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Eric McCarthy

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That dude in the mud is SCREWED :eek:

How much would it cost to get that guy out :confused:


I dont know for sure. When I was in a wrecker a few years back it was around 110 to 112 bucks an hour to work on something like that. Oh and thats PER truck. You'd need 2 heavy duty wreckers to get that Cat track hoe out for sure.
 

traildust

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I dont know for sure. When I was in a wrecker a few years back it was around 110 to 112 bucks an hour to work on something like that. Oh and thats PER truck. You'd need 2 heavy duty wreckers to get that Cat track hoe out for sure.
Crap! So even a salvage lik that wouldn't put a dent in the $300,000 for the wrecker :(

You would need a lot more idiots to pull out to get it payed off.
 

Eric McCarthy

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NOPE! And thats why most trucks get over a million miles on them and after a while a owner will swap out the cab and chassie and put the same old wrecker boom and tool boxes on a fresh new truck to keep costs down. I worked at a wrecker company that had a 1972 Kenworth rotator. It had well over one million miles so the bossman bought a brand new Western Star cab and chassie and took the old boom and body off the old and stuck it on the new.
 

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NOPE! And thats why most trucks get over a million miles on them and after a while a owner will swap out the cab and chassie and put the same old wrecker boom and tool boxes on a fresh new truck to keep costs down. I worked at a wrecker company that had a 1972 Kenworth rotator. It had well over one million miles so the bossman bought a brand new Western Star cab and chassie and took the old boom and body off the old and stuck it on the new.

OMG a million miles :eek:

Well, that makes perfectly good sense to swap over the money making end if it all still works. It's hard to believe people make money with those things :confused:
 

Eric McCarthy

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A wrecker with a rotator boom on it is a money making truck. Its basically a crane thats faster down the highway and faster at recovery work. The rotator boom will spin a complete 360 degrees making it very useful on the side of the highway when traffic space is limited.
 

traildust

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A wrecker with a rotator boom on it is a money making truck. Its basically a crane thats faster down the highway and faster at recovery work. The rotator boom will spin a complete 360 degrees making it very useful on the side of the highway when traffic space is limited.
Thanks Eric!


 

Eric McCarthy

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Seen it and LOVE IT! I watch that show all the time. Brings back alot of memories when I was in a wrecker.
 

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I think it was the green thing upside down in the car wash that started all this off off topic discussion.