Looks like it was kind of a drag. Easy Peasy. Hey Ron just remember this,. Sometimes your the windshield sometimes your the bug. For those of you in Europe it's the windscreen. LOL
I'm from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. I follow his work and I am happy to see such a dedicated professional, with giant techniques and capabilities for any type of assistance with a winch. Congratulations to you and your entire team.
@@jeffclark2725 They did have a video few years back where they had to get a car out of the lot and put it on a flatbed or trailer... Think the frame was going to a scrap yard.. But ya this is one of the quickest, easiest and safest jobs I seen they did....
I can appreciate your bug problem. Where I live, I'm surrounded by 3700 acres of corn. It's not possible to move my truck to the other side of my driveway without a bug on the windshield. 😅
haha, abut a week ago, I drove home in the wee hours of the night after way late night contractor work(small business after hours major work), I ran the back roads home, all farm land with small towns here and there. I drove through endless bug-swarms, so bad that my windshields a/c condenser transmission cooler is still half plugged/covered and that after pressure washer with enough force to break things. I am avoiding the two hour hard labor windshield cleaning and rain-x reapplication. 🙄
So nice to see you have a quick and simple job...... don't get me wrong, I love your bigger jobs that give us more of an insight into the skills you have, but was still fun to watch this one
If only all jobs were that quick and easy lol but still a great video! We watch you all the time very educational, be safe have. Agreat day, God Bless!
Another job well done. I hope you have a happy Father's Day. I know we are both missing ours. Mine has been gone 20 years, and I just lost another. We adopted each other since his own son wanted little to do with him. I hope you can take that day to enjoy your children and grandchildren. Stay safe, and God bless.
Those quick and easy jobs can go quite fast but you made it seem like it was so fast and simple there, Ron. Thanks for sharing my friend and God Bless all you guys do for us.
Ron I wish I lived closer to you. I have run roll bed. And tow trucks in the past. I would really like to work for you. I have watched every video you put out. God bless you. And that you stay safe out there.
Ron I want to wish you and the midwest truck family a early happy Father’s Day and you forgot to talk about the spreader bar. Happy early Father’s Day to everyone 11:30
What bugs? I live in and often run the Great Lakes area, as well as down down South. The bugs in Louisiana and Mississippi are usually pretty good size and will cover your windshield in minutes, especially at night. However, the Mayflies (a.k.a. Junebugs) that come off the lakes can be even worse. I run with a grill screen and, I've actually had to stop and clean it by hand because the engine was running hot. Washer fluid and windshield wipers just smear them around. As always, be safe and God bless you, your crew and your equipment!
Ron every time we would drive down to our coastal waters we would have a collection of squished bugs on windshields and headlights and parts of the front hood . We knew where we were headed. Ron what people may forget is that angles that the truck is in maybe harder for the audience to see or detect than you since you have a front row seat!
I know what was missing in this clip, no arc nemesis. Still a good quick recovery, glad the driver didn't bury it trying to get out himself. Seen that happen too many times.
The real funny part I find is, normally you can not get the windshield clean with the washer fluid, but the rain will take care of it. But normally the rain to bug ratio is not that great for the rain. 🤣 I prefer them to hit my passenger side compared to my driver side. 😂
Ron, that roll of tape on your finger looks real comfortable. I fractured a knuckle on my left ring finger, and it took a long time to heal up, so I can relate to your situation. I hope that it heals up quickly for you.
Glad to see that your could have an easy solution for once. Wishing you a happy Father’s Day and another blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother
Where I live we have five + rivers plus many creeks in this part of the state with most passing through the county I live in. The highways and secondary highways follow those waterways. Bugs on your windshield is part of traveling through the area
Greetings from the Cumberland Plateau in central Tn. I enjoy all your videos, praying for you all in this time of storms, safety and God's Blessings on you all.
As I have seen from your previous videos, I'm not the only one who likes when you use the drag winch. As for the bugs, its the same story here in the Northeast. Most of the bugs end up above the windshield where the Luminator sign would be if I was in transit service. The bug residue is difficult to remove but I do what I can.
Remember north Florida, the sound of bugs hitt8ng the windshield sounded like a hailstorm. All I could think of is how the bleep people coped when you had to open windows to get air flow inside...you had a ton of bugs inside with you, car and truck windows don't have screen doors on them.
Tator just wanted an easy job. Therefore, she let the Drag work and did not complain. Plus, it sounds like you had just given her a little TLC beforehand (despite the annoying bugs). Simple, easy and quick.
