th wrenches chicken wire and vise grips got me to safety where I can replace my airbag lol
Although watching the videos shows what you do, actually being there and doing it is a whole different experience. When Alex and I was at the company yard for his birthday event, I hadn't realized what goes in the recovery until I saw it first hand. A lot goes into it. Funny thing too, Alex notices a lot, and one of the guys put the snatch block hooks with the open end facing down. He wasn't having any part of allowing any movement of the remote until the open end of the hook faced upwards. Although he is not verbal/talking, he was pointing at the snatch block and trying to show it was wrong.
I love to watch the way you work always put safety first and you get the job done in a timely manner. Thx for always putting your faith in at the end of every job you do and GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY...
That's scary, to what little holds the trailer to the tandem, I've had to Jack one up enough to replace the pins and sprimgs, not a job i would want to do again with wood and a airjack. Yoir truck sure makes that job safer. Thanks for the videos.
I used to live in Missouri and never remember so many wet days. Hot and dry down here in the Philippines. Could use your rotator here Ron. Trucks constantly falling apart and running into things. Seems brakes are optional on trucks here.
I've seen a few trailers, either on the highway shoulder or at an intersection ... ICC bumper on the ground and the (what I call it) wheel truck sitting behind the trailer, hoses ripped apart. Driver sitting in the cab with a most bewildered expression. Gotta make sure those pins are locked in before you pull 'em...
I love your towing videos, but now you have me craving more shop videos right along with the towing videos. By far my favorite UA-cam channel. Great work, Ron!
My apologies for the delayed release on this video. Normally I release them at 7 a.m. CST on Friday. I'm on vacation with the family and haven't had access to a computer until tonight. Hope it has been worth your wait!! Thanks and God bless
Ron Pratt i really like the change up of field and shop work! Thanks for the upload sir!
Enjoy your Vacation. You Deserve it.
Ron Pratt Hope you enjoyed your vacation and got some rest...glad you are back, I have been checking on you all week just to see if you release one.. God Bless
Anytime is fine, Mr. P. I didn't know you were on vacation, I thought things were too busy for a video this week, and was pleasantly surprised to see it pop up.
enjoy your well deserved vaction
Things don't aleays go as planned as is obvious here. So you adjust and try again. You & your crew did a great job Ron. No one got hurt, everyone goes home & the coustomer is back on the road. God bless everyone at Midwest Truck. Stay safe out there.
Nice job improvising a solution to Raymond's error while backing in.
What I think is cool about his videos is it’s jus like watching a network trucking show without all the annoying drama edits and suspenseful music cues , this is as real as it gets ! No network cliffhangers necessary...
The one thing I notice with all of your videos. No matter how easy or how tough, or even how boring a job is. You and your employees always seem stay cool and remain positive. Not many people can keep a positive attitude.
I am a mechanic and I have always enjoyed watching the way other people do things.
Hey Ron I wanna commend you. Even with the obvious frustration, you don't "lose your cool" when something was overlooked or not done properly. You don't exasperate your workers over a mistake. You make it known what should have been done, but you don't do it in a belittling way. It's very nice to see and I'm sure your guys all appreciate that fact. Stay safe and God Bless!
I'm up past midnight Sunday night watching a video for tips on how to remove a trailer from a sub frame. This will surely come in handy tomorrow Monday morning at my corporate marketing job. 😄👍
Great content Ron I've had that done several times as a company driver what I couldn't believe was we had some drivers pulling bad (sub frames / sliders ) down the road with rusted out boxes or rails at that time I was a relay driver so I was not going to pull a bad trailer or pass off a bad trailer to another driver. Great work it's great to show drivers it can be done, there is no reason to jeopardize the public or yourself over bad equipment.
I really enjoyed being a journeyman diesel mechanic / wrecker operator back in the 80's. I sincerely miss it. But these days I am too old, fat and broke to be on my knees under a trailer, or upside down under the dash panel. Thanks for the video, and the memories!
Ron , interesting video . I was right there with you all . I was training to be a HGV mechanic years ago and the firm collapsed , that stopped me . I still like engineering though .
This is definitely not boring ! I love watching it !!!
I have wondered about prep work that needs to be done before you can start a job. This video really shows what needs to be done before your other trucks can perform their magic!
Ron you are such a cool head , I watched alot of these be vids. And you all ways seem in control. Ever have a panic moment anymore? God bless you and everyone who do what you do. You all are truly unsung heros. Thanks for taking us along.
Ron,
Thanks for raising my awareness of the hazards emergency personnel face. I only encounter a situation where I need to give way a couple of times a year. I would be to or past before I could react. Today I was giving way in plenty of time. Thanks again.
