Three Older Mack Wreckers Working a Dump Truck Wreck

[Joseph Cummings]

 

[mowerman]

man that sucker was way down in there,,,thanks for that

[h67st]

Cool to see those old Macks working! The video takes place in Jamaica, my wife and I went to St. Lucia a few years ago and they have some crazy roads like that and even crazier drivers.

[67RModel]

To me all three wreckers look like Weld Built units originally manufactured for any one of the litany of municipal users in the NYC boroughs. They all have that same look and come up sale quite often.

Whats interesting to me is the "accident scene" isn't "secured" and there are not 1,000 blue and red strobe lights flashing for no reason. Just 3 guys winching out a truck and that's it. And 40 or 50 people were content to just stand there and watch a mere 10 ft away from all those cables under tension and nobody cared or told them they had to leave. If you tried that in this country and didn't comply I'm fairly certain you would be arrested for "interfering with official business" or some other law....

[Terry T]

12 minutes ago, 67RModel said:

To me all three wreckers look like Weld Built units originally manufactured for any one of the litany of municipal users in the NYC boroughs. They all have that same look and come up sale quite often.

 

That DM definitely looks FDNY. I noticed that one right off.  Michael Martinelli probably has a picture of it as FDNY & the SN#!

[mowerman]

Hell I didn’t even notice a DM

[Joseph Cummings]

58 minutes ago, 67RModel said:

To me all three wreckers look like Weld Built units originally manufactured for any one of the litany of municipal users in the NYC boroughs. They all have that same look and come up sale quite often.

Whats interesting to me is the "accident scene" isn't "secured" and there are not 1,000 blue and red strobe lights flashing for no reason. Just 3 guys winching out a truck and that's it. And 40 or 50 people were content to just stand there and watch a mere 10 ft away from all those cables under tension and nobody cared or told them they had to leave. If you tried that in this country and didn't comply I'm fairly certain you would be arrested for "interfering with official business" or some other law....

Jamacains think about stuff very different. In about 1990 I met a Jamaican welder when I was working on a water treatment plant and we got to be really close friends. Hard worker. Could operate equipment and drive a truck too. When we were working and things went all kinda wrong it wasn't my problem, it was OUR problem. (I was the site supervisor). He brought some other Jamaicans around, one a carpenter, and the other a laborer and they were very proud of showing you how hard they could work. Over the years we got pretty close, knowing each other's families, holiday visits and all. Before my mother died and was bedridden he used to come visit her and sit by her bedside and tell her stories about growing up in Jamacia, walking to town to go to the store, hearing a car coming and hiding in the ditch in case it was the "Blackhearts" climbing trees to get fruit, and how if you had a can of corned beef you were on top of the world. He used to have her laughing and laughing. Sadly cancer took him in 2013. Started in his prostrate, went into remission, came back about 2 years later, and spread to his bones. I think he was only 57. I don't know if all Jamaicans are like that, but all the ones I met from his village were all about honesty, working hard, and their children. And they were defiantly not Black, they were Jamaican

[Joseph Cummings]

Set up real nice too. 29,000 axle. You can lift lots more with that than a tandem. Keeps the fulcrum as close to the tailboard as possible

[mowerman]

Jamaicans have a cool accent,,,bob

[mowerman]

ok i see the DM now,,,camera angles were hard to notice it,,,bob

[The Heinz]

The small handful of Jamaicans I've met have been cool people. They seem to have a lot more of a laid back attitude about things, which would be greatly appreciated if the majority of America would adopt. He taught me the saying "C'est la vie," That's life. 

[mowerman]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person only on TV even the 40 years I spent around LA what does that tell you their country is amazing and nobody wants to leave especially come here ha ha don’t know just a guess

[67RModel]

1 hour ago, Joseph Cummings said:

Set up real nice too. 29,000 axle. You can lift lots more with that than a tandem. Keeps the fulcrum as close to the tailboard as possible

Yea it seems the NYC procurement people had a really nice spec for all these units. They all were generally set up the same. single axle R models and DMs all with about the same wheelbase and the wrecker body is always a Weldbuilt. I have seen them with a variety of different under reaches installed. I don't think Weldbuilt made an underreach and/or whoever bought them at the surplus auctions could have installed them after buying the trucks. Allison automatics and big, heavy, counter weighted push bumpers. I have seen them sold as surplus from NYC sanitation, tunnel authority, NYPD, and FDNY. There could be others too. All built like brick $hithouses. Here is a few for sale on FB Marketplace:

2003 Mack rd688p - Commercial Vehicles - Prompton, Pennsylvania | Facebook Marketplace | Facebook

2001 Mack rd wrecker tow truck 30 ton boom - Commercial Vehicles - New York, New York | Facebook Marketplace | Facebook

[1958 F.W.D.]

Wow I would not want to be the guy taking the video standing on top next to the winches if one of those cables were to part........

[mrsmackpaul]

Some lads just getting on with it, not much of that these days in Australia sadly

Lot's of high vis clothing and plenty knob heads giving directions that don't know their ass from their elbow

 

Paul

[mowerman]

Sounds like this place lol.  I’ve been towed many times it’s always fascinating for me to watch these guys look it up

[T-Mack1]

No Bulldog on hood (replaced by handle) is sign of NYC -Dept of Sanitation (DOS). Not sure about the departments.   The bulldog gets stolen.  They still do that (without Bulldog variant).   The red truck (RD?) has a handle.