My dad and I got a lot of bugs while traveling to Grafton Il to our Campground we were staying at for a week in May. Also we traveled out west to the West Coast and we had more bugs and my dad kept on using squeegees at gas stations to get all the bugs off. 😄
Want to call Ron for a little tug, just stuck a little, then just take two stacks and have them barely sticking out of a mud hole. Glad you had a less complicated recovery!
Rain X will greatly improve the ease of removal of all of those bugs. Take some time to do it right but it really makes a huge difference when cleaning bugs and driving in the rain.
I drove an old car with a bug deflector it did a good job it even kept small droplets of water off the windshield. I have no personal experience on how the truck version works.
I remember those from sometime in the 50s. More recently a friend in the trade suggested that the bent coathanger that I was using in place of an aerial was there to keep the bugs off my windscreen - load of nonsense of course but the windscreen was actually bug-free!
Great video. Though I always expect your Friday videos to be more complicated and the ones you post occasionally midweek to be like this one. Keep up the great work.
I have a 389 and hate bugs. I get the right windshield wet then get the left one wet. Go back to the right and wet it again then scrub it clean. Do the same for the other side. Getting the bugs wet and soaked helps clean them off.
HAHAHAHA You have to wonder some times how bad the Bugs would be if it weren't for Windshields ... That has to be embarrassing getting stuck in what looks to be a Driver Training Lot. Thanks Much Ron. Mike M.
Before you even mentioned it I was gonna tug your tail about killing moths and collecting them. Looks like that finger is still taped up pretty good. Hope it's healing. Have a great weekend Ron.
During this video, the finger was still wrapped up. It isn't anymore and it didn't heal correctly. It has been MONTHS and it is still swollen and I can't straighten the end joint. I have two options at this point, 1...leave it alone and live with it the way it is or 2...surgery, down time, and unknown outcome. The surgery may or may not work, so I'm told. Still deciding what I want to do. Right now I dealing with it. Thanks and God bless.
@@RonPratt Sorry to hear that Ron. At your age I'd invest the time in finding the Ron Pratt of doctors and get it fixed right. You may have to travel to find the best in the business but in the end it would probably be the right solution rather than pain for the next 30 or 40 years. Daughter had her foot repaired 2 years ago and has been in constant pain since. She found a Dr. up in Columbia Mo that redid the foot a month ago. So far, she is still not allowed to put weight on it but CAN wiggle toes and the pain is all but gone. If you want, I can PM you the Dr.s info.
Last time I was told to go out and give a stuck truck a tug ! Yeah took 4 days 2 Dozers and a excavator plus 6 or 7 tons of timber and float mats … road train 3 loaded trailers he found spring in a black soil plain nearest tree over a mile and only just off road ? No hard pack just a loose gravel road ps two of those days just moving machines .. yeah 2 more days clean up take big iron back at least we did not have the blade of the 8 to cart . Great fun with summer temps well over a 100 and no shade then out there winter is still over 90
Ron, not sure if someone else asked about it, but what is wrong with the drag winch that it only works sometimes. I remember you saying a long time ago it was a manufacturer defect but I cannot remember what it is.
Due to the sliding carriage, the drag drum winch is very close to the fairlead so very often the cable does not respool properly. It then makes it hard to unspool the next time it is used. Ron is not the only one with this problem as another tow you tuber has mentioned the same thing.
One thing that student driver learned is how quickly and easily these vehicles can get stuck. When I was driving and I had to be on gravel like this, I always locked in the diff just in case.
Nice quick short pull... I wonder if a shop could get some sort of cable guide to direct the wire onto the reel for the drag winch drum... so it spools correctly.
When pulling a load it doesn't spool the cable well. This adds considerable friction with something, noticeable when trying to get the cable back out. Ron has previously called it, "bad design".
Drag winches don't get used all the time they collect dirt and rust more than other winches sometimes doesn't get as much love as the other winches they usually don't spool up as well I've run several heavy wreckers it's hard to maintain everything 💯 on a heavy wrecker especially a rotator Ron will tell you this if every little detail and rigging is in tact you have either a ton of money or you don't get many calls an active wrecker has an operator that s busy meaning they work long hours and to be able to work sleep and maintain every aspect of the heavy wreckers is darn near impossible plus the time it takes to lube and keep spooled is crazy everyone strives to do there best but when the call comes you have to throw and go
Looks like it was kind of a drag. Easy Peasy. Hey Ron just remember this,. Sometimes your the windshield sometimes your the bug. For those of you in Europe it's the windscreen. LOL
Drag winch for the win. Hurrah it behaved itself!
