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Rick Takes the Family Vampire Hunting: A Real Day in the Field

Rick Takes the Family Vampire Hunting: A Real D...

Wrecker Rick loads up the family for a day of make-believe vampire hunting near Forks and La Push, Washington, complete with wooden stakes, holy water, and a running joke about...

Rick Takes the Family Vampire Hunting: A Real D...

Wrecker Rick loads up the family for a day of make-believe vampire hunting near Forks and La Push, Washington, complete with wooden stakes, holy water, and a running joke about...

Can a 10x10 Wrecker Cross the Border? Rick Finds Out

Can a 10x10 Wrecker Cross the Border? Rick Find...

Wrecker Rick drives his oversized 10x10 recovery truck across the US-Canada border into British Columbia. His own truck makes it through without trouble, but another vehicle traveling with the family...

Can a 10x10 Wrecker Cross the Border? Rick Find...

Wrecker Rick drives his oversized 10x10 recovery truck across the US-Canada border into British Columbia. His own truck makes it through without trouble, but another vehicle traveling with the family...

Synthetic Rope or Steel Cable: The Winch Debate Between Two Wrecker Operators

Synthetic Rope or Steel Cable: The Winch Debate...

Wrecker Rick drove his 10x10 nearly 300 miles to help fellow recovery operator Casey Liddell pull a burned, 60,000-pound feller buncher out of the Oregon mountains. Parked side by side,...

Synthetic Rope or Steel Cable: The Winch Debate...

Wrecker Rick drove his 10x10 nearly 300 miles to help fellow recovery operator Casey Liddell pull a burned, 60,000-pound feller buncher out of the Oregon mountains. Parked side by side,...

Old Gear-Driven Winches vs. Modern Synthetic Rope

Old Gear-Driven Winches vs. Modern Synthetic Rope

Wrecker Rick points out the still-standing, gear-driven steel-cable winches on one of his own vintage trucks, a Holmes wrecker roughly 30 years old. This is an honest look at what...

Old Gear-Driven Winches vs. Modern Synthetic Rope

Wrecker Rick points out the still-standing, gear-driven steel-cable winches on one of his own vintage trucks, a Holmes wrecker roughly 30 years old. This is an honest look at what...

Why Hydraulic Winches Need a Cooler

Why Hydraulic Winches Need a Cooler

Wrecker Rick added a hydraulic cooler to his PTO system after his own winches started overheating from overuse. This is a plain look at why hydraulic winches build up heat...

Why Hydraulic Winches Need a Cooler

Wrecker Rick added a hydraulic cooler to his PTO system after his own winches started overheating from overuse. This is a plain look at why hydraulic winches build up heat...

It's About to Get Western: The Story Behind Rick's Fire

It's About to Get Western: The Story Behind Ric...

Wrecker Rick said his own catchphrase at the starting line of a big off-road event. Hours later his Ram 5500 wrecker genuinely caught fire, and he put it out himself....

It's About to Get Western: The Story Behind Ric...

Wrecker Rick said his own catchphrase at the starting line of a big off-road event. Hours later his Ram 5500 wrecker genuinely caught fire, and he put it out himself....