Tractor Trailer Crashes Off Freeway Into Ditch No clickbait here! What you see is literally a loaded semi tractor trailer big rig that plowed through a guardrail and crash landed on its side 75' down the embankment. Crazy, right? But crazy is our specialty here and Alex and I came ready to rock in Hulk, a 50 ton rotator, and Big Flipper, a 75 ton rotator. We were assisted by Ricardo in unit 90 to control the tractor and tow it all away after.

You'll notice we almost immediately get to work with our game plan, despite this job looking impossible at first glance. That's because we have tons of experience in recovery work, and most jobs are very very similar in theory. This one had added obstacles like being so far down, plus the guard rail that was still good by our trucks and how to get it on the freeway without damaging that. Many companies would have shut down the freeway to back up to this, but we knew we could do it off the side with only ONE lane closed to keep traffic open.

First step was to put the rotators so that each one is 90 degrees off the side, with Hulk stationed in the rear and Big Flipper at the front of the trailer. Next was to offset unit 90 to rig to the tractor. This truck is small and nimble so it was easy to put it around 45 degrees while still staying in the lane closure. Rigging to only the trailer would have been very very difficult since the tractor would just fight us and needed to be pulled at an angle to follow the trailer.

Now the grand finale, getting it up and over the guardrail. My last few videos have seen us barrel rolling an empty trailer and even loaded containers. Here we attempt a very advanced maneuver, by mid air / barrel rolling a fully connected loaded tractor trailer. This allowed us to upright it and get it over the guardrail in one shot, and man can I just say how epic it looked? I really hope all the angles captures it great, because in person it truly was a sight to see and be proud of.

I was there so I know how cool it looked, but what do you guys think? How did you all like the multiple iPhone/DJI/Drone angles? Let me know if you liked it so I know to keep making this content and please subscribe to show love :)


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00:00:00 The walk around
00:06:08 Setting up rigging
00:14:30 Winching in!
00:29:00 Semi catches fire!
00:42:56 Lift off time
00:54:56 Success!
00:59:07 Putting away the trucks


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