I'm from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. I follow his work and I am happy to see such a dedicated professional, with giant techniques and capabilities for any type of assistance with a winch. Congratulations to you and your entire team.
My grandparents were from Madera Portugal
Have family in Brazik and veniswayla
We I live and work is the same problem especially in summer
Easiest, quickest, fastest & safest recovery I've seen you do yet Ron...!👍👍
Agreed, easy and safe once in a while is a good thing
@@jeffclark2725 They did have a video few years back where they had to get a car out of the lot and put it on a flatbed or trailer... Think the frame was going to a scrap yard.. But ya this is one of the quickest, easiest and safest jobs I seen they did....
I can appreciate your bug problem. Where I live, I'm surrounded by 3700 acres of corn. It's not possible to move my truck to the other side of my driveway without a bug on the windshield. 😅
haha, abut a week ago, I drove home in the wee hours of the night after way late night contractor work(small business after hours major work), I ran the back roads home, all farm land with small towns here and there. I drove through endless bug-swarms, so bad that my windshields a/c condenser transmission cooler is still half plugged/covered and that after pressure washer with enough force to break things. I am avoiding the two hour hard labor windshield cleaning and rain-x reapplication. 🙄
Driving a semi from Redding to Castaic California it's a murder scene, so many bugs covers the windshield lol. Trucker from Alberta Canada.
So nice to see you have a quick and simple job...... don't get me wrong, I love your bigger jobs that give us more of an insight into the skills you have, but was still fun to watch this one
RON,GOOD MORNING,a easy Peary job,for a change,stay well,god bless ,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks Ron for another great video. God bless and stay safe
Just about the shortest episode I've watched so far. I did enjoy the drive there though.
If only all jobs were that quick and easy lol but still a great video! We watch you all the time very educational, be safe have. Agreat day, God Bless!
Ya stole my comment before I even got here....Good job.
Another job well done. I hope you have a happy Father's Day. I know we are both missing ours. Mine has been gone 20 years, and I just lost another. We adopted each other since his own son wanted little to do with him. I hope you can take that day to enjoy your children and grandchildren. Stay safe, and God bless.
EZ PZ This Friday. La Pine Oregon. Ron Thank You Gods Blessings
Need to get one of those buttons to push that says "That was easy ". And another successful safe job done.
Those quick and easy jobs can go quite fast but you made it seem like it was so fast and simple there, Ron. Thanks for sharing my friend and God Bless all you guys do for us.
Quick 'n' sweet, even the mundane are interesting. Keep up the good work.
Ron I wish I lived closer to you. I have run roll bed. And tow trucks in the past. I would really like to work for you. I have watched every video you put out. God bless you. And that you stay safe out there.
Ron I want to wish you and the midwest truck family a early happy Father’s Day and you forgot to talk about the spreader bar. Happy early Father’s Day to everyone 11:30
What bugs? I live in and often run the Great Lakes area, as well as down down South. The bugs in Louisiana and Mississippi are usually pretty good size and will cover your windshield in minutes, especially at night. However, the Mayflies (a.k.a. Junebugs) that come off the lakes can be even worse. I run with a grill screen and, I've actually had to stop and clean it by hand because the engine was running hot. Washer fluid and windshield wipers just smear them around.
As always, be safe and God bless you, your crew and your equipment!
Awesome job Ron Callaway took your 15 minutes. Awesome job keep up the good work.
If only all of Ron's winch outs were this easy! 😁👍👍
Glad you got to us the drag winch that time. Great short video.
Cool thanks Ron always like seeing you and y channel 😊
Thank you so much for the video please post more videos a week God bless
Ron every time we would drive down to our coastal waters we would have a collection of squished bugs on windshields and headlights and parts of the front hood . We knew where we were headed.
Ron what people may forget is that angles that the truck is in maybe harder for the audience to see or detect than you since you have a front row seat!
No overhead powerlines, no traffic rushing past at 70 mph. You must hate these kind of jobs.
Thanks for another good video. Stay safe and healthy.
Another simple job. Metro Detroit Loves you guys! G
I know what was missing in this clip, no arc nemesis. Still a good quick recovery, glad the driver didn't bury it trying to get out himself. Seen that happen too many times.
Keep up the good work love watching you on UA-cam god bless you
This one was too short! We want more! lol
Those bugs are awful this time of year lol. Just wanna say missing your side kick. Hope he’s doing well. Have a great weekend! God bless.
Be glad that you don't have Mayflies in your area
Quicker wincher for sure, Ron. Great job. Stay safe out there.
