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Exploring September's Towing Events and Big D Fabrication's Innovative Dolly · Towing News Now

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the American Toe Recovery Institute podcast.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Remember, this is your podcast to promote safety, education, positive public relations and networking within the professional and business-finding toe recovery industry.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: I'm your co-host, dj Harrington, better known as the co-doctor, and I'm honored, as always, to be with the number one co-host, a 40-year toeing industry veteran, the founder of American Toe Recovery Institute, a guy who has done well over 915 classes and counting.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: These are hands-on classes and everybody in the industry knows the one and only, wes, wilburne.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Wes, how are you, my friend?
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: He's doing good today.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you for your kind words.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: As always, I appreciate them.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell all our listeners.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: You get some great fan mail of people.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: We got one today, folks, a guy that started listening because they're all archives and they went back to the very first podcast three years ago started listening and sent Wes the most beautiful email that he happened to forward to me a minute ago and I thought, wes, you deserve all the accolades of a fellow toeman who thinks the world of you, who is listening to all the archive podcasts.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: I think that's great.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: We're humbled by it, dj.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: It's exciting to be a part of this.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: Well, you are well known in the industry and there are so many people that think the world of you and this podcast opens it up for so many people that they can learn from each other, improve their bottom line and come home safe to their loved ones every night that they leave them, kiss them goodbye in the morning and they're home that evening because things they learned from this podcast safety tips, new industry veterans that have been out there that are sharing tips, and you bring them to the microphone every week.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: You've got an array of good friends.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: I'm blessed.
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: You're right, I just could be a part of it.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: I feel very blessed.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: We're kicking off September here A lot of different things going on in the industry.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: If you wanted to DJ, you could go to a tow show every weekend in the sponsor September Towshow, or telling them that you should have told us.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: There's all kinds Of course.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: We know about the Midwest show.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: We're all gearing up for that Right Then, of course, after that you have the museum event and then Utah, connecticut all kinds of different state associations all around the country are doing something on one of the weekend days in September.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: Like I say, every weekend you could be at an event or something in the telling industry, but it's good to see everybody being that active.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Of course, as our listeners know, we're gearing up for the Midwest regional show.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: It's a great show.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: We talked about it a couple of episodes ago and I guess today we'll be there as well.
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: Before we get there we're fortunate.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: as I'm recording this, I'm about ready to leave for a private class at Paddock's record service in Westfield, indiana, just outside of Indianapolis Great company.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: They host open schools.
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: They host private schools for their own employees.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited about being headed off to that.
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  Speaker 1: Then, after that, we're going to be at the Midwest regional show.
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: We're really looking forward to it.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: Now, wes, can I kind of tease our listeners?
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: We got over 12,000 listeners now and I'd like to tease them those of you that are fortunate enough to be coming to the Midwest Regional Toshel September 21st through the 24th up in Ohio.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: I want you just teasing you a little bit.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: You need to go by the American Towing Recovery Institute booth and see all the new stuff that's being released at the show.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: You will be amazed.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I'll just tell you that it's like a teaser, wes.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: They will be amazed at what's being introduced at the Midwest Regional Toshel.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a fact.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: We have always responded to our customer's requests for different things the best we can, of course, when I was, the release of what we're going to be showing at the Midwest show, I think falls right into that category.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: It's something the industry needs and will be helpful.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: We're super excited.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: We're going to have our A team at the show.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: We want everybody to stop by our booth.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: We'll be at Wilmington.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Ohio the R&T truck in place.
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: We're excited about that.
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: The podcast team will be there.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: Chuck's Band Chuck's Band is going to be playing Saturday night there.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: Here they've got some special entertainment lined up for the Towing Industry.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear and see that.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's going to be a great event.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: I hope people take time out of their busy schedules and get to stop by and support the Towing Recovery Association of Ohio and West Virginia and Kentucky.
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: We talked about it earlier on the podcast.
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: It's one of the great things about the show is the different associations working together to bring it all together.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about that new location.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: I'm excited great place, all the trucking memorabilia, et cetera.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to tell people if you have an RV, a camper or whatever, even our guest today, his mom and dad, are going to be there in their RV and going to camp right out there.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Make sure you bring your hot dogs, your hamburgers, your s'mores and bring your family, because this is where you make memories, around the campfire, listening to one of the number one bands in the state of Georgia are going to be there Saturday night.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: Three-quarty chaos.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: Our only truck camp is in that band.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to be exciting for sure.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: One of the many reasons to attend the Midwest Regional Towing Show.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: I invite people to come by and even take two or three minutes to be on the podcast so that we can record them and edit and make sure we have some for after the show.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: We can have them on it so they can send their best wishes to tow us that on there.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: That should have been there.
