Walk-in talkies/ radios for tow driver, stuck driver, and spotters, makes a hell of a difference in recovery’s! Being in neutral… almost running over cable… cuts those mistakes down.
Yesterday morning 2 guys with atow truck were working on a car buried in the ditch. I went and bought them coffee and hot breakfast sandwiches. Nothing but respect for their service. Stay safe out there.😊
I’ve never seen a big truck wrecker that had a crew of 6 that followed it around to help do wrecker stuff! That’s a high Tec piece of equipment you got there son! Single stack! With a winder in the back! 😮 #royalmountainpossy
that's nothing. he's just got a 40-50 ton hauler wrecker. you want to really see a big recovery wrecker go watch Ron Pratt now that's a really big wrecker he's got and it's does things you wouldn't believe.
Tim , just a suggestion from one Former Heavy wrecker operator from Snowy Pa. to another.. Please don't take this the wrong way.. but You're paid by the hour for a truck with massive pulling power's... On Ice especially, Pull with your winch's NOT you're Driveline.. thats gonna bite your ass in the long run I promise..winch's will stand it your driveline won't... Lock it down and winch em to ya.. then unlock and pull ahead and repeat... and although pulling off the boom does give ya more traction Drag Towing off the boom will crack the boom too. don't think for a minute that booms too heavy to twist..it's Not.. lots of leverage with all that cable spooled out.. Snatch block off the bed Rail.
Static dragging from the boom isn't a big deal, It's not any different in forces than winching. It's "bumping" to pull things that will fuck shit up as it will shock load everything and that's when shit breaks. As for pulling with the driveline vs the winch it's not any different than being in tow and going up that same hill, the problem would be when he was dragging up the hill and started spinning out, the second he started spinning he should lock it down and winch it through that patch of ice and try again if he wants to drag in with the truck rather than the winch afterwards. So long as he keeps the boom in the cradle, Doesn't shock load anything by keeping it nice easy static pulls, and he doesn't get crazy with it trying to do a deal pull then he will be fine and guys do this all over all the time. He does however need to shorten up that line when he static pulls, he has way too much line out and it doesn't help at all in terms of traction.
True that... best to use the winches, that's what they were designed for. Especially on higher grades. Pulling like that is very hard on the truck. Also, there are safety benefits from working from a secure fixed position.
Right you ain't lyin! I wish companies around my area would work together like this instead of looking at eachother as an enemy because we are competition. I always let people know that I'm not competition I'm not an enemy I'm just doing the job that I love and have done my whole life so I can make a living and feed my family and leave my kids with something more than I had growing up when I'm gone.
@@TashaOneal-l8h nobody said anything about doing stuff for free for anyone they said it would be nice if people could work together it would be a better place. That includes working together and making money together. You must be the type that is only looking out for yourself.
@@TashaOneal-l8h also probably the type of person that if you did have someone helping you doing the same job that you should probably make more than them too.
Brax You really are a young man of very few words. Don't change. If you want to cabover wrecker then do it but do something cool. Build something that your dad would be jealous of you having. Maybe something like a Peterbilt cabover dual steer front axle 8x8 or military Hemtt with a Jerr Dan rotator. Something to make the UA-cam world go wow.
Hi Tim when you put the chains on you want too turn them so the hook that attach the cross links to the sidewalls the end of the bent over links are away from the tires plus there should be a tool that comes with those chains too turn those half moon shaped slack adjusters and make the chains tighter on the tires
U just gotta love seeing all these professional drivers that straight out of the city that's never even been on a riding mower out there thinking they r truck drivers there's a big difference.
You have the chain on backwards , The cross links with the ones that are bent on each side them are supposed to stick on the outside of the tire , The second tire I see it's put on correctly , But you should have 3 chain tighteners on them , Once you get them hooked up and then you take your little bar and stick in there and you crank your tighteners up , and then take a rubber and make an X on the outside pulling the chain to gather , It is taken you longer to put them on the wrong way , then putting them on the right way , I can put drives and drag chains on 35 minute I will be rolling
Tim I just gotta say that your ol Blue surprised the heck out of me watching it pull those rigs up that hill. Well done 👏👏 I’m guessing it’s turning out to be a better rig than you expected. One suggestion I would like to make; Your cables will scratch the boom up without having 3/4 hoops on the top of the boom to keep them off it. Just use flat iron bent a couple times upward for keeping the cables off the side of it.
