You did a great job. Before my days as a licensed master, I was you. The more difficult the task, the more I liked it. I had to put my 225 cat on a trailer, 600 ft away in the woods with one track. I certainly miss all the fun you, Aaron and Matt have. 👍 Captain Jack
Here's an old man's philosophy : When asked to do a job , you can say NO and have people mad at you , or you can say YES and be mad at yourself. At the end of day "You" are the one You gotta live with ................... Amazing job ! patience and ingenuity ! (I absolutely LOVE your ol Mack Tractor and all the personal added features) Great channel! A new subscriber
Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene. UHMW. Back in my lowboy rigging days I always had a couple pieces of UHMW with an angle iron bolted to the end off set to slip under the leading edge of metal skidded heavy machinery. It’s amazing how slick a piece of this 3/4” thick material like this helps in so many situations on the leading edge of something you winching on your trailer. They don’t have to be very big so it’s easy to store for those situations like you ran into there. Great content and a wonderful job of getting it done.👍👍👍
Well heck Mike there was not any logs/trees involved so it was no problem!!!! LOL Been involved with these type of deals over the years. Lots of fun and nail biting.
Wow mike you should have hired two sky hooks they would have done it easy for you , top job you two a job well done a bit of nous does comes in handy sometimes👍👍👍👍👍
Yes Sir , My hat off to you ! , That was a Job and a Half , I've Had some challenging jobs before , Just not like This one , Great Video Thanks , I was on the edge of my seat watching this one
Just discovered your channel. An impressive example of "staying calm and working the problem". Excellent job boys with an excellent outcome. The comment about using pieces of UHMW is another excellent idea.👍👍👍
I don't know if you and Wade went to college but I do know you guys didn't learn the things you do there. You guys got your learning from the school of hard knocks. I just asked Wade if there was anything he couldn't fix. And there is nothing you can't load if you put your mind to it. Good job, Hunter is working good to.
Nice video, world loves a challenge. Reminded of the time I was working in a shop and noticed some guys making a lift with chain hoist and every time they gave it a tug the ceiling got a little lower. Shop Forman disagreed with me when I told him it would never work, I called him over and told him to watch his progress from my perspective. He quickly changed his plans. Stay safe.
My dad always told me to use the right tool for the job... and what that meant was little hammer for tiny jobs... big honking hammer for everything else. I inherited his collection of hammers... and looking back, I now understand what he meant. He had a hammer for everything! Looks to me like your “right tool” is a much more expensive set of ‘hammers’. I enjoyed watching how you overcame each obstacle and applaud your persistence and ingenuity... and bonus... you got your trailer bed oiled in the process!
Yup I've been on a few of those adventures over the years. And once in a while I will think back and wonder , what the hell was I thinking? Great video. .
I'm a little behind on this video. The Poly is awesome stuff. I've used 3" Schedule 40 pipe as rollers. I know it's old school, but it works. Cool Video, Nice Work DP!!.. (y)
Over-cautious = being smart. That was a rough load up, but you got ‘er done. Must have felt like a real accomplishment to finally chain that thing down! Patience and persistence won the day 😊
I've personally done a lot of moves identical to this. Truck body's , disabled equipment ,Etc etc every so often I'd have a machine to load with but most of the time it was me the 440 landoll and a snatch block.
Great job being able to do that and video I have took part in moving that same thing we had a fellow at work hit a low bring ripped the whole body off we used two line trucks and it was a pain in the a.. u did a DIRT PERFECT JOB
You do what you got to do without damaging the load or getting hurt.Lift unit/17,000 pound wood plane looked to be in good shape,before and most importantly after the haul. Good job.
Hope you got paid well for that , maybe didn't have enough info before you started but if you get lemons gotta make lemonade and you did !!! Been involved in a few of those kind of operations with various people and you can tell the "educated " ones from the ones that can think on their feet !! I'll take the feet thinkers Everytime !!! Huge success delivered as promised not much blood and no damage !! Maybe a really big good pry bar on the trailer next time !!! Thanks for the video !!!
