Everything Wrong With The World's Largest Off Road Wrecker!

**Building an Off-Road Recovery Vehicle: Design Choices and Challenges**

When building an off-road recovery vehicle, there are several key design choices that need to be made to ensure functionality, safety, and performance. One of the most critical decisions is where to place the engine and cab. In this case, the engine has been moved as far back as possible, with the cab positioned near the center of the vehicle. This design choice was made for two main reasons: to avoid obstructing the approach angle of the front of the vehicle and to allow the cab to be set as low as possible.

The reasoning behind this placement is clear when you look at any rock crawler; the engine should be positioned behind the front axle and as low as possible. This ensures that the vehicle can navigate rough terrain without interference from the engine or cab. By placing the cab near the center, the driver has better visibility and control over the entire rig.

One common question that arises is about crew seating. Some viewers have commented that there isn’t enough space for a crew in this design. However, the builder firmly believes that this vehicle is not meant to be a crew transport but rather an off-road recovery machine. Adding an extra cab would impede visibility and take up valuable space needed for the tow truck components. The focus here is on functionality, not passenger comfort.

Another point of discussion has been the lack of air ride suspension. While air ride suspension can provide a smoother ride, it wasn’t considered necessary for this build. The builder explained that the hood and grill are mounted rigidly, which wouldn’t work well with air ride suspension systems. Instead, the builder is confident that the current design will provide a comfortable and capable ride.

The builder has also been asked about the overall size of the vehicle. With a length of 208 inches and a width of 91 inches, it’s important to ensure that the rig can navigate trails without being too wide or tall. The builder compared the width to that of a four-door Gladiator, which is 89.5 inches wide, and assured viewers that the vehicle will fit through necessary trails as long as there isn’t excessive sand blocking the way.

When it comes to weight, the builder addressed concerns about whether the engine is powerful enough to handle the rig’s weight. The same engine used in a 20,000-pound RV has proven capable of handling such heavy loads, so there’s no doubt that it can manage the 12,000-pound vehicle being built here. The builder mentioned that the top speed will likely be around 55 mph, which is more than sufficient for off-road conditions.

The builder also discussed the importance of maintaining a clear view from the driver’s seat to ensure safety and control. With the cab positioned near the center, the driver can see all four corners of the rig without obstruction. This visibility is crucial when navigating challenging terrain and managing recovery operations.

In terms of design, the builder emphasized that this vehicle is not meant to be a showpiece but rather a functional tool for off-road recovery. The focus has been on creating a durable and reliable machine that can handle the demands of southern Utah trails. As a result, there’s no intention of adding unnecessary features like air ride suspension or extra seating.

One viewer asked about the necessity of modifying an existing vehicle versus starting from scratch. The builder explained that the process began with building a buggy first and then adding tow truck components to it. This approach ensures that the base vehicle is capable and reliable before any additional features are added.

The builder also addressed concerns about the frame’s flexibility. While some argue that a slightly flexible frame can absorb shocks better, the builder believes that a rigid tube chassis is more appropriate for this build. The frame will be heavily reinforced with cross-bracing and boxing to ensure it remains as rigid as possible. This rigidity will help prevent any deflection during operation.

The builder mentioned that while air ride suspension might offer some benefits, it’s not worth the hassle in this case. The current design already provides a smooth ride, thanks in part to the use of high-quality components and careful construction. The focus remains on creating a machine that is both capable and comfortable for long hours on the road or trail.

The builder also shared some lighter moments, including struggles with removing a race car from the attic. The car was placed there under the assumption that it would be hidden once the building was finished, but now that central air conditioning is being installed, the car needs to be moved to make space for the new unit. The builder joked about the mess left behind and the challenges of dealing with such a large project.

Another amusing moment came when the builder surprised Robbie Layton with modified fenders for his trailer. While Robbie initially only asked for help welding a broken fender, the builder decided to go above and beyond by modifying the entire front end of the trailer. The surprise was well-received, and Robbie expressed gratitude for the unexpected upgrade.

The builder also mentioned that while the current design might not be as sleek or showy as some other vehicles, it’s designed to be practical and functional. There are no plans to repaint or add unnecessary cosmetic features, as the focus is on durability and performance.