You may as well be pissing in the wind with those useless chains they are not even v bar. U want a set of Canadian logger trigg triples only chain that works. Also don't pull through the under reach shorten up the cable get like ten maybe twenty feet in front of the truck pull off the raised boom lifting the pulled truck abit this puts weight on your drives and you won't chew and wreck your truck.
A trick we use is stay dry. You throw a couple bags of it across the road it will get between the tires and the Ice and give you the traction you need. I use it all the time in my Rotator and it will hold it to the road.
Our highway dept. mixes the treatment for our roads 3 loader buckets of sand to one loader bucket of salt. it gives you better traction and you use less salt. If the sun comes out in the afternoon. We scrap the roads to help break up the ice. We also have a komatsu grader to scrap the roads if necessary.
I wish we had the resources here but it snows this much once every 10-30 years so Tennessee and the counties in Tennessee don’t allocate sufficient funds to handle the 6-10 inches we got in one day. On normal years we have a couple small snows that might be 2-3 inches each. There’s still roads that aren’t cleared and this snow was from Monday
Love everything about it! Companies working together for a common goal of helping others and keeping roadways open. And most of all Brax getting taught all the knowledge and seeing first hand how to be a successful adult!!
Private property is one thing, but a public road on ice during a job is a huge liability risk. If your insurance company sees this video ???? Keep it safe (this is specific to the young man behind the wheel)
Some good points! But......."Self employed" is totally different than "employee" That's why it is not an issue for him. Just FYI. I personally would still be cautious of course with filming certain events but to each their own! Tim is just seems to me to be a good ol boy making a honest living and that's why he has no worries
What you need to buy is a lot of Yakin ropes. The recovery ropes the big boys like four or five of them with all the soft shackles and be a lot easier for doing jobs. Like this than using your winch line.
Still think you should add a big front winch on a heavy steel bumper to that wrecker , for smaller more fiddly stuff like cars in ditches. Adds to the list of jobs you can do .
I got saved by a wrecker this morning,stayed parked at the shipper overnight and woke up to a skating rink in the morning!! Shoutout to all the wreckers out there definitely staying busy this winter 🙏🏼
You sure said it right about your truck not seeing weather like that in Georgia. Around here where it has been working there’s only been snow less than ten times in the past ten years and that’s stretching it really. It wasn’t enough even to stick to the ground. It would just be a few sprinkles here and there then it melts. But overall it’s a nice looking truck. Good luck!
Tim! You got a fk of a lot of people that are going to be thankful and talking good about you brother. Your trucking family keeps getting bigger with this wrecker in weather like this. Continued success my friend. Note to you. Keep the wrecker inside the building when you shut it down. That is your breadwinner in weather like this and you should have got that truck ready to run in the cold weather. A lot of the truck dealerships call it the artic package. Install a good powerful block heater that keeps the coolant warm.Insulate your heating lines and beef up your heating inside the cab cause your windows will ice up no matter what you are driving through. Don’t forget about an alcohol evaporator for the air system which is a must in cold weather so you don’t ice up your air system. It will leave you stranded at the worst of times, Get it ready as you would be going to the ice roads up north. Most of all, put those deep groove tires from that truck sitting at Robs place. This storm might be one of a kind and you might not see another one for years but again, you can’t be ready enough. Oh don’t forget to treat the diesel fuel in the tanks with a fuel conditioner. Safety Kleen makes the best ever. Brax is having the time of his life!!! Give Holly dog a huge hug for me.
I went through Knoxville on Wednesday and there was definitely some leftover carnage off in the ditches from Monday and Tuesday on I-75/I-40. I canceled my Monday and Tuesday loads--freight is too cheap to risk my life or equipment.
Been watching you for awhile now but just made my mind up and hit the subscribe button today. I like watching all the heavy hauls you do I did the heavy haul game 10 plus years all together I have 22 plus years under my belt. But just this past July I had no choice but to come off the road do to having my right lung collapsing twice in less then 2 years apart.