Just started watching your channel Ron, I am enjoying watching and listening to your commentary. I think you skill level is %100 and I also like your way of dealing with your clients with respect and good manners. Keep up the good work and be safe. God bless you and your family. Tom. U.K.
Love your tow truck....makes lifting that trailer much easier. We had to use a lift jack then put side jacks under each side of the trailer, then pull the lift jack out and pull the tandem out.
I have watched 15 or 20 or your videos. I simply wanted to THANK YOU for your calm nature, kindness to others, and total respect to other officials. Your direction to others working with you is outstanding in that you do not berate them or talk down to them. Finally, your request for prayers or good thoughts speaks to the man that YOU are and your relation to God. THANK YOU. Keep up the good work, and be safe.
I used to work at Monon Trailer in Monon, Indiana. I was a welder. Main job was a welder. I did dollies mounting and welding. I also did bumpers and slide rails and upper coupler. And done bogies. I have also worked at Talbert trailer in Pleasantridge, Indiana. You have done a great job. I know what you have went through.
Great job ! What you refer to as the "sub frame", I call the bogie. Helped swap a lot of spring-ride bogies for air-ride bogies back in the 90's as our company slowly turned over the trailer fleet. At the time, they bought a LOT of lightly-used, off-lease reefers, and with the blessing of the trailer sales company they dealt with, they kept air-ride bogies and put spring-ride bogies under older trailers that were being traded back on newer ones. Our company liked (at the time) Utility, so they only bought that brand, and chose carefully to always end up with a compatible slide set-up. The technique of airing up the bogie and pinching off the valve so that it holds air (and the spring brakes stay released) is an old railroad trick that was often used during shunting operations. Every rail car has an anglecock at either end where the trainline joins and supplies the air. They would charge up the car or string of cars, then close the supply anglecock, andeffectively "bottle" the air in the string so that the brakes would stay released. The technique was called "bottling" and was only supposed to be used in low-speed short moves. Unfortunately, over the years, lots of accidents did happen where cars got away out of control and no way to release the air to have the brakes come on, unless a human can open an anglecock and let it rush out. The practice of "bottling" is frowned upon now officially, but may still be used, although it's not something that would be spoken of if management were nearby or listening.
You had a great excuse for being late in posting, as did I in viewing this video Ron, My Wife and I celebrated our 40th (Ruby) Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, so we had a bit of a celebration with Family and Friends
AS to your video, a very interesting one, thoroughly enjoyed watching, I see you've been having just a little rain, as did we over here, so much so, the river very nearly burst it's banks, but thankfully today, Monday, it was a nice dry sunny day, but as always, I also notice like me, you are very particular about keeping you tools in the proper place, I just wish my Sons would put things back as they find them....
Thank You for another great video Ron, God Bless, Stay Safe
A tip for you: A medium size screwdriver is used to pop those spring clips off the crossbeams. Just slip it under the clip and crossbeam and work it off. I've done this a few time to move the springs around to the proper position to hold the hose up and not deform from over stretching when tandems are slid all the way back for loading and unloading at docks. Some places requires the tandems slid all the way back.
Love watching your stuff. Makes me miss it more and more. I'm just used to military vehicles rather than civilian or commercial.
Three shorts has been a standard for many years, and I don't drive anything bigger than 3 ton box or a school bus. Don't ask...
Thank, Ron. Good as always!
Edit: Watching you turn the wrench on that air line makes me remember how much I hated changing motor mount bushings on a Jaguar Mark VII. The bolts were three times longer than they needed to be, and were a preassembled drop-in for the assembly line. A nightmare for the tech who has to buy a special wrench and spend 30 minutes taking one-sixth of a turn, flip the wrench and repeat. We always replaced the factory horror with a shorter bolt. It went through a captive nut welded to the motor mount boss and didn't need to be more than three eights long, where the engineer-specified bolt was longer than an inch.
Started as a railroad/locomotive signal in the early steam days.
It's my understanding three short blasts was the engineer's way of acknowledging a conductor's instruction to reverse. Two blasts acknowledged a forward instruction and one was for stop.
Thank Ron, I have learned so much from you, great teacher...safety first.....love all of your videos ....I love the way you talk to yourself and I am not alone..LOL ....God Bless and stay safe.....
I talk to my self all the time ,, how else am I going to get a straight answer ?
Hey Ron, I work for a nationally and internationally known manufacturer of semi trailers and we call them "Bogies" I move them around with a big fork truck.
No car and trucks or power line to interfere. Y'all made that look easy. I'd love to see shop videos.
Your mom must be very proud of you,so well mannered, you even talk politely to cars. I 😍
Get out of the way pleeeese. Stay out of the way pleeeese. A happy trailer is a great trailer.
That battery powered impact driver you have is pretty awesome. And I am always impressed by your problem solving approaches! Thanks for the video!
