OUR WILDEST RECOVERY YET TOTALLY BURIED MEGA CAMPER

On today's episode of WatchJRGO, we are out in my brand new F-150 Limited. Well, new to me, the one I just traded my F-250 Limited in for. That was newer and nicer. But the first mission that Eric picked out for this truck is recovering a camper that has literally become one with the ground. So today's the day we see if this thing's got the metal. What is going on guys? I am WatchJRGO and today, like I said, we are headed south of Wichita, quite a bit south of Wichita, to pull out one of those old school all metal campers. I don't know why they're all the rage now. Actually, let's put it this way. If it's a new Airstream, I fully understand why they're all the rage, but this is not. And apparently all four tires, completely flat. It's grown into the gruthers, trees growing through the axles and stuff like that. I don't know how bad it is. That's the description that was given to me. So we loaded this thing up with everything we could possibly need. We've got three air compressors, an air bubble, impacts, sockets, jacks, everything I think we need to get this recovery done. And a whole lot of straps and I think three, four trucks. Well, there it is. That is wild. This is way bigger than the one we were just looking at, but also basically is cool, I think. It is really in there, isn't it? Well, guys, here's our recovery project for the night. We have to get this thing out of here. Eric and Kelly are going to do a gut remodel on this. They're going to pull every single centimeter out of it and build like a full luxury version. I mean, these things are now selling for like $60,000, $70,000. This is a 30 footer, I think. Oh man, it is going to be hard to get this guy out of here. We are buried all the way down to the rim. Kind of looks like we've had a few modifications here. Obviously, somebody kicked off these doors here. Rough. Look at all this rotten wood. And then also this is kind of interesting. So this had Shore phone hookups here. 3M brand GFI and the Aero Hart-Murray breaker box here. That's pretty. I like how they did that. But we've got some tandem breakers in here. This one looks stock. This one looks aftermarket. And then these were our Shore phone connections for the phone in the trailer. Of course, this thing is truly buried to the frame. I didn't bring a shovel and it sounds like a shovel is the one thing we're going to need most. But it came with another jack. That's something. Looks like it last moved in 01. 26 years ago, basically. Free life jackets and hoses. Ooh, the step gave up here. Let's have a look inside. Oh, the floor has given up. The floor has truly given up inside this thing. The smell, not as bad as you guys would think. Don't get me locked in here. That's for sure. I want back out. The floor has fully rotted out of this. That is the metal underneath. Not subfloor, not floor. Take a look at that old school couch. All the cabinets are rotten. The floor is rotten. But you know what? This is the restoration project everyone's looking for these days. This is where the fridge goes. Of course, the fridge has outside air. Got some Tasco binocs. Four burner stove. This thing's fancy. Fancy, fancy. It's a Magic Chef. Ooh, and a Chateau Magic Chef. What's up in here? That's the oven. Well, guys, it's pretty crazy to see this. I don't want to go any further back. It looks pretty nasty. I can't imagine having to gut this like Eric and Kelly are going to do, but let's get busy getting it out of this hole. Boys, we were doing good here until Kelly showed up and he threw everything off balance. He drives an F-150 and he brought the work truck. Come on. We got Eric's old King Ranch right here. My Limited right there. And of course, Eric's new Raptor right there. And I thought we were going to be four Fords up for a minute. Guys, I didn't notice this until Eric showed me. I thought the step was just laying on the ground. It is not laying on the ground. It's grown in, baby. So apparently we have to save this step, so we're cutting it out. And I just dug all of this out here. This was completely buried, but we're getting closer. I think the tires might even be airing up. It says 28. If it says over nine, then it's actually doing it. All right, I'm going to go switch tires and I'll head up there too. Eric wasn't kidding. It's holding air. Was holding air. It's dropping like a rock. Oh, we were making good progress there. Jordan, watch over that large hole behind