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: Right, absolutely, absolutely, dj.
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: We're looking forward to a great show there.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: We're looking forward to seeing all our friends at that show.
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: We're doing a seminar on Saturday.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: Me and DJ are going to have Fred Schiehler from Henry's talking about exit strategies and validation of what's going on in the industry.
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: So we're really looking forward to it.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: That'll be a great one.
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I guess, as you talked about today, we'll be there After that Midwest Regional Toe Show.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: We're going to be in Justin, texas, in October.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: That's how to Fort Worth One day light did the other, october 13th.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Fire Toe Cross Training on October 14th and 15th.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: October 28th and 29th we're going to be in Rochester, minnesota, michigan, just outside of Detroit, for a light duty and medium duty.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: So we're looking forward to that schedule.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: So we got a great guest today.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: He's got a great innovative product and, like you said, his parents will be at the Midwest Show showing it, so we'll get our listeners to hang around until after the break and we'll be right back.
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• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Welcome back listeners.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: You've been listening to the American Towing Recovery Institute podcast with Wes Wilber and DJ Harrington and, of course, this is a special episode.
• 10:33
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• 10:42
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• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Without further ado, wes tell our listening audience who are guest here for today.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Well, thanks, dj, and I do want to thank everybody for listening and sharing and liking everything.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: We're very thankful to have this many listeners and we appreciate you folks.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: We really do.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: We try to stay topical and we try to cover all different ends of the towing business.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure how long ago, but a little while back here I noticed that we had a new tool in our industry that you know.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of homemade versions of this over the years but never seen anything like quite like this.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: But heavy duty dialies for large crowds and we're very thankful we got Cody Henninger to help us rent them.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: We're going to let him tell a story, but we have Cody Henninger here to introduce himself and talk a little bit about what they're doing with it.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Cody, can you tell our listening audience a little bit about yourself and your involvement in the industry?
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my name is Cody Henninger.
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: My grandpa started a towing company back in the 70s.
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: My dad bought it out in the 80s and I'll be the third generation and basically this whole product started from.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: We had these fifth wheel campers and boat trailers and these oddball things that you know they're too tall for a landall or they're a pain to load on a trailer and basically we just built one and I posted it on Facebook and also on someone else thought and said hey, could you build me one?
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: And then they posted on Facebook and then all of a sudden we were building three at a time, then five at a time, then 10 at a time, and it's just taken off from there and now we have over 300 of them all over the country.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Wow, I did not realize there was that many out there.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: I know a couple of different people that are in my circles, kevin Farthing and Wapos One, and I've been at that place, done schools there, hung around there et cetera, and they have very busy operation and see him raving about how good it works.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: And then Jonathan Gibbs, down in Virginia, is another gentleman that I noticed using on Southampton Towing.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Both of them talk about on Facebook how much they really like them and we'll circle back to the dollars.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Well, let's just slow down a little bit.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: If we could, if you don't mind, cody, tell us a little bit about family business.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: And you said your grandfather started in the 70s.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, my grandpa started out.
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: He had a bunch of gas stations and then they started plowing and then they got into towing because they found out they made a lot more money towing and then we pretty much sold all the gas stations and sold all our plowing and just kept growing the business and now we have 18 trucks and it's just, you know, busy every day now.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: And you have a lot of television where you're located at.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, we're at a Green Bay Wisconsin.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's what an hour north of Milwaukee.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, about an hour and a half.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: An hour and a half to two and a half out of Chicago, then ballpark, yep, just to put a 10 point on the map.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: And then your dad.
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  Speaker 1: By the time your dad took it out where the gas stations were gone at that point.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, my dad bought it out in 89 and basically my dad used the fabricator for the Dahle's too, but he built all of our own trucks.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: We used to build all our own heavy wreckers and that's where all the fabrication skills really came.
