Well, got both wreckers home today. The wrecker company I bought the, from delivered the non operational 1 with a rollback semi trailer and used a wheel lift truck to back close enough to where I needed it and dropped it. The wife and I played with the drag winch and yarded the parts truck into my hay field. Gonna have to find a way for 1 person to pay the drag out since in neutral, there is NO free spool option, and found out no driving forward while the pto is engaged. There is a rats nest on the line and I couldn’t get it over the winding pulley, so I disengaged the system, dragged the cable through, then rinsed and repeated several more time till I got the tck far enough to start yarding on it. The parts tck had 3 flats, well, 2 shredded and 1 flat, with a flat and shred on the steer. The steering wheel didn’t want to turn to well.
Does anyone know of a way to, if at all possible, to drive while the crane/drag pto is engaged? I’m thinking not, but who knows. May be an option out there for different pto set up that can be air shifted, yet still allow for driving use, similar to a civi truck with a wet kit.
Thoughts?
Single man tug-o-war with the drag is a drag already. I thought I read somewhere, where an electric winch was mentioned, but the possible chances of not getting the electric winch to match with the payout and something braking (elec winch).
@gstirling
How far along are you with the remote setup?