Growing up on a farm and my dad having a used heavy equipment and truck dealership I had to haul many of those but a bit bigger for tandem axle trucks and had to manage with just the winch, it definitely takes some ingenuity to get those kinds of jobs done. And I'm sure that you know and I know but have done many times myself it's very unsafe to be under a skid steer boom especially with weight on it. A 16 year old kid a few counties over was crushed to death by one as he was getting back in the cab while the boom was up. Good job and mission accomplished!!
enjoyed this video, been there ,done that several times , hauled just about anything to do with building power lines. most of the time would load it in one state , deliver several states away. It takes as long as it takes to get it right, sure don't want to be sitting along side of road trying to figure how to get it centered back on trailer, and like you said everybody goes home at end of the day. Usually knew ahead of time what we would need, so would take extra blocks and some 2 x10s to protect floor of trailer. again excellent video
I like that block fulcrum technique. I never would have thought the wood would hold up. I have to try it. Now you can just hit the brakes at 50mph in reverse to get it off. You have a lot of patience. Slow and steady won this race. I have a connex box that I'm going to attempt to move. This will help. G1 Mike. Cheers! P,S Hunter is a good worker. Keep em.
Interesting haul to be sure. I remember the old days of loading and hauling sometimes without a plan or the right equipment but we always got it done. Not to take away from your project at hand but for the old truckers in the crowd, you should have gotten more pics/videos of the Autocar truck behind the bed. Does a heart to good to see the big radiator and grill first thing in the AM. Great video as always. On the fly engineering and determination got the job done. That stuff is still great and was around way before the government and lawyers got involved.
Were the hydraulics on the bed operational! i.e. if you had a way to hook up a supply (from Mack or your Skid Steer) that would of at least got the bed in the air to get good cribbing under it... but ur patience was rewarded!!👍🏿
I suppose you live fifty miles from a forest but some round poles for loading or unloading would/could of been handy and blocking on both ends unless it would of buckled the bottom of that service unit. Now a cabover KW with the small sleeper cab for filters, manuals, and just plain tired. The service unit with the sixty foot knuckle boom weighed with it loaded on my tandem axle truck weighed fourteen tons, add another three tons with welder, torches, tools, did I say tools cause if it was made, I had at least one and usually two or three of them and torque wrenches, nice inside a heated cab. My truck had a cafe on the inside of the sleeper and I spent more time in it than my own bed. One outfit I did a job for had a chief come out and take food orders and he always sent doubles plus a pint on saturday night and it was a dry camp. I always had to barge my truck to c amps in the southeast alaska but once one the prince of whales, I could drive to many camps. We were unloading it off a barge that was too small and I told them it was too small and after we recovered the truck from the bottom of the ocean..... deep port at one fifty, it cost the insurance company three million to replace everything and I took a half million hit. Insurance ain't what its cracked up to be but one thing for sure something told me to get out of the cab or I wouldn't be here cause I wasn't out more than two minutes as it was windy and cold. The tug operator went down with his tug in less than a minute... RIP. Its a dangerous job and lot of men died in the cold
oh yes at 6:10 now your thinking and then even better using the winch and the hydraulic ramp, just awesome and great driving Hunter! I think this is one of the best videos you've done and you can blame any damage to the trailer on Captain Kleeman 😂. Did the extra time it took loading it work out better than the cost of hiring a crane?
if you ever have to do something like that again take three of those round pole lay side ways under the boxes bed rails and it will roll right up the trailer (don't ask I how I know lol) for those hyd outrigger legs just use a strap or chain to keep them form dropping.
Nothing wrong with a commercial. Mike deserves to make a buck or two with the entertainment value he’s giving us. Sometimes it’s educational and sometimes it’s comical.
