Them old Fords and the old Chevys are good old trucks they're hard to beat good job y'all

Great job of not damaging the Ford 6 by 6 while recovering it through trees

For unique setups like this one an extra minute or two to show off the custom design would definitely add appeal to the video.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Noted!

Nice extraction and good job trailering the Ford.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Love the little bluegrass song

Unique recovery for a unique vehicle. Love this!

Would have loved to seen his rear drive shaft setup👍

@haroldphipps3457

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@Beandiptheredneck

3 жыл бұрын

It’s got a shaft going to it somehow 🤷‍♂️ only thing I can think is maybe twin cases, one clocked up and one clocked down?

@mw5905

3 жыл бұрын

13:04 It looks like both shafts are being driven by the same t-case

@xmo552

3 жыл бұрын

There's 3 ways: 1)Big rigs use a short shaft between the rear axles. 2) run a dual rear output t-case. 3) run a 2nd t-case between the tandems.

@mw5905

3 жыл бұрын

@@xmo552 He wasn't running toploaders, so that leaves 2 or 3.

Hi Eric, great job love that Chevy hauling a Ford

I like to see more of this f150 !!

Thanks for sharing video 📹 your doing a great job you make it look easy

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

You make everything look soo easy.

Great videos....enjoy watching them bro....sometimes even more than a few times....👍👍👍

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

You are a true master at what you do.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

You guys are awesome

Great video. I like when you have to be creative on your recoveries.

Great ingenuity on the recovery

Ya never cease to amaze me with those tight pulls. Nice one. Greetings from a very long time subscriber here in the UK.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you

Great video guys! Keep wheelin

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

I JUST LOVE 6X6'S!

Great job!

Awesome job

Great job 👌👍

Love watching bsf.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

so glad to see the ol wrecker still gittin er done

Wow! Man, I like this truck. Good 'ole American ingenuity!

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Great entertainment, fun watching you come up with solutions. Stay safe.😷

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

@xmo552

3 жыл бұрын

@@offroadrecoveryteam If I remember correctly you have an 8" lift on the wrecker. 8" spring up front and 6" block in the rear. How did you lift the remaining 2" in the rear?

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Add a leaf (higher arch leaf spring added to the spring pack)

@xmo552

3 жыл бұрын

@@offroadrecoveryteam Thank you

good video, keep them coming

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

We will!

Great effort. Never give up!

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

That's the plan!

Awesome job!! ✌🐢

Good Job!

Hello how are y'all doing? I love watching your videos. Cant wait for the next one to come out. Yall all take care and be safe

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too!

Great job and always enjoy

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Love the bluegrass

No rag joint just bolt the column straight to the box. I’ve had to do it before.

Hope I never HAVE to see you guys out in the woods. Wouldn't mind seeing ya though. I did recovery for a few years in my twenties and I've had my share of problems out there. Good videos.

I built a plastic model tow truck based on your truck looks cool

Awesome video love it when y’all tow a ford with the Chevy

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

I love the wrecker ❤️

Good stuff!

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

great video

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Great recovery by the way it is great how you do help people tho no matter how dumb some are

Hi love all your videos

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, keep watching.

Video idea,,, When things get slow (??), you could do shop visits and kinda show how some of these builds have been done.

I would really like to see more of the six by six . Very creative.

@owayne1312

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I saw this for sale recently

@chevylandt.v

3 жыл бұрын

@@owayne1312 oh wow. I wonder why?

@jerryclark726

3 жыл бұрын

No it's never been for sale

Cool trk. Interesting fitting that samurai sideways on the trl

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is

Very unique creation

It’s impressive that vehicles don’t just tear apart under the stress on some of these tow points. Ditto for the trees the snatch blocks are attached to.

On a trail like that the 6x6 is only effective if it has crazy articulation. Or a walking beam set up with lots of tyre clearance. Otherwise 2 wheels are always off the ground and it just becomes a hindrance. They come into their own in sand and mud though.

