Well sort of. Rewind to sunday night. I was over hunting my buddies dads farm. Got done and was leaving, got down driveway and he was down there unloading the international off a low boy. It wouldn't run, we tinkered with it and changed fuel filter and got it running. Well he told me we had to be careful because it had no breaks, and we just needed to get it off the road. ok, easy enough.
Well I guess yesterday afternoon he went to move it up the hill to his shop to mess with it some. Due to how it was placed at bottom of the hill, he had to back it up driveway. He made it about 50 yds off the road and reverse gear gave up the ghost. Truck immediately went back down the driveway towards the road. He tried to put it in a bank but 36klbs had other intentions, thus the cherry tree stuck in bead. He went all the way acorss the road into neighbors driveway, across a sketchy a$$ bridge and about 40 yds up the neighbors driveway before it didn't make the turn and went off the road there. Had to jack front end up twice to turn wheels, using a whole handful of chains, and that old Hendrickson to winch back on road. Finally we got it back on the driveway half way straight with no breaks and no reverse gear. Got it lined up and let it fly coming back across bridge, praying the bridge had one more time in it. But we got it. There was some butt puckering on all fronts that's for sure.
My buddies dad has a pile of these old wreckers. He owns a tow company, and collects old wreckers. You name it, he probably has it.
That red henrickson they drove back from Minnesota 2 years ago. Only had one tire blow out on ride home. Its a neat old truck, and good bit of fun to drive. My favorite is, I believe a 66 autocar. I have posted pics of it before I think. Natural cummins. Need a 40 acre field to turn it around, but man its neat. And still works. He doesn't use any of them for recovery these days really, but we end up using them or odds and ends around the farms.