A job well done Ron 😊
The real funny part I find is, normally you can not get the windshield clean with the washer fluid, but the rain will take care of it. But normally the rain to bug ratio is not that great for the rain. 🤣 I prefer them to hit my passenger side compared to my driver side. 😂
Awesome as always
Quick work on that!
❤❤❤ be safe out there ❤❤❤ God bless you ❤❤❤
Thanks for saying about the spreader bar
Ron, hoping you have a relaxing Fathers Day and another job well done as usual ! I continue to enjoy your videos !! GOD BLESS !!!
A dream job. A quarter of an hour depot to depot. Bet you wish all jobs could be like this.
Nice bug collection on the windshield
I am from Columbia Mo, love the channel, always on the lookout around here to see if I see any of your trucks. 70/63 are hot spots.
As always, a great video.
Nice job there. a simple winch out job.
Ron, that roll of tape on your finger looks real comfortable. I fractured a knuckle on my left ring finger, and it took a long time to heal up, so I can relate to your situation.
I hope that it heals up quickly for you.
This has to be a new record for Ron's shortest video
Glad to see that your could have an easy solution for once. Wishing you a happy Father’s Day and another blessed week filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings together. Peace brother
Quick and easy job. Be nice once your finger recovers.
Where I live we have five + rivers plus many creeks in this part of the state with most passing through the county I live in. The highways and secondary highways follow those waterways. Bugs on your windshield is part of traveling through the area
Hey Ron, Tennessee here.
Good morning Ron Pratt
Quick and easy when you know how to do it. You do realize that in most instances you are a teacher and your audience is the students.
Greetings from the Cumberland Plateau in central Tn. I enjoy all your videos, praying for you all in this time of storms, safety and God's Blessings on you all.
thank you Ron
As I have seen from your previous videos, I'm not the only one who likes when you use the drag winch. As for the bugs, its the same story here in the Northeast. Most of the bugs end up above the windshield where the Luminator sign would be if I was in transit service. The bug residue is difficult to remove but I do what I can.
Remember north Florida, the sound of bugs hitt8ng the windshield sounded like a hailstorm. All I could think of is how the bleep people coped when you had to open windows to get air flow inside...you had a ton of bugs inside with you, car and truck windows don't have screen doors on them.
Making it look easy!
Tator just wanted an easy job. Therefore, she let the Drag work and did not complain. Plus, it sounds like you had just given her a little TLC beforehand (despite the annoying bugs). Simple, easy and quick.
Excellent!
"He's the fastest winch that ever winched a winch."
"Hi-ho wincher! Winch away!"
Easy peasy 😊!
My dad and I got a lot of bugs while traveling to Grafton Il to our Campground we were staying at for a week in May. Also we traveled out west to the West Coast and we had more bugs and my dad kept on using squeegees at gas stations to get all the bugs off. 😄
THANK YOU FOR VIDEO
HAPPY FATHERS DAY 🙏🏻💙
Big Tator to the rescue!!! Big Tator to the rescue!!! Big Tator to the rescue!!! Go Big Tator now!!! Go Big Tator now!!!
Want to call Ron for a little tug, just stuck a little, then just take two stacks and have them barely sticking out of a mud hole. Glad you had a less complicated recovery!
Rain X will greatly improve the ease of removal of all of those bugs. Take some time to do it right but it really makes a huge difference when cleaning bugs and driving in the rain.
Hey Ron that was so easy you could have done it with both eyes closed and one hand tied behind your back. 😂. Cool video. 👍❤️
I watching your videos and I have my bells on your videos and I'm subscribed to your videos and 🤘✌🤚🤙🤝🤞💯😎🙏🤜🤛👍🔥
Antiseptic Wipes across your windscreen not only quickly removes bugs but allows the windscreen washers to wipe them off easily.
Quick and easy ! Just like that 5 minute old change commercial here didn’t even have time to call my neighbor !! He he
I like the short video idea
Like seeing some of the driving.
Happy friday Ron
"Quick and simple" ~ that's what my wife calls me.
LOL
It‘s a good video
Mr Ron Those look like SC mosquitoes. Thanks for sharing and stay safe.
Wow, that was a long video! I think it did take you longer to drive there. Job well done as always.
I drove an old car with a bug deflector it did a good job it even kept small droplets of water off the windshield.
I have no personal experience on how the truck version works.
I remember those from sometime in the 50s.
More recently a friend in the trade suggested that the bent coathanger that I was using in place of an aerial was there to keep the bugs off my windscreen - load of nonsense of course but the windscreen was actually bug-free!
Great video. Though I always expect your Friday videos to be more complicated and the ones you post occasionally midweek to be like this one. Keep up the great work.