Great work in a challenging environment, hope your next call is easier.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was

@joshuahull379

3 жыл бұрын

Hi

Good job 👏 👍

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

thx

I've changed a water pump on my Ford truck on the side of interstate 65. All I had was vicegrips and a few broken wrenches.

Good driving

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Eric; I saw the link for this one on the Old Iron tow trucks & wreckers FB page.

use some duct tape and two hose clamps one clamp on each side. it works thats what got me off trail once.

Definition of Road: "Any space between the trees, large enough to drive through." But... I can only imagine he thought: "Dang, this got REAL SKINNY!!!". A Jeep Wrangler/CJ Series would probably be a Hoot, to drive down those ATV trails, but a Full-Size+ Truck? Yeah... He said: "I got Lost" ;)

Rag joints, and other steering issues are why people ask "why do you carry 2 come-a-longs?",, we got winch's,,, answer, "not for recovery,,for steering",,,, similar to like you did with the winch when the steering gear came off the frame on the wrecker

i was thinking of turning my old chevy into a 6x6 but ended up twisting and breaking the frame first. but i think it would have been fun to try

My company does alot of offroad recovery so we invested in Cat 299d skid steer on tracks and we fabed a custom winch box and put a hydraulic winch on it hands down best thing to use for this stuff not all situations but still good i only mention it in case yall never thought of doing something like this.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

I have a old monster M970 Bobcat that I was thinking about building a winch box for.

I really watching your videos

Hi BSF RECOVERY 👍

Looks like double transfer cases has drive shafts for front drive axle in the rear and the rear rear drive axle and looks like 2 ford 9 inch rear ends

Eric , love the videos wish I lived closer to you guys would love to do some off roading up there with you guys!!! I will be getting me a 82 dodge d250 4x4 with a 318 soon from my uncle will be lifting it 6" and running 35 to 37" tires . I live in Michigan so I do have places to wheel up north of me like Silver Lake Sand dunes and the Manistie Nat. Forest so looking forward to some trail riding,just wish I had friends who liked to wheel like I do, and I wish there was some one like you and Klyde up there that could rescue me when I break that d250. Sny way thanks again for all the videos keep them coming maybe one day I could come up there and meet you guys thanks Dave H truck driver

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Silver lake is on our list to go to some day, just not sure when.

@davidhegedus7138

3 жыл бұрын

The dunes are great I have taken my 1997 Chevy K2500 there aired down to 10psi and go

For those that would like a chance to see this truck again at Gilbert I will be there this Sunday Sept. 20th 2020 I should be there at about 11 am or so.hope it goes a lot better this time.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

I would like to know how it went, and post some pictures if you can on the BSF recovery teams FB page.

@jerryclark726

3 жыл бұрын

Had a blast the truck does extremely well. Have no complaints except that we need a new clutch now. Couldn't handle the torque.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

@@jerryclark726 Cool.

That was a challenging but I knew you could do it

He was in a tuff spot! Big truck tight trees good job!

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

You got that right!

Safety wires handy for fixing a rag joints out in the field to get equipment out of the woods...js

Hey love video

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

When I was a teenager me, a close friend and my cousin were tasked to get a broke down old Chevy truck out of my grandmas field armed with just my pickup and my cousins Jeep, it didn’t have a steering shaft so my friend sat under the hood with a pair of vice grips on the steering box shaft and steered it from there 😁 I still have a picture of it somewhere

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Great fun.

Hi from Michigan.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Hello there!

Cooll rigss

Hi. Good vid.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks

This truck would have been fun to watch

Hello from Canada Ontario

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Hello there!

@seast5702

3 жыл бұрын

@@offroadrecoveryteam hows it goin

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Just got back from a event, tired, lots of recoveries today.

I would love to know how he did the axles on that Ford

As a wrecker driver I love your videos, wish I was there to learn from the master. Do you ever go to the tow shows ?