In conclusion, building an off-road recovery vehicle requires careful consideration of every detail, from engine placement to frame rigidity. The builder has made deliberate choices to ensure that the final product is a reliable and capable machine. While there are challenges along the way, including dealing with large projects like removing a race car or modifying a trailer, the end result will be worth it.

The builder also emphasized the importance of teamwork and support from friends and collaborators. Projects like these don’t just belong to one person but are the result of collective effort and dedication. With everyone working together, the builder is confident that the final product will meet all expectations and be ready for action on the trails.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right it is another day in the shop and we are going to be working on the heavy record today and i'm going to be answering your most asked questions about how this is even going to work plus some other questions like we haven't seen max in a while i hope he's doing okay are you doing okay buddy are you doing okay he's doing okay and then we got lady and we got peanut but what about turbo where's turbo some of you wonder how ed's doing ed how are you doing today i'm doing good nice day no wind i didn't see any meteorites last night there's supposed to be one tonight i don't know anyway thanks for watching heavy record number one number one question how in the world are you going to be able to change the spark plugs and my answer is i don't even have to open the hood to change the spark plugs i can just crouch down right here look at this extension stick it's straight on there piece of cake changing spark plugs is not going to be a problem on the wrecker and we aren't even going to have to open the hood to do it if you would like to sneak in here in the night and change my spark plugs for me you'll be able to do it what happened to you i trimmed my hair as you see doesn't stick out my hat i can see your ears now yeah people say i look different but it's just a little haircut this is a little ear trim yeah okay for this next one i'm gonna use my youtube thumbnail face oh no you're gonna roast your feet off because the engine is too far inside the cab let's explore that all right so this is going to be our seat for today oh yeah that's where the floorboard's literally going to be there'll be a firewall here obviously and it will stick in a little ways i don't think i'm gonna roast my feet and i also don't think that the engine's in here too far leads me to the next question why the engine is where it's at what do they ask why engine where at that's what they google wow why matt engine we're at so why is the engine where it is like why did i move it so far back here if you talk to any rock crawler they will tell you that you want your front engine buggies the engine to be behind the front axle and as low as possible if you talk to my buddy colt he'll tell you the same thing yeah pretty much do it again i like it okay cab placement why is the cab so far back well like the engine we need it far back so that it doesn't get in the way of the approach angle of the front of the vehicle and it's also able to set as low as possible so that's why the cop cabs back you look at any rock buggy that's what you're going to see you're going to see the human placement is as near the center of the vehicle as possible so if you're an off-road recovery company and you're building a rig for southern utah trails you're going to start by building a buggy first and then you're going to add tow stuff to that buggy isn't that right rory i completely agree so this next one is two parts we get questions and comments the question is where's the crew gonna fit and then the comment to that is you need to add an extra cab to this so that the crew can fit this is not a crew transport this is an off-road recovery record that needs to get into crazy trails so visibility is super important to me so from my seat i can see all four corners of the rig and i know where it is if we were to add an extra cab on this it would impede my vision also it would get into the space that i need for tow truck things the party's happening from here forward the business is happening from here back and i can't have the party encroaching on the business so it's not gonna get an extra cab by design that's the way i would build it so the next comment we're getting is about air ride suspension on the cab why in the world am i not putting air ride suspension on the cab well i'll tell you this cab is not designed for it and i don't want to have to design it for it because all this hood and grill is going to be mounted rigid and i have to have the gaps if you'll notice the air ride trucks they've got these crazy gaps and the hood closes against the bracket that goes to the frame not against the body no and i don't even need it the more and the banana are unibody they're like polar opposite of an air ride cab it's literally the frame and they're two of the best riding off-road vehicles i have ever been in we're gonna make this one ride nice too there's been some discussion on what i'm gonna do with the paint for right now since it's already yellow and it looks super cool we're gonna leave it just like it is i may paint it in the future i may not but as for now we're gonna leave it just exactly like it is and with robbie's current workload i think he's gonna be really happy about that oh thank goodness all right another