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    Paging Argabarga - tow truck question

    Last night, on the way home, my husband and I passed the aftermath of a crash. One involved vehicle, with front end damage, was already on a tow truck and about to be taken away. The other was still on the road, on its passenger side, with a tow truck backing toward it.

    Neither of us could figure out how #2 could be gotten from its current position to its destined spot on the tow truck. How CAN you get a car that's not on its wheels loaded up, anyway?
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    I've seen tow trucks with bars/frames attached to long chains that can be slipped under a vehicle and secured under there somehow...I'm sure Arga could give more detail
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    • #3
      Your winch is your friend (and the 4x4 blocks are your copilot)

      https://youtu.be/oY3N9z2ngzs
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      • #4
        Thanks!

        Now if I could also figure out that one on "World's Dumbest Drivers", where someone going through a gate on level ground at probably no more than 10mph managed to roll it....
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        • #5
          I was going to say they'll setup to winch it back onto its wheels, but Arga beat me to it.
          Seanette - Check out "Highway thru Hell" on youtube (thats the channel name) - They do some interesting tow's. Not sure how much is... creatively shown, but its still interesting.
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          • #6
            I can't say how it goes in the wild, but I know the safety/recovery crews at NASCAR races have a system where they will take the car, lift it off the ground, flip it while it's in the air, and 'gentle' set it back on the ground on it's wheels, all with the driver still in it. They determined, a few years ago, it was safer to keep the driver belted in the car, flip the car back over on the wheels, then do what they need to do to extract the driver from the car.
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            • #7
              Ive learned never doubt a tow tuck my van was having issues where it would eve turn the key to Acc so u couldn't put it into natural to tow so he would have used dolly type things to get it onto the truck, but eventually we go it started and he just charged me for a lock out.

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              • #8
                I once got one down from being balanced on top of a jersey barrier without flipping it onto it's roof.... every day is an adventure.

                So far, the "worst" I ever had was the one at the bottom of the cliff......

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