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A dozer belonging to an Idaho firewood nonprofit sat buried in mud for over a year. Wrecker Rick drove 1,500 miles to pull it free with two winch lines, three trees, and a snatch block doubling his pulling power. Here's how winching and mechanical advantage actually work, and what it takes to build the rig yourself.
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Wrecker Rick's crew spends two days at a homemade demolition derby they call the Daytona 250, running recovery on wrecked Crown Vics and minivans between races. In the middle of it, his daughter Dayton learns to ride a bike for the first time, a family moment with no gear or product tie-in.
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Rick plugs the I Love Snatch diesel shirt on camera while freeing two buried excavators for free. The quote, the snatch-block joke, and how to size it.
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Wrecker Rick tows a vandalized, forest-abandoned school bus 55 miles for free after a friend was pressured by a rival towing company. The real technique is a wheel lift, a hard bar, and safety chains crossed to federal spec, plus the honest gap between Rick's commercial tow rig and the recovery gear an off-road driver should actually carry.
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The same week Wrecker Rick surprised his wife's grandfather, a 30-year Salvation Army officer and Vietnam veteran, with a new skid steer, Murphy's Diesel ran its American Dream Giveaway and a storewide 100x multiplier on t-shirts. This is that promo week, and the black diesel shirt that carries the keyword now.
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Wrecker Rick's fix for a stubborn spare-tire hoist cable turned out to be a lesson in how sheaves and fairleads route a line under load. This piece breaks down why wrap angle matters, why a kinetic recovery rope is built to never go near a pulley, and what to buy for a straight-line recovery pull instead.
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On a free, 2,000-mile recovery for a veteran first responder, Wrecker Rick's winch line did the pulling until it slipped off the drum mid-job. This piece walks through the rigging he carries for jobs like this, why a kinetic recovery rope rides along as backup even when a winch is doing the work, and what to buy for the same setup.
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Mid-episode, Wrecker Rick described a giveaway package built around a skid steer, a 36-foot gooseneck trailer, and a dually pickup fitted with a Warrior Gladiator winch. This piece confirms that winch line is the exact one Murphy's sells, breaks down what's actually in a Gladiator V2, and helps a reader size one for their own rig.
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During a Toyota Sequoia recovery off an Arizona riverbank, Wrecker Rick got word that his youngest daughter might have broken her arm at home. He kept working the recovery while he waited on news, and later in the same episode named the Standby Shirt his own personal favorite from the Murphy's Diesel merch line. This is the story behind the shirt and the diesel hat that shares its shelf.
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Three suitcases of rigging, packed for a 3,571-mile trip to free a 9,000-lb Sisu Hägglunds frozen into an Alaskan river. Here is every piece of Wrecker Rick's recovery loadout, what each one does, and how it got rigged to the biggest tree in Alaska.
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In Part 2 of Murphy's Diesel's Alaska recovery, Wrecker Rick's crew found a 9,000-lb Hagglund Sisu tracked vehicle frozen solid to river ice, its tracks locked tight. This is the mechanical case for reaching for a low winch line before a kinetic rope, what each tool actually does, and the shelf version of the kit for a builder's own truck.
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An M939 5-ton military truck sat dead for 15 years before it landed in front of Wrecker Rick's crew. This is the story of getting it running again: a torn sidewall, a steering wheel falling apart, a diesel leak, and a battery problem, before anyone found out if it would actually start. A modest look at the diesel apparel Rick had on while he worked closes it out.
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Wrecker Rick buys a beat-up junkyard van as a birthday prank for his friend Robbie Layton, then loads his own kids in for a road trip to Sand Hollow. A rescue along the way turns into organic family banter about earning a free shirt, which is the honest way into what Murphy's actually sells.
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Rick's 76,000-pound military truck leans so hard on a steep Sand Hollow climb that its fuel pickup tube can't reach the tank, so he strips a hydraulic line, a fitting, and a hose clamp off one of Hell Boy's own winches to rig a fix. That parts drawer is the real subject here: what a hydraulic winch is, why Hell Boy runs five of them, and why the hose and fittings deserve as much respect as the winch itself.
