Hauling Inoperable Equipment and needing a winch?

I have a lot or respect for you and the way you go about your work, but..............You attach to the hole on the steel wheel (which I don't like anyway, but have no reason why) behind the hub, which will tend to make the truck roll toward the front of the trailer, and you also are pulling toward the front of the trailer with chains on the rear of the truck. It seems to me that in a collision or emergency braking situation that load is going to move toward the front of the trailer very easily. I realize that it can only go so far before the binder on the wheel will catch, but with momentum against it the binder could fail. By God the bed won't come up anyway!

 

We pulled a dead 46A (D8H) onto our lowboy with a 15,000# electric Warn winch and two snatch blocks! I don't recommend it though.

 

It was an H with something crunched in the drive that stood my truck on end. I couldn’t reach it without the steer being high and lost a lot in angles. That Warn paid for itself right there. It might let all its smoke out if you did that all the time though.

 

Ha yeah, the former owner of my lowboy welded a bracket on the back with which he attached the winch. He used to haul rail equipment I guess because he had rails built into the deck and he must have had to winch stuff on. He also had a 12V plug like you see on wreckers and such on the winch and on his battery box on the tractor, with a long set of leads to connect them.

The D8 that we winched on would run, but something besides low oil was buggered in the trans so it would roll easy enough but no power.

 

I see what you’re saying but it wasn’t an issue. Those two straps are the only thing holding that bed on that truck. The fifth wheel was torched off and that bed set on the truck the morning I picked it up. We won’t talk about the bonus freight in the bed. Hopefully I would be involved in loads like this in the future.

 

I dial wrecker now. I sold my winch tractor when I didn’t have steady use for it anymore.

 

Oil field bed with roller, good winch, it is Come, Bleed, or Blister...

 

We had winches on the lowbed tractors but we didn't use them very often. I think they're still sitting out behind the shop. We always tried to time it so a 966 or a shovel could push/pull/lift whatever it was we were after.
One other thing about winches. If you're pulling a piece of dead equipment onto the trailer and everybody goes home and just leaves you there and you have to try to line it up, keep it straight, get it on the trailer and get everything perfectly centered the first time 'cause you're all by yourself and there aren't any people or machinery to help you'll be wondering why you paid all that money to put a winch on your truck.
Did I mention it's raining, it's dark now, the wind is picking up, and you're soaked to the skin and your feet feel like a couple of lumps of clay? The haul road has turned to mud so you have to throw iron to get out to the pavement but wading through the deep mudpuddles in the turnout helps wash the four inches of mud off the bottom of your boots.
Yeah, I'm describing one of my days. I was glad when it was over.