I have to agree. I miss Home Improvement being on TV so it’s a good thing I own every season on iTunes. I believe it was the “BEST” family TV show ever made. Not criticizing but I would chained all eight drive tires as well as the steering tires for added traction as well as safety. I’ve had to throw tire chains way too many times all over the Rocky Mountains and quit a few times in the Appalachian Mountain area. There are times when I’d only throw them on the front axle though but this wouldn’t have been one of those times.
why don't you use the twist tensioner on the chain, if you would let out about 20 feet of cable. hook the stuck truck and use it to put weight on your wrecker when you pull them, and they won't be running over your cable.
Need chains that are called V-BARS, look them up, the chains you have on would work good on the steering axle do all four tires on rear axle, outside of front drive, and your right steer tire, V-BAR CHAINS, if you know what im talking about you can't afford them but they would last a season or two, the chains you have on you could wear out in a couple days
I love watching our UA-cam videos they are very educational videos and keep up the good work you are helping out people in need I happy for you and say to Braxton for me and stay warm
Must be nice to have Jackson to put chains on... lol lol wish my mack had that out here in the rockies... but I do feel for the southern who don't know what its like to drive on snow n ice consistently to even get any experience in it... to them its all new for sure...
It's been a minute since I put chains on but if I remember correctly you should have a little key way with the chains it's on the side there on the side wall of the tire you should be able to stick a little keyway tool in there and turn it so you can lock the chains to the tire without needing bungee cords
Boy do you trust that cable!! I just picture that thing snapping and taking out all the on lookers, the grill, glass, and anything else. We do it much different up north We use big chains and a lot shorter distance. I don’t miss chaining up 😂. If you can find a way to hang them length wise, it will make your life much easier.
When pulling trucks up hills we only use 2 swampers, 1 to hook 1 to unhook. Too many ppl is too many ppl to get hurt if cable breaks or something goes wrong.
Hiya Tim... so, whenever it's that cold, and nothing else works on ice, try using ash from a wood stove. Instant traction! I live in the Missouri Ozarks, born in Pennsylvania, grew up in KCMO. This is a trick we learned back east when Pennsylvania DOT used ash and cinder from the steel mills on the roads in the 70s. Try it.
Tim you probably won't read this comment it's been a few days since you dropped this video. You need to build a door that will open and close to protect your controls from the snow ice salt and rain keep your controls dry from the bad weather. It will make your work Sooooo much easier without having to deal with your controls giving you problems in the long run.
Not so much, The reason chains work is because they are putting all the weight of the truck on small contact patches of sharp chain that dig into the ice, therefore more chain equals more contact surface area which actually decreases traction, having single chains puts a lot more weight on a lot less links of chain and digs into the ice further.
You think she was lit up,Let a D.O.T or that Cop see Brax backing up that truck on a hill on ice,They would take your CDL then charge you with child endangerment!Im all for seeing you succeed and see Brax do his thing,But there is a time and place,And this was not it!!
Hey Tim, if you want to be able to get a running start and not break things, I've seen quite a few guys put a Yankum rope hooked to the truck then hook your winch cable to that so that it will absorb any shock from the sudden start. May want to look into those if you think you need one.
That's great how everybody is helping each other. Hey can you get Brax a hi vis vest to put on over his coat so he can be seen better please, black is not a safety color. Thanks so much.
I usually use a kienetic rope for these types of pulls. Hooked to my boom cables and keep it around 40' with boom extended a bit and up for down force on drives. It keeps from that shock load on your equipment.
I love it Tim! I love seeing everybody working together I wish other companies in my town were that way around here don't nobody around here try to work together they all try to put eachother out of business except for me I always try to work with others and always make it known I'm not competition I'm just doing a job I love trying to feed my family and making a living for myself so I can make sure my kids are taken care of when I'm gone. I just need to close up here In west virginia and come down and work with yall lol I'd have a blast with yall I just know it. I've always said if I'd ever move away from home it would be to move to somewhere in Tennessee I've always loved taking vacation to Nashville, and pigeon forge, and I have always liked the area of knoxville, Sweetwater, alittle bit of memphis, and Gatlinburg.