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Wrecker Rick's Ram 5500, Hell Boy, rolled during the 2026 Matt's Off Road Games at Sand Hollow. This episode picks up right after, following the crew through a same-day recovery call, real repair work, and a fan giveaway, without dwelling on the crash itself.
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Wrecker Rick said his own catchphrase at the starting line of a big off-road event. Hours later his Ram 5500 wrecker genuinely caught fire, and he put it out himself. This is the honest story behind the line Murphy's put on a shirt.
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Wrecker Rick added a hydraulic cooler to his PTO system after his own winches started overheating from overuse. This is a plain look at why hydraulic winches build up heat under load, what that heat actually risks, and how to size a hydraulic winch for repeat, heavy pulls.
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Wrecker Rick points out the still-standing, gear-driven steel-cable winches on one of his own vintage trucks, a Holmes wrecker roughly 30 years old. This is an honest look at what changed between that old mechanical design and the modern, electric, synthetic-rope winches Murphy's sells today, and why.
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Wrecker Rick drove his 10x10 nearly 300 miles to help fellow recovery operator Casey Liddell pull a burned, 60,000-pound feller buncher out of the Oregon mountains. Parked side by side, their two trucks turned into an honest, unscripted comparison of winch capacity and rope type, and this article breaks down what that comparison actually means for someone shopping for a winch.
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Wrecker Rick drives his oversized 10x10 recovery truck across the US-Canada border into British Columbia. His own truck makes it through without trouble, but another vehicle traveling with the family gets detained for 48 hours over missing paperwork, and the rest of the trip becomes a crash course in a country that runs on different rules entirely.
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Wrecker Rick loads up the family for a day of make-believe vampire hunting near Forks and La Push, Washington, complete with wooden stakes, holy water, and a running joke about werewolves that never lets up. Underneath the bit is a real family day: a beach meetup with friends, giant coastal trees, and one long-running gag nobody breaks character on.
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Wrecker Rick is 1,500 miles from his own shop, installing a 30-ton wrecker unit on a military 10x10 with minimal tools, when a stuck crossmember gets in his way. He reaches for his own recovery rope kit instead of a cutting torch, and it works, but that is not the job Murphy's rates the kit for.
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Rick's HEMTT run to Canada swings from 90-degree desert heat to genuine cold within the same drive. This piece breaks down the three weights of diesel hoodie Murphy's sells, which one to layer first, and why the giveaway-week multiplier promo mentioned in the episode is history, not a live offer.
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During his hardest snow rescue yet, Rick runs through the actual colors in Murphy's Western-themed apparel line on camera: a gray option elsewhere in the lineup, and navy, not black, for the About to Get Western pieces. If you came looking for green, here is the honest answer and what Murphy's actually sells instead.
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Rick's tracked Hummer, the Green Dragon, runs a Warrior winch front and rear. This explains what a two-winch setup actually solves that one winch can't, what happened when the front winch quit mid-job on the same outing, and how to size a matching pair for your own truck.
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Rick and his family met a young man named Frankie by chance one day, and spent the rest of it with him. This is what actually happened: a self-appointed security guard, a round of root beer, and a break dance lesson taught on a sheet of cardboard.
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Rick pitches the Murphys Diesel Recovery Kit on camera during a 1962 Kenworth's 300-mile drive home, with eight families counting on the truck making it. This breaks down exactly what's published as being in the kit, what each piece is for, and when you'd actually reach for it.
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Wrecker Rick reads the full parts list for a giveaway F550 build on camera: a winch front and rear, a replacement bumper, and a recovery rope kit. This breaks down which of those lines are real, buyable recovery gear, which one Murphy's doesn't sell, and what happened when the crew drove into Mexico for the bumper.
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Wrecker Rick and his family drive a newly acquired Mack Super-Liner 6x6 nearly a thousand miles home. The truck turns out to be governed at 50 mph, and the transmission spends most of Colorado trying to quit before they make it to Arizona.
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Wrecker Rick spends one Marketplace-shopping episode admiring a 6.7 Cummins engine out loud, then drives home in a truck with a completely different motor. Murphy's sells no Cummins-branded apparel at all, and this is the honest explanation of what the store sells instead.
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