Great to follow along on your Truck Escapades!! We did all this stuff in the 80s... i guess you'd call us BackYard Connecticut!! We had Suburbans, Apaches, GMC Utilities, and on....thanks again, buddy!!
Howdy! You mentioned putting wood blocks under your truck to lessen the squatting down. What I did was get a big coil spring. I cut it in half and welded a chunk of channel to the bottom of each then I welded it to the axle below the frame. It doesn’t affect anything until a load is added. The frame settles down onto the spring and that’s it, it goes no further down. Works good. I did the same thing on my flatbed trailer with the same results. Just thought I’d let you know what worked for me. Like the videos, thanks!
You should enter one of your rigs into Matt's offroad recovery wrecker games if it happens again. It would be awesome to see how an Alaskan truck would do on the trails in southern Utah.
* Austin ! You always put a smile on my face ! Dude you could use those poles for double duty. If you put a sparker in the bottom and a bung to load them with ether then put the end plate between the poles you could make an awesome double barrel Potato Gun !!! Also you could hook propane tanks up to the bungs and shoot flames into the sky !!! 🤘😎🤙
Hey Brother! I hope 'Ole Ethel' don't get jealous of the the newcomer. You got one big happy family there! Can't wait for the field testing vids, keep 'er goin' brother!
Haha, thats Mainer style my friend. I dig it, i have my own rig of a similar set up, 78 F250 4x4. She gets mauled often snd well used. The boom is off a 61 F350 wrecker, on a 77 flatbed, the boom is held up by round tubing welded in place insyead of the old cable like it had. Takes a licking well
A friend of mine had his boom truck set up with two 5 ton trailer jacks on a custom rear bumper like out riggers for when he was dragging vehicles up hills .
Earnest Holmes will be proud of you guys that make custom made wreckers and a frame boom trucks for towing and recovery jobs and trees down a cross the atv trails and some people have a deer camp up in Alaskan worldernice and its a winch out call
Your creativity is inspiring. I personally would love to see your idea for a huge wrecker style bumper come to fruition. Just my opinion. Rock on young man.
Great fab work glad you showed that all good workmanship does not have to look like it is factory made. Thanks for showing and be proud of your work I would be if I had done it.
Brooklyn style my friend the early models used a chain like yours later models used a cable to suspend but the 3 pole manley’s had a one piece housing with the cable inside the center housing ..
I'm a heavy equipment welder and your welds are fine I rebuild buckets and you should see some of the booger welds that have been holding them together for 20 years your fine
Plenty of oilfield pipe and winches from the world war two era army trucks with the wire rope from ritchie bros auctioneers from the old logging trucks and there you go back in business
Jeez putting all that 'Day Two' crap on that Baret Jackson Alaskan Highboy Ferd really is going to hurt the bidding when your wives are auctioning off your estate. Oh well, they knew what they were getting into.
Welp that intro was all I needed to subscribe 👌
Great to follow along on your Truck Escapades!! We did all this stuff in the 80s... i guess you'd call us BackYard Connecticut!! We had Suburbans, Apaches, GMC Utilities, and on....thanks again, buddy!!
Heck yeah nothing wrong with that 👍 👍 👍 👍
Good job on the boom truck. Working with what you have. Keep up the good videos. Have A Good Day Sir. 🛻🚚🚛
You could always run a chain or a strap from the boom to the bumper or Reese hitch to limit the boom bounce
Need more spacing between the base of the boom and the support chains will make it more safe and stronger
Howdy! You mentioned putting wood blocks under your truck to lessen the squatting down. What I did was get a big coil spring. I cut it in half and welded a chunk of channel to the bottom of each then I welded it to the axle below the frame. It doesn’t affect anything until a load is added. The frame settles down onto the spring and that’s it, it goes no further down. Works good. I did the same thing on my flatbed trailer with the same results. Just thought I’d let you know what worked for me. Like the videos, thanks!
BYA, sure will be handy dandy to pull motors and pull-out vehicles in the woods.