When pulling trucks up the hill keep you cable shorter and boom out a little bit so you are pulling down on your drives plus it gives you more control. Just some friendly advice. Your doing great.
If y’all need lights let us know at Areawide communications in Medina Tennessee we’re a federal signal dealer, we have any kind of light you want!! Keep up the good work!!!!
KingOfObsolete from Canada recommends the blue rubber bungie cords as there better in freezing temps and break less than the black ones, they do cost more but last longer
Still surprises me trucks running in winter months with no chains on board, I worked on a truck fleet, we would run chain hangers on the tractors and trailers. At the start of winter we would hang chains on them all, enough for drives plus spares, one for steer, and a couple drag chains for the trailer. Our team trucks would have cable chains on board all year round just in case, so they didn't get stuck in a freak storm.
Im not even lying, last spring I pulled the first semi out with my 2000 dodge ram 2500 diesel when he got stuck down the road from where I work, small world🤣
Walk-in talkies/ radios for tow driver, stuck driver, and spotters, makes a hell of a difference in recovery’s! Being in neutral… almost running over cable… cuts those mistakes down.
Yesterday morning 2 guys with atow truck were working on a car buried in the ditch. I went and bought them coffee and hot breakfast sandwiches. Nothing but respect for their service. Stay safe out there.😊
God bless you and your team.be SAFE
Thank you so much for being a great person
Nice job bud
Legend
Thank you as a tow truck driver its greatly appreciated that cup of hot coffee ☕️
I’ve never seen a big truck wrecker that had a crew of 6 that followed it around to help do wrecker stuff! That’s a high Tec piece of equipment you got there son! Single stack! With a winder in the back! 😮 #royalmountainpossy
He's got to have them cuz he don't know how to hook them up..
that's nothing. he's just got a 40-50 ton hauler wrecker. you want to really see a big recovery wrecker go watch Ron Pratt now that's a really big wrecker he's got and it's does things you wouldn't believe.
Tim , just a suggestion from one Former Heavy wrecker operator from Snowy Pa. to another.. Please don't take this the wrong way.. but You're paid by the hour for a truck with massive pulling power's... On Ice especially, Pull with your winch's NOT you're Driveline.. thats gonna bite your ass in the long run I promise..winch's will stand it your driveline won't... Lock it down and winch em to ya.. then unlock and pull ahead and repeat... and although pulling off the boom does give ya more traction Drag Towing off the boom will crack the boom too. don't think for a minute that booms too heavy to twist..it's Not.. lots of leverage with all that cable spooled out.. Snatch block off the bed Rail.
Soon to be a clutch failure.
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Static dragging from the boom isn't a big deal, It's not any different in forces than winching. It's "bumping" to pull things that will fuck shit up as it will shock load everything and that's when shit breaks. As for pulling with the driveline vs the winch it's not any different than being in tow and going up that same hill, the problem would be when he was dragging up the hill and started spinning out, the second he started spinning he should lock it down and winch it through that patch of ice and try again if he wants to drag in with the truck rather than the winch afterwards.
So long as he keeps the boom in the cradle, Doesn't shock load anything by keeping it nice easy static pulls, and he doesn't get crazy with it trying to do a deal pull then he will be fine and guys do this all over all the time.
He does however need to shorten up that line when he static pulls, he has way too much line out and it doesn't help at all in terms of traction.
True that... best to use the winches, that's what they were designed for. Especially on higher grades. Pulling like that is very hard on the truck. Also, there are safety benefits from working from a secure fixed position.
If I had a crew of six to follow me around and help me on a wrecker, I'd use them too
I think if more people would just help others this world would be so much better
For sure, lot are to greedy
Right you ain't lyin! I wish companies around my area would work together like this instead of looking at eachother as an enemy because we are competition. I always let people know that I'm not competition I'm not an enemy I'm just doing the job that I love and have done my whole life so I can make a living and feed my family and leave my kids with something more than I had growing up when I'm gone.