Great job! I’m guessing that it was sliding towards the passenger side because you weren’t perfectly level side to side. Also when you have your chain in a V, it allows the load to shift. Next time (if there is a next time), configure your chains as directly as possible. If you look at a V bridle on a tow truck, it’s 2 separate chains between the loop to the load. That way you have even pulling on the load & keeps it from sliding side to side. Alternatively, you could have called around for a tow company with a rotator to assist in loading. A rotator is basically a small crane. Check out Ron Pratt’s channel for more on rotators & the things he does with them over in Missouri.
this was so enjoyable to watch! someone else doing things that i do. this was like a page right out of my life. i think it kept pulling to the right because your trailer may have been slightly leaning to the right and not perfectly level. a couple of 6x6 timbers under each side tool boxes may have made it slide easier. crane? if it was easy...everyone would do it! what i wonder is he has that and the airplane de-icer sitting on the ground....how did he remove it? mission accomplished!
Next time if there is one. Hook your wet kit t hydraulics tonthe lines and raise the outriggers on blocks high enough to back under it. Those outriggers should be atleast 3 feet long which would get you close to what you needed . Not saying it wouldve worked for sure but its a thought. I am i ex hydraulics mechanic and thats where inwoulda started since there wasnt a crane to be had. But most important is yaw got it and nobody got hurt or even worse killed. God bless and be safe buddy
Gotta give ya credit for not giving up! Good job!
Thanks
You did a great job. Before my days as a licensed master, I was you. The more difficult the task, the more I liked it. I had to put my 225 cat on a trailer, 600 ft away in the woods with one track. I certainly miss all the fun you, Aaron and Matt have. 👍
Captain Jack
That thing is called a rotator. Only costs about a few million! Lol. You amaze this old lady daily, thank you for the entertainment!!!!
I also love watching Midwest Trucks, recovery. They are great operators with very nice equipment. They have a 'Rotator.'
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Here's an old man's philosophy : When asked to do a job , you can say NO and have people mad at you , or you can say YES and be mad at yourself. At the end of day "You" are the one You gotta live with ................... Amazing job ! patience and ingenuity ! (I absolutely LOVE your ol Mack Tractor and all the personal added features) Great channel! A new subscriber
Lol agree and welcome to the channel
hahaha...."we got it up, now we just gotta keep it up". Great job with using ingenuity and physics. Ron Pratt would be proud!
Thanks Blake
Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene. UHMW. Back in my lowboy rigging days I always had a couple pieces of UHMW with an angle iron bolted to the end off set to slip under the leading edge of metal skidded heavy machinery. It’s amazing how slick a piece of this 3/4” thick material like this helps in so many situations on the leading edge of something you winching on your trailer. They don’t have to be very big so it’s easy to store for those situations like you ran into there.
Great content and a wonderful job of getting it done.👍👍👍
UHMW FTW!
Ive used that stuff. Its like those furniture moving discs but on an industrial scale. Fantastic! Best to round the leading edge though...
Well heck Mike there was not any logs/trees involved so it was no problem!!!! LOL Been involved with these type of deals over the years. Lots of fun and nail biting.
lol exactly thanks jd
really enjoyed that you made it look so easy but I know it wasn't, good job keep up the good work
Reminds me of the old days moving asphalt plants and setting back up, lol, down home back yard engineer no doubt, good job
That was one serious fuster cluck of a gig. You done good son! Hope you got paid well for that little adventure.
Thanks
Just love this stuff ... never give up brother !!!
Thanks
U da man D.P.
Job well done sir never give up
Thanks buddy
Wow mike you should have hired two sky hooks they would have done it easy for you , top job you two a job well done a bit of nous does comes in handy sometimes👍👍👍👍👍
Yes Sir , My hat off to you ! , That was a Job and a Half , I've Had some challenging jobs before , Just not like This one , Great Video Thanks , I was on the edge of my seat watching this one
Thanks Jc glade you enjoyed
Just discovered your channel. An impressive example of "staying calm and working the problem". Excellent job boys with an excellent outcome. The comment about using pieces of UHMW is another excellent idea.👍👍👍
Thanks Steven and welcome to the channel
Sketchy, recovery well done 👏
I don't know if you and Wade went to college but I do know you guys didn't learn the things you do there. You guys got your learning from the school of hard knocks. I just asked Wade if there was anything he couldn't fix. And there is nothing you can't load if you put your mind to it. Good job, Hunter is working good to.
A very suspenseful and entertaining video. And no smashed toes! Way to go.