big question that i get all the time is who in the world is gonna rescue you if you need help and that answer is super easy i'll call my buddy rory and he'll bring trill mater and i'll call my buddy paul and he'll bring grandpa sherm's tow truck i'm not even worried about it and if you've seen either of those guys doing their recovery work with their trucks and just working them you wouldn't be worried about it either so the next question that we get and i find this one odd because you've watched us push it in and out of the shop several times now is it gonna fit in or out of your shop yeah it fits in and out of the shop and as we keep adding weight to it it's gonna fit in and out even better because it's gonna settle down a little bit yeah that's just a weird question but we still get it in every single video even if even if we start the video with pushing this in or out of the shop how big is this thing really we get a lot of comments and questions about that is it going to be too wide for the trails is it going to be too long for the trails is it going to be too tall to go through the tunnel well to give you some perspective we didn't have any bananas today but here's a strawberry for scale so the old girl is 208 inches long and 91 inches wide the rear axle on trail mater is 103 inches wide mischief maker is 89.5 inches wide so this is in the neighborhood of mischief maker for width and it's shorter than a four-door gladiator all right i just made a bold statement tucker doesn't believe it we're gonna go check it out i'm a little bit skeptical on this one so not only are strawberries good for scale they're good to eat tucker's skeptical to the very very front yeah 120 or 221 inches this is literally that much it's literally that much longer piece of gravel for scale so do you think i should stalk tucker's pay for being wrong and doubting me comment below all right well now that we got that cleared up it is shorter than a four-door gladiator by like 16 inches or something i don't know so will it fit through the tunnel at sand hollow yes it will as long as there's not a bunch of sand washed in there right now there's a bunch of sand if i was to get through here i'd have to worm my way through with front digs and just keep digging the front end down an inch and forward but it's only like two or three minutes longer to drive around so if it fits it fits if it doesn't okay as far as breakover angle it's about the same as the more of air they're within a couple a little bit this one has slightly better breakover angle due to its high belly and the really large tires so even though it's got a longer wheelbase same breaker wrangle approach angle better than anything we've got in the fleet departure angle the same it's basically it'll climb a 90 degree or drop off at 90 degree without scraping anything that's definitely the case in the buggy world let's talk about the weight how in the world is this tiny little suburban engine going to drag this 12 000 pound beast around and the answer is it's going to drag it around handily and easily so this same engine was available in an rv that was 20 000 pounds call it the workhorse and it would drag those things down the highway you know 65 70 80 miles an hour i'm not worried at all about this the same top speed on this rig is probably going to be in the 55 mile an hour range this engine stock will easily do that speaking of the suburban that this came out of tons of comments about oh no why did you ruin such a rare beautiful straight clean suburban look at that it's not a clean suburban fun fact we broke more bolts disassembling this than we did disassembling this 1956. so we broke exactly one bolt with everything we took apart on this and we broke almost all of them taking this apart johnny boy has some plans for the rest of this none of it's for sale so sorry about that it's it's his he can do what he wants with it that's right hey there's a buck so i told you it was all party in the front and business in the back now i'm going to tell you what the business in the back is going to look like first of all there's going to be a massive roll cage here that's very strong there's going to be lights on it braces and stuff it's going to actually incorporate into some rock slider structures out here that protect the exhaust and some other things that we're going to be hanging on the outside of the frame then right behind that is a 60 gallon fuel tank big massive cube of fuel storage capacity if trevor has his way it'll have a working fuel center that's hooked to a gauge that indicates the level of fuel in said cube on one side i'll have a saddle toolbox custom built we'll build that on the other side we'll have the exact same thing and we're probably going to incorporate side winches on both sides of this all of the winches on this are going to be electric none of them will be hydraulic and i know there's a lot of you that are going like typing like right now typing like you're an idiot i know i know what you're thinking but off-road recovery is different than like heavy recovery on the freeway the highway whatever on an off-road recovery wrecker i feel like electric winches are the best choice and i think rory agrees with me whatever matt said go with that so moving back here we're gonna be structuring our boom kind of a gen pull style boom for lightweight and strength it's going to be an a-frame trevor is going to demonstrate that okay all right now lean out at a 45-degree angle no that's very good it's probably not going