you. Eric, watch your head. It's coming down. Oh, he's already got it. Just one click. Oh, nice save. Oh, can you grab that ladder? Yeah, we could. I can do that. Guys, we got the top of this thing mostly cleaned off. Pretty wild. Big pile up here. At least somebody tried to protect the air conditioner. There was a tarp there at one point. We got it. Oh, okay. I'll come back. Holding. Oh, okay. Now. You're free. Watch out, Jordan. Coming. The old fantics here to save the day. We wanted the biggest portable air compressor we had, and this thing is a monster, guys. I made an ad for them like two years ago now, and this thing's aired up more tires for me than anything else on the planet. I love that compressor, but it looks like we're doing it. I believe in you, Scott. We should have brought you a hatchet or an axe. We're over here playing Captain Tree Chainsaw Expert. Wow. That thing is so in there. Scott, take your shovel. Yeah, there you go. You got a little pry. Yeah, use it as a pry bar. Okay, it looks like I need to take another hit at it with the saw. Oh, it's moving, but I'll take another slice here and then come in one more time. Nah, it needs one more hit with the saw. Where at? What do we need? Oh, I got it close, but one more slice. One more pie cut here. They diamond bladed that jack off of here. All right, go hard. We need this level. There you go. All right, send it, Scott. Whack it like you're in the mafia. It has an upright on the edge, of course. Nice. Take that home, firewood. That is wild to see. That's the paint, the black paint? Well, you saw the tag, it's been sitting here for 25 years. Really, the inside is pretty clean. I got to leave a blur. I'll get rid of it. Unbelievable. What a crazy recovery. Hold it up a little bit. That's all right. That'll be it. Not horrible. That'll be that piece. Let me show you a picture of this so I can bury it a half foot or a foot in a damn tree. Eric, so this is a 31 Supreme Luxury Liner 30. It's made by Riva, I guess. Who's it made by? It's a SilverStream. Oh, a SilverStream. SilverStreak. SilverStream. No, it's a SilverStream. It says streak for sure. That's a K on the end. Is that a K? You're right. My bad. She's got a K. SilverStream. Supreme Luxury Liner. You guys know how much I love Supreme, so we got the big Supreme. John Ross is going to paint all the gold red. I'm going to paint it all red. Yeah, white stripes. Let me ruin this for you. Put that bad boy in four low. Put it in reverse, Terry. You're being four on drive already. Yeah, I am not. Will it move? Click. You're probably going to want to pull straight. Yeah, you're straight. Oh, it's going. You're up. It's climbing the tree. Stay in it. It's going to drop it like a foot though. Go slow. Keep going. Dude, we got air in all the tires. Keep going straight if you can and start your turn in five feet. I mean, everything's looking really good, honestly. Boy, I couldn't believe it worked out like that. It worked out too well. Scott. How many seats are left? How many seats are left? How many seats would be left on tomorrow's trip? One. One middle seat? One middle seat. Look at the hole where that tire was. That tree truly said, you're mine, but we won. We won. Move my air compressor. At least we got one tire holding air. Look at that Raptor doing Raptor things. You're good. You're good. You're good. You're good. Man, that is a hole back there. You're good. You're good. All right. We should have cut that last branch. It wasn't touching till now. Oh man. The tires are fully off the beads now. We're going to have to jack it up and hope. Oh no. We just lost one completely. I would have just pulled straight forward. Oh no. We might be buying two wheels before we get out of here. A lot of water in these old wheels. Scott, you know the trick to getting the water out? You flip them. You throw them end over end. Oh, there's a hole in that one, isn't there? Oh yeah. That one split completely. Well guys, on the way out, we happened to DB two tires. Eric had a pretty severe turn in it here. So that back tire got fully sucked off and split. It looks like the wheel just cut right on through the tread because obviously they're a hundred years old and trash. These are the old 70-15 truck tires, basically light trucks. But we found this tire. It's the most dangerous thing on the planet. And the lug pattern matched and it's holding air. It was in a pile of tires back here. So we only have to go about 15 miles. We're going to pull this thing