@@TashaOneal-l8h nobody said anything about doing stuff for free for anyone they said it would be nice if people could work together it would be a better place. That includes working together and making money together. You must be the type that is only looking out for yourself.
@@TashaOneal-l8h also probably the type of person that if you did have someone helping you doing the same job that you should probably make more than them too.
Amen to that 🙏
Brax
You really are a young man of very few words. Don't change.
If you want to cabover wrecker then do it but do something cool. Build something that your dad would be jealous of you having.
Maybe something like a Peterbilt cabover dual steer front axle 8x8 or military Hemtt with a Jerr Dan rotator. Something to make the UA-cam world go wow.
Brax gonna be the next whistlin diesel
Hi Tim when you put the chains on you want too turn them so the hook that attach the cross links to the sidewalls the end of the bent over links are away from the tires plus there should be a tool that comes with those chains too turn those half moon shaped slack adjusters and make the chains tighter on the tires
Tim watch highway to hell ur heavy wrecker will go on any mountain road as long as ur chained up
He didnt even tight then chains before locking the cams in place
U just gotta love seeing all these professional drivers that straight out of the city that's never even been on a riding mower out there thinking they r truck drivers there's a big difference.
You have the chain on backwards , The cross links with the ones that are bent on each side them are supposed to stick on the outside of the tire , The second tire I see it's put on correctly , But you should have 3 chain tighteners on them , Once you get them hooked up and then you take your little bar and stick in there and you crank your tighteners up , and then take a rubber and make an X on the outside pulling the chain to gather ,
It is taken you longer to put them on the wrong way , then putting them on the right way , I can put drives and drag chains on 35 minute I will be rolling
Ugh 😂 May God bless you
Tim I just gotta say that your ol Blue surprised the heck out of me watching it pull those rigs up that hill. Well done 👏👏
I’m guessing it’s turning out to be a better rig than you expected.
One suggestion I would like to make; Your cables will scratch the boom up without having 3/4 hoops on the top of the boom to keep them off it. Just use flat iron bent a couple times upward for keeping the cables off the side of it.
You may as well be pissing in the wind with those useless chains they are not even v bar. U want a set of Canadian logger trigg triples only chain that works. Also don't pull through the under reach shorten up the cable get like ten maybe twenty feet in front of the truck pull off the raised boom lifting the pulled truck abit this puts weight on your drives and you won't chew and wreck your truck.
finaly somebody that knows what they'r talking about but I don't Tim will understand!
Those chains work just fine for 90 percent of uses
I love you southern guys saying its cold and you cant even see your breath!!! must be nice to work in balmy weather
I'm with Brax. Definitely need a cabover wrecker.
Now that is a dedicated employee. "I'm not leaving the truck till my supervisor tells me I can"
Me : Yeah lets see how this is really going down.
I hope Braxton and the family had a great holidays
That wrecker sounds so good tim! Yall did a great job!keep at it brother and never stop reaching!
Jamie Davis will tell u how to work in the snow
Gentry ain't towing for nothing!
Love your channel Tim, your men & Brex need safety vest for their own protection when you are out on the roads.
Man you guys want give Tim a break don't I hope the best for the old boy
A trick we use is stay dry. You throw a couple bags of it across the road it will get between the tires and the Ice and give you the traction you need. I use it all the time in my Rotator and it will hold it to the road.
Tim you can slowly fit your truck with everything you need.
Our highway dept. mixes the treatment for our roads 3 loader buckets of sand to one loader bucket of salt. it gives you better traction and you use less salt. If the sun comes out in the afternoon. We scrap the roads to help break up the ice. We also have a komatsu grader to scrap the roads if necessary.
I wish we had the resources here but it snows this much once every 10-30 years so Tennessee and the counties in Tennessee don’t allocate sufficient funds to handle the 6-10 inches we got in one day. On normal years we have a couple small snows that might be 2-3 inches each. There’s still roads that aren’t cleared and this snow was from Monday
But it doesn't snow that much where they are.
Great job Tim and crew! The auto chains are nice but for what you guys were doing the good old tire chains are the way to go.
I'd also suggest sending your guys to a wreckmaster class..