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: Basically, we would buy an international chassis and he'd build the whole back end, the toolbox, the boom, the under reach, everything he would build from a ground up here in our shop, and that's just kind of where we learned to fabricate.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: And he was doing this in the 80s or the 90s.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: Yep, yep, yeah, we had one of the first hydraulic wreckers in the area here and he built it himself and he would build the little wreckers, the heavy wreckers, but everything.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Wow, that takes a lot, and especially in your part of the world.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Equipment's really gotta be tough because of the weather you go through up there.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean we all grown up we had like a little shop and we all grew that.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: But he would basically build a whole subframe on the back end and you only get six or seven months out of the year that you can leave the garage door open.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: So you know, he would basically build everything back in the day and then now we've grown to a point where we can afford a factory built wrecker.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: So you know, but things have definitely changed also in our industry with needing rotators and equipment.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, liability and so many different things have changed.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I can see where you all change with it.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: So when did you build this first set of these dowels the heavy dowels?
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: We built that first one three years ago.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, and put 300 sets out three years, that's outstanding.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it didn't, you know.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: It gradually got more and more as it went on and our first valley was only a 14,000 pound dolly, you know it was geared more towards campers and fifth wheels and semi-trakers.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: And then as we built that, people were like, well, can you make a bigger one?
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Can you make a bigger one?
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: And then we came out with a 25,000 pound dolly and that has worked for everything.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I mean you can pretty much use it for anything.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: And actually we do have a 44,000 pound dolly coming out in the next couple of weeks that we're actually hoping to bring to the tow show if it gets done in time.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: But that'll pretty much do everything.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: You know your garbage trucks and dump trucks and quad axles and stuff like that.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: So right now, the workhorse that you all produce is the one with 25,000 pound capacity.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the one we're making right now and it works for you know, 99% of what you need to do with it.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: So what can you tell us about that features, about that unit?
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: I know that yeah so it only raises the.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: So if you put it under a semi or a trailer, it only raises the load five inches.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: And so you have put it under an air ride trailer with a suspension problem or a bearing issue and you dump the air.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: You're still at your 13 six height, so that's really nice if you live in an area with a bunch of little bridges.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Our dolly can actually be flipped upside down and it's completely flat underneath.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: So we've had a lot of instances with like farm equipment, or even if we had a pneumatic trailer with the axles completely burned off of it and it's a aluminum trailer, so we ended up setting it upside down right in front of the axles where they burned off, and you know, we were just able to haul it in that way.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: But it has many different uses, because you can use it upside down and you can use it where it's got the dish in there to put the tires.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: So when you're using the dish eyes, you're only gaining five inches.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Yep, it only has five.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry, okay, yeah, no, it only has five.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Yep, it only has five inches off the ground when I flip it how much wood can add another five or something.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Nope where, about 25 inches off the ground.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, all right, so that gives us a lift there.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and actually another guy had a like almost a trail or a park model camper with, you know, it's just like flat on the front, flat in the back, and it lost both wheels on the one side and instead of trying to put it under the wheels, he just flipped it over upside down through a couple of blocks of wood on the top and he just, you know, hit the frame rails that were there and instead of trying to put it under the axles, you could just block it up and put it under the frame rails.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: And you could do the same thing with a semi trailer.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: There's, you know, a lot of times that you don't necessarily need to put tires in it, you can put anything in it.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Then so that has you said 25,000 pounds capacity.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Yep, Hmm, that's very interesting.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: There are tie-down options as well.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Yep, we have chain spots all over the outside of them inside and outside, and from what I've seen now I've just seen pictures, I haven't seen one in person I'm going to be anxious to see your booth at the Midwest toe show.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: But the tie-down spot you've really thought them out.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Isn't part of the magic of this is you all are still in the telling business and you're using these in the real world applications yourself.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we use ours all the time.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: We have a flat-top dolly, we have a land doll, we have a low-boy.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: But when we have an issue, if you have a burn semi, you don't really want to set that on your knife-land-all and get it all dirty, so it's a lot nicer to just throw a dolly underneath it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of times, even if you have an empty trailer with a hub issue, you can set it under the back.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: But also we designed this that the dolly legs fit in the bottom of the pan, so you can just throw the dolly legs in the back, grab the back of the trailer and throw a trailer like that too.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of times that this is just way handier than trying to mess around with a big flat-top dolly or put something on a trailer or a low-boy.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: It's just such an easy tool to bring out and use.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been years since I've told you day to day, but someone in the 80s and 90s a little bit we always said that wish you had to set a dolly for a big crowd.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, the need's been there forever and it sounds like this is a good tool for the job.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: We've got to take another quick break.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Can you hang around?