Great Video You got er done !! Dirt perfect we do it all !!
Thanks for watching buddy
Great work Mike!!
Thanks Paul
You did it ! Man your trailer / winch is awesome rig. That bed sure was heavy , bet they get crane to sit on truck. Thanks for showing.
Thanks for watching Gary
I'm always telling my son, that you can move the world with a fulcrum and lever. Simple machines.
Exactly
Wow! Glad you got it done
Really interesting and inventive! Thanks for the vid!
Thanks for watching buddy glade you enjoyed
Michael, you we should know that what can Go WRONG WILL GO WRONG!
Lol very true
What a pain in the stones! A+ for perseverance and patience! Great video, Brother!
Thanks Lou
Wow that was a mission. Safe travels
Mike, that is the kind of stuff I do for a living. I must be weird, because I really enjoy it! Good job!
Lol thanks buddy
At least you got it load. But Captain was in the woods burning and doing nothing like always. Sorry Captain. Thanks for sharing it
No he was at his real job
Good job Mike
Nice video, world loves a challenge. Reminded of the time I was working in a shop and noticed some guys making a lift with chain hoist and every time they gave it a tug the ceiling got a little lower. Shop Forman disagreed with me when I told him it would never work, I called him over and told him to watch his progress from my perspective. He quickly changed his plans. Stay safe.
Thanks tom
That was a mission but all good in the end 😅👍
Quite the adventure but ya got it done!!!
Thanks Toney
My dad always told me to use the right tool for the job... and what that meant was little hammer for tiny jobs... big honking hammer for everything else. I inherited his collection of hammers... and looking back, I now understand what he meant. He had a hammer for everything!
Looks to me like your “right tool” is a much more expensive set of ‘hammers’.
I enjoyed watching how you overcame each obstacle and applaud your persistence and ingenuity... and bonus... you got your trailer bed oiled in the process!
Lol very true and thanks William
Yup I've been on a few of those adventures over the years.
And once in a while I will think back and wonder , what the hell was I thinking?
Great video. .
Lol so true
Great job, we can get our selfs in some awful messes sometimes
Thanks
Gotta love the winter time “side jobs” we all seem to find ourselves into during the off-season! Nice video as always.
persistence pays off . good job.
Thanks John
That was really nice you were able to apply a touch up application of deck board oil finish. Great job!!
Lol yup and thanks
I’d say your help was pretty good help but dang you sure took a chance not having the Captain along too !
Thanks Mike
Lol 😂
Fantastic job and great video Mike! 5 stars buddy.
No damage and no injuries, Perfect!
Doug@ the "ranch"
Thanks buddy
Getting the Job done DP 🇺🇲
Great video been there to needed bigger machines but didn’t have any so run what ya brung
lol exactly Gary
U done a fine job in my book
Thanks
Man !! ,that's one heavy truck body!!
Yes it was
I'm a little behind on this video. The Poly is awesome stuff. I've used 3" Schedule 40 pipe as rollers. I know it's old school, but it works. Cool Video, Nice Work DP!!.. (y)
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@dirtperfect good to see slow and safe is the way.
I bet it was not a Pepsi you grabbed when you got home.
Lol you might me right berry
Over-cautious = being smart. That was a rough load up, but you got ‘er done. Must have felt like a real accomplishment to finally chain that thing down! Patience and persistence won the day 😊
It was a good feeling to be loaded for sure
I've personally done a lot of moves identical to this. Truck body's , disabled equipment ,Etc etc every so often I'd have a machine to load with but most of the time it was me the 440 landoll and a snatch block.
Yup and them landoll are awesome trailers
Adapt and overcome.. Great job guys..
Thanks
Great job being able to do that and video I have took part in moving that same thing we had a fellow at work hit a low bring ripped the whole body off we used two line trucks and it was a pain in the a.. u did a DIRT PERFECT JOB
Nice job, enjoyed watching it
Thanks Greg
Props to you for making sure you were 100% compliant. Most would have let it ride.
Thanks
You do what you got to do without damaging the load or getting hurt.Lift unit/17,000 pound wood plane looked to be in good shape,before and most importantly after the haul. Good job.