A single part of 5/8" wire rope yanking on 80,000. What could go wrong? lol
I would say buying that wrecker was a very good investment. That old girl has been working steady. Great job guys.
Love everything about it! Companies working together for a common goal of helping others and keeping roadways open. And most of all Brax getting taught all the knowledge and seeing first hand how to be a successful adult!!
That little Detroit was singing out of that single stack. Sounded good and looked like it was doing a good job!
Private property is one thing, but a public road on ice during a job is a huge liability risk. If your insurance company sees this video ???? Keep it safe (this is specific to the young man behind the wheel)
Some good points!
But......."Self employed" is totally different than "employee"
That's why it is not an issue for him. Just FYI. I personally would still be cautious of course with filming certain events but to each their own! Tim is just seems to me to be a good ol boy making a honest living and that's why he has no worries
He's Timmy Gentry..... untouchable 😂😂😂
Just a bit of advice, when your pulling em uphill like that you really only need about 30ft of cable out.
Living in Canada you work with what you got to get the job done…Tim your the best❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
thank you for being a down to earth person... And god bless you all
What you need to buy is a lot of Yakin ropes. The recovery ropes the big boys like four or five of them with all the soft shackles and be a lot easier for doing jobs. Like this than using your winch line.
The ropes aren't actually for straight line towing
@@mrmotofy says who thats what they are made for have u need seen any videos on them at all lol
@@rbttiny702 Their instructions say they're not designed to straight tow
@@rbttiny702 They aren't made for towing...READ the documentation
Then why does everyone do it with no problems at all
I love watching braxi driving them trucks
Msn those chains helped a lot on your bad a tow truck. Great job guys.
Still think you should add a big front winch on a heavy steel bumper to that wrecker , for smaller more fiddly stuff like cars in ditches.
Adds to the list of jobs you can do .
Tim you need to put covers over the controls on the wrecker body to keep ice of the levers.
I got saved by a wrecker this morning,stayed parked at the shipper overnight and woke up to a skating rink in the morning!! Shoutout to all the wreckers out there definitely staying busy this winter 🙏🏼
Goshh dang that T600 wrecker sounds Wicked Tim, Fantastic job on restoring this beast of a truck man
You sure said it right about your truck not seeing weather like that in Georgia. Around here where it has been working there’s only been snow less than ten times in the past ten years and that’s stretching it really. It wasn’t enough even to stick to the ground. It would just be a few sprinkles here and there then it melts. But overall it’s a nice looking truck. Good luck!
Tim!
You got a fk of a lot of people that are going to be thankful and talking good about you brother. Your trucking family keeps getting bigger with this wrecker in weather like this.
Continued success my friend.
Note to you. Keep the wrecker inside the building when you shut it down. That is your breadwinner in weather like this and you should have got that truck ready to run in the cold weather. A lot of the truck dealerships call it the artic package. Install a good powerful block heater that keeps the coolant warm.Insulate your heating lines and beef up your heating inside the cab cause your windows will ice up no matter what you are driving through. Don’t forget about an alcohol evaporator for the air system which is a must in cold weather so you don’t ice up your air system. It will leave you stranded at the worst of times, Get it ready as you would be going to the ice roads up north. Most of all, put those deep groove tires from that truck sitting at Robs place.
This storm might be one of a kind and you might not see another one for years but again, you can’t be ready enough. Oh don’t forget to treat the diesel fuel in the tanks with a fuel conditioner. Safety Kleen makes the best ever.
Brax is having the time of his life!!!
Give Holly dog a huge hug for me.
I went through Knoxville on Wednesday and there was definitely some leftover carnage off in the ditches from Monday and Tuesday on I-75/I-40. I canceled my Monday and Tuesday loads--freight is too cheap to risk my life or equipment.
Hi Tim you. Can put some alcohol in your airtanks so your brakes don’t freeze
Twisting to the locks on your chains really helps.
They are twists lock chains thanks for helping people out. Great video and keep up the amazing work 👍
Been watching you for awhile now but just made my mind up and hit the subscribe button today. I like watching all the heavy hauls you do I did the heavy haul game 10 plus years all together I have 22 plus years under my belt. But just this past July I had no choice but to come off the road do to having my right lung collapsing twice in less then 2 years apart.
