Well, here's my experience from last friday. I go over to my dad's house to help him with our homemade engineering project. He has an old mill pond on his property that has had the dam blown out. We've been doing formwork and reinforcement to get ready to pour concrete around the dam for over a year now in our spare time so we were anxious to get the concrete poured and fill 'er up.
Schedule a 2" concrete pumper and 8 yards of concrete for friday. I pull up and it's threatening to rain, concrete is on its way already so we have already bought it, gotta use it now. Dad had bulldozed a path down to the pond and it had one low spot that didn't look to bad, after 5 days of sunshine
SO now it proceeds to rain in buckets.
Pumper shows up on a trailer behind a Chevy 2500HD 4x4. He goes down the road and quickly proceeds to sink "like a rock". I go down there and drive around the road into the muck pull around in front and pull him the rest of the way through, the whole time he is just like
(getting pulled by a lexus???)
Next is the concrete truck, he says he isn't gonna go unless we have a wrecker. We call a bud over who has a 40,000 lb big rig wrecker. he goes through barely and then the concrete truck goes in and gets stuck up to the hoghead. The big wrecker winches him through and we go about our business; raining the whole time.
The wrecker turns around and gets ready to go back through to the other side and we keep working on the dam. I go up to see if the wrecker is ready and he is rockin' back and forth spinning everywhere. HUGE RUTS now! I'm thinking oh sh#! now we are ALL gonna be stuck over here! I trudge through the mud and tell him, "I know I can't pull you but I may be the difference between you getting out and not". To which he agrees. We decide to use my tow strap instead of his winch cable in case something like the rear end of my truck decides to fly apart
I hook up to him, go into low, lock CDL and he hits R and I hit 1 at the same time. We pull and pull and finally as he starts to come out POW!!!!!
My heart sank, I know I had just FUBAR'ed my 100. Get out, walk around (as he drives out now thanks to my help) and see my tow strap had snapped. Whew, what a relief.
Moral of the story: Even though a 12,000lb tow strap can't pull a 40,000lb rig, it's alot damn better than pulling your rear end off!!
I think this is the rig: Jerr-Dan
Tad Abraham
Schedule a 2" concrete pumper and 8 yards of concrete for friday. I pull up and it's threatening to rain, concrete is on its way already so we have already bought it, gotta use it now. Dad had bulldozed a path down to the pond and it had one low spot that didn't look to bad, after 5 days of sunshine
SO now it proceeds to rain in buckets.Pumper shows up on a trailer behind a Chevy 2500HD 4x4. He goes down the road and quickly proceeds to sink "like a rock". I go down there and drive around the road into the muck pull around in front and pull him the rest of the way through, the whole time he is just like
(getting pulled by a lexus???)Next is the concrete truck, he says he isn't gonna go unless we have a wrecker. We call a bud over who has a 40,000 lb big rig wrecker. he goes through barely and then the concrete truck goes in and gets stuck up to the hoghead. The big wrecker winches him through and we go about our business; raining the whole time.
The wrecker turns around and gets ready to go back through to the other side and we keep working on the dam. I go up to see if the wrecker is ready and he is rockin' back and forth spinning everywhere. HUGE RUTS now! I'm thinking oh sh#! now we are ALL gonna be stuck over here! I trudge through the mud and tell him, "I know I can't pull you but I may be the difference between you getting out and not". To which he agrees. We decide to use my tow strap instead of his winch cable in case something like the rear end of my truck decides to fly apart
I hook up to him, go into low, lock CDL and he hits R and I hit 1 at the same time. We pull and pull and finally as he starts to come out POW!!!!!My heart sank, I know I had just FUBAR'ed my 100. Get out, walk around (as he drives out now thanks to my help) and see my tow strap had snapped. Whew, what a relief.
Moral of the story: Even though a 12,000lb tow strap can't pull a 40,000lb rig, it's alot damn better than pulling your rear end off!!
I think this is the rig: Jerr-Dan
Tad Abraham