really slow. And then the other one is at this tire shop that just happens to be right there, that white building. And they are putting that tire back on the bead for us right now. So we're going to see if this thing makes it back to Derby from Mulvane. What do you think about the Supreme Luxury Liner? It is Supreme, baby. These cool curved windows in the front. You got your sunshade here. Oh, sick. Dual battery, dual propane. This is a cool gamper. I think they plan on putting about $30,000-$40,000 into this. And bring a trailer, they sell up there, $70,000-$80,000. Eric's pulling the next off. They haven't even brought back the other one they're putting on the bead, but he found another wheel that looks like it's going to run. It's not looking good, but it looks like it'll go 5-10 miles. 15 miles. 15. It's a buster. Buster radial, baby. If we lose eight tires on the way there, it's a record. Luckily, we have eight tires to go. Well, dang. Spare tire number two is not going to happen. Where's mine? It sits on the threads. What are you talking about? No, dude. You're so far away from sitting flush. You need to go back another half inch to sit flush on that. That's fine. Where's that diamond cutoff? Sketchy. What's the worst that could happen? Not much, I guess. How far off are you? It'll pull or we'll push. Wilson said he's going to sit back and call the police. If we don't make it, John just gets a video out of it. Oh, he wants a copy of the video. Yeah. Watch Jordan go. That's what's happening right now. It's watch Eric go directly to jail. Well, we might have two tires to hold air, but the mission is not over. Not even a little bit here. Eric is getting ready to head down the road. We're obviously, if you guys didn't know, Eric's dad bought half of my old shop and now they use it for their custom cabinetry business there. So that's where we're heading with this. That's where they're going to rebuild it. All right. The Raptor was stuck in four wheel drive there and it wouldn't shift back. It just kind of found a neutral and decided that's where it was going to live. So now it's back in four by two and we're back on the road. I mean, this thing's moving, just came out of a hole. Okay. I shouldn't have stayed right behind this thing. There's going to be a lot of dirt flying off the roof for the first mile here. There were so many sticks and piles of leaves up on the roof. Woo. Look at this majestic beast rolling off into the sunset here. Woo. Surviving on these tires from like 1950 or 1960. Absolutely wild. All right. We've got a long drive ahead of us. So we're going to sit back here and play a traffic blocker. Here you go, guys. There's something we haven't seen in years. My old shop, man. There's a big dumpster over here now. I ran the small dumpster back in the day. They're still rocking my air conditioner. Is that not crazy? That thing's what? 20 ton? I kind of forgot. It's a monster, but they did hook up the gas to that. They're not only running the gas units that hang from the ceiling anymore. And a lot of stuff happened. I sold this building to a friend named Terry. He built an entire house inside it. He built a 3000 square foot house in my balcony in there, uh, where I put all that steel in. He finished it out. It's beautiful, like fireplaces all over, crazy bathrooms, huge kitchen, and a giant master bedroom. And then he had a gym right here where the garage doors were. And then his electrical company had a bunch of 30 foot pallet racks or 20, 20 foot pallet racks to store everything in. So he kept it for a year and sold it. And now like Naira owns it, which is the craziest thing ever. If you know the non-destructive research company that tests airplane parts. And I heard they're doing like SpaceX contracting inside here. It's like the craziest thing. And they ripped his whole house back out and threw it away. It was all brand new, like $300,000 house in the building. And they shredded it. While we're here, guys, let's talk getting stuff. If you're going to go get stuff, you better have a whole bunch of miscellaneous junk in here. Your Weston Champlin Horsepower Rodeo safety vest. I keep that there because it's a great safety vest and people think you belong, even though it says Horsepower Rodeo on the back. There's like three different sets of headlights in here for when we start working at night. Obviously my huge assault metric tool kit that came, well, I had it for my Can-Am, my X3. And that has every tool on the make