Man wish i could be there doing what your doing stay safe thank you for filming a portion of your life
I have to agree. I miss Home Improvement being on TV so it’s a good thing I own every season on iTunes. I believe it was the “BEST” family TV show ever made.
Not criticizing but I would chained all eight drive tires as well as the steering tires for added traction as well as safety. I’ve had to throw tire chains way too many times all over the Rocky Mountains and quit a few times in the Appalachian Mountain area. There are times when I’d only throw them on the front axle though but this wouldn’t have been one of those times.
Keep it up Tim I'm watching from Jamaica 🇯🇲
why don't you use the twist tensioner on the chain,
if you would let out about 20 feet of cable. hook the stuck truck and use it to put weight on your wrecker when you pull them, and they won't be running over your cable.
Because they don't know sh!t
First off you use 1 maybe 2 people 6 paying out waisted money
great job y'all what a beautiful sevice yall do for the community keep up the wonderful work
Tim and the tow truck are doing a good job way to go Tim and Brax
And the 6 other guys helping
Need chains that are called V-BARS, look them up, the chains you have on would work good on the steering axle do all four tires on rear axle, outside of front drive, and your right steer tire, V-BAR CHAINS, if you know what im talking about you can't afford them but they would last a season or two, the chains you have on you could wear out in a couple days
I love watching our UA-cam videos they are very educational videos and keep up the good work you are helping out people in need I happy for you and say to Braxton for me and stay warm
You don’t think he’s doing this for free do you? 🤣
Must be nice to have Jackson to put chains on... lol lol wish my mack had that out here in the rockies... but I do feel for the southern who don't know what its like to drive on snow n ice consistently to even get any experience in it... to them its all new for sure...
Yep, the chain work was not textbook. But you made it work.
Hey what’s up fam how y’all doing much love let’s go #GNSTRUCKING stand up checking in with y’all one love fam
It's been a minute since I put chains on but if I remember correctly you should have a little key way with the chains it's on the side there on the side wall of the tire you should be able to stick a little keyway tool in there and turn it so you can lock the chains to the tire without needing bungee cords
The only wrecker who has a crew cab of helpers follow it around here in Pennsylvania it’s just 1 guy
its so funny how this is a monumental event for timmy, but all of canada operates completely fine in this weather
Yep 😂😂😂
Boy do you trust that cable!! I just picture that thing snapping and taking out all the on lookers, the grill, glass, and anything else. We do it much different up north We use big chains and a lot shorter distance. I don’t miss chaining up 😂. If you can find a way to hang them length wise, it will make your life much easier.
When pulling trucks up hills we only use 2 swampers, 1 to hook 1 to unhook. Too many ppl is too many ppl to get hurt if cable breaks or something goes wrong.
Y'all got that wrecker going in the perfect timing. Looking good.
You guys doing awesome job pulling all the trucks up the hill 😂
Hiya Tim... so, whenever it's that cold, and nothing else works on ice, try using ash from a wood stove. Instant traction! I live in the Missouri Ozarks, born in Pennsylvania, grew up in KCMO.
This is a trick we learned back east when Pennsylvania DOT used ash and cinder from the steel mills on the roads in the 70s. Try it.
What a great purchase of the big wrecker!!
hey you did your chains wrong . the first step it to have some one ells do it and you supervise . ha ha ha ha lol just kidding we love ya .
Tim I shure hope you do not change the hood on your wrecker ,love the one you have especially with those headlights.
Video popped up on my recommendations. Just subscribed. Be safe out there! 🤜🤛
Check out the yankem ropes it will make pulling trucks up hill a lot easier and not shock load your winch cable when it gets slack in it.
I haven't chained nothing in 25 years, looked good to me, got it done all is all that matters! 👏💯👏
I've been doing heavy recovery for 40 years been doing it on ice roads 20 and everywhere else in between! Shut it down this year!
Your doing a great job tim. Keep it up.