Thanks 😊
Lots of weight glad you got it done safely
Thanks
Never give up. You can do it.
😁
Some good ole dirt perfect ingenuity right there, if theres a will. Theres a way
Lol exactly
Would have never expected it to way that much, but it surely does. Wow
Me either it was heavy
That was touch and go. Nice job!
Hope you got paid well for that , maybe didn't have enough info before you started but if you get lemons gotta make lemonade and you did !!! Been involved in a few of those kind of operations with various people and you can tell the "educated " ones from the ones that can think on their feet !! I'll take the feet thinkers Everytime !!! Huge success delivered as promised not much blood and no damage !! Maybe a really big good pry bar on the trailer next time !!! Thanks for the video !!!
Good stuff man.that's using your noodle.
Awesome Job!!
Thanks
Great vidja shame no one was at shop where u picked it up to help yall. Keep up the hard work ol'boy
Great video y'all have a great weekend and stay safe 👍
Thanks Greg
Growing up on a farm and my dad having a used heavy equipment and truck dealership I had to haul many of those but a bit bigger for tandem axle trucks and had to manage with just the winch, it definitely takes some ingenuity to get those kinds of jobs done. And I'm sure that you know and I know but have done many times myself it's very unsafe to be under a skid steer boom especially with weight on it. A 16 year old kid a few counties over was crushed to death by one as he was getting back in the cab while the boom was up. Good job and mission accomplished!!
That is one way to clean the deck. :)
That was definitely an interesting adventure.
Old Hickory BBQ on his hoodie!!! Best bbq around!
Yup
enjoyed this video, been there ,done that several times , hauled just about anything to do with building power lines. most of the time would load it in one state , deliver several states away. It takes as long as it takes to get it right, sure don't want to be sitting along side of road trying to figure how to get it centered back on trailer, and like you said everybody goes home at end of the day. Usually knew ahead of time what we would need, so would take extra blocks and some 2 x10s to protect floor of trailer. again excellent video
I like that block fulcrum technique. I never would have thought the wood would hold up. I have to try it. Now you can just hit the brakes at 50mph in reverse to get it off. You have a lot of patience. Slow and steady won this race. I have a connex box that I'm going to attempt to move. This will help. G1 Mike. Cheers!
P,S Hunter is a good worker. Keep em.
Awesome job! Where there's a will, there's a way!
Exactly thanks buddy
Wow DP what a Job ❤️
Thanks
Interesting haul to be sure. I remember the old days of loading and hauling sometimes without a plan or the right equipment but we always got it done. Not to take away from your project at hand but for the old truckers in the crowd, you should have gotten more pics/videos of the Autocar truck behind the bed. Does a heart to good to see the big radiator and grill first thing in the AM. Great video as always. On the fly engineering and determination got the job done. That stuff is still great and was around way before the government and lawyers got involved.
I agree, I wanted to see more of the Autocar as well
That took a lot of thinking. Good job getting it figured out.
Thanks al
❤ from Norway
There were a few times there I thought she was going to slide off. Nice juggling there.
Me to and thanks
Were the hydraulics on the bed operational! i.e. if you had a way to hook up a supply (from Mack or your Skid Steer) that would of at least got the bed in the air to get good cribbing under it... but ur patience was rewarded!!👍🏿
Possibly bill
Good job!
Thanks
Nice work, reminds me of some of the endeavors I have gotten roped in to.