sure you have a half-inch impact, whether it's Milwaukee or Hercules, and then the entire wheel socket set. And then as many cordless air compressors as you can have. And then this is another, I think this might, this has another 12-volt air compressor in there. This is like a Walmart emergency kit that I've carried for years and it saved me a couple of times. As many crescent wrenches and gloves and microfibers as you can get. Trash bags, the waterproof things. And then I've got the Wolfbox air compressor jump starter over there as well. 50 pairs of gloves, boxes of nitrile gloves. And in the back, we have everything else we could need for fetching the dumb things Eric and Tana Brongar come up with. Whether it's a 9,000 pound boat or a 30 foot old school camper, make sure you bring a floor jack. And that, if the tires are flat, you got to have a floor jack. You'll need an air bubble to re-beat tires. Probably there are chains and chains and chains in here. The winch, straps, that's basically everything you need to suck stuff out of a hole that's been sitting for 20 years. Another air compressor and both of my drop hitches, including the way safe that doesn't fit this truck. That's my go-to when people want to go on these missions to pick stuff up. And it's about enough to get every job done. So let's go take a look at this camper. Well, how'd it pull Eric? Hopping. Hopping? It was pretty hoppy. Hopping down the road. I mean, it was happy, but it was hoppy. Well, you need a pin for that. Oh, you're going to have to leave your jack behind now. We'll put like a block on there. This tire is crazy, but this time it ran down the road. This ran down the road. No problem at all. Never count an international out. The tire says international on it. And it didn't come off the bottom. That guy's like, you found that? Yeah. Instead of what was the, I think we could have hooked up the trailer lights, right? No, there's no plug. Okay. I need a seven pin to alligator clips and I could have just thrown it together for you. Look at that. She's off. I don't actually know if it's going to make it off. Your Jack's got the top out. Hey, take the load off of her. Thanks. We still got propane. Propane. Let's listen. That's a big text. It's still got gas in it. Did you see the gauges in it? Yeah, I did see the gauges. You can smell the propane too. Yeah. I saw those gauges. They look sick. You want to pull it forward and I'll make it. Let's do it. Yeah, you're good. Clear. Clearance. Clearance. Got clearance. Clearance. We spent a lot of time back here. You know, they put all the metal on most of it. Not all of it. And then they repainted the whole building. I was going to say, cause all this metal is the same. Cause that drain, they didn't do this because the exhaust fans would walk around the hole. Yeah. All new metal for the most part. And then new paint. Remember that drain was always there. It's connected to nothing. Yeah. And then all my new gutters and my new roof. I know. You want to go repossess the roof? $75,000 a roof. Here's what I'm thinking. I'm going to take this. We just pry it off. Full shiplap. The shiplap. We shiplap it. What do you think? I like it. We haven't done it in a day. That's a Woody right there. Take the gold off and put it. She's classy. You literally ruined it. There we go. If you do red and white like it's supreme, it'd be killer. I don't remember. There's a brand. Kelly sent me one. There is a camper line that did like custom colors, like greens and reds. They look sick when they're done. I've never seen one done, but they have them. Yeah, I bet. Okay. I'll go dynamic for you. You ready? And it's centered. Man. It's a little on the tippy side there. Maybe. Well, there you go, guys. That might be the wildest recover we've ever done. Eric and his great ideas. That is it for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to head on over to shop. WatchJRGO.com for cool shirts. Not like this. And please like, share, subscribe, do whatever you want to do. And I will talk to you next time. We have to be Dave Sparks and just recover everything. That's what we're going to do for now. We're going to get a Blackhawk and we're just going to pick up campers. They're cheap. I've heard. He bought a new one. Government surplus. Government surplus. Should be like three or four of them. And I've flown a helicopter in the simulator, so we're good. Yeah, probably good. We're not going to die. Ah, memories. Every 15. You should. Yeah.