WoW... the newest guy sure hasn't been keeping the Rotator's windshield clean!!! 🙂
those bugs sure are bugging ron lol.
I have a 389 and hate bugs. I get the right windshield wet then get the left one wet. Go back to the right and wet it again then scrub it clean. Do the same for the other side. Getting the bugs wet and soaked helps clean them off.
HAHAHAHA You have to wonder some times how bad the Bugs would be if it weren't for Windshields ...
That has to be embarrassing getting stuck in what looks to be a Driver Training Lot.
Thanks Much Ron.
Mike M.
I love your vids!
A-Team, Hannibal with cigar 'I love it when a plan comes together "
Before you even mentioned it I was gonna tug your tail about killing moths and collecting them. Looks like that finger is still taped up pretty good. Hope it's healing. Have a great weekend Ron.
During this video, the finger was still wrapped up. It isn't anymore and it didn't heal correctly. It has been MONTHS and it is still swollen and I can't straighten the end joint. I have two options at this point, 1...leave it alone and live with it the way it is or 2...surgery, down time, and unknown outcome. The surgery may or may not work, so I'm told. Still deciding what I want to do. Right now I dealing with it. Thanks and God bless.
@@RonPratt Sorry to hear that Ron. At your age I'd invest the time in finding the Ron Pratt of doctors and get it fixed right. You may have to travel to find the best in the business but in the end it would probably be the right solution rather than pain for the next 30 or 40 years. Daughter had her foot repaired 2 years ago and has been in constant pain since. She found a Dr. up in Columbia Mo that redid the foot a month ago. So far, she is still not allowed to put weight on it but CAN wiggle toes and the pain is all but gone. If you want, I can PM you the Dr.s info.
Easy money 👍
Can't help but to wonder... Got milk??? LOL (From the trailer next to where Ron started out at his shop... Looks like a milk trailer.)
Last time I was told to go out and give a stuck truck a tug ! Yeah took 4 days 2 Dozers and a excavator plus 6 or 7 tons of timber and float mats … road train 3 loaded trailers he found spring in a black soil plain nearest tree over a mile and only just off road ? No hard pack just a loose gravel road ps two of those days just moving machines .. yeah 2 more days clean up take big iron back at least we did not have the blade of the 8 to cart . Great fun with summer temps well over a 100 and no shade then out there winter is still over 90
Ron, not sure if someone else asked about it, but what is wrong with the drag winch that it only works sometimes. I remember you saying a long time ago it was a manufacturer defect but I cannot remember what it is.
Heavier cable on a small spool doesn't wind up as smoothly, gets crosses, void fills and tangles so it won't unspool by hand.
Due to the sliding carriage, the drag drum winch is very close to the fairlead so very often the cable does not respool properly. It then makes it hard to unspool the next time it is used.
Ron is not the only one with this problem as another tow you tuber has mentioned the same thing.
That drag winch is such a drag...lol
Ron a wet dryer sheet will take those bugs right off the windshield.
That reminds me, I need to order some more bug wash for my car. (although birds are the bigger pests in this area)
As Mr Ron said, it took longer to get there than the actual job, speaks volumes,
One thing that student driver learned is how quickly and easily these vehicles can get stuck. When I was driving and I had to be on gravel like this, I always locked in the diff just in case.
I think more than likely they were practicing air brakes and forgot the wheel chocks were under the tires and spun themselves into getting stuck.
Nice quick short pull... I wonder if a shop could get some sort of cable guide to direct the wire onto the reel for the drag winch drum... so it spools correctly.
I am curious as to why you have trouble with the drag winch.
When pulling a load it doesn't spool the cable well. This adds considerable friction with something, noticeable when trying to get the cable back out.
Ron has previously called it, "bad design".
I'm curious too but it does live up to it's name cause it's a real drag trying to use it most of the time
Drag winches don't get used all the time they collect dirt and rust more than other winches sometimes doesn't get as much love as the other winches they usually don't spool up as well I've run several heavy wreckers it's hard to maintain everything 💯 on a heavy wrecker especially a rotator Ron will tell you this if every little detail and rigging is in tact you have either a ton of money or you don't get many calls an active wrecker has an operator that s busy meaning they work long hours and to be able to work sleep and maintain every aspect of the heavy wreckers is darn near impossible plus the time it takes to lube and keep spooled is crazy everyone strives to do there best but when the call comes you have to throw and go
The drag winch on the Tator is the least used line.
@@calvingreene90. Do you know what’s different about the drag winch that makes it not work as well compared to the other winches on the rotator?
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