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And after the break I want you to talk about the new one that's coming out.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Sure, All right, let's check, we'll be right back.
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• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Welcome back listeners.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You're listening to the American Tom Recovery Institute podcast with Wes Wilburn, dj Harrington and our special guest, cody Henginger, from Green Bay, wisconsin, the name of the company Big D Fabrication.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I want to remind all of you, if you want to hear another industry expert like Cody, just dial our hotline number here at the podcast center, 706409 5603, and Wes Wilburn will do his very best to get that industry expert on the line to hear you.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Now I want to ask Cody, before I turn it over to Wes, how did Big D get its name?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: So yeah, basically, my dad's name is Daryl and one of our employees here always calls him Big D, and this is how we came up with the name.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Pretty simple, you got that right.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: It's a phenomenal website, so I'm going to turn it over to you so you can keep asking Cody some key stuff.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Thank you, DJ, I appreciate it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: So we're going to get your website, which is a real nice website.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Can you tell our listeners what the address is, Cody Yep, it's wwwbigdfabricationcom.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: When I went to the website and poked around a little bit, one of the things I noticed was the wide range of paint colors.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I think DJ mentioned it earlier too.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Talk about that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: What is it all the PB and G colors?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: What did I say?
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I should have taken better notes.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I apologize.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yep, they're.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: AUE paint colors and basically it's in a direct to metal paint.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: So we have every single one of them sandblasted top and bottom and then it's a direct to metal paint.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: It's a very, very strong paint.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: It's almost an industrial paint.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: You can use this like a few times.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: It's really not even going to scratch it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I've seen several sets that have been used.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: You have pictures on Facebook and whatnot and the paint does seem to stay on them very well, especially those conditions they use and mainly they're not pristine toes and whatnot that you're doing a lot of times.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're made to get scratched.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: So I mean scratches are going to happen, but because we've spent last them all, even if you put a scratch in, it doesn't just keep creeping out and rusting.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: The scratch usually stays a scratch and the rest of the dolly looks nice.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Right, absolutely.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: So.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: 300 of them out there, mostly telling companies what are some of the different uses that you've seen these dolls use.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: For the two folks that didn't think about it, right.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so actually people have started using them with shipping containers.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: They'll set a shipping container on there and they'll chain it down and then hook up the other end with their record.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: One of our customers actually showed us using it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: We have two-inch holes in the bottom of our pan and they actually started using frame forks in the bottom of the pan or you can flip it over and use them there too.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: But he actually picked up a trailer that had no suspension at all and it was just going to scrap and he used frame forks just for the ICC bumper to have something to hook to, and I thought that was a great idea and actually we started doing the same thing.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: We just had a truck that had no front axle or rear axle and we actually used frame forks and extensions to get up to the frame and we hauled it that way.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: So it worked really well.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: A lot of guys are doing.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I've seen the whole off-road construction equipment.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: There was a tracked plow for putting an inter-duct tubing in underground and it was completely locked up.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: But actually Robinson down in Virginia did that one and they basically set the one set of tracks on that and then they hauled the other end with their rotator out to the road and then loaded it up.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of different things people have done with it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the rest of you Robinson and Doug, absolutely.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I hope you've known them for a long time.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Good people, well, good, that's very interesting.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Now you said a 25,000 pound rating.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: That's what the tires and axles and all that are rated at.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, actually the tires are limiting factor, so the tires only add up to 25,000,.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Actually the hubs are rated for more and the spindles we have them custom machined so they can handle even more than that and the pan will take even way more than that the pan.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: We haven't had a single person bend one or tweak one.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: We haven't had a single failure.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yet the tires are basically are limiting factor in order to do a lot more.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So testing an engineer I know testing a lot of that happened in the house in the real world conditions, right.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, basically we drew this up and we have a local machine shop who has an engineer and he went over everything and basically we know that the pan is probably good for a body of about 100,000 pounds before it would bend.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: But yeah, and then we actually just put one together and then we tested it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: We've overloaded it, we've seen if it's flexed, seen how the tires react and you know it's passed everything that we have ever done with it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: So that's why we're comfortable selling it, because we don't want to put our name on something and have a failure and have a bad product.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: So we wanted to over build it to make sure our customers are happy.