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Re: Tanks! Trucks! Fire Engines!....and a couple of vans. New MOCs
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lugnet.build, lugnet.town
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Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:51:17 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Rodney Gentry writes:
> > > Service vans, Wrecker and Rollback
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4751
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> > Now THAT is a SUPER HEAVY Duty Tow truck!
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> Believe it or not, that is a real truck in operation by a private towing
> company here locally. There are only 15 like it in the world. It was built
> in Canada, then brought to our little part of the world in Southwest
> Virginia. I watched this truck pick up a LOADED semi out of a small ravine
> on interstate 81 one night after it plunged off of the bridge and dropped
> about 50 ft on its side. (The 2 drivers, once we cut them out of the
> sleeper; with a sawzall of all things, were ok)
Wow...
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> I have seen it in training evolutions, pick cars up, raise them to around
> 70ft, swing them 360*, and set them back down again.
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> The company that has it does a lot of heavy towing, and is available to be
> called upon if we (Fire Dept) gets into a pretty bad situation and needs it.
Powerful compaired to the trucks we have here!
Josh
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> Rodney Gentry
> Woodchuck County Fire and Rescue
> http://members.aol.com/whstlpig05/Woodchuckmain.html
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Whistlepig
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