to be that tall trevor's very tall and our and our boom is not going to have to be that tall but that's where it's going to attach to it will also be ran with a winch it's up and down motion will be done with winches and some chains for bracing speaking of winches there's going to be one winch in the back count them up with me one winch in the back one winch in the front two side winches twin line on the gin pole and then one winch to run the pole no time to count i must estimate that's like seven or eight winches so seven or eight winches is the right amount of winches on an off-road recovery record i think if i'm not mistaken rory would also agree with me on that trail mater's covered with winches another little thing that's going back here is airbags right here so i'm going to have airbags for helper springs they fit inside the frame and they are going to help with the lifting anti-squat duties okay there has been a lot of discussion on the frame about it flexing like you some people even said you want the frame to flex and i get what you're saying but not in this rig this is more of a tube chassis and tube chassis are designed specifically not to flex and by the time we get done x bracing what needs to be x-braced and cross bracing and boxing this frame is going to be very very rigid we'll be able to lift the wheel with just not very much deflection i don't mean to get all scientific on you or nothing but there's not going to be a lot of deflection who is that guy he looks like mark hamill what's mark hart and we'll say what's the spook skywalker line no so hopefully that answers a lot of your questions moving forward on the record build but right now we've got to push this back out of the shop and i've got to get a race car out of the attic so yes there is a race car in the attic of the shop yes i put it there it was one of those problems that i figured if we stuffed it up there and sheetrock this whole building it would just go away so here's the deal we are getting central air put in here because we have been running a swamp cooler and just to let you know how that goes in the summertime whenever we film and have the camera on we have to turn the cooler off because it's really noisy so we're in here working and when it's 110 degrees it's just not pleasant we're putting air conditioning in the whole building so the race car is in the way it's like that's where the unit's going to go so we got to get it out of there do you remember the race car we left up there yeah all right i've got it out one of them is that gonna fit it's out oh it's hot okay let me down let's add a five horsepower bridge of stratton all right so we got the race car out of the rafters and now we just got a little bit of a mess to clean up one more thing that i procrastinated in my life that just melted away all right so robbie did me a huge favor actually he's done these several huge favors but the one that he did last night is he went all the way to green river to pick up the more of air because we ended up with too many vehicles that needed to be towed and not enough trailers so we brought the morvaire down on this trailer and the fenders were too narrow and he drove over him and he did some damage to him so he asked me if he could leave it here and come back and get it later hey robbie layton here matt asked me if i could bring the more all the way from green river down here on my trailer i did it it hurt the trailer offenders they're damaged i'm gonna have to leave the trailer here i gotta go talk to matt and say hey can i leave my trailer here and i'll come back and get it later all right where's matt at is he back here is he in the office where is he at let's go find him matt in here hey matt is it all right if i leave my trailer in your yard for a minute the fender's broken off and uh we'll have to come back and get it later and maybe fix it i don't know we're really busy is that all right with you sure no problem just put it back in the yard back there you can leave it as long as you want all right well as long as your shirt's no problem we'll get it as quick as we can thanks and did you notice i've been working on my beard look at that i'm practically a full-grown man i said sure no problem but i have decided because of all the things that he's done and i'll tell you more about those in a second we're gonna build him some drive over fenders and surprise him with it so not only did robbie come and pull one of my irons out of the fire by helping me get the more back here to my shop but also he's done all the work on the golden nugget without asking for a dime it's a very expensive project if you would like to help him you can go to robbielayton.com you can get your own shirt and would help fund the project to get ed back in his wheels so support a wonderful human being by buying a wonderful human shirt probably laden.com robbie has shirts for humans okay so here's the plan so it's got pretty nice fenders on there this is what happened this one broke off right here hillbilly so robbie's planning on coming down here using my welder to tack this back together take it back to his shop and then modify it for driver offender our plan is to modify it for driver offenders deliver it to his shop and surprise him with it so we got to get right after it because he's going to be here in a couple days which means we have like one day to do so okay thank you i was wondering why janelle wanted to come here today you got it yeah it's a little windy today i'm afraid it's going to blow rudy's