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

None have asked yet, have had a few cable networks show a little interest in a show of my own, but nothing came of it.

You are amazing smart! I am now watching lots of your KZreads. Does your truck (I have a '85 3/4 4X4 pickup) have "Lockers" front or rear?

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Yukon Grizzly locker in the rear

Hay that must be a rough job to do getting the tow truck in tight shots

If you use a 76 f250 steering shaft they don't use rag joints they use a sliding u joint in a cup and they are so much safer

Not that big of a job to just replace the rag joint and drive it out if that was all that was broken, I've torn more than one of those thru the years fixed them where they sat and drove them out, done even way bigger on the trail fixes right up to and including engine swap out in the middle of nowhere on the trail and drove them out, that is the only option when you are where nothing else can even get close to you because you were in an older tucker snowcat at nearly 10,000 feet on the top of a ridge in 20 some feet of snow and throw a con rod thru the side of the block, had to haul a 300 ford six in on snowmobiles in pieces, camp in the snowcat for two nights while re-asembling the new engine and installing it then drive the tucker out after it being on top of the ridge for 4 days and having to snowshoe out about a dozen miles the day it broke down, people these days are just not up to real hardship or being prepared and able to deal with their own problems what so ever, you might say they have become a bunch of serious candy asses anymore.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

The local parts stores no longer had any in stock. Yes I have fixed rag joints, and worse on the trail.

@rustedratchetgarage6788

3 жыл бұрын

@@offroadrecoveryteam that's pathetic part service @ stores these days oil and air fresheners🌲all their good for

@snoopdogie187

3 жыл бұрын

I would think a local parts store this close to such an active trail would be fully stocked on all the commonly broken parts on a trail.

I saw this truck in bigfork mn. Sweet truck. Go check it out

The 6x6 build would have been awesome if the rear axles were on a walking beam setup verses leaf springs. It would stay on the ground better instead of raising one axle off the ground over tall steep grades.

6:00 Nice safe place to stand, if that cable broke loose and came rocketing back at you! :O :S

If you have some strap or rope and duct tape a rag joint is pretty easy to fix enough to get out of the woods. (In my case it got me back into a demolition derby feature)

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

How long did it last in the feature?

@OldGriz708

3 жыл бұрын

@@offroadrecoveryteam I won that night and was able to drive it up on the trailer. We did the same with the U joints, wrapped them with seat belts and duct taped the hell out of them. When we got home the front of the driveshaft was on the trailer deck😅. It's a helluva way to gator the leaf springs as well.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

WOW!

Devorice np205 backwards. Cant use low, just 2wd and 4 high

Dam you didn't think we would like to see how they added a second axle?

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, thought I did, but when I went to edit, no video of it.

very interesting. would have been fun to see how that 6x6 operated if it was not broken.

@goodtimes3941

3 жыл бұрын

true an ok rig , but not for tight quarters.

I onced knew a man name charles hunter had a tow truck just like yours

A rag joint seriously just grab some bolts off the another part direct bolt it to the box thier ya go

nice video!!! i think if i were the owner id just sent someone out for a 10 buck rag joint

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

They tried, out of stock at both the local parts stores.

Music 👍🏻

Nice tow.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

What do you do to lock your brakes in when winching?

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

The truck is has a brake lock.

Most people drive the trails forward. BSF goes backwards up the trails, and then adds extra length and weight for a challenge.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, we do things a little different...LOL

4:13 🤣🤣🤣

Truck Shure is cool broke or not !

Geo tracker not a Samurai !! Keep em coming anyways.

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

My bad

@mini4x

3 жыл бұрын

Had several of both, great little trucks!

Have them send a GPS coordinate.

Hi guys

That would have been a cool rig to see wheelen to bad it was broken

@offroadrecoveryteam

3 жыл бұрын

I had the same thought

@matty2helpfull

3 жыл бұрын

Right oh well keep on keeping on awesome videos