FIVE massive farm tractors weighing 60,000 POUNDS EACH are BURIED in quicksand at California’s Salton Sea! That’s 300,000 pounds of heavy machinery trapped in the mud, and every attempt to rescue these tractors has only made the disaster worse. Visit https://brooklynbedding.com/murphysdiesel to get 30% off your order with code murphysdiesel Thank you Brooklyn Bedding for sponsoring! With more equipment getting stuck and America’s hardworking farmers desperate for help, they make the call to Wrecker Rick and the Murphys Diesel heavy recovery crew. On today’s episode of Murphys Diesel, Wrecker Rick faces one of the craziest heavy equipment recovery missions of his career. Five enormous agricultural tractors are buried in the unforgiving mud of Southern California, and nobody has been able to pull them free without getting their own machinery stuck. This isn’t your average tractor recovery. It’s a massive off-road rescue that will test the limits of some of the biggest and most powerful recovery trucks in America! Rick and his family are thousands of miles away in Alaska when the emergency call comes in. They fly home to Arizona, load up their massive Oshkosh 10x10 military truck equipped with a @zackliftinternational4841 detachable wrecker unit (DWU), and prepare HB (Hell Boy), Rick’s custom Ram 5500 off-road wrecker, for the journey to California. But before the crew can even reach the stranded farmers, Murphy’s Law strikes! The heavy-duty slide axle trailer hauling the 10x10 suffers a flat tire on the highway. With hundreds of thousands of pounds of farm equipment waiting to be rescued, every setback costs valuable time. When the Murphys Diesel crew finally reaches the Salton Sea, they discover just how dangerous this recovery really is. The ground is so soft that the heavy machinery brought in to save the tractors can sink into the mud itself. There’s almost no room for mistakes, and brute horsepower alone won’t solve this problem. Rick puts his BRAND-NEW ASV compact track loader to work, but what happens next sends his frustration through the roof! The skid steer gets stuck nearly a DOZEN TIMES in the unforgiving terrain. After fighting the machine over and over, Rick has finally had enough. He calls Heavy T and Crowbar back in Arizona and tells them to bring his trusty Kubota skid steer to California. Now it’s turning into a real-world ASV vs. Kubota showdown! Can Rick’s proven Kubota outperform the brand-new ASV in some of the toughest mud and recovery conditions he’s ever faced? What started as a mission to save five buried farm tractors has turned into a full-blown mechanical nightmare. Between blown tires, stuck skid steers, massive diesel trucks, and equipment failures, Rick and the crew are battling Mother Nature and Murphy’s Law at every turn. This is what happens when old-fashioned American ingenuity meets an almost impossible job. No Hollywood stunt crews, no scripted drama, just real people, real equipment, and a hardworking family determined to help America’s farmers get back on their feet. Whether you’ve spent your life working on a farm, hauling freight across the country, operating an excavator, turning wrenches in a diesel repair shop, welding steel, running a bulldozer, or building America one job at a time, you know that sometimes the toughest jobs require getting your hands dirty and refusing to quit. At Murphys Diesel, that’s exactly what we do. From recovering overturned semi trucks and rescuing construction equipment buried in deep mud to building custom off-road wreckers and bringing abandoned diesel engines back to life, Wrecker Rick and his crew travel across America helping people when they need it most. Follow along for the laughs, the family adventures, the mechanical breakdowns, and the frustration as the Murphys Diesel crew takes on this unbelievable heavy-duty tractor recovery in the California desert. We’re proud to support the farmers, ranchers, mechanics, truckers, equipment operators, and blue-collar families who keep America running. If you believe in hard work, helping your neighbors, and never giving up when things get tough, welcome to the Murphys Diesel family! Subscribe and join Wrecker Rick, Mrs. Wrecker Rick, and the crew for incredible recoveries, wild road trips, massive diesel trucks, and real American adventures. #MurphysDiesel #HeavyEquipmentRecovery #TractorRecovery
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I FULLY support Mrs Wrecker Rick reporting that idiot forcing into her lane at the construction zone!! I’m a truck driver and I can’t stand those types of drivers! STAND BY FOLKS!
You guys are great!!
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That DOT number comes back to H&D Transportation LLC Phoenix AZ
50% out of service rate for that DOT number....
Sell you ASV stock before the morning folks. lol
You never see Wrecker Rick loose his cool so seeing him get so frustrated with the ASV just shows how much of a pile it was..
"Out of the Country". Love it Rick.
kubota has such a hard on after this video i wouldnt be suprised if they dont give yall a new machine
Best Kubota commercial I've ever seen! if someone was ever interested in an asv after watching this i'm sure their minds have been changed lol
Mrs. Wrecker Rick is irreplaceable. She is one of a kind!
10x10 is such a beast
Murphy diesel does it again saving farmers God bless you guys
"Our first recovery out of the country" "We're headed to California" 😂
We NEED a F.A.F.O. update on that box truck. 🚚
That driver who forced Mrs Wrecker Rick off the road needs his license revoked, but i doubt he even has one 🤦🏼♂️😡🤬😡
Get’em Mrs. Wrecker!!!
ASV Engineers gonna be working 24/7 after this!
Nothing seems to upset you Rick…Cool under pressures with all the break downs…… you are the man!
Ford didn’t just circle the problem, they even highlighted it blue!!!😜