I suppose you live fifty miles from a forest but some round poles for loading or unloading would/could of been handy and blocking on both ends unless it would of buckled the bottom of that service unit. Now a cabover KW with the small sleeper cab for filters, manuals, and just plain tired. The service unit with the sixty foot knuckle boom weighed with it loaded on my tandem axle truck weighed fourteen tons, add another three tons with welder, torches, tools, did I say tools cause if it was made, I had at least one and usually two or three of them and torque wrenches, nice inside a heated cab. My truck had a cafe on the inside of the sleeper and I spent more time in it than my own bed. One outfit I did a job for had a chief come out and take food orders and he always sent doubles plus a pint on saturday night and it was a dry camp. I always had to barge my truck to c amps in the southeast alaska but once one the prince of whales, I could drive to many camps. We were unloading it off a barge that was too small and I told them it was too small and after we recovered the truck from the bottom of the ocean..... deep port at one fifty, it cost the insurance company three million to replace everything and I took a half million hit. Insurance ain't what its cracked up to be but one thing for sure something told me to get out of the cab or I wouldn't be here cause I wasn't out more than two minutes as it was windy and cold. The tug operator went down with his tug in less than a minute... RIP. Its a dangerous job and lot of men died in the cold
Some of your Southern Indiana Engineering at work . Good job on the Family Channel
Thanks buddy
Great Video fellers .that goes to show use your head for some thing more than a place to put your hat on good job
lol thanks buddy
That was an awkward buggar to load! And get off again! But you did it so well! Well done! :-)
Thanks Chris
Job well done, just curious as why no use of blocking/cribbing at the drop off yard ? Thanks and thumbs up !
Not sitting there very long has a crane coming to set on truck
oh yes at 6:10 now your thinking and then even better using the winch and the hydraulic ramp, just awesome and great driving Hunter!
I think this is one of the best videos you've done and you can blame any damage to the trailer on Captain Kleeman 😂. Did the extra time it took loading it work out better than the cost of hiring a crane?
Thanks appreciate that
@@DirtPerfect You know you can do it Mike, you have the ability to think of solutions and not problems 👍
One piece of advice for the future. Don't ever let your winch cable twist like that. It will tear its self apart. God bless
Muy buen trabajo amigo felicidades👍👍
What fabulous content!
Thanks mike
if you ever have to do something like that again take three of those round pole lay side ways under the boxes bed rails and it will roll right up the trailer (don't ask I how I know lol) for those hyd outrigger legs just use a strap or chain to keep them form dropping.
Awesome work Mike....damn them commercials 😂😂
Lol thanks and sorry
Nothing wrong with a commercial. Mike deserves to make a buck or two with the entertainment value he’s giving us.
Sometimes it’s educational and sometimes it’s comical.
Wayne Crews i just give him a hard time with the commercials....
You ever want to bring your skid steer to Oklahoma so I can borrow it. I would gladly use it lol.maybe buy lunch as well.
lol 👍
Just hope it is worth the effort.
It looks like a very good rear end of a work truck.
Think It was
That was in inventive!!! I’m impressed
Thanks
Great job! I’m guessing that it was sliding towards the passenger side because you weren’t perfectly level side to side. Also when you have your chain in a V, it allows the load to shift. Next time (if there is a next time), configure your chains as directly as possible. If you look at a V bridle on a tow truck, it’s 2 separate chains between the loop to the load. That way you have even pulling on the load & keeps it from sliding side to side. Alternatively, you could have called around for a tow company with a rotator to assist in loading. A rotator is basically a small crane. Check out Ron Pratt’s channel for more on rotators & the things he does with them over in Missouri.
this was so enjoyable to watch! someone else doing things that i do. this was like a page right out of my life. i think it kept pulling to the right because your trailer may have been slightly leaning to the right and not perfectly level. a couple of 6x6 timbers under each side tool boxes may have made it slide easier. crane? if it was easy...everyone would do it! what i wonder is he has that and the airplane de-icer sitting on the ground....how did he remove it? mission accomplished!
Thanks buddy
Mike love the video , and you can do it , but no wooden 6x6 to help you .
Thanks and wish I had one
PERFECT 👍👌🙏✌️
That was freaking hard to do - dang!
👍 You had to earn that one .
Next time if there is one. Hook your wet kit t hydraulics tonthe lines and raise the outriggers on blocks high enough to back under it. Those outriggers should be atleast 3 feet long which would get you close to what you needed . Not saying it wouldve worked for sure but its a thought. I am i ex hydraulics mechanic and thats where inwoulda started since there wasnt a crane to be had. But most important is yaw got it and nobody got hurt or even worse killed. God bless and be safe buddy
Look into it wood no go high enough