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome and we all know sometimes the telling industry can do a little better paying attention to ratings and I don't want to sound high and mighty because I say that.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: So if people are serious with your 25,000 pound rating, they shouldn't have any problem at all.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I say that if you take your tires, etc.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: common sense things.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Yep, it'll do 25,000 all day long.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: So you say I know you all were originally at least first place I've ever seen I don't know you know anybody professionally making them besides you all.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And that was three years ago you started, so we're in 23, so about 2020 during the pandemic huh.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, basically we got slow during the pandemic and we were always talking about building one and all of a sudden we had time, because we didn't have any calls to do, and we built one.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: And that's how it started, because we were like, you know, we just we have time to build it, let's build it.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: And it turned out great.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: And then, like I said, then we started posting pictures and then more and more people wanted them.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: That is awesome.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: We built our organization a little bit during the pandemic as well.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I want to slightly different direction.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: So, with total appreciation and that's awesome that you made it work so well.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the future.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: You're about to release a larger version, a six wheel, because everything we've been talking about so far is your standard four wheel application.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: That is the workhorse of the heavy duty dialys, right.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Yep, and actually it's not a six wheel, it's only a four wheel and we're getting 44,000, that's what our new dialys going to be rated for on four wheels.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, awesome, Tell us about that.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so basically this is going to hold both hand-tombs.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: So if you have a garbage truck quad axle dump truck, you know, milk truck, concrete truck, you know basically any of those big things loaded that you need to get off the road immediately quick clearance you'll be able to just pick it up, drop it in the thing and get it off the road.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Awesome, that would be kind of a handy tool.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Then, yep, you know, it's $44,000 on four tires, huh, yep, well, that's going to be a big dude.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I said that's going to be a big unit, but you need weight to move weight.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: So yeah, and actually it still only raises the load five inches when it's in the low position.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: So it's the same as our $25,000 dolly.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: And then when it's flipped over it's going to be 37 inches tall, so the same height as a landall, and you could actually put a kingpin in it.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: We're putting a hole there for a kingpin for a semi trailer, so you can almost use it as a flat top dolly and there's going to be some other uses for it as well.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That really is.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: What are these?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: What is the first unit that we talked about, the 25,000 pound rated unit?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: What is that thing?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Weigh ballpark 1750.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, and then the bigger one.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: What second away the new unit?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: We don't know, but it's going to probably be around the 2200 to 2400 pounds.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Gotcha All right.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Well, we can't wait to see that ballpark when that's going to be released.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: We're hoping to have one at the Ohio Towshell, but if not, it will be very shortly after.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: So you got a booth coming up at the Midwest region on Towshell.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: We'll look forward to seeing you there.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Can you tell our listeners how to get in touch with you?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Give them your website again and how to get in touch with you and, of course, if there's anything you add or share, please feel free, yep.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: So our website is wwwbigdscivricationcom, or you can call me at 920-639-9315.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: My name is Cody.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: I'm the one that takes care of all the sales.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, on our website too, we have an order form at the bottom and if you're interested in a dolly, you can sell that order form out.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: And we have all of our paint codes on there.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: So there's a spot on the website with our paint codes and basically you just click on that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: There's 46 pages of colors you can go through and then you can find your paint code.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Put that in the order form and then, after your order form is filled out, we'll send you an email with an invoice and we take a deposit and that gets you on the books to get started on one.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome Well thank you for taking time out of your day and sharing with us information about Yall's company and Tell Big D we say hello and appreciate Yall's effort to help make every detail a little easier.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: We all know it's hard enough when folks out there in a great innovative tool like what Yall created and putting out there and standing behind it and doing a good job.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: We're happy to see it and thank you for your service to the industry.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no problem, thanks for having us on You're welcome, dj.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: You want to finish us out?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I just want to tell all our listeners you know we've been real blessed with folks that now over 12,000 listeners because you care about the industry and Big, big D fabrication helped us kiss our family goodbye in the morning, home safe at night.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: So go look at their website.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Cody was a great guest, just like Wes.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You bring on the best of the best in this industry, so I'm proud of you, my friend.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: So until the next time, wes, I just hope all our listeners stay safe and we'll see them at the regional Midwest regional tow shop.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to it.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: We'll see you there.