66 Pete with 750H

[Truck Shop]

Some pics after I removed sleeper and installed the Holmes 750 I bought for 5K plus the old White it was sitting on.
The white was a single screw so I had to lengthen the box. It was a mechanical, I used it to tow break downs to
the shop. Don't have any working pics and can't find any pics from the back end once it was painted.

 

[Truck Shop]

Found a side view photo of it when finished.

 

[Steve Frazier]

Is that a red lens on the driver's side light bar?

 

[Truck Shop]

Yes it is. In Washington St a tow could have flashing reds, Only in recent years was that regulation changed. It was classed as an
emergency vehicle.

 

[td25c]

Your 750 conversion on the Pete turned out great Truck Shop !

Beautiful truck !

We set up the 1984 Kenworth the same way . Was bought as a tractor and removed the sleeper to mount the Holmes 750 .

 

[Truck Shop]

Thanks td25c, one little known fact about Holmes and there tonnage rating. Holmes rated on a full spool, so on the first wrap a 750
was really at 35 ton. I was told that by a Holmes dealer.

 

[td25c]

Yeah Truck Shop ,I'd say that's correct . The weak link on the 750 bed was the 5/8 winch cable . They will pull until it pop's without proper use of blocks .

Tough old beds for sure !

What I like about them is all the different combinations they can be configured for a given situation . The possibilities are almost endless .

Ernest Holmes was a genius .

http://www.vehiclerecovery.org/equipment/9.html

 

[Truck Shop]

Your right td25c you could stabilize off the mast head in just about any direction.

Here is a link to a towing company that I worked for in the 80's, they didn't have the equipment then that they have now. His main recovery is
a 50 ton Holmes 1801 on a GMC and a 45 ton Challenger on a KW.
dandmtowing.com video gallery.

 

[td25c]

Nice looking trucks , love the GMC with 1801. http://www.dandmtowing.com/gallery.htm

I got broke in with a shop built 1968 IH FleetStar 2000 single axil wrecker. Had a Tulsa 100 winch & simple A frame mast on the rear of the bed . 270 Cummins under the hood , we drug in everything with that truck .

Then set up the KW with Holmes 750 and thought we had the world by the ass . And most of the time we did

Can pull off some crazy angles with a Holmes & blocks .

 

[Truck Shop]

Thanks for straightening out that link.

One other little note is Zacklifts are made just up the road. That towing company is in Ellensburg Wa. Zacks are built in Cle Elum
twenty four miles west.

Ed Zackovitch had a towing company there for years. His business cards said, "When in a ditch don't bitch call Ed Zackovitch"
Pretty smart guy Ed was.

 

[td25c]

That's pretty interesting About Zacklift and the long history behind the company . http://www.zacklift.com/about.htm

Never was around a Zacklift but understand the concept & good quality of the product .

Would look nice mounted on the back of a 750 . http://www.zacklift.com/poppics/PermModels/permodel45.jpg

 

[Truck Shop]

Funny I just noticed I spelled It Zackovitch-There is no t in his name. Cle Elum was a coal mining town from the late 1800's to 1962 when the
mines were shut down. The population there was very ethnic. I lived in Ellensburg for twenty five years, instead of telling some one you were
going to Cle Elum. Some people would say they were going up to see the Vitch's.

When I was at D&M motors and Towing, They had a 285 wheel base 79 WesterStar with a Z20 on it and a 750H. There recovery was a 63 COE KW
built by Continental Towing in LA. There is a pic of it in the Stan Holtszman collection under 50 to 60's KW's. Dan Rankin towing had it then.

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