It is great to see someone who can assess the situation and knows how to make everything work. You have changed my perception of all that entails truck works.
I appreciate you doing that mechanical work I sure do miss my mechanical work ever since I had a stroke I haven't been able to get back under working on the truck and I enjoyed every minute of this video thank you sir
A bit different job, but as always, your expertise got 'er done. Thanks for sharing.
Job very well done to you and your crew, a true pleasure to watch!
With out question one of the best UA-cam channels running to date. Always interesting always well filmed. Thank you Mr Pratt keep up the great work.
Love the detailed content! I learned a lot about trailer subs
Ron, your "please" to the wires is neat. I talk to things just the same way . I am a grandmother. My grands call me "Ama". There is word for me,-----Ama -ism. Meaning it is all mine , an odd thing to do. I will share the ism with you.
Judy
Really enjoyed this one, Ron. Thanks for taking your time to share it.
Great swap..that turned out to be one expensive load... as always...prayers for safety for you and your crew
Hello Ron as soon as you got things square everything fell into place hope your costemer is happy Stay Safe
That was very interesting Ron, I had no idea that could be done with a trailer. Your videos continue to remind me that I don't know as much as I'd like to think I do. Thank you for another awesome video. God Bless You and Yours and don't forget to be safe out there brother !!!!!!!!!!!
Always have an escape route Mike and Raymond. Don't get your back between a load and a bus.
You are always safe of doing stuff,so nobody gets hurt God bless you and your family
Ron job well done and timely and Safely manner, thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
I didn't know that there were battery-operated impact wrenches until I saw your channel. They come in quite handy!
As a truck driver, I was thinking "subframe?" Oh, you mean trailer tandems assembly. Frames on trailer are part of the structure and can't be removed. Cracked frames or crossbars have a good chance of non-repairable and trailer is parted out and scraped. I have pulled a few old trailers with repaired cracks and so on. Properly done, it is safe.
I like the orange truck holding the bad trailer. I've always wanted one.
Another good one. I must say you do spoil us on your quality presentations. I enjoy seeing the rotor working so thought I would watch some of the other rotators on youtube. Have not been able to sit thru an entire video on the others. Keep you the great work Ron. God bless
Hey Ron, thanks for showing what it takes to go that extra mile for a customer, always do that in my line of work and it's always appreciated! Also, isn't it amazing how far cordless impacts have come lately? I know I've basically stopped using air tools at my shop because the battery powered stuff just outclasses it and there's no leash!
Greetings, and Blessings once again from Cardington, OH .... Thank you for another great video! Very nicely (and safely) done. Always the right tools, equipment and know-how to get the job done. Very professional in every respect! Thanks again for sharing the many facets of your work. Stay safe and be Blessed.
Ron family time comes first just glad you and the family had a wonderful vacation
Another awesome video Ron you and the Midwest crew stay safe out there
Not only are you a good Christian man, and a master tow operator. Now we can add mechanic to you portfolio..
Thanks for sharing your video. And God bless you, your family, and your crew.
You guys did a great job switching out.
This is super dangerous. I will pray for all of you.
The valve you made to release the trailer brakes is genius. I suggest a name "Ron's Prompter Valve". RPV for short.
At the company I work at, we use a hoist in the shop. The trailer gets reversed into the shop, we lift the rear of the trailer up, and then pull the old sub frame out and the connect a new one. We only do that so that we could move the trailers. The trailers then get sent back to customers. We do have our own trailers but they are for parts tires, junk, etc. they are old, but we don’t move them. The sub frame on those are probably really rotted
Ron I love the speed up view at the end of the vlog.
Take parts from two broken trailers to make one good unit. Nice. ;)
Another job well done and no one got hurt. Keep up the good work young man
Love your videos and god bless you and your crew amen 🙏🏻
A Lot more involved and NO other way to make the switch. Great 👍 effort.
Great video Ron thanks for sharing have a great day stay safe out there and God bless
Good Day Mr Ron look like you are busy under neath the Trailer and also see that the combination spanners n tools etc are so important. God bless you. Stay Safe.Thanks From Malaysia.
I love watching this guy work.
I figured that the wheel chase could be removed and Instaled that way. Great job. Plane on bringing your shop some work in the next few weeks. Hope to meet you while I am there.
Be safe under that truck! Great respect to u & ur crew! Great vids
Hehe..............I saw that coming when he backed up to the trailer. Videos are great for hindsight and review. Great training video's for your crew. If you have a rotater, your always on vacation, even while on a job. :-) I've had to do the jobs your doing with one truck, 2 lines and a truck bar, no wheel lift. What really makes you shine, ( along with being able to think and some common sense ) is the tools and equipment you have on that truck. Too many times I've seen guys buy 600, 000 dollar piece of equipment, and only spend a 1000 or less on tools to do the job. Empty tool box's and a barbecue, and a couple of chains.
