I think "heavy wrecker" is the perfect name for the truck. even "big wrecker" or "big wrecks" ... all 3 sound natural and correct, and are good describing words for the truck.

Find out what breaks and fix it. That's battle testing. God bless

Good to see that behind all the "Banter" (as we call it in the UK), when it comes down to the wire you guys will work together and do what is necessary to get it done! Good on you both!

It seems like you need to air down your tires more. They don't seem to grip like the BF's do. edit: (I guess you say that in the video. :)

The back and forth banter is the best . 😎

Yep.

I'd have to make a very careful assessment of my arrogance and audacity to even come to think that I am even capable of doing something that Rory Irish is able to help himself just by sneezing at it!🤣🤣🤣 but yeah if it came possible I could ever help him with something I'd go all out!

I'm blessed with a friend like Rory... My buddy "Buzz"... Type of friend I can call at 3am, broken down on the side of the road, "I'll be right there".

It’s shake n bake!

Same 😆

Yea mate , nothing like slagging off your chum & even better when he comes back harder .. taking the piss , is just what blokes do

if you can't trade insults with your friends while working, are you even friends? :-)

It's like they're almost Australian. And we're the ones that call our mates "bastards" - but only if they're _really_ good friends.

More of this please!!!!

Everyone wins!

AND he’s a great driver!!

And he has a welder in his pocket all the time like we all should ;D

He is from a generation that grew up watchin McGuyver and the Ateam. Google those all you millenials .😂🤣

@@stircrayzy I'm "millenial" but from Europe and that is why I had this shows as a kid :D

I grew up in a welding and machine shop with a dad who weirdly seems to know how everything works. With that. Rory is indeed one of special ones that gets it and can do it. We would hire him yesterday.

Lol 😊

If real Olympic athletes were this supportive of each other, sports would be a much more friendly environment 😀

Came here to say the exact same thing.

My thoughts exactly. I wish they lived a little closer to each other so we could see colabs more often. Whenever they do though you know it's going to be an awesome video.

rory is helping matt so nobody can say it wasnt a fair fight...🤪

RORYs channel is a little better though.

The only ones that do recoveries full time

Rory wants Matt to show up to the wrecker games. Rory has carried the mantle for many years already.

Will be unstopable if it looses barkes again!🤣

73 kl4gu

Unless of course both drive shafts break under the stress of all that weight (which happened at KoH - see Chad's Fab video).

Low tech vs high tech.

@@jimhansen5395 Keep in mind that they are using a temporary transfer case and not the final solution. Might have had something to do with the failure. Or not. Haha

@@stephanbranczyk8306 i think you missed the point.

Yeah these guys are tight, and it works exponentially. I wish them the best they seen a great gang of humans

@@stephanbranczyk8306 Yes, but notice your comments are of the worst quality. There is a noticeable difference.

If people only knew that if it wasn’t for DaveO from the Moab Mall Crawlers channel none of this video would have been possible. #truestory Let the real tow truck challenge begin! Spokaloka! 🖖🏻🤪🤚🏻

@@CraftySasquatch Never heard of her

Yeah Matt has been saying for a while that it's large, but like a gladiator is longer.

Lol it's massive have you forgotten it was weighted?

Pretty sure the impressive size is the tires, for the most part

The WLORR looks way bigger in the shop, and Trail Mater is apparently bigger than it looks.

It's the lens, I went to see for myself and got to meet the dogs 🐕 ☺, it's a tiny shop but obviously has everything to maintain the business... And Ed 👌

I think you have that backwards. All are skied, but out of rory, matt and whutshisnuts at fabrats, matts got the most to learn.

@@ustinates335 Exactly, that's the humor and intended irony of my comment. 🙂

@@DonAshcraft Ah gotcha, my bad. :-)

@@ustinates335 🙂

I forgot my flag at the trailer, that's why I had my flashers on.

...back WHEN he broke down. Fixed it for you.

Peanut needs some welding googles...

@@larryjohns8823 You can clearly see how much Matt and Peanut adore each other. There is no purer or sweeter love than that freely given by another soul. Especially if that soul is one of God's gifts - a dog. If you don't think God loves us, look into the reflection of your Dog's eyes and read DOG backwards while you stare into the eyes of pure, unconditional love. This is the stuff that puts the cherry on the top of life's awesomeness!

... and Rudy ...

Ed had a bit of a spill. Messed his neck up a bit.