Hey just wanted to say if you raise your bom up and shorten the cable it will help you with better bit on the road
Tim you probably won't read this comment it's been a few days since you dropped this video. You need to build a door that will open and close to protect your controls from the snow ice salt and rain keep your controls dry from the bad weather. It will make your work Sooooo much easier without having to deal with your controls giving you problems in the long run.
Dual tyre chains would help immensely Timmy as single chains only grip one tyre and lift the other off the road abit
Not so much, The reason chains work is because they are putting all the weight of the truck on small contact patches of sharp chain that dig into the ice, therefore more chain equals more contact surface area which actually decreases traction, having single chains puts a lot more weight on a lot less links of chain and digs into the ice further.
Single chains dig out and leave inside tire on ice. No traction
@@jaygraham5407 depends on the thickness of ice and the thickness of the chain links, his chains suck is the big problem
@@towtruckaj poor excuse for tire chains
You think she was lit up,Let a D.O.T or that Cop see Brax backing up that truck on a hill on ice,They would take your CDL then charge you with child endangerment!Im all for seeing you succeed and see Brax do his thing,But there is a time and place,And this was not it!!
She definitely got the job done!
Hey Tim, if you want to be able to get a running start and not break things, I've seen quite a few guys put a Yankum rope hooked to the truck then hook your winch cable to that so that it will absorb any shock from the sudden start. May want to look into those if you think you need one.
It’s really funny seeing how good the roads are For at least us (northern peoples standards) and still Al lot of issues down there
Little trick with these wreckers put some ATF in the hydro tanks to help flow in cold weather.
I love Steve Bryce and Braxton having a camera. Some many different camera angles
That's great how everybody is helping each other. Hey can you get Brax a hi vis vest to put on over his coat so he can be seen better please, black is not a safety color. Thanks so much.
I usually use a kienetic rope for these types of pulls. Hooked to my boom cables and keep it around 40' with boom extended a bit and up for down force on drives. It keeps from that shock load on your equipment.
I love it Tim! I love seeing everybody working together I wish other companies in my town were that way around here don't nobody around here try to work together they all try to put eachother out of business except for me I always try to work with others and always make it known I'm not competition I'm just doing a job I love trying to feed my family and making a living for myself so I can make sure my kids are taken care of when I'm gone. I just need to close up here In west virginia and come down and work with yall lol I'd have a blast with yall I just know it. I've always said if I'd ever move away from home it would be to move to somewhere in Tennessee I've always loved taking vacation to Nashville, and pigeon forge, and I have always liked the area of knoxville, Sweetwater, alittle bit of memphis, and Gatlinburg.
When pulling trucks up the hill keep you cable shorter and boom out a little bit so you are pulling down on your drives plus it gives you more control. Just some friendly advice. Your doing great.
Oil pan or block heater would help in Cold Starts. easy on starter
That’s what I call a cash machine!! Back down the hill and hook up, drive to the top and get paid. Rinse and repeat
Stay safe brother👍
Love the into 😂😂 gentry’s and sons TOWING😂😂 made my day my friend
Great content Tim love this stuff almost didn’t recognize you in Blue Jeans Lol!
Brax you needa get C&C Equipment to build you a badass HET with a JerrDan wrecker platform on the back of it. 6x6 power
If y’all need lights let us know at Areawide communications in Medina Tennessee we’re a federal signal dealer, we have any kind of light you want!! Keep up the good work!!!!
35:11....that lady has definitely had a few drinks!!
Some quick advice keep the truck your pulling closer and boom up more it'll give you more traction on your drives definitely helps alot
That truck is beast mode man
KingOfObsolete from Canada recommends the blue rubber bungie cords as there better in freezing temps and break less than the black ones, they do cost more but last longer
Still surprises me trucks running in winter months with no chains on board, I worked on a truck fleet, we would run chain hangers on the tractors and trailers. At the start of winter we would hang chains on them all, enough for drives plus spares, one for steer, and a couple drag chains for the trailer. Our team trucks would have cable chains on board all year round just in case, so they didn't get stuck in a freak storm.
Hi Tim Gentry and Sons and family
Im not even lying, last spring I pulled the first semi out with my 2000 dodge ram 2500 diesel when he got stuck down the road from where I work, small world🤣