I liked this one Thank You Ron God Bless Hope your enjoying your vacation.
I like that Ron is always teaching his employees...
Me: 7 am. busy day today, better get going.
Me: 8 am. I just watched a one hour video of truck repair.
Srsly loved this.
Legit me right now
Wow that was interesting! Live watching your videos! God Bless you ,your family and your crew. Stay safe.
Nice video Ron no matter when you release them glad your on vacation you do deserve one but we need more videos and remember be safe
Ron you need gravel in your lot
Dear Mr.Pratt thanks you for your content I enjoyyour shows I guess I’ve learned of you
I’m 19 I grew up in a wrecker my dad taught me to beep the horn 3x when backing up I even do it when backing out of a tight parking space!
You definitely got some rigging skills there Mr. Pratt!!
Hope that you are enjoying your vacation, you deserve it with all your hard work. One comment though, should it not have been ‘out with the old’ and ‘in with the less old’.
Enjoy your holiday, first and foremost, you earned it.....
Totally agree about not working under a suspended load, but would have thought throwing a chain onto the sub-frame before you lifted it would have made that simpler.. Just back up the rollback and drag the wheels out.
Love your videos you make the long nights of a nightwatchnan bearable
Swapping parts, for some us it never ends. Take care and thanks.
Thanks for a nice video. Whenever I lift something heavy I never lift it higher than necessary in case something goes wrong.
Ron thank you for sharing with us GOD bless everyone, great clean vlogs very interesting content
I always love to learn new things and a few things got me off the side of the road and to a truck stop and safety lol like the time the lower stud on my airbag sheared out in downtown Phoenix 😂 two 7/16th wrenches chicken wire and vise grips got me to safety where I can replace my airbag lol
The tyres on the damaged bogie were better than the ones on the good bogie. Great video.
I actually learned some more watching this video. Great work as always. Stay safe out there.
I like seeing the different sides of your work Ron it looks like you had alot of rain there
I am willing to watch anything you put up. Even if it is not on schedule. All of your videos are worth the wait. :o)
Basically you were trying to describe how you were taking off the wheels. It's like taking the Trucks off of a train. Grate video. ✝✅👍
Safety first .....dad and i did an old box truck 48ft and wow that was fun and dangerous
You look like we do here in Northwest Ohio, WET! Stay safe and hopefully you guys dry out soon.
What a great video Ron . I enjoy it a lot . Great team work . All the best ...
Family first, videos later, that's what counts. Thanks, God bless, have fun, Ron and crew.
U are SO WRIGHT, family 1st. Vedio's 2nd. Don't forget job should be 2nd to.
Swapping the subframes is a simple idea but it looks like there are a lot of ways to make a mess of it in a hurry.
Someone needs to invent a ratchet to go around things like that make it 100 times easier
Although watching the videos shows what you do, actually being there and doing it is a whole different experience. When Alex and I was at the company yard for his birthday event, I hadn't realized what goes in the recovery until I saw it first hand. A lot goes into it.
Funny thing too, Alex notices a lot, and one of the guys put the snatch block hooks with the open end facing down. He wasn't having any part of allowing any movement of the remote until the open end of the hook faced upwards. Although he is not verbal/talking, he was pointing at the snatch block and trying to show it was wrong.
Great job Alex!!
I had no idea you had so much applause and music until i turned on the closed captions
I never knew this was possible, great video keep up the work.
Thanks for the learning experience and I agree can't stand air leak lol
Good job, Ron. I'm suprised the guys didn't notice the subframe was at an angle...but, it was a quick fix.
I love to watch the way you work always put safety first and you get the job done in a timely manner.
Thx for always putting your faith in at the end of every job you do and GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY...
That's scary, to what little holds the trailer to the tandem, I've had to Jack one up enough to replace the pins and sprimgs, not a job i would want to do again with wood and a airjack. Yoir truck sure makes that job safer. Thanks for the videos.
I used to live in Missouri and never remember so many wet days. Hot and dry down here in the Philippines. Could use your rotator here Ron. Trucks constantly falling apart and running into things. Seems brakes are optional on trucks here.
Depends on the season in missouri and some years are wetter /dryer than others.
I've seen a few trailers, either on the highway shoulder or at an intersection ... ICC bumper on the ground and the (what I call it) wheel truck sitting behind the trailer, hoses ripped apart. Driver sitting in the cab with a most bewildered expression.
Gotta make sure those pins are locked in before you pull 'em...
It's a wonder Ron hasn't been called out to any of those yet! Or maybe he didn't think they were worth uploading. I dunno.
I love your towing videos, but now you have me craving more shop videos right along with the towing videos. By far my favorite UA-cam channel. Great work, Ron!