@Jill Wisland Thank you Jill. Oh dear, I certainly did miss that. I hope he fully recovers soon 🙏🙂👍

Gosh... Poor Ed🥺

He's not letting complacency get in the way.

Just don't paint it.

I met Rory a few years ago. I adopted him as one of my gurus. His specialty is Off Road. Off-road recovery, and how to be a good person. He has been an awesome mentor!

Just nice folks. Acting kind doesn't have to be based on any religion or creed.

@@MS-ht9it Just happens that the area they live in is predominantly religious. I know a lot of folk from the area and it can't simply be coincidence that they are family oriented and look at their community as just that, a fellowship. I've never been religious but I very much so respect the attitude they have for their neighbors and friends. Always going to be some bad eggs.

There's also the off road community all across the country is just more willing to help others than say.. a broke down stranded motorist on an interstate and the tens to hundreds of people that would just drive right by 'em without even stopping to ask if they had a cell phone to call for help or signal for their cell phone to be able to call for help.

@@robertf6523 That is very nice to read, Folks that are just helpful to one another . Again I find that Godly. Fellowship.. it’s just so American.

@@Taino871 All of the above applies, and not only what I said ;)

I seen that too. Hopefully they address it on the MORR video tomorrow.

@@AFloridaSon morr videos are always at least a week old, sometimes months. Rory is usually last few days. Dont be surprised if they dont mention it

Wait a minute... Is the upcoming wrecker games event on March 9-11th the same thing as "King of the Hammers", or was that another event that already happened? (I'm confused)

​@@JoeJ-8282 different events

@@ganster2263 Yeah, thanks. I figured that out just recently. I just wish I could go to the wrecker games event since it looks like it's gonna be fun, but unfortunately I have to work those days, plus I can't really afford it anyway. I'll just have to look out for the videos that they post here on YT of that event.

Yeah, I believe the Heavy Wrecker is too heavy. Both driveshafts broke just recently at King of Hammers. Just imagine what happens when he pulls other vehicles. That's a lot of weight on those parts. It will be interesting how it will fare at the wrecker games. Im not too optimistic.

@@NashBen The heavy wrecker isn't light but it's not far off from Paul's or BSF. Those guys weigh in 8-9,000lbs where Matt is 10-11,000lbs Edit: Trailmater tipping the scales at just over 7k makes sense.

@@philb5593 20-25% remember when Matt used to complain about the additional weight of a winch.

@@philb5593 trailmater barely tips the scales at 7,000. She's the lightest of the group, but I'd arguably say she has the hardest punch. Lol.

A driveline is like a big multipart spring from the crank all the way to the tire tread. Each part has some twist on it in a bind like when the wheel lifts and spins and then sets back down hard. And every part has a breaking point where the torque exceeds the elastic strength and it start to deform and break. Sort of like fuses in a circuit. The tires absorb some of that. Next, the axles, not so much in the diff, the gears are pretty stiff, then the driveline and transfer case inputs (which broke on Matt's) the gears and chain in the transfer case take up some as do the transmission, the torque converter (if it's not locked) help isolate the crankshaft from sudden loads. The trick is to get that weakest part outside of all the expensive parts inside the engine, trans, transfer and diff, and not make the other parts too stiff so they can take up the shock. Kind of like those attachments to impact guns that limit the torque applied to bolts. Rory's had years to break parts and replace them with better ones, but not overly strong ones to get the right balance in his full driveline. Matt's just starting and with a much heavier vehicle. I suspect he may need a higher rear end ratio to reduce the torque on the transfer case and drive line and move the stress to the axles and tires and let them take up the driveline shock. Or maybe put something like 'cush' isolators in the driveline. Those who were there would know how the failures happened, was it wheel hop, or did the driveline hit rock, or something else? Or just brute force twisting the splines off the output shafts?

I’m super late to the party, but that’s actually awesome cuz I’m gonna binge watch all your video. Obviously the combination of pilot and vehicle you probably are one of the best on the road/trails today.!! Absolutely love your truck it’s 1 of a kind. Awesome and sad!

hey Rory..just a confirmation//do you have a giveaway? did I just won #2 a honda motorcycle? Am I not being scammed on your telegram?

never heard any giveaways on your videos but did I just won a bike from ur telegram channel?

Yeah it's awesome

Rory doesn't have a hottie red neck girl for all the horn dogs to drool over.

@@RealJeep lol, you seem...... obsessed?

Oh by the way, you’re going to kill it and win the wrecker Olympics !