You should enter one of your rigs into Matt's offroad recovery wrecker games if it happens again. It would be awesome to see how an Alaskan truck would do on the trails in southern Utah.
make a moose catcher like you see on a kenworth, but of rusty iron.
Beautiful Job. The welding looks gr8. I think you had to much fun in making your boom😊
Looks really good, nice job…..
Good ideas and presented well and looks factory. Looking forward to that big ass front bumper.. thx for showing this vid.
* Austin ! You always put a smile on my face ! Dude you could use those poles for double duty. If you put a sparker in the bottom and a bung to load them with ether then put the end plate between the poles you could make an awesome double barrel Potato Gun !!! Also you could hook propane tanks up to the bungs and shoot flames into the sky !!! 🤘😎🤙
Hey Brother! I hope 'Ole Ethel' don't get jealous of the the newcomer. You got one big happy family there! Can't wait for the field testing vids, keep 'er goin' brother!
Haha, thats Mainer style my friend. I dig it, i have my own rig of a similar set up, 78 F250 4x4. She gets mauled often snd well used. The boom is off a 61 F350 wrecker, on a 77 flatbed, the boom is held up by round tubing welded in place insyead of the old cable like it had. Takes a licking well
A descaler might be handy
I like it and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
Good story. Pretty nice junk pile to be considered nothing. Garage & tools deluxe. Stay safe.
A friend of mine had his boom truck set up with two 5 ton trailer jacks on a custom rear bumper like out riggers for when he was dragging vehicles up hills .
Stayin tuned.
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Hmm needs to test it out. I got the test. There's 2 70s 4door Nova's outside of town I need for RATBIRD 😅
Bad Ass. Great, useful build.
Earnest Holmes will be proud of you guys that make custom made wreckers and a frame boom trucks for towing and recovery jobs and trees down a cross the atv trails and some people have a deer camp up in Alaskan worldernice and its a winch out call
Your creativity is inspiring. I personally would love to see your idea for a huge wrecker style bumper come to fruition. Just my opinion. Rock on young man.
I like it 👍👍👍
Great fab work glad you showed that all good workmanship does not have to look like it is factory made. Thanks for showing and be proud of your work I would be if I had done it.
Nice work. Way to be resourceful 👌
Thank you for this. Love from Fairbanks
NICE Rig!
Great video. I see spring is here.
It will work fine for what you are doing 👍👍🇺🇸
👌🏼 Mint !
You can't have functionality without a little funk. 😊
Good move. Go deluxe hook up the front diff.
Bolt the boom to your hitchmount linked in the chains. That'll get you a lot more reach and it makes it easier to put it on and off
Awesome build 😎
How do you adjust the height?
Pick it up ,Pick up truck !
Brooklyn style my friend the early models used a chain like yours later models used a cable to suspend but the 3 pole manley’s had a one piece housing with the cable inside the center housing ..
That's one dubious idea and a wench away from being from getting you into some good story making, nicely done
Love this guys content
Old propane tanks bumper you could even fill them with water for weight to prevent whee lstands . Hang a safety red painted propane tank from the boom
You can weld that hole on Z bar then re-drill a hole also.
hell yea 👏
I’m literally about to build something similar for my Mazda B2200 so I can lift up Pelican Cases and small logs etc
It works 😀👍
If it works it wort!
I'm a heavy equipment welder and your welds are fine I rebuild buckets and you should see some of the booger welds that have been holding them together for 20 years your fine
Here we go!
I thought I saw smoke in the northern sky today :-)
Noice!
I like that I like to have 1
So are you retiring the old green pole truck?
Never
Plenty of oilfield pipe and winches from the world war two era army trucks with the wire rope from ritchie bros auctioneers from the old logging trucks and there you go back in business
I like to have it
Nothing like building something that sketchy af to get something done 😂😂😂😂
Jeez putting all that 'Day Two' crap on that Baret Jackson Alaskan Highboy Ferd really is going to hurt the bidding when your wives are auctioning off your estate. Oh well, they knew what they were getting into.
Where did you learn how to do all this stuff? I mean you're always working alone so it seems like you might be self taught.
Pretty much self taught with a lot of things.
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Kick ass and move on!
That dog will hunt.