pile oh dang i almost fell happy birthday to you do you can't bulls out that's bad so i didn't tell robbie i was gonna do this he just thought i was gonna weld the fender on but i decided he mentioned that he wanted to drive over fenders so you gotta drive over fenders you guys didn't just weld it nope skeeter and lizzy worked really hard on this we don't have to do it now yeah you gotta paint it though jamie's like aren't you gonna paint it it looks terrible and i said no i'm not gonna paint robbie's stuff that looks amazing oh okay i see what you did there like what'd they do they put a brace no you skinned the whole inside yeah you can kick it oh you even did this now there's like some clearance yeah i raised this up i noticed that this was rubbing yes so we actually raised that just a little bit awesome well i think we can handle paint news since you guys did the easy stuff we'll take care of the hard stuff for your new jeep drive right over this yeah awesome that's awesome you guys did a great job thank you even the small details skeeter you did awesome thank you all right we're here uh with fab rats we're in paul's shop robbie just dropped off the golden nugget and robbie's still here everyone is still here look at this crew so papadar stopped in he's checking it out i've heard a lot of talk about what's going to be happening to get this finished but one subject keeps coming up over and over again the primary objective on the golden nugget is to not scratch it do not scratch it paul how many times you said that today paul at least 10 or 15 and i'm still nervous about it i've never worked on nice stuff i don't even know what to do with it i'm not even touching it and i'm nervous you guys are all making me nervous i changed i changed the clutch in a corvair once that was like this nice yeah i'm like laying blankets down everywhere every every tool everything you know what to do with something that nice but we will but anyway it is in good hands i have complete confidence this is gonna get done on schedule i'm super excited to go test drive it i am super excited to go test driving you know what i'm super happy about what i don't have to lie to ed oh this is going to be nice to get yeah it's going to be great i'm tired of lying to end but as soon as paul gets this back together the three of us are gonna take it on a trail ride we're gonna shake it down make sure that it is worthy of uh taking ed out in the boonies and not stranding him yeah now robbie it's at robbie's house now yeah ed says or they told ed that it's going to my shop now i just delivered it so for those of you that have been following along with the golden nugget build you will have noticed that it started out at my shop and then it went to fab rat shop then it went to robbie layton's shop and now it's going back to fab rat so that's where you're gonna have to keep up with the developments of the golden nugget until the time that it gets revealed to ed along with the rokon and the rokon trailer it's gonna be amazing thank you guys so much and thank you for watching i think you got it not good enough whatever you build it's probably not quite as good as mineall right it is another day in the shop and we are going to be working on the heavy record today and i'm going to be answering your most asked questions about how this is even going to work plus some other questions like we haven't seen max in a while i hope he's doing okay are you doing okay buddy are you doing okay he's doing okay and then we got lady and we got peanut but what about turbo where's turbo some of you wonder how ed's doing ed how are you doing today i'm doing good nice day no wind i didn't see any meteorites last night there's supposed to be one tonight i don't know anyway thanks for watching heavy record number one number one question how in the world are you going to be able to change the spark plugs and my answer is i don't even have to open the hood to change the spark plugs i can just crouch down right here look at this extension stick it's straight on there piece of cake changing spark plugs is not going to be a problem on the wrecker and we aren't even going to have to open the hood to do it if you would like to sneak in here in the night and change my spark plugs for me you'll be able to do it what happened to you i trimmed my hair as you see doesn't stick out my hat i can see your ears now yeah people say i look different but it's just a little haircut this is a little ear trim yeah okay for this next one i'm gonna use my youtube thumbnail face oh no you're gonna roast your feet off because the engine is too far inside the cab let's explore that all right so this is going to be our seat for today oh yeah that's where the floorboard's literally going to be there'll be a firewall here obviously and it will stick in a little ways i don't think i'm gonna roast my feet and i also don't think that the engine's in here too far leads me to the next question why the engine is where it's at what do they ask why engine where at that's what they google wow why matt engine we're at so why is the engine where it is like why did i move it so far back here if you talk to any rock crawler they will tell you that you want your front engine buggies the engine to be behind the front axle and as low as possible if you talk to my buddy colt he'll tell you the same thing yeah pretty much do it again i like it okay cab placement why is the cab so far back well like the engine we need it far back so that it doesn't get in the way of