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Originally Posted by Zabco
That is an absolutely incredible piece of work. Very well done! Approximately how long did it it take to put all that together? Those big heavy rescue wreckers are one of my all time favorite trucks.
There is an old truck and equipment show held every year near where I live. Several years ago a nearby heavy recovery company brought in three of their big rotators and demonstrated how they would lift and move an overturned tanker trailer. It was an amazing demonstration. Their booms were not as big as the one you modeled (2-40ton and a 50 ton boom). And expensive!!! Asked the owner what one of those trucks cost and if I remember correctly he said the most recent one was $1.2 million. In 2017 dollars.
Again, congrats on the beautiful build.
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Thanks for the good words. Time-wise, been drawing this up for a coupla years on and off, lot of off. Actual assembly, few months. Joy of being semi-retired. Once I had a plan it's not so bad, other than having to reprint bits when I found problems, which happened more than I'd like, or restring the wires for what seemed like the 300th time.
I watched a LOT of recovery videos, such that my wife got to leaving the room, bored her out of her mind apparently =)) But the physics of it, where the tator picks up these immense loads, whether busted semis or trailers in precarious positions or cut in half by a train, or weird transformers or precast concrete or whatever, truly amazing.
And yeah, this particular tator I think starts about $1.5M now and the sky is the limit. They also build 'em on three-steer-axle chassis, which I'm glad I didn't see until I'd got my chassis done or I would have gone nuts =))