the approach angle of the front of the vehicle and it's also able to set as low as possible so that's why the cop cabs back you look at any rock buggy that's what you're going to see you're going to see the human placement is as near the center of the vehicle as possible so if you're an off-road recovery company and you're building a rig for southern utah trails you're going to start by building a buggy first and then you're going to add tow stuff to that buggy isn't that right rory i completely agree so this next one is two parts we get questions and comments the question is where's the crew gonna fit and then the comment to that is you need to add an extra cab to this so that the crew can fit this is not a crew transport this is an off-road recovery record that needs to get into crazy trails so visibility is super important to me so from my seat i can see all four corners of the rig and i know where it is if we were to add an extra cab on this it would impede my vision also it would get into the space that i need for tow truck things the party's happening from here forward the business is happening from here back and i can't have the party encroaching on the business so it's not gonna get an extra cab by design that's the way i would build it so the next comment we're getting is about air ride suspension on the cab why in the world am i not putting air ride suspension on the cab well i'll tell you this cab is not designed for it and i don't want to have to design it for it because all this hood and grill is going to be mounted rigid and i have to have the gaps if you'll notice the air ride trucks they've got these crazy gaps and the hood closes against the bracket that goes to the frame not against the body no and i don't even need it the more and the banana are unibody they're like polar opposite of an air ride cab it's literally the frame and they're two of the best riding off-road vehicles i have ever been in we're gonna make this one ride nice too there's been some discussion on what i'm gonna do with the paint for right now since it's already yellow and it looks super cool we're gonna leave it just like it is i may paint it in the future i may not but as for now we're gonna leave it just exactly like it is and with robbie's current workload i think he's gonna be really happy about that oh thank goodness all right another big question that i get all the time is who in the world is gonna rescue you if you need help and that answer is super easy i'll call my buddy rory and he'll bring trill mater and i'll call my buddy paul and he'll bring grandpa sherm's tow truck i'm not even worried about it and if you've seen either of those guys doing their recovery work with their trucks and just working them you wouldn't be worried about it either so the next question that we get and i find this one odd because you've watched us push it in and out of the shop several times now is it gonna fit in or out of your shop yeah it fits in and out of the shop and as we keep adding weight to it it's gonna fit in and out even better because it's gonna settle down a little bit yeah that's just a weird question but we still get it in every single video even if even if we start the video with pushing this in or out of the shop how big is this thing really we get a lot of comments and questions about that is it going to be too wide for the trails is it going to be too long for the trails is it going to be too tall to go through the tunnel well to give you some perspective we didn't have any bananas today but here's a strawberry for scale so the old girl is 208 inches long and 91 inches wide the rear axle on trail mater is 103 inches wide mischief maker is 89.5 inches wide so this is in the neighborhood of mischief maker for width and it's shorter than a four-door gladiator all right i just made a bold statement tucker doesn't believe it we're gonna go check it out i'm a little bit skeptical on this one so not only are strawberries good for scale they're good to eat tucker's skeptical to the very very front yeah 120 or 221 inches this is literally that much it's literally that much longer piece of gravel for scale so do you think i should stalk tucker's pay for being wrong and doubting me comment below all right well now that we got that cleared up it is shorter than a four-door gladiator by like 16 inches or something i don't know so will it fit through the tunnel at sand hollow yes it will as long as there's not a bunch of sand washed in there right now there's a bunch of sand if i was to get through here i'd have to worm my way through with front digs and just keep digging the front end down an inch and forward but it's only like two or three minutes longer to drive around so if it fits it fits if it doesn't okay as far as breakover angle it's about the same as the more of air they're within a couple a little bit this one has slightly better breakover angle due to its high belly and the really large tires so even though it's got a longer wheelbase same breaker wrangle approach angle better than anything we've got in the fleet departure angle the same it's basically it'll climb a 90 degree or drop off at 90 degree without scraping anything that's definitely the case in the buggy world let's talk about the weight how in the world is this tiny little suburban engine going to drag this 12 000 pound beast around and the answer is it's going to drag it around handily and easily so this same engine was available in an rv that was 20 000 pounds call it the workhorse and it would drag those things down the highway you know 65 70 80 miles an hour i'm not worried at all about this the same top speed on this rig is probably going to be in the 55 mile an hour range this engine stock will easily do that speaking of the suburban that this came out of tons of comments about oh no why did you ruin such a rare beautiful straight clean suburban look at that it's not a clean suburban fun fact we broke more bolts disassembling this than we did disassembling this 1956. so we broke exactly one bolt with everything we took apart on this and we broke almost all of them taking this apart johnny boy has some plans for the rest of this none of it's for sale so sorry about that it's it's his he can do what he wants with it that's right hey there's a buck so i told you it was all party in the front and business in the back now i'm going to tell you what the business in the back is going to look like first of all there's going to be a massive roll cage here that's very strong there's going to be lights on it braces and stuff it's going to actually incorporate into some rock slider structures out here that protect the exhaust and some other things that we're going to be hanging on the outside of the frame then right behind that is a 60 gallon fuel tank big massive cube of fuel storage capacity if trevor has his way it'll have a working fuel center that's hooked to a gauge that indicates the level of fuel in said cube on one side i'll have a saddle toolbox custom built we'll build that on the other side we'll have the exact same thing and we're probably going to incorporate side winches on both sides of this all of the winches on this are going to be electric none of them will be hydraulic and i know there's a lot of you that are going like typing like right now typing like you're an idiot i know i know what you're thinking but off-road recovery is different than like heavy recovery on the freeway the highway whatever on an off-road recovery wrecker i feel like electric winches are the best choice and i think rory agrees with me whatever matt said go with that so moving back here we're gonna be structuring our boom kind of a gen pull style boom for lightweight and strength it's going to be an a-frame trevor is going to demonstrate that okay all right now lean out at a 45-degree angle no that's very good it's probably not going to be that tall trevor's very tall and our and our boom is not going to have to be that tall but that's where it's going to attach to it will also be ran with a winch it's up and down motion will be done with winches and some chains for bracing speaking of winches there's going to be one winch in the back count them up with me one winch in the back one winch in the front two side winches twin line on the gin pole and then one winch to run the pole no time to count i must estimate that's like seven or eight winches so seven or eight winches is the right amount of winches on an off-road recovery record i think if i'm not mistaken rory would also agree with me on that trail mater's covered with winches another little thing that's going back here is airbags right here so i'm going to have airbags for helper springs they fit inside the frame and they are going to help with the lifting anti-squat duties okay there has been a lot of discussion on the frame about it flexing like you some people even said you want the frame to flex and i get what you're saying but not in this rig this is more of a tube chassis and tube chassis are designed specifically not to flex and by the time we get done x bracing what needs to be x-braced and cross bracing and boxing this frame is going to be very very rigid we'll be able to lift the wheel with just not very much deflection i don't mean to get all scientific on you or nothing but there's not going to be a lot of deflection who is that guy he looks like mark hamill what's mark hart and we'll say what's the spook skywalker line no so hopefully that answers a lot of your questions moving forward on the record build but right now we've got to push this back out of the shop and i've got to get a race car out of the attic so yes there is a race car in the attic of the shop yes i put it there it was one of those problems that i figured if we stuffed it up there and sheetrock this whole building it would just go away so here's the deal we are getting central air put in here because we have been running a swamp cooler and just to let you know how that goes in the summertime whenever we film and have the camera on we have to turn the cooler off because it's really noisy so we're in here working and when it's 110 degrees it's just not pleasant we're putting air conditioning in the whole building so the race car is in the way it's like that's where the unit's going to go so we got to get it out of there do you remember the race car we left up there yeah all right i've got it out one of them is that gonna fit it's out oh it's hot okay let me down let's add a five horsepower bridge of stratton all right so we got the race car out of the rafters and now we just got a little bit of a mess to clean up one more thing that i procrastinated in my life that just melted away all right so robbie did me a huge favor actually he's done these several huge favors but the one that he did last night is he went all the way to green river to pick up the more of air because we ended up with too many vehicles that needed to be towed and not enough trailers so we brought the morvaire down on this trailer and the fenders were too narrow and he drove over him and he did some damage to him so he asked me if he could leave it here and come back and get it later hey robbie layton here matt asked me if i could bring the more all the way from green river down here on my trailer i did it it hurt the trailer offenders they're damaged i'm gonna have to leave the trailer here i gotta go talk to matt and say hey can i leave my trailer here and i'll come back and get it later all right where's matt at is he back here is he in the office where is he at let's go find him matt in here hey matt is it all right if i leave my trailer in your yard for a minute the fender's broken off and uh we'll have to come back and get it later and maybe fix it i don't know we're really busy is that all right with you sure no problem just put it back in the yard back there you can leave it as long as you want all right well as long as your shirt's no problem we'll get it as quick as we can thanks and did you notice i've been working on my beard look at that i'm practically a full-grown man i said sure no problem but i have decided because of all the things that he's done and i'll tell you more about those in a second we're gonna build him some drive over fenders and surprise him with it so not only did robbie come and pull one of my irons out of the fire by helping me get the more back here to my shop but also he's done all the work on the golden nugget without asking for a dime it's a very expensive project if you would like to help him you can go to robbielayton.com you can get your own shirt and would help fund the project to get ed back in his wheels so support a wonderful human being by buying a wonderful human shirt probably laden.com robbie has shirts for humans okay so here's the plan so it's got pretty nice fenders on there this is what happened this one broke off right here hillbilly so robbie's planning on coming down here using my welder to tack this back together take it back to his shop and then modify it for driver offender our plan is to modify it for driver offenders deliver it to his shop and surprise him with it so we got to get right after it because he's going to be here in a couple days which means we have like one day to do so okay thank you i was wondering why janelle wanted to come here today you got it yeah it's a little windy today i'm afraid it's going to blow rudy's pile oh dang i almost fell happy birthday to you do you can't bulls out that's bad so i didn't tell robbie i was gonna do this he just thought i was gonna weld the fender on but i decided he mentioned that he wanted to drive over fenders so you gotta drive over fenders you guys didn't just weld it nope skeeter and lizzy worked really hard on this we don't have to do it now yeah you gotta paint it though jamie's like aren't you gonna paint it it looks terrible and i said no i'm not gonna paint robbie's stuff that looks amazing oh okay i see what you did there like what'd they do they put a brace no you skinned the whole inside yeah you can kick it oh you even did this now there's like some clearance yeah i raised this up i noticed that this was rubbing yes so we actually raised that just a little bit awesome well i think we can handle paint news since you guys did the easy stuff we'll take care of the hard stuff for your new jeep drive right over this yeah awesome that's awesome you guys did a great job thank you even the small details skeeter you did awesome thank you all right we're here uh with fab rats we're in paul's shop robbie just dropped off the golden nugget and robbie's still here everyone is still here look at this crew so papadar stopped in he's checking it out i've heard a lot of talk about what's going to be happening to get this finished but one subject keeps coming up over and over again the primary objective on the golden nugget is to not scratch it do not scratch it paul how many times you said that today paul at least 10 or 15 and i'm still nervous about it i've never worked on nice stuff i don't even know what to do with it i'm not even touching it and i'm nervous you guys are all making me nervous i changed i changed the clutch in a corvair once that was like this nice yeah i'm like laying blankets down everywhere every every tool everything you know what to do with something that nice but we will but anyway it is in good hands i have complete confidence this is gonna get done on schedule i'm super excited to go test drive it i am super excited to go test driving you know what i'm super happy about what i don't have to lie to ed oh this is going to be nice to get yeah it's going to be great i'm tired of lying to end but as soon as paul gets this back together the three of us are gonna take it on a trail ride we're gonna shake it down make sure that it is worthy of uh taking ed out in the boonies and not stranding him yeah now robbie it's at robbie's house now yeah ed says or they told ed that it's going to my shop now i just delivered it so for those of you that have been following along with the golden nugget build you will have noticed that it started out at my shop and then it went to fab rat shop then it went to robbie layton's shop and now it's going back to fab rat so that's where you're gonna have to keep up with the developments of the golden nugget until the time that it gets revealed to ed along with the rokon and the rokon trailer it's gonna be amazing thank you guys so much and thank you for watching i think you got it not good enough